Sentences with phrase «big call for»

Fieldfisher formally announced that it had selected LexisOne in May 2015 and Chissick says: «You get fatigued: we were at it for three years and we had to decide whether to go live — it's a big call for any managing partner.

I need to put out another big call for info before this summer's RWA conference, for sure.

Really big call for DeBoer.

The balance of the team was wrong, not to play Cech (despite Ospina's fantastic performance) and to leave multimillion pound big money buys of Xhaka and Perez on the bench was a big call for Arsene Wenger to make.

Big call for 2015: Treasury Group is set to continue benefiting from the falling currency.

Bateman recalled the fateful phone call telling him that Disney wanted him to play Bik in «Zootopia» by saying «This was a really big, big call for me.

REALTORS ® and other critics of a proposal to allow national banks into real estate brokerage and management have sent Congress more than 140,000 letters since mid-September in NAR's biggest call for action ever.

A birthday this big calls for a big celebration.

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I've used them myself when I've been very, very depressed and felt suicidal, and I've been trying to be a big spokesperson for them, because I know the idea of calling someone on the phone must be so foreign to a teenager.

Trump called for a new «pass - through» tax rate of 25 percent that could mean big savings for owners of sole proprietorships and partnerships who now pay 39.6 percent.

A bit of stolen merchandise is no big deal for Amazon — it recently hit a market value of $ 500 billion — but the snafu may serve as a rather embarrassing wake - up call for the retail giant.

Trump called on Wednesday for a new «pass - through» tax rate of 25 percent that could mean big savings for owners of sole proprietorships and partnerships who now pay 39.6 percent.

The chipmaker's GPUs, or «graphics processing units,» crunch the complex calculations necessary for cryptocurrency markets, so - called deep neural networks, and the visual fireworks you see on the big screen.

«But while it's a hard one to call, they could put an asset test on it — meaning employee stock options would be taxed more heavily for those employees who work for big public companies with a large asset base, like the Big Five banbig public companies with a large asset base, like the Big Five banBig Five banks.

SPECIAL REPORT: Three major reviews have called for a big shake - up of the state government's information and communication technology (ICT) strategy.

So for instance around the super bowl — we created something that was called the Big Save.

For IBM, Watson Jr. was making big bets, shifting the company from mechanical tabulating devices to a new thing called a computer.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oil.

A client of mine, we'll call him Scott (mostly because that's his name) was preparing for a big client meeting.

The CEO called his massive aircraft manufacturer a «big growth engine for the economy,» in which passenger traffic growth is currently outpacing the growth of the U.S. GDP.

With just your voice, you can pull up photos from your Google Photos library, make video calls with the Google Duo service, and, notably, play YouTube videos — potentially a big selling point for these devices, given Google recently yanked support for YouTube from Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

David Swensen, the head of Yale University's $ 25 billion endowment is calling out some of the biggest players in finance for shelling out billions of dollars for what he calls «kickbacks» to attract business to their trading venues.

He was one of the big names on the right that withdrew his support to Francois Fillon and called for him to step down in the light of the Penelopegate scandal.

The popular talk show host, who could read an arrest warrant while smiling and make it seem cheerful and fun, called out a body shamer who said her head was too big for her body.

The chief executive officer of the biggest telecom firm in the U.K. has told CNBC he wants to keep his position despite disappointing earnings and a shareholder call for him to resign.

Bitcoin.com - not to be confused with the non-revenue making bitcoin.org - was founded in 2015 by bitcoin investor Roger Ver, and provides a range of services related to bitcoins, including a bitcoin casino, news services and its so called bitcoin «mining pool» - the site's biggest single source of revenue - where it forges new units of the cryptocurrency to be released for trading.

The biggest lesson is one they probably already know: if you work for professional cads like Dov Charney or Tucker Max, it is eminently possible to goad bloggers into calling your boss a jerk.

Achingly modern (the building is essentially one big triangle) Me by Meliá eschews stuffy concierges for what it calls «aura managers,» a blend of tour director, confidant, secretary, DJ and stylist.

If you're able to talk about a big news story with a fresh or unusual perspective, chances are there's a journalist waiting for your email or call.

It goes like this: first of all, the bank is constantly scanning the horizon for smoke signals, looking for possible incipient trouble in big banks as well as the so - called «shadow banking system» (non-bank institutions that perform some bank - like functions) and trading information with other regulators.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

Cuban's first big startup success was an early software company called Micro Solutions, which he started for $ 500 and sold seven years later for $ 6 million.

Incentive pay, also called flight pay, will increase for all officers, with those who have over 12 years of service potentially seeing the biggest boost, up to a maximum of $ 1,000 a month.

She has her finger on the pulse of what's going on behind closed doors at the country's biggest corporations and calls herself «the female James Bond for innovation.»

It was only after Tim Cook took over the company as CEO in 2011 — and after investors such as Carl Icahn called for much a «bigger and immediate» buyback program in 2013 — that Apple's dividend and buyback programs ballooned to the current sizes.

Barron's calling Shell «the best big oil stock for investors,» saying shares could rise more than 20 % this year.

Instant reactions in Big Brother lead to one houseguest getting evicted for calling another fat.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

«It is incomprehensible that the union is calling for the biggest pay increase for the most well - paid group of staff,» Lufthansa board member Bettina Volkens said in a statement.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

You might already use Slack or Convo today, two of the most popular apps in this space, but the big news here is that, with a simple click if you're already using Microsoft Office 365 for word processing and email, you can now chat with colleagues, exchange documents, start a Skype phone call, and communicate in real - time.

A few weeks later Facebook called, and it became clear that the way for our team to have the biggest impact was to work together,» Williams wrote when he announced the acquisition.

One reason for the advertiser indifference is that many Facebook marketers are not big brands with a public image to uphold, but smaller, so - called «direct advertisers.»

The world's biggest online social network on Wednesday launched a new blog on its website called Metrics FYI, where it will share updates and corrections for its data.

May also called for big changes to who sits on boards so that they include employees, as is the case in some European countries: «In practice, [board members] are drawn from the same, narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and — as we have seen time and time again — the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough.

The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

While Panera has been at this menu reformulation for years, Shaich takes issue with some rivals — he called out McDonald's (mcd) and Subway specifically — for removing a single ingredient from their menus and trying to make a big, bold statement that they are serving healthier foods too.