Sentences with phrase «by picking at»

Shop smart with Policy Bachat by picking at least three quotes from reputable insurance providers.

Try to resist helping them shed by picking at loose skin.

Not exact matches

Recent research by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In found that women are rarely picked to be CEO because, at each step of the way, women are missing out on promotions.

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

It's even more important than how good you are at picking yourself up off the floor and getting back in the game after getting punched a few times by a client or a competitor — or one of your own folks.

To get an idea, we can look at valuations published by the travel website The Points Guy, an Insider Picks.

The source of her discomfort was revealed by another user who posted details of an event in which men were meeting up at the Eaton Centre to pick up as many women as possible.

CNBC's Dominic Chu reports on the best stock picks as laid out by Starboard's Jeff Smith at the Delivering Alpha Conference.

Store credit cards: Don't be swayed by the discount you can pick up at the cash register for snagging a store credit card.

She considers herself an ally and spokesperson for «mompreneurs,» and sets the tone by picking up her own kids — now aged eight, six and four — at the bus most days and by doing much of her work out of her home office (a six - minute drive from the Steeped Tea headquarters).

To keep the initiative rigorous, Moonrocks is working with Cheskin Research, in Redwood Shores, Calif., specialists in the market segmentation, to ensure that ideas picked up by Lunar are aimed at sufficiently promising and well - defined markets.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

A good way to pick up on trends and follow the direction of the general conversation is by reading leading publications regularly and looking at editorial calendars.

While Walmart has been offering in - store pick up for several years now, this is first year the retailer is pushing the service this hard, in a move aimed in part at preventing stores from being overwhelmed by panicked last - minute shoppers.

Or pick up Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent.

The fledgling company pushed past other troubles by raising money, although Hindy told of a period of time when he had to pick up a second job, editing stories at Newsday, to get by.

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said at the Television Critics Association press tour that the company wasn't in the market for a true - crime series at the time it picked up «Making a Murderer,» but he was impressed by the filmmakers.

The original group of ad creatives picked the size of the banner ad (446 pixels by 56 pixels) based on the resolution of most computer monitors at the time, and the rudimentary HTML that could show it.

The claim had also been picked up by Russian media outlets Sputnik and Pravda, according to Foreign Policy, which concluded «there doesn't seem to be any basis at all for the report.»

This reminds me of an anecdote I recently heard related by an executive at Disney, about the customer - service orientation of the Disney employees responsible for picking up trash and emptying trash bins at the company's amusement parks and resorts.

Elkann was picked for the Fiat board at age 21 by his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, the dapper industrialist who built the company into a global powerhouse.

Take a look at the portfolios of Buffett's likely stock picking successors and see how they have changed quarter by quarter.

Old and new sit comfortably side by side in Querétaro: when parents pick up their kids when school's over, at 1:30 p.m., they'll also pick up freshly made tortillas for comida, the afternoon meal.

Our planners saved the day by arranging for a friend of theirs pick up our dog from the kennel and drop her off at the venue.

I know this sounds crazy, but you'll be amazed at what deals you can make just by picking up the phone and asking your customers what problems they have and demonstrating how your product can offer a solution.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

In so doing, it's creating the possibility for a Wall Streeter to create his or her own pick - a-max terminal - like platform by matching Symphony with other OpenFin apps relevant to their business at a much lower cost.

In that statement, Injong Rhee, chief technology officer of Samsung's mobile communications business, said the company looked at a several companies in the public and private cloud infrastructure space and picked Joyent because of its management team, expertise and» robust cloud technology validated by some of the largest Fortune 500 customers.»

So the statistics of survival refer to companies that live at least long enough to be picked up by somebody's database.

«Banks hope to lend early to get early returns... private investment and manufacturing investment are picking up due to firmer global demand (and) household loans could be boosted by property demand,» said Nie Wen, an economist at Hwabao Trust in Shanghai.

Almost anyone in manufacturing is a producer of hazardous waste and must account for it at each step by keeping careful records: for example, that a hauler picked up x gallons of waste from your factory and that a disposal company received it, and so on.

In other countries, he notes, banks are making products more tangible by allowing customers to shop for them in off - the - shelf boxes, which makes things like getting a new bank card as easy as picking up cornflakes at your local supermarket.

But, if you're in the area after Aug. 26, you can pick up a 4 - pack of tallboys at the Twin Cities market or stop by the Fulton taproom in Minneapolis to give it a try.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

There is a second role which is picking up the types of criminal enforcement that have at least to some extent normally been done by federal prosecutors office.

Salamunovic said he often visits these stores when he's staying at his second home in Los Angeles to pick up brands such as Vince, John Varvatos and the Made & Crafted line by Levis — all of which he says are difficult to find in Canada.

«I can see ESPN kind of being picked away at from the bottom, and eventually being disrupted by that kind of thing,» Krikorian says.

Republicans in South Carolina also were voting on Saturday in the state - by - state contest to pick nominees for the Nov. 8 election, with opinion polls showing front - runner Donald Trump trying to solidify his spot at the top of the pack and rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio fighting for a second - place finish.

Whereas earlier people had to physically go to the restaurant or, at the very least, pick up the phone and place an order, now they can outsource the labor by using the app to pay a middle man to deliver the food for them — on demand.

As for the voluntary fingerprinting program, Austin's mayor hopes that drivers will be motivated to participate by the incentives that are included like the ability to pick up passengers at the airport.

The segment — which aired during Wednesday night's episode of The Late Late Show — shows Corden picking Obama up at the White House before jamming out to songs such as «Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours» by Stevie Wonder, «Get Ur Freak On» by Missy Elliott and Beyoncé's «Single Ladies» while driving around the White House grounds.

After picking up strong signals of a polymetallic sulphide zone by geophysical survey, Julia Mines Ltd has started a 2000 metre reverse circulation drilling programme at Pipeline Bore to test targets on the Allco Monetti joint venture ground.

At 2009's event the company — inspired by a pair of flip flops founder Kyle Berner bought in Thailand in 2007 — picked up advice from Stanford University business students about how to ramp up its distribution to handle a deal it had just signed with Whole Foods.

When the cases started to build up again in April 2014, it was at last picked up by national authorities in Guinea.

Flanked by legislative leaders and dozens of lawmakers, Sandoval presented a Nevada license plate with «TESLA» to Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president for business development who helped pick the site at an industrial park along Interstate 80 about 15 miles east of Sparks.

I would drive, and hire two or three other drivers, who would bring in a profit weekly, by charging $ 5.00 each rider ($ 10.00 if picked up and dropped off at your home).......

Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101

Ordering food at a restaurant, discussing an auto repair, arranging for lawn care, providing feedback on a new product, picking classes for the fall semester, getting suggestions on clothes that match — all done by voice.

The production quality was rough, with sound issues and background conversations picked up by the mic at points.

TVF is backed by private equity investor Tiger Global, which picked up just under 20 % in the startup for $ 10 million, valuing it at $ 50 million, in December 2015, according to VCCEdge, the data research platform of VCCircle.