Sentences with phrase «deals out of their stories»

Some people have made careers and book deals out of their stories, which proves a good story is a good story, no matter where it comes from.

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These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

As the Journal story points out, YES signed a deal with the Yankees to lock up TV rights for 30 years at a cost of about $ 1.5 billion.

Avago Technologies, a chip company formed after the spin out Agilent's chip division, is seeking to expand its business with the acquisition of another semiconductor firm and has explored deals with Xilinx, Renesas Electronics and Maxim Integrated Products, according to a story in Reuters.

Dino Sajudin's story of an out - of - wedlock Trump child raises even more of those questions, as well as the question of just how many payoff deals Trump or allied institutions like AMI have made.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Rob Artigo: And, as a reporter, when I'm out there covering, when I was a reporter, when I was out there covering stories or calling organizations, when I dealt with Google, Facebook, and major companies, Tesla, and I remember one of the most available people was from Tesla, Elon Musk.

And I was really freaked out about it because, when you're writing about the end of the world, how you end your story is a big deal.

The New Testament is concerned with that part of this endless story which deals with the earthly life of Jesus and the coming of his Spirit to establish the Christian community and sent his followers out as flaming witnesses of their faith.

«We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world... till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.»

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

There's all these stories of politicians making deals in this mysterious back room, and people shooting guns, and rock stars hanging out after the shows.

The Padres signed James Shields to a four - year, $ 75 million deal with an option, simultaneously upgrading their rotation while ending one of the most drawn - out stories of this offseason.

ESPN always needs something to talk about, which is why they often manufacture stories or make big deals out of nothing...

Story after story came out after the election of bi-racial people and people of color that are adoptees of white families — or people of color who've married into white families — and having to deal with problematic vStory after story came out after the election of bi-racial people and people of color that are adoptees of white families — or people of color who've married into white families — and having to deal with problematic vstory came out after the election of bi-racial people and people of color that are adoptees of white families — or people of color who've married into white families — and having to deal with problematic views.

Back then I thought the two stories might be connected and the news reported by Metro today does nothing to change that, as the paper reveals that the Gunners have now opened up talks with Campbell over an extension to his current deal which runs out at the end of the season.

The club didn't budge when Coutinho tried to force a move by sitting out over the summer, didn't budge when there was talk of him never again playing for the club, and didn't budge when the Catalan press came out with a constant string of stories about a deal being done last.

And dealing with a little girl who was long hair and snot leaking out of her nose all the livelong day is a whole different story.

I feel shame to be dealing with this all over again, but am grateful to read a story of someone else dealing with it and how getting medications straightened out can bring such relief.

Unfortunately I hear sad stories of family portraiture photographers, siblings, husbands, grandparents missing the shot, pictures being blown out (too bright) because they didn't know how to deal with the last minute and unexpected changes in light, blurry pictures, or pictures not being special enough because they were too anatomy - textbook - like.

It's very brave of you to share your story, and I know it'll help other moms out there who are dealing with PPD.

If you're looking for some ammunition to take into a meeting with your boss for such a deal, check out some of the data and stories collected by Corporate Voice for Working Families.

Multimedia carried a story on their platforms in 2010 claiming some individuals in GREDA had received death threats hence the withdrawal of their petition against the STX deal only for GREDA to come out and tell the world that there was no iota of truth in that report because they only withdrew their petition after meeting parliament and getting a better understanding of the whole deal.

«Never in history has anyone had to deal with unconfirmed reports of a story that turned out to be lies,» Paterson said.

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Are we not all aware of the fact that Abba Kyari closed the deal a little while back in return for the agreement of the senate not to confirm Magun after the latter gave out the the story of Kyari's involvement in the capital oil deal.

The roots of this story were planted in the 1930s, when the TVA was created as a New Deal project to help haul America out of the Great Depression.

it causes a kind of paranoid sense of persecution in the people who challenge authority, and that is after the typically expensive problem is solved, (listen to the horror stories coming out of the many independent media sources we all blissfully use every day without realizing the expense and hassles they deal with daily).

