Sentences with phrase «by a few people of»

This had led in turn to a hectic race for profits and the appropriation by a few people of most of world's wealth and to the devastation of the planet's eco-system.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

Surry explained the reason behind it is «probably because that's when airlines are kicking off these flash sales, and that's one of the few things that still gets done by people.»

Bonobos» top keywords show that nearly all of its customers search for it by name; few people stumble upon the site while looking for «men's pants» or «pants that fit.»

This is incredibly difficult, especially in an industry that very few people grow up dreaming of working in (not a lot of web developers that always wanted to build a quilting website), but the value of a leadership team can be judged by their ability to attract and keep the right talent.

Begin by doing a very brief introduction of your board members and allowing each person to say a few things about what they hope to contribute.

Or, maybe you've been disappointed a few too many times by other people getting promoted ahead of you.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

There seems to be a strain of conventional wisdom which holds that if peoples» attention is being increasingly split by all the digital entertainment options, they're reading fewer books.

These successful entities have just a few people who are smart enough to standardize, automate and delegate the majority of the tasks in a way that can't be screwed up by their average employees.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

Another publisher told Digiday that a majority of his company's Facebook Live content «was seen by very few people.»

So people who have been scraping by on a few hours of sleep a night might not be in as good as shape as they would like to believe.

Although most of the people who see your plan will respect its confidentiality, a few may (either deliberately or by mistake) disclose proprietary information.

Most importantly, further eroding civil liberties is likely to fuel what I believe to be the underlying cause of the unrest that's popping up around the globe: a deep frustration with a system that is seeing the world's growing wealth increasingly controlled by fewer and fewer people.

The biggest problem with business plans is that they offer pages of blah, blah, blah about the wonderfulness of the entrepreneur and the whiz - bang product followed by a few measly paragraphs about how every person in China is going to be a customer.

«A lot of people have these totally unsustainable lifestyles they're only able to pull off because, by doing nothing but sit on their ass, their net worth goes up by a few grand every month,» says Toronto resident Phillip Mendonça - Vieira.

Try and scare them when you interview them by letting them know how few resources — in terms of money and people — as a way to show them that they'll need to be ready to dig in and do the work themselves.

In the past few weeks, Wells Fargo has been widely criticized for having a compensation structure that rewarded sales people for opening accounts, regardless of whether those accounts would actually be used by customers.

Although Jim Camp has written about negotiation, he seems like the sort of person who doesn't believe you can become a better negotiator just by reading a few hundred pages.

Many of the most successful apps are nimble startups run by a few people with little or no outside funding.

If you're landing in a city that has clients or potential clients within a few miles of the convention center, why not set up a lunch or extend your stay by a day so you can catch up in person?

In the last few months, we have already helped our community double the number of connections between people and our representatives by making it easier to connect with all our representatives in one click.

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

To be sure, a few centers of growth in the marketplace are dominated by the so - called network effect, in which a product gains value when more people use it.

Groups is very simple: For $ 65 a week, it offers group therapy in areas plagued by opioid addiction — targeting towns with fewer than 10,000 residents and little access to recovery programs — so people at different stages of recovery can learn from one another.

We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»

That means fewer workers to support the ever - expanding population of elderly: The number of people in the workforce is expected to decline by about 20 % to 63.4 million in 2035.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

Over the past few months, behind the scenes, tens of thousands of people have been writing to mutual fund company Vanguard telling the investment manager that it's time it supported transparency by corporations about their political donations.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

All we can say definitively, judging by this research, is that people with these traits tend to live longer than people with few or none of them.

I got an application by singing telegram, a few taped to skateboards from people who knew that I skateboard to work, even one by courier when I was in the middle of a Utah camping trip from someone who figured out where I was from my Instagram and Twitter.

In our case, we were blessed by a lot of people who stuck by us through the moments when, frankly, we had lost our way a few years ago.

In fact, many startups — including players like LearnVest (recently acquired by Northwestern Mutual for more than $ 250 million, according to several news reports), Betterment, and Wealthfront, to name a few — are now targeting a traditionally underserved demographic: people between the ages of 18 and 34.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

But by the time everything was over, the village was an estimated $ 8.5 million in debt, a potentially crippling figure for a small village of a few thousand people.

And as anyone who has ever set foot in the door of an Apple store knows, Jobs lived by his own advice — devote all your resources into a few great products and watch people line up like it's a Boxing Day sale.

Few people were surprised by last month's announcement that HMV would be shuttering all 102 of its Canadian stores.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

Research suggests that clearing cookies — tiny bits of software that advertising companies load on a browser to collect data on the websites people visit — is one of the few privacy - protection steps that have been embraced by American internet users.

The following may be true of a potential takeover: • the company has fewer than 50 million shares outstanding; • management is dominated by persons near retirement age; • management's record on innovations and improving returns has been poor; • the company owns assets whose market values are potentially higher than those shown on the balance sheet; • outside investors have been steadily buying the stock.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.