Sentences with phrase «calls in»

The firm has invested in forty - three portfolio companies in the past three years and has even accepted capital calls in Bitcoin.

It's always hard when someone calls in to a board meeting, and with Carl it's even more difficult.

Amazon Inc. on Tuesday launched what it calls In - Car Delivery, which allows Amazon delivery drivers to open the trunks of certain late - model cars and drop off packages inside.

You'll be able to view data from your phone calls in your call analytics dashboard, so even if you've implemented a non-digital marketing campaign, you can measure its success alongside your online efforts.

There will be two calls in total with a financial advisor.

Now the generation of students that grew up performing lockdown drills in school are echoing those calls in their own schools and communities.

Calculating the CABB requires a certain number of judgment calls in extracting the business cycle from the trend, so no two sets of estimates will be exactly alike.

There's just no place for cold calls in this connected world.

Finland's crippling financial collapse in the early»90s brought fresh economic challenges to this «confident and assertive Eurostate,» as David Kirby calls it in A Concise History of Finland.

His main product at Boston - based Cogito (pronounced Co-jee-tow) analyzes customer service calls in real time for health care companies.

Everybody hates it when people take calls in public, because 1) they talk too loud and 2) the alternation of talking and listening makes it harder to ignore than a constant drone.

Sometimes they huddle in the private dining room and make phone calls in the sofa booths.

A part of the game was to add a bit of intrigue to what Miller — who said he has listened through 1,400 earnings calls in his career — called increasingly well - rehearsed and less - informative operations.

The entrepreneur on vacation is schizophrenic, hoping everything is OK at the office but disappointed when he calls in and finds out everything is fine.

With an overwhelming amount of data flooding into the organization each second, the company needed to find a way to identify and react to specific patterns — «like a certain number of dropped calls in a certain amount of time for a certain kind of customer» — that suggested a customer was about to bolt.

Everyday Edisons, a (oxymoron alert) PBS reality series that celebrates amateur inventors, was holding casting calls in town the next day.

Still, Peter J. Marathas Jr., the partner in charge of benefits and executive compensation at Boston's Proskauer Rose LLP, recently received three calls in one day from clients who were dismayed to learn that most requirements of the law — set to go into effect 2014 — remain on schedule, despite the well - publicized employer - mandate penalty delay.

The four FBI agents who came to Dr. Sanborn's home for the interview asked him a series of questions about insect calls in general and cicadas in particular.

Employees will now be empowered to make judgment calls in real time and manage exceptions.

«Little John Waynes,» Li & Fung calls its in - country hagglers, for their cowboy - like independence.

You only have so many hours, emails, meetings and phone calls in you — make them count.

Earlier this year, Reuters reported that the NSA collected more than 151 million records of Americans» phone calls in 2016, even after Congress purportedly limited the scope of the government's data collection powers.

At a micro level, this means that if a shift leader or crew member calls in sick in the middle of the night, they're calling your franchisee — not you — to let them know.

Other companies offer house calls in select locations.

But what happens when that potentially lucrative new customer sends a chat, or your top - paying client calls you in the middle of «e-mail time»?

Having an employee who goes on «stress leave» or constantly calls in sick could be a sign that they are not comfortable working under your direction, Kerr explains.

For example, the fact that she regularly calls in to pay bills.

After majoring in communications at Northern Michigan University, he made cold calls in Manhattan for Xerox's (XRX) latest invention — the «word processor» — then went to work for the U.S. division of Hammarplast, the Swedish kitchenware maker.

But a world piloted by cars under Cruise's control would have saved me from two heartstoppingly close calls in the span of a single day.

Stumpf has long lauded cross-selling as a reason the bank had been so successful (as Warren brutally pointed out by reading transcripts of earnings calls in which Stumpf touted the tactic).

Everybody knows his or her title and job description, but if somebody calls in sick, the circus continues, so you take over that person's job.

They're the lucky dogs (maybe you use a different word) who can take conference calls in their pyjamas, don't have to deal with traffic gridlock and never show up late for their kids» school plays.

Unless you work in the media, or have a fascination with things like the mechanics of Javascript calls in publishing software, you might have missed the launch of a Google project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP.

The last time I helped him rent one of his units I took over fifty phone calls in thirty - six hours.

Wills also began to travel constantly, identifying airlines by the types of planes they flew, then making sales calls in person.

Kushner's attorney Jamie Gorelick responded to the Reuters story Friday evening via CNN, saying «Mr. Kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period.

«Boeing's book of business wasn't hurt by a little wage inflation or modestly rising interest rates or margin calls in the financial markets.»

I thought this was strange because no one ever calls in for demos.

Also known as the Ira Sohn conference, the event has been the site some of hedge funds» best — and worst — calls in recent years.

It never calls in sick.

In a coworking space, for example, it's easy to join in on topic - specific discussions, head to the gym to work out at any time of the day, grab coffee at all hours, change up your work surrounding, take important calls in sound - blocking rooms and even catch some Z's in a nap closet.

Jones ran through how it works: You link your calendar, set your preferences — you prefer phone calls in the morning at these hours, these are the five places you like to have coffee, these are the three places you like to have lunch, and so on.

While the short position Chanos has in Alibaba has not worked out, Yusko was right on one of his most bearish calls in recent years: In early 2015 he predicted oil would hit $ 30 when many thought crude had already hit a bottom.

Mexicans are «perplexed by some of the recent calls in Canada for «dumping» Mexico from NAFTA and negotiating a bilateral deal with Washington,» Andrés Rozental, a former Mexican deputy foreign minister, wrote in the Globe and Mail on January 27.

That being said, I can't see many people actually making calls in public as you have absolutely no privacy.

He got up at 6:00 a.m., worked his day - job as a janitor and, in that pre-internet age, made cold calls in the real estate office until the wee hours.

If anything goes wrong, you can simply call in the IT crew instead of wasting your time and the time of your employees while trying to find the adequate solution to the problem.

Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

Navigator Resources» struggle to raise funds has ended for the worse with administrators called in and about 200 workers being laid off.

You need to get involved in at least supervising your superstars who you call in to plug the holes.