Sentences with phrase «by getting on the back»

Even small dogs can try to gain dominance over humans by standing on the owner's feet, sleeping on top of them or trying to get above them by getting on the back of the couch.

Not exact matches

Even farther back, the Post published the Pentagon Papers — classified documents on the war in Vietnam that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg — and it also published information it got from an administration source about the Watergate break - ins and the connection to President Richard Nixon.

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

MONTREAL — Bombardier is hoping to get its Toronto streetcar contract back on track and prevent delays at two other Ontario transit projects by shifting production among four sites in Ontario, Quebec and Mexico.

With Back Ops, small - business owners can focus on what they do best, without getting distracted or delayed by administrative problems.

Fwd.us sought to avoid getting caught up in partisan politics by adopting a strategy of backing lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support an immigration overhaul.

For both new and experienced sales reps being held back by fears of credibility and inability to add that value, these few simple tips should get you well on your way.

In the process we started paying too much for each new customer, though, so we had to pull back our marketing fast and cut our staff by approximately 20 percent to get back on track.

I don't have any hard data to back this up, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that if you were to inform yourself of what's going on in the world solely by using Twitter, you'd probably go through life as a very angry individual.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

It's based on predictive logic that isn't done by some manager in the back room, the system itself is learning and getting better based on history.

With a new chief product officer and more proprietary fabric mills in the wings, Lululemon Athletica is working to get back on track after a few shaky months plagued by supply - chain issues.

They've built in a $ 3 - billion reserve, lowered their revenue expectations by about $ 3 billion and then there's room on the upside which is good for business because it means there is a serious plan to get back to balance.

I wish I knew earlier on that by sticking with an idea after failing, you are forced to find your own way forward and get back to what inspired you in the first place — whether it's addressing a hole in the market or thinking about a different way of doing things.

There have been some small successes, like $ 25 million in commitments to Maiden Lane, a quasi-independent fund that primarily backs companies via AngelList's syndicates program, which allows well - known individual investors to create pools of committed capital that gets invested on a deal - by - deal basis.

To get money back to the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another company.

When I did Undercover Boss, I went out with a painting crew and talked to the customer, looked at the house, went back to the truck, did up the quote on the tablet, printed it, went back and got it signed by the customer on the spot.

The bank will get its money back on fees and interest and, in the extreme case, by repossessing the equipment.

A Basex study from 2009 shows that the average employee spends 28 % of their time dealing with unnecessary interruptions followed by recovery time to get back on track.

The Globe and Mail first broke the story that Verizon was looking at getting into Canada, possibly by acquiring Wind Mobile, back on Jun. 17.

Given the softening economy in the latter half of last year and first months of 2013, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's target of getting back to balance by 2015 — after piling up $ 172 billion in debt in eight years — will depend on three assumptions all coming to good.

Valve's Steam platform pioneered digital distribution back in 2003, almost singlehandedly rescuing PC gaming from oblivion while simultaneously putting a significant brake on piracy, getting consumers to accept the often widely hated digital rights management and increasing profitability for publishers and developers by cutting out physical retail.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

They felt burned by bad early - stage bets or tired of waiting for the «pre-IPO» companies they backed (ahem, Uber) to get on with the IPO already.

Even if you've got time on your side, the financial strain created by buying back stock from departing employees is another limiting factor.

In the process we started paying too much for each new customer, though, so we had to pull back our marketing fast and cut our staff by approximately 20 % to get back on track.

Michael Dell isn't necessarily buying his company back from an acquirer, but by taking the company private — as he is in the midst of doing — he'll get the leverage to put Dell's future back on track.

Another 20 employees are dismissed as the health - media company attempts to get back on track after allegations of fraud by investors.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

By looking to Europe, which has meticulous data collection practices and a history of paid leave stretching back to the 19th century, researchers have been getting a better and better handle on the extent to which varying amounts of paid leave can save kids» lives.

Here's a guide to what gets collected by your smartphone and the apps running on it, and how you can take back some...

So, there is a good chance that Check Point is being crushed by its rivals, and it needs to get back on track.

Got a note back from Personal Capital today with step - by - step instructions on adding in my JP Morgan 401K account.

Join one of our projects and experience the incredible camaraderie that comes from working side by side with fellow volunteers and local community members to help those affected by natural disasters to get back on their feet.

The thought of stolen email addresses and PII (personally identifiable information), and hackers being able to read private text messages and listen to baby monitors may be the things that get people motivated to fight back by switching to more secure email providers, turning on 2 - step verification, and buying their first cybersecurity products.

If you want to do right by your business and by everyone who depends on its livelihood, create a disaster recovery and business continuity plan that protects your company assets as well as your employees, and gets your business back on its feet as soon as possible.

Jefferson, Washington, and the Congress chose to help the industry get back on its feet by what was essentially a tax cut (in lieu of tariffs paid for supplies coming from outside the U.S.) to the owners and workers of the cod fishery on the condition that the ship owners share the tax credits with all the workers.

By investing that profit back into AdWords, the client began driving so many leads at such a low cost that the problem wasn't driving enough leads, it was getting enough sales people on the floor to field all of the leads.

This chart was originally generated by Deutsche Bank and goes back to 1865 (Man, would I love to get my hands on their database).

CEOs on President Trump's business councils were pressured by both customers of their firms and shareholders to back out of the council following Trump's comments — or lack thereof — following events that rocked Charlottesville, Virginia, last month, said Blackstone Group (BX - Get Report) CEO Stephen Schwarzman.

I'm trying to get on the «ground floor» by investing back at par value in real estate crowdsource opportunities instead b / c REITs have done so well.

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

Don't miss out on getting all the cash back you can by skipping over the fine print.

Aside from investing in mainland China companies via Hong Kong Stock connect, investment firms can get China exposure by piggy backing on other registered foreign investors through Participatory Notes or «P - Notes».

Andrew Beckman began by stating that the first marketing dollar needs to be spent on getting back to basics.

From public pot shots by then chief executive and co-founder Rahul Yadav, directed at the company's investors and board members, which led to his ouster later, to high cash burn, the once revered startup has been struggling to get back on its feet.

So, we decided to fix that by creating an expedited process to allow small business owners to get through the application process as quickly as possible so you can get back to focusing on what matters — your business.

While this only goes back to 1999, it would still be insightful to compare these two indexes on a year by year and aggregate basis for total return and volatility to get a true sense of the difference that treasury bond duration makes.

The hope was that by lowering interest rates to record lows and printing money, economic growth would be kick - started and get back on track to the levels seen before the crisis.

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