Sentences with phrase «big calls on»

Kerry could be a critical advocate for climate action within Obama's Cabinet, but ultimately it's the president who will make the big calls on climate deals, Keystone, and so much else.

I can't see him staying with us while someone else is making the big calls on first team procedures.

The notoriously bearish Societe Generale strategist, renowned for making big calls on the state of the world, used his latest Global Strategy Weekly note to take aim at BoE chief economist Andy Haldane.

That would be a big call on him, he needs hungry players around him and hope the manger makes the right decissions in terms of team selection.

Not exact matches

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.

Big businesses know taking a loss on some products (called «loss leaders») to get people in their stores to buy higher - margin products can work.

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.

Defensive stocks, as they're often called, are big players like Coca - Cola or McDonald's — companies that have a lot of customers in sectors that aren't as dependent on good economic conditions to survive.

«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.

Called Two Hats, the beer is described by MillerCoors in a blog post as «a new line of light beers with a hint of all - natural fruit flavor,» that is also «cheap» and «suits the taste and budget of a new generation of drinkers who aren't currently big on beer.»

Unless accounting is your specialty, call in the big guns on that one!

Baron gives us a sneak peek into what he calls «Quirky's biggest announcement to date», which will be streamed live on Quirky.com on Wednesday, April 10th at 11:30 am EST..

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.

Peter Stormare, a face any Big Lebowski or Fargo fans know and love, plays a black - suited surrogate who will fill in wherever your life needs you — jobs, lady friends, what not — so you can focus on «your responsibility to kick ass» with the new Call of Duty release.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

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.

A year after announcing a big bet on Amazon, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya returned to the Sohn Investment Conference Monday with what he called a more controversial pick: Tesla.

Elon Musk has emerged as a leading voice in speaking out on the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, going so far as to call it the «biggest existential threat» to humanity.

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.

In a call with the media, Wal - Mart executives said super centres are getting bigger purchases on each trip from people stocking up on bulk items, but traffic has been weaker, particularly in the bottom performing 10 per cent of its stores.

Once all public transit projects in the 25 year plan — called The Big Move — are completed, that commute will drop to 77 minutes on average, Prichard said.

One of Fink's biggest projects is called «The Machine,» which is HPE's experimental take on a computing that was detailed in this 2014 Fortune interview with Fink.

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.»

On Tuesday night, the Internet lit up with big news: Facebook, along with a partnership of six other companies, launched a new global initiative called Internet.org.

He called many of them «talking points» that were «pre-circulated» beforehand «based on a strategy of isolating the most favorable facts and events, and ignoring other events and the big picture.»

So the next time you are tempted to brag about your big following on social media, stop, and instead elegantly explain how you have achieved engagement through a thoughtful blend of advertising, calls to action, trustworthiness, thought leadership and follow - through.

In truth, we were riding in on a pretty crowded bandwagon — one called big data.

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.

Plus it must be the only conference in the world where you can go to a panel on Big Data and then, at night, go see a performance by a band called Big Data.

Vizio made a big impression on me with this particular television model, which uses something called XLED.

A new center calls on Boeing, GE, and other companies to solve digital manufacturing's biggest challenges.

When you're on a sales call with a VIP client who represents a big sale (and a big commission), you make the best impression by listening intently to what he or she has to say, asking incisive questions and paying attention to the answers as if your career depends on it.

Valeant CEO Mike Pearson said in a conference call that Medicis will strengthen the company's place in medical dermatology and bring it to critical mass in aesthetics, a $ 12 - billion market that doesn't depend on government health - plan reimbursement and previously did not have a significant «big pharma» presence.

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

The social networking giant acquired a small startup called Two Big Ears, which specializes in audio technology that Facebook will incorporate into its own VR projects, according to a Facebook blog post on Monday.

«I'm in,» said Inwentash, and by the time he parted with Ballard and Cohl, he was on his way to a seven - figure investment in the biggest thing ever to sweep up the Great White Way: a high - tech spectacle called Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Venture capitalists call these companies «the living dead» and can't wait to move on to the next big thing.

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.

In November, on HP's fourth quarter earnings call, Whitman called the breakup a big and complicated separation — the biggest ever done.

His next big call is on Greece.

«Confidence was a big piece of it for me,» says Dillon, who set her sights on a graduate business degree during a Capital One earnings call where she did not understand all the financial details.

Big tech companies like Microsoft issued a patch for the so - called KRACK bug on Oct. 10, Apple is in the middle of testing patches for iOS and macOS, and Google, whose Android 6.0 devices are the most vulnerable, said it would release a patch in early Nov..

Salesforce's experiences with Year Up encouraged the company to partner with Deloitte on a pilot program called Pathfinder, in Indiana, home of Salesforce's second - biggest hub.

This can mean scheduling emails around a new product release, a big event or seasonality, but it can also be an automated email that goes to them when they don't finish a purchase on your site (or set an appointment if that's the call - to - action).

The candidate from her party running in Buenos Aires — the country's biggest province — has demurred when asked about the situation in the Venezuela, saying that he did not know «in detail» what was going on there, later stressing the differences between the tenures of Chavez and Maduro and calling for dialogue with a third party, such as the Pope.

Hannity has called the alleged corruption within the FBI «the biggest political scandal in American history» and suggested on his Wednesday night show that he had inside information about the memo's contents.

Just as solopreneurs will increasingly rely on freelancers, big business too will see the benefits of utilizing so - called «contingent labor.»

The Western Australian government has called on its federal counterpart to beef up its Trade Practices Act (TPA) to help protect small business against predatory pricing by big business.