Sentences with phrase «building back when»

I did mine in my apartment building back when my son was a baby.
The bare trunks of long - dead oaks rise from the marsh, tombstones marking the drowning of high ridges that were built back when the river pumped life - giving sediment through its delta.
We caught a quick glimpse under the hood of the IDx Nismo, and the engine looks very much like a longitudinal four - cylinder built back when car companies cared what engines looked like.
The baby boomer boss is simply too cheap to replace a machine that was built back when the dot matrix printers were still around.

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00:07 Cyrus Massoumi: She picked up the phone call and she called the security officer downstairs in the building, who when I then left the building, told me I could never come back again.
When asked whether Mars travelers would be able to communicate back with Earth, Musk says: «If anyone wants to build a high bandwidth comm link to Mars, please do.»
To understand how TD built the strongest banking brand in Canada — one that consistently towers over its rivals in our survey — you have to go back to 2001, when Toronto - Dominion bought Canada Trust.
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
Part of the plan included building a massive battery to store renewable energy and provide «back - up power» as and when necessary.
It's the same kind of resentment that builds up when you've borrowed money from someone and you know that you can't pay it back.
Plus, the sewer system in Chicago is so inadequate that when it rains, all the water backs up into my building.
Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.
In other cases, we backed an outside team when we were sufficiently impressed by them to give them brand support and the space to go build the new business themselves.
And when you come back, they are hard to build back up.
When we build our business model here, it's not going to be on the backs of the publishers, it will be with the publishers — you know we're going to make money with them not off of them.
Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey got the idea for WeWork back in 2010 when they were both working in a partially vacant office building in Brooklyn.
Everything we're doing in terms of building our overall Instagram following is to hopefully educate them about Laurel & Wolf services and drive them to either a piece of content where they can learn more about what we do as a brand and get excited about content and then come back and buy design services when they're ready.
That's when I learned a little something about the $ 5 note: On the back, which prominently features an illustration of the Lincoln Memorial, there are 26 states listed across the top of the building.
When you're building new products and features you need to make sure your customers will buy them, because if not, you're likely back to square one.
For example, four years into the business, Koch took his first outside money to build an $ 8 million brewery, which he was then forced to abandon — eating almost the whole $ 3 million cost of equipment — when bids came back at $ 15 million.
Back when the Fubu founder was just getting his fashion line off the ground, John built brand awareness by having rappers wear Fubu clothing in music videos.
Back when Verizon was thinking about getting into Canada, Bay Street analysts estimated a nationwide network would cost at least $ 1 billion to build.
Back when we were building up our record label, Virgin Records, many of us who worked there travelled to the West Indies together and spent our time trying to find up - and - coming reggae bands, as well as sampling a few of the local delicacies.
When asked by another senator how he was feeling just before 7:30 p.m., Murphy said rehabilitation from a back injury in his 20s had helped him build up endurance.
That's because those who make decisions on the front end (buying property, building bridges) do not bear all the costs when things go wrong on the back end,» he wrote in an email.
Content marketing is the best way to build a brand and reputation online; when people look for information, they tend to go back to sources that were helpful to them.
He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.
Fred and Ron Mannix's wealth can be traced back to a day in 1898 when their grandfather, Frederick S. Mannix, bought a team of horses and launched a business as an earth - moving contractor, building branch lines for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
So when one of its biggest spokesjocks has slowly, somewhat quietly, built his reputation back up within the sport to regain the top spot, is it really a surprise that Nike would use it as an opportunity to tweak the doubters?
Businesses with employee stock ownership plans face a quandary: they need to build up enough cash to buy back stock when employee owners resign or retire.
This will build momentum in your favor when you go back to the main point of the negotiation.
From there, though, Armstrong has built himself back up, becoming the sort of success he knew he could be when he needed his relatives to help pay for the cost of his food and travel.
When a long line is building up at the register, automation can let you know to move staff from a back room to assist with the demand.
Significant investments would be needed to build a network of transmitter stations to give signal coverage, or to upgrade existing ones dating back decades when radio navigation was standard.
It is telling that when a Steyer - backed anti-Keystone ad aired on the night of Barack Obama's state of the union address, it was the Conservative party — not TransCanada, that actually wants to build the pipeline — that responded with an ad of its own (and then, only online).
Back when I first launched my Definitive Guide to Link Building, I included a targeted CTA to tweet it out:
Back when computer hardware was «in» and oversized printers were cool, the computer giant Hewlett - Packard had a mandate for its printing division: build a $ 49 printer to be sold for twice the amount.
However, astute traders will be building a watchlist of ETFs that were exhibiting relative strength to the broad market before the pullback began, as these will likely be the first ETFs to surge back to their prior highs when the stock market stabilizes and finds substantial support.
Instead, when building your portfolio, first think carefully about economic conditions, then make your asset allocation decision and after that, head to the back of the store.
When it came down to it, the client was wearing too many hats to take on linking and content promotion. After budget meetings, presentations, product updates, traditional marketing and advertising, the client was all too happy to turn the link building efforts back over to us and we were more than willing to complete it.
He put up huge buildings and casinos, borrowed to do it, nearly wiped out, came back as a brand name that often needed bigger partners, was smacked by the financial crisis when he tried to again take massive risks, and ended up with a profitable business anyway.
When it comes to building your audience, the more people you can get to back your idea the better — but that can be easier said than done.
The idea started 18 months back when the founders built a WhatsApp bot, Swasth Bacha Abhiyaan, through which it sent personalised «daily tips» on pregnancy and parenting to more than half a million moms in their local language.
«If you looked back five years ago, I don't know that we'd be so willing to do this; why let the clients build the models themselves when we build the model and we'd like to sell the model?»
His fascination with self - organization goes back to the 1990s when he and Lin would discuss it at LinkExchange — the internet advertising network they built and sold to Microsoft for $ 265 million — as an ideal way to run a company without having to manage.
TechCrunch was the first to report Facebook was building peer - to - peer payments into Messenger back in October when we attained hacked screenshots dug out of Messenger's code by developer Andrew Aude.
When the website fails after the dot - com crash, you buy it back for $ 250,000 and over the next 18 months you build it back up.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Meet the women who have built businesses around their kids» schedules If you've been part of my world for a while you'll know that I had two small children and a husband that worked 10 + hours a day as a Fedex driver when I started my current business back in 2014.
I was sitting behind him on the flight back to London when he looked at me over the seat and said, «I think we can build a rocket ourselves.»»
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