Sentences with phrase «big public outings»

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Worst of all, the very bodies that should be looking out for investors and market fairness — the big brokers and public exchanges — are helping the middlemen along.

It's worth pointing out that Box's decision to go public may be tied to one of its biggest competitor's decisions to go public — Dropbox.

So it was «big political money» - not the industry, not the Koch brothers» campaign, not an all - out effort to shift public opinion, just «political money».

«This is really about helping large media companies grow even bigger,» said Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, adding that Republicans were «more intent on granting the industrys holiday wish list early rather than looking out for the public interest.»

The second, bigger problem is that the ongoing private valuation inflations have so jacked up the numbers that there's really little or no bump left for the public even if the sellers can get the offering out the door.

New entrant Mobilicity is being acquired by Telus, a big chunk of wireless spectrum reserved for new players is about to be transferred from Shaw and Quebecor to Rogers, and the other small independent players — Wind and Public Mobile — are reportedly running out of cash.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

In cases where the buyer paid with public company stock, there was always a big negotiation around the form of the stock, which usually turned out fine for the sellers.

People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target, going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.

VMWare was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2004, but in 2007, EMC spun out 10 percent of VMware in a billion - dollar IPO — the biggest since Google had gone public in 2004.

Those are the sorts of numbers that likely could have helped the company price an IPO rather than take big new venture funding, but Berke suggests that the company wants to be stronger (both in terms of product and balance sheet) before possibly heading out into the public markets.

And despite getting a big shout - out from Alphabet CEO Larry Page in a recent public letter, Project Wing is still not close to being ready to launch, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The early investor cashed out big when the company went public in 2012 — the IPO raised $ 16 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs of all time — and turned Thiel's initial investment into over $ 1 billion.

Snap Inc appears set to make a splash next week with the biggest tech stock debut since Facebook, but history suggests investors shut out of the initial public offering would be better off waiting a bit to chase this unicorn on the open market.

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

The Ballmers have yet to roll out a foundation or a public strategy for their giving, but they've been making some big gifts, most recently kicking in $ 50 million for a new funders collaborative that will channel at least a billion dollars to high - performing nonprofits that serve low - income youth.

Add the fact that, according to Kingsdale, just one in three activist endeavours ever become public, and the trend is clear: dissidents know battles cost money, the loser loses big, and the winner doesn't even come out unscathed.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

Old news, you might say, and no big deal, but remember that these kinds of problems when they arise tend immediately to be suppressed, and only become public when there is no way to prevent information from leaking out.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadiabig interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary CanadiaBig Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

Big - name public pension funds from California to New York City have said they are bailing out completely.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

Bernard Madoff when approaching new marks liked to make a big show out of telling people in public that they would not be allowed to invest in his fund.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

Rather than a big bang, however, it is going to be a slower transition, as there will be no public money to pay the growers to pull out their vines — a process costing about $ 3000 a hectare — and will only happen as large producers such as Treasury Wine Estates, Accolade Wines and Pernod Ricard buy fewer grapes, he said.

Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

Baseball's big public data repositories don't have detailed postseason batted - ball information available, but Houston's made 10 more air outs this series than L.A., in addition to those four more home runs.

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

It seems unlikely Jim Harbaugh would let this type of information get out to the public after he did say at Big Ten Media Day that Wilton Speight, Brandon Peters and John O'Korn are all tied at the top.

Nevertheless, the betting public is pounding Pittsburgh, with seven out of ten spread bets confident Big Ben and the Boys can pin a four - point loss or more on Marvin Lewis» 6 - 2 club.

As a result, the public is heavy on another big 49ers win, with nearly 9 out of 10 bets expecting San Fran to win by double - digits at Candlestick.

Nevertheless, the public remains in favor of Kellen Moore and Co. bouncing back in a big way, with just over seven out of ten spread bets in favor of Boise posting a 19 point victory or more on the road against the Mountain West rival Aztecs.

More than 70 % of bettors like UGA to cover the big spread, and public bettors are likely a little sour on Georgia Tech after getting blown out by Duke on Saturday.

The other bet of the week will be a moneyline parlay of Arsenal / Manchester City (which pays out +116 using Pinnacle's current lines), two big road favorites who actually aren't seeing a lopsided amount of public support.

Paul's return, in addition to Tyson Chandler and Jared Dudley still being out, has public bettors giddy to take the Rockets as big favorites.

However Everton look to be spending big this season and are willing to splurge out # 20 million to recruit Giroud from London after Toffees striker Romelu Lukaku has made it public that he doesn't wish to stay at Goodison Park by not signing a contract extension.

Moms and dads imagine big (public) messes, stressful tantrums and a long, drawn out battle for the... more

Since we aren't a big public school with tons of resources, we have had to figure out ways to stretch an already thin budget even more.

I mean sometimes, the biggest thing for a mom who's maybe 4 - 6 postpartum is just getting out the door and then coming to a place where you can just be and you can practice having your baby cry in public and you're with a whole bunch of moms who don't care»cause all of theirs are crying.

AFRICAN MOON: You know my biggest challenge with breast - feeding didn't come from myself or my children it came from the outside world harassing me in some form of fashion when I would go out and breast - feed in public.

Unfortunately some people are idiots but don't let those few idiots stop you getting out and about with your new baby, breastfeeding in public is not a big deal and it can be done easily.

I still don't need to make a big show of whipping out the drugs and administering them in public to raise awareness or to exercise my right to reasonable accommodation in the workplace.

Don't worry about feeding in public — It feels likes a big deal at the start, getting your breast out in a public place but once you've done it a couple times it doesn't feel scary at all.

So, first I would recommend trying to nail down what it is he does not like about public restrooms and then figure out how to work with his fear; i.e. if he is afraid of the big toilet, consider carrying a reducer.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

In those cases, be sure to summon up your sense of humor as soon as things start to get heated, and close the «public» phase of your discussion with a big hug, so your child can relax, knowing that no matter how difficult the discussion, the adults are still committed to working things out positively.

There is no surprise that women feel like they have to hide in a hot car or in a room no bigger than a closet out in public when feeding their child.

The court action grew out of a clash between sponsors of the nativity scenes and a group of atheist activists who competed with the churches for limited space in Santa Monica's biggest public park and managed to dominate last year's holiday displays with anti-religious messages.

I would recommend this chair to anyone who likes to take there little one out to any public place where they might stop to eat or snack, or even to use at home instead of having a big highchair hanging around at home.