Sentences with phrase «called to order on»

COPENHAGEN — The fifteenth conference of parties to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was called to order on a foggy Monday morning to the sound of trumpets and choirs and a film clip that could have been a trailer for the uber - disaster movie «2012,» but was a girl's bad dream about eco-apocalypse.
For Immediate Release — The Reform Party National Convention was called to order on July 30th, 2016.

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On the other side, chefs have to make 50 calls to check availability and place orders.
He's created a fresh take on a trade school, called The Flatiron School, in Lower Manhattan, in order to test his theory.
Press «1» or say you want to place an order, and your call goes to the customer - service rep on duty, wherever he or she happens to live.
Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).
The proposed order calls on the U.S. House to back a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether there are grounds to impeach Trump.
Order - to - shelf «has transformed the inventory levels that we have in the back room, essentially clearing them out so that we're mainly focusing on what we call our never - outs, the key items that we need to have in stock all the time in our stores,» Whole Foods» vice president of operations, Ken Meyer, said on an earnings call in February.
They blame the shortages on a buying system called order - to - shelf that Whole Foods implemented across its stores early last year.
Following the latest bloody weekend, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president Michael Shields called on the city to hire more police: «Chicago police officers can't be everywhere.
When customers call, a staffer takes the order on a Greenie, noting everything from organism (there are 50) to destination.
And in order to accomplish this, he is working on a «reusable rocket» called the Mars Colonial Transporter, according to Aeon, which differs from traditional launch systems that expend upon deployment.
It's called showrooming: when customers check out products in physical stores, where a brick and mortar retailer pays the bill to keep the lights on, and then they order online, where the price is lowest.
Why he could vote no: McCain was an opponent of the Obamacare repeal push due to its hasty process in the Senate, and he called for regular order on any legislation going forward.
These managers ended up having to follow up with another e-mail, phone call or face - to - face meeting 72 % of the time in order to ensure things stayed on track.
By way of one of his executive orders from last week, Trump has called on the U.S. Department of Commerce to assemble a report on the root causes of the trade imbalance.
They ask people to call into their podcast and go on - air with the drama their experiencing at work, using the fictional company «Penn & Pencil» when discussing their business in order to keep callers anonymous.
In a post on the Official Google blog, CEO Larry Page announced that he was relinquishing the top role at Google in order to run a new entity called Alphabet, with Google co-founder Sergey Brin as its President.
Your call center staff will need training on the latest technology and customer service strategies in order to stay competitive and hopefully to pull ahead of all others in your field.
Hours after that decision, Spath called Baker's decision to release the lawyers «null and void» and ordered them to return — via remote feed from Washington — for a hearing on Friday.
If you think that having an email hacked is the worst that could happen, consider someone using your information to order countless pizzas, call in bomb threats or make racist comments on your behalf online.
Following the news that Trump called for a ban on them, gun enthusiasts rushed to put in orders and Slide Fire's site crashed due to the high traffic.
The most successful retailers will give shoppers a seamless experience and be able to work with customers whether they walk into a store, order online, via mobile browser, via an app, or call on the phone.
Meanwhile, over 200 tech investors and entrepreneurs are planning to send Trump a letter today that looks past the ban, calling the order and a likely forthcoming crackdown on foreign worker visas «morally and economically misguided,» adding it will «inflict irreversible harm on the startup community and America's ability to compete globally.»
A few weeks ago, I went on my first sales call to see if I could actually get an order.
Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.
Over half say when it happens and they're calling to place a take - out order, they hang up and just cook something; over one - fourth say if calling a new service provider and it happens, they hang up and move on to the next Yellow Pages» ad.
At du, we use a concept called «Customer First» in order to address the specific needs of the SMB market; this puts the customer at the heart of everything we design, drawing on insight and inputs directly from the customer.
The order also calls on the FDA to pass on to the Justice Department any drug shortages that let market participants «stockpile the affected drugs or sell them at exorbitant prices.»
After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»
They'll keep a running list of everything they must accomplish in order to achieve this so - called balance: professional success, proper nutrition and exercise, a dynamic social life, intimate family time, constant personal growth and so on.
However, Democrats on the Small Business Committee immediately vowed to reverse the order, which they called «arbitrary» and «bad policy.»
The Republican presidential frontrunner on Wednesday night called the electronics giant «disgraceful» for rejecting a court order to give encrypted data from one of the San Bernardino attackers» phones to the FBI.
Do whatever it takes to try to get an order even on that first call if it's going well.»
After they placed an order, customers most often called simply to check on the order's status: Have the flowers been delivered?
Whether as manager or employee, I like an ordered, Prioritized Communication Format that allows me to make the most of weekly 1 - on - 1 calls:
Examine the reasons why so few women choose to enter or stay in venture capital roles and call on the venture capital industry to do more to recruit and promote women investors to partner level roles in order to increase the number of women investment professionals
BTCChina said its decision was based on a Sept. 4 directive from Chinese authorities that expressed concern over investment risks involved in cryptocurrencies and ordered a ban on so - called initial coin offerings, or ICOs — the practice of creating and selling digital currencies or tokens to investors to finance start - up projects.
During today's Market Update, I entered a GTC order to close the Bear Call on RUT in anticipation of a down move early next week.
He also specifically offers these arguments in response to Open Media (and so many more on Twitter) calling for us to be allowed access in order to bring Ting to Canada.
The Vancouver Board of Trade's Chair has called a general meeting in order to vote on the following resolution:
The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.
Trump signed an executive order calling on the Commerce Department to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum.
The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a «troll farm.»
«Awaiting Facebook's opening trade» showed in a breaking news box on the bottom of the screen, while an unchanged $ 38 opening price appeared on a split screen in anticipation of 11:00 a.m. Minutes later, Swaminathan, eager for the stock to open, called her son, who lives in New York City, to inform him about the 5,000 shares she had ordered.
On a February analyst call, Trajano acknowledged the company's stores need to be better retrofitted to handle the flow of online orders.
Analysts on the conference call asked what capital expenditures Tesla may reduce in order to meet its lower target.
Shannon Fest started an online petition, which has so far gotten more than 2,700 signatures, calling on Scott to sign an executive order exempting the students from the testing requirements.
Prioritize key landing pages, like your menu, and include a click - to - call button to ensure that you are maximizing your menu and getting orders from your customers on the move!
Let's put aside for a moment the real (and futile) purpose of President Donald Trump's executive order last week calling for postal reforms: He wants to put the hurt on one of the U.S. Postal Service's biggest customers, Amazon.com, whose chief executive,...
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