Jolie, who dealt with heavy material in her previous directorial outing, «In the Land of Blood and Honey,» also makes the mistake (and who knows how much of this came from studio pressure) of soft - pedaling the story's most brutal sequences.

Just about any film that explores the question that all of us ponder about what happens to us after we die already starts with built - in intrigue, and while Flatliners eventually becomes a relatively standard «Twilight Zone» - esque story about dealing with the guilt and remorse of one's past to resolve one's future, it's certainly a movie that stands out as quite different in style and, to some extent, subject matter than most anything that Hollywood had churned out before.

They don't even really make a big deal out of gayness in this version, which is odd, but this is a dumbed down and less interesting version of the same story, which would be fine if it took advantage of having actors who don't even have to act if they can dance in a film like this.

Because the story deals with a pandemic, you're never sure when one of these attractive people will start foaming at the mouth and flapping around like a fish out of water.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

At the same time Marty discovers his best friend has publicly solicited for psychopaths to contact him to help inspire his story, the dognapping scam hits a snag when Billy steals the dog of local psychopath Charlie (Harrelson) who quickly exacts his revenge and sends the writing and dognapping trio into the desert where they figure out how to deal with Charlie's rampage and, if they have time, a decent ending for Marty's story.

This competent unauthorised docudrama interweaves the stories of the CIA's trackers and the Navy Seals who carried out the attack on the Bin Laden compound and also deals with their local Pakistani assistants who got thrown to the lions.

Once policemen and bumpkins are introduced in a series of repetitive «I don't believe your story — hey, why did the lights go out» scenarios, however, Jeepers Creepers, while retaining Salva's indisputably cinematic eye, becomes something a good deal more predictable and consequently safer.

The other three stories go for more politically tinged storylines, dealing with Vietnam on both the home and war fronts, including the counter culture hippies that are a result of the desire to drop out of the reality of life for young people in the Sixties.

Against this farcical story, is the backdrop of the lot, which offers many opportunities for Russell and Graham to play out scam after scam in order to make deals.

Along with these immortal motifs is the story of a group of impressionable young boys who have to deal with the pressures of attending a grueling prep school, parents who have their futures perfectly laid out for them, and the weight of trying to figure out their identities and their place in the world.

There is a great deal to relish about this spirited and keenly observed coming - of - age story that plots out its protagonist's changing fortunes with a mix of sensitivity and alacrity.

Like that film and Wes Anderson's «The Royal Tenenbaums,» «The Meyerowitz Stories» is very much about the burden of having a difficult dad, although toward the end I could have sworn the movie also morphed into a screwball remake of «Summer Hours,» Olivier Assayas» wonderful 2009 film about three siblings trying to figure out how to deal with an artistic inheritance.

The weight, though, is on the problems of these reporters, who need to deal with long nights out and hangovers in the morning, have trouble getting scoops, are competing for the few stories about which their networks might care.

And Gadot deflected a question about a New York Post story that said she would only play Wonder Woman again if Warner Bros. buys financier Brett Ratner out of his deal with the studio, saying only, «Let's just have a nice night.»

His first huge success was Kinky Boots, a film about British drag queens and shoemakers which dealt with the issue of Britain's long - standing textile industry losing out to foreign competition, then there was Brideshead revisited, another story about a commoner and a member of the elite upper - classes falling in love, because apparently we can't get enough of those.

While Variety's story cautions that no deal is in place yet, it would appear to be a matter of hammering out the final details.

And you can't tell the story of Doctor Strange w / out eventually dealing w / Clea.

Peele seems more than comfortable taking his time building the story and the relationships of Get Out, working to establish the naivete of Rose and her family, their assumptions about race relations so far from the real world, their good intentions not counting for all that much to a man who deals with prejudice day in and day oOut, working to establish the naivete of Rose and her family, their assumptions about race relations so far from the real world, their good intentions not counting for all that much to a man who deals with prejudice day in and day outout.

Some might take issue with the fact that The Ant Bully doesn't offer useful ideas about how to deal with bullies; the bullies in this story are dealt with in out - of - this - world ways.

While he was dealing with a couple students who showed up high, another student in the back of the room threw a potted plant out an open window... which nearly hit security guards 2 stories down.