Sentences with phrase «called on a close»

As the stakes get higher and runs grow increasingly important late in postseason games, teams are calling on their closers to pitch more than one inning

«Her craven act can never erase the fact that for years she chose to promote, protect and defend the Clintons who are guilty of the same offenses and cover - ups against women she only now conveniently seeks to denounce, while still stopping short of calling on her close friend, Al Franken to resign.

BTW nice call on closing Ebix — it is severely mismanaged.

I also called on a close friend who also has a few plots of vacant land to see what he had to say.

Position yourself to succeed and capture opportunities by being prepared and calling on those close to you and those close to them.

Not exact matches

Once the Aetna deal closes sometime in 2018, assuming it passes muster with regulators, customers are likely to see more health clinic - style services at CVS stores, executives suggested on a conference call with investors on Monday.

And this closer interaction with customers could reduce pressure on the overall health care system by reducing hospital stays, Merlo said on the call.

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

«It was a close call,» John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed, said on the weekend, referring to the Fed's contentious decision to leave the benchmark rate at zero last week.

Another buyer named C.A. Hewitt called the Platypus «an excellent product... I have tightly placed teeth and brackets that are close together on some teeth, but I am still able to fit the flossers under the brace wire and between my teeth.»

The manager who called the police on Robinson and Nelson has since been removed from that restaurant, and the company is closing more than 8,000 locations on May 29 so that its employees can undertake racial bias training.

On edge over rates and jobs Today's decision by the Reserve Bank on interest rates has become an extremely close call amid fears Australia's unemployment rate may have already reached 5.5 per cenOn edge over rates and jobs Today's decision by the Reserve Bank on interest rates has become an extremely close call amid fears Australia's unemployment rate may have already reached 5.5 per cenon interest rates has become an extremely close call amid fears Australia's unemployment rate may have already reached 5.5 per cent.

After pledging not to provide any forward guidance Benioff added, «I can do the math and so can you, we're very close to talking about our $ 10 billion year but I'm not going to do that on this call.»

European markets closed lower on Tuesday as U.K. PM Theresa May announced plans to call a snap general election on June 8.

Major Asian nations reacted sharply to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on Friday, warning of damage to close relations amid industry calls for retaliation.

We never generated enough revenue to cover costs, and had sunk $ 700,000 into it from our successful call center to keep it afloat until we finally decided to close it to focus on the successful business.

MCI's telemarketers could now begin sales calls by saying «I'm calling on behalf of your friends and family», giving them three times the close rate as cold calls.

The buyout price represents a 39 percent premium to PetSmart's closing price of $ 59.81 on July 2, the day before Jana disclosed its stake and called for PetSmart to explore a sale.

She has her finger on the pulse of what's going on behind closed doors at the country's biggest corporations and calls herself «the female James Bond for innovation.»

Some firefighters worked days on the front line, refusing to take breaks, while sheriff's dispatchers continued taking calls even as the fire came close to taking out their building.

This helps to ensure a closing date no later than July 1,» said Michael Neidorrf, Centene chairman and CEO, on the company's first - quarter earnings call.

Related: Instagram Founders Agree to Facebook Buyout March 2010: Stanford University grad Kevin Systrom closes a $ 500,000 seed round from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on a location - based app called Burbn.

And Shkreli seemed to be at pains to suggest he wasn't taking the trial seriously: dropping in on reporters during the trial (he called the prosecutors «junior varsity»), taking to social media during the evenings, declining to wear a tie in court, and ostentatiously reading a book during closing arguments.

But the North's decision to send former military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol as delegation leader to the closing ceremony has enraged families of 46 sailors killed in the torpedo attack on their ship and threatens the mood of rapprochement that Seoul wants to create at what it calls the «Peace Games».

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

«I don't believe that bitcoin is going to be a currency today or in the future,» Schultz said, during a post-earnings conference call Thursday after the closing bell on Wall Street.

In most companies, the marketing department's job is to get the leads and the sales department's job is to call on the leads and close the sale.

The outcome of a shareholder vote scheduled for Thursday on the offer is too close to call.

Shares of the wholesale retailer closed down 6 percent on Friday after its post-earnings conference call, in which analysts pushed a narrative of Amazon overshadowing Costco's future success.

«After buying RelateIQ, Benioff was going to call everything «blank IQ,» but when he saw the traction IBM was getting with Watson, he wanted something else, and Einstein was born,» said one source close to Salesforce who insisted on anonymity.

The Federal Aviation Administration is holding twice daily phone calls with airlines to talk about airport conditions, but does not plan to close the Miami airport on Friday, officials said.

Besides what experts call good «sleep hygiene» -; not drinking caffeine at night, turning off the TV before bed, sticking to a sleep schedule -; the key may be rethinking your schedule to work shorter, smarter hours and actually leave the office closer to on time (after all, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg manages it).

Maine's vote on recreational pot was still close to call early Wednesday morning, though The New York Times reported that the «yes» vote had a narrow lead.

In a Facebook Live, high - performance coach Todd Herman had us reflect on what we have done these past five weeks and filtered them through something he calls the «Power 5,» a process that helps us continually evaluate our choices and make sure we're getting closer to where we want to be.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many governments, including the Organization of American States and the Latin American community, «have called on the United States to close down the detention facility and we look forward to their continued cooperation.»

E * Trade also said that the Manila office remained «temporarily closed,» with customer service calls rerouted to its stateside offices, and that the closure had had no material impact on its operations.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

Fairfax, which is involved in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment, had been keeping a close eye on Toys «R» Us Canada but it was a call from another toy - industry figure that prompted a closer look, Rivett said.

Najarian spotted the surge in call buying activity one day after the company reported third - quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday.

That's especially true on Sundays, when RBC's much - hyped investment in meeting consumer needs, whenever and however people want, is closed — just like in the good old days, when banks were called banks.

«Something we've called for a long time is they could pursue basically like a pipe deal, a strategic investment from another partner into Yahoo,» Eric Jackson, managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, said Tuesday on CNBC's «Closing Bell.»

The purchase is expected to add to earnings per share within the first full year after the transaction closes, scheduled for the second half of the year, executives said on a conference call Monday.

Always being on call, and always putting clients and business first (or at least a close second after family).

If the other smart people in the organization don't agree on a course of action, it is probably close to a 50 - 50 call.

It was only around 10 p.m., when the outcome was still too close to call, that the two sides came together, working through the night on a settlement: At 6:30 a.m., Hess announced that it would add three of Elliott's nominees to its board.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

Representative Kevin Brady, another top House Republican, called on Trump not to hit America's closest allies.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on investigations into several close call incidents at San Francisco International Airport:.

More marketers than ever are utilizing so - called «sponsored social,» with the strategy closing in on display ads.

BCE said it expects to close the CTV deal early in the second quarter and will update its 2011 financial guidance during its first quarter earnings call, due on May 12.