Sentences with phrase «by the big companies who»

We hope that as this information becomes more known, parents everywhere will no longer be persuaded by big companies who hope to become filthy rich at the expense of our babies» health!

It's a breath of fresh air in an industry dominated by big companies who will, as always, bullshit as much as they can to sell more expensive crap which actually isn't that different.

To make their case for why they need easier access to bigger money awards, the patent owners tell stories about small inventors who have their inventions ripped off by big companies who use all sorts of tricks to avoid paying the inventors on their patents.

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Opened as an experiment in 1912 near the company's most profitable location in Jersey City, N.J., the first A&P economy store was operated by a single man, who moved big volumes at warehouse prices.

Who's in: The mass (Forever 21, Target) and the deeply niche (Culinary Teas, Glitzy Pet Jewelry) How it pays off: Merchants compensate the East Lansing, Mich., company by paying a percentage of sales, or paying to have traffic driven their way or their logo placed next to a big company like Target.

A recent study conducted by Glassdoor found that among employees who said they are thinking of leaving their current job, 45 percent (a plurality) cited salary as the single biggest motivating factor for leaving their current company.

23andMe is a seven - year - old company run by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who is married to Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, who is, in turn, a big investor in 23andMe.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

In his revised edition of Growth Hacker Marketing, Ryan Holiday explored how traditional big - budget marketing is being replaced by more effective small teams (and sometimes individuals) who are using trackable and scalable tools to grow companies.

There's also the important point that Amazon is by no means the only game in town when it comes to big companies hiring workers who are free to work from home.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

The company's overstated political influence was noted by the New York Times political reporter Ken Vogel, who tweeted on Monday that the company's «BIGGEST SECRET» was that it was «an overpriced service that delivered little value to the TRUMP campaign, & the other campaigns & PACs that retained it» and that most people hired it because it was seen as a «prerequisite» for receiving cash from the Mercer family.

The two biggest gainers in the past year were Wang Wei, who added $ 22.7 billion to his fortune as the founder and majority owner of China's largest package delivery company, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, who boosted his fortune by $ 21.9 billion thanks to Amazon's strong performance.

Zuckerberg concluded: «The biggest things that have gotten done in the world tend to be done by people who primarily believe in a mission and are not trying to build a company; by teams, not by individuals; and by people who just don't give up.»

It's important to note that a major reason why the big stock market indices go up is because obsolete companies die and are regularly being replaced by innovators and disruptors who have all sorts of growth ahead of them.

The company has been able to attract big - name advertisers like Gatorade and New Balance by offering access to its direct - to - consumer service that boasts a subscriber base full of athletes with clearly - defined interests, who could be more likely to buy athletic equipment and related products from specific sports.

Theodore J. Forstmann, the financier who has said that he will not raise a new last investment fund, made what was likely to be his last big bet yesterday by acquiring a private fitness company for $ 1.6 billion.

The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.

The move is a big gamble on the part of Governor Stephen Poloz, who hopes the rate cut will both spur companies to spend and help fend off low inflation, but the risk is that Canada's already over-indebted households will put themselves in even more danger by taking on excessive leverage.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Buffett historically made some of his biggest killings by buying private companies from owners, often families, who were willing to accept a discounted price in return for seeing their creation kept intact as part of Berkshire Hathaway.

Everyone loves a bubble (until they don't), and those journalists who go out with pokers to test their surface strength are not held in high esteem by newsroom bosses, some readers and viewers, investors, companies pitching their products, or politicians who have hitched their wagon to making that bubble get bigger.

Big Red has confirmed to CNN Money a report first made by Droid Life, saying that the company will indeed start charging an additional one - time $ 20 activation fee for all customers who sign up for one of Verizon's contract - free device payment plans beginning Nov. 15, the same day the carrier will start charging users an additional $ 20 for unlimited data.

Report published by Surgeon PAID by the big Orthopaedic companies who have harmed hundreds of thousands with their hip resurfacing...

But it turns out that many companies already contracted by the Port Authority, and who stand to benefit from the airport's overhaul, are also big campaign contributors to the governor.

Cooper's speech targeted the audience of delegates from big companies by focusing on the «value» a happy and confident workforce can add to a company: «The workforce is one of the most important assets an employer has... [they] need employees who can get on and do the job.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

You may just catch the next big thing (okay, fine, and Paul Rudd) at an evening of one - acts by young members of Our Time Theatre Company, a nonprofit program for artistically inclined teens who stutter.

A former Manhattan borough president, Mr. Stringer jokingly refers to his own status as a bespectacled white guy, and laments that too many big companies are run by people «who look like me.»

The board of directors does all the «big picture» business thinking and will likely include someone appointed by a venture capitalist who has invested in the company.

Pare portions Everything from beverages to bagels is two to five times bigger today than in the 1970s, says New York University nutrition professor Lisa Young, PhD, author of Portion Teller, who has studied the servings dished up in restaurants and by food companies.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

This bell sleeve dress is by one of my favorite indie designers so while it's a little pricier than normal, you're supporting a girl with a big dream who started a made in the USA company.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Joel, played by Paul Rudd, is a big wig at a corporate candy company who is going through a rough breakup from his girlfriend whom he discovered sleeping with his co-worker.

The story picks up with Bilbo, the dwarves, and Gandalf (Ian McKellen) trying to evade the still - pursuing orcs by seeking shelter with a «skin - changer» named Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), who changes forms between a giant bear and a slightly less hairy man, and eventually fleeing into a dangerous forest, where the air causes hallucinations, big spiders ensnare trespassers, and elves aren't too happy with unexpected company.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 5, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Cadillac Records (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity) Historical drama chronicles the rise of the legendary record company founded in Chicago in the Fifties by Leonard (Adrien Brody) and Phil Chess (Shiloh Fernandez), siblings who roamed the South in search of promising talent, and discovered such future musical greats as Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Etta James (Beyonce»), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Howlin» Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and (Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer).

It takes a big company (or at least one run by a man who wears great sweaters) to admit it was wrong, and that's what Fiat Chrysler has done with its restyle of the 2019 Jeep Cherokee.

Volkswagen is not looking at big numbers, instead the company believes that the Polo GTI will be bought by enthusiasts who will be ready to pay the premium to own one of the fastest and most powerful hatchbacks in the country.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

Amazon.com.br is operated by an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, who opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.

Amazon wants reviews written by committed readers — not one - time only buyers, not bots or anonymous voices in the wilderness filling in blanks on a review template provided for them by a company who charged the author big bucks to get that book 50 reviews.

The Big 5 have a problem that few people comment on: Big companies of whatever industry are controlled by people who are primarily business people and not product people.

Nothing is keeping the Big 5 from partaking of that renaissance, beyond inertia and the sad truth that monster publishing companies are run (as a good friend of mine put it) by «people who don't read books.»

These certainly do not come from big publishing companies and instead are written by anyone who clicks submit on their Microsoft Word Document.