Sentences with phrase «business up to the last minute»

one wonders why every season he has to do his transfer business up to the last minute while other clubs do the exact opposite.

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Many startups approach business travel in an ad hoc way, where things are left to the last minute or up to the discretion of employees.

One night late last spring, I was urgently marching up the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, 10 minutes late to give a talk on Cuba at an NYU MFA program when a flier, scotch - taped to the side of an old local dive bar that had gone out of business, caught my eye.

While back - to - school may dredge up pictures of harried parents rushing their children through the store to gather up last minute supplies of crayons and glue sticks, back - to - school today often means online classes, business people purchasing huge textbooks and moms dropping their children off at grandma's house while they head to a late - night college class.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave no indication on Wednesday that the removal of budget language requiring businesses to report their job creation figures under the START - UP NY program was the product of a last - minute accident.

This time last December I was knee deep, hell neck deep, in running my own small business, an online and Pop - Up women's boutique and only having enough energy and sleep to look about five minutes ahead.

Amazon was reportedly interested in Laura Dern's buzzy The Tale but backed out at the last minute and allowed HBO to scoop it up for $ 7 million, Business Insider reports.

A.I.G. had hoped to shore itself up, in party by selling certain businesses, but potential bidders, including the private investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG, withdrew at the last minute because the government refused to provide a financial guarantee for the purchase.

With up to the minute room rates and last minute website specials along with intimate details on all the hotels, resorts and apartments services and facilities to assist you in your perfect choice of Cairns holiday accommodation for that well earned rest or business event.

From last - minute breaks to family holiday packages and business event deals, our Cheltenham hotel offers are always changing so make sure you check back regularly to snap up the very best bargains.

Recruits also may give bonuses in your base itself like being able to buy high - end equipment or even being able to fly away from the final «point of no return» dungeon to go finish up any last minute business you may have.

Half of the businesses on Instagram produced a story in the last month, and it's boosted the app's average usage to 32 minutes per day for those under 25, and 24 minutes per day for those 25 and up.

The last - minute change to the tax bill — which combined a capital - investment approach that the House favored with the Senate's tax - cut mechanism — would, in effect, free up a 20 percent deduction on pass - through business income that would have been off - limits to many real estate firms under the Senate bill.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.