Sentences with phrase «by being on time»

Start off on the right foot by being on time; and if you know you're going to be late, be sure to give your date a call.

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Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

Younity makes a great promise for anyone who's ever been frustrated by the phone / tablet / laptop / desktop juggle: «All your files, on all your devices, all the time.

There is no metered access, as there is with a site like the New York Times, and until recently there was no «social media pass - through» either, although the papers have apparently relented on that with the new design and will now allow non-subscribers to read a link shared on Twitter or Facebook or by email.

The vast majority of the time, the problem needs to be handled one - on - one by the employee's manager.

Sure, your kids might not be raiding your wallet with the same frequency, and you may be making more money, but by then you won't have time on your side, so you'll have to save a lot more.

«We established a long time ago that large quantities of oil and oil products from territory captured by Islamic State have been arriving on Turkish territory,» Putin continued.

On Tuesday, grocery - delivery service Instacart, which is also being sued by some of its independent contractors, said it would allow some of its workers to become part - time employees.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

An all - gold watch can be boring; but when a gold case is accented by a bold green face like on the Nixon Time Teller, it's a different story.

«Something I learned a long time ago, but has recently been reinforced, is that a company's success is largely driven by two underlying traits: adaptability and a focus on people.

On her way to Indian Wells, Calif. early next week, Williams will be greeted by giant images of daughter, Alexis Jr., along with the caption, «Greatest momma of all time.

The next time you slip on your Beats by Dr. Dre or splash on some of Justin Bieber's Girlfriend cologne (OK, maybe not), remember that Kiss was there long before licensing was cool.

By avoiding the task of employing extra staff members or handling operations such as payroll and web development, employees at a company will also be able to free up more time to focus on delivering their goods to their customers and carrying out the tasks that they were employed for in the first place.

by Gary Vaynerchuk Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.

A joint study by AOL and Nielsen found that people spend more than 50 percent of their time online with content and an additional 30 percent of their time on social channels where content can be shared.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

Most top Wall Street analysts, though surprised by the timing of the news, tell clients impact on growth is likely to be negligible.

Whether he wants to get a head start on that by suing the New York Times remains to be seen.

At the same time, money management pros are lightening up on industries where profits have been undercut by new technologies.

Though she had designs on being a doctor and got her master's in medical sciences, by the time she was grown up, those worksites, and that company, had captured her imagination.

Judging by some of the comments the Times has received on its Displaced project so far, a number of people were touched by the feature in a way they likely wouldn't have been by a traditional photo series in the printed newspaper.

At times feeling like a stage play, «The Post» is fueled by the performances of its incredible cast — including Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Alison Brie, and David Cross — but often the scenes drag on too long.

MacMillan soon began to gut Alliance Atlantis's production unit in 2003 to focus on the franchise, which became the company's single - most - profitable venture by the time the company was sold.

The key is to work smarter, and by focusing on mindfulness at work, you can better utilize your full mental capacities, to do more in less time and feel better overall.

As the tweet suggests, the mistake is a common one and pops up almost every time news outlets report on a celebrity owning such and such a word or phrase (the Queen Anne in the tweet, by the way, refers to the British monarch who presided over the UK's first copyright law).

It's easy to get a little star struck by a personality representing your brand but remember that these people, no matter how great they are, put their pants on one leg at a time (or so I've been led to believe).

On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

NEXT time you are sitting on hold absorbing a business message from the company you just called, you might be surprised to find the engine for that service has been created by Perth group Captivate Gl

What I mean by this is that the subordinate makes the call on what the course of action should be -; within a certain time - frame.

«There were forty pages of screened comments on the post by the time I logged on this morning,» he said in a LiveJournal post entitled «Thanks.»

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

This saves money on material costs by reducing the number of parts needed tenfold or more, and also saves time from design to manufacturing, allowing objects to be produced in small batches in a cost - effective way.

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

The Deed: Chicago «Fires on Every Floor»: Real estate entrepreneur Sean Conlon meets the glamorous flipper Berta for the first time and is shocked to find that she's been stood up by her own business partner.

If you only put 5 % down on a $ 450,000 home and prices dropped by 20 %, your home would be worth less than the amount you owed on the bank — and this could spell trouble when it came time to renew your mortgage.

The promise is that by gathering competitive research over time and in a systematic way you will be able to track trends and / or scenarios and be about to act on the research.

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

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.

It's easy to see why this seems appealing: We live in a time where we believe we can live better by gathering more data on everything.

Odds are that by this time on June 24, global financial markets will be in the midst of a relief rally — unless that is what we are witnessing now, in which case they may simply be buoyant.

That is an illusion created by the fact that we spend an enormous amount of time online, and find everything we use on the internet.

¦ Work a little longer If neither of those scenarios sounds appetizing, the good news is you would only need to delay your retirement by a few months if you worked full - time, give or take, depending on your salary.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

Even by paying the bills on time, you are not beating the system!

The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

A week before that, Loy Yang — which operates on coal — was again backed up by Hornsdale within four seconds, a «record» time, state officials said, according to local media reports.

What a gift it would be to herself and to working moms everywhere if she actually led by example and took that time — and then fought for something on par with Netflix's newly announced up - to - a-year leave.

«Oftentimes, by the time the ink is dry on strategy, it requires adaptation.

Since then it has been working on mending its service by deploying more work force during peak times and putting new systems in place to take orders.