Sentences with phrase «drops called drops»

Watching the process is mesmerizing and answers the question: Why are lemon drops called drops?

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For all those people who wish that they could banish conference calls completely, this tip is for you: «Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value,» Musk advised.

Every business person has that fear of being in the middle of an important call or message, when suddenly the phone experiences a bad connection and drops the call.

Goldman Sachs, the New York - based investment bank, is sticking with its call that crude prices could drop to $ 20 per barrel.

The first shoe dropped in October when Nintendo showed its mystery console — an edgy, millennial - angled home / mobile hybrid called «Switch.»

(Goldman Sachs has it at 2.2 %, while the IMF dropped its call to 2.4 % in April.)

The stock drop may have become apparent around the time when Musk cut off analysts on the call.

From 10 - hour calls, to a rep running to get a pair of shoes from a rival store to hand deliver to a customer because the company ran out, stories of jaw - dropping customer service stories are common there.

With the new Echo that features a screen, users have the options to voice call, video call or «drop in» — which lets users instantly connect with the person they are calling if they enable «drop in» permission (kind of like an intercom).

If the portfolio drops precipitously, the broker may require the investor to put in more cash or sell off part of the portfolio (known as a margin call).

Wednesday marked the second - biggest percentage drop in United stock since that tense October's earnings call.

When a delivery is late, when your inventory system screws up, when you drop the ball and completely forget an important deadline or phone call, don't try to deny it.

This year, coffee chain Dunkin' Donuts did something radical: it's considering dropping «Donuts» from its name, and it opened several stores called simply «Dunkin,» with more likely to come.

This year, Adidas has created what it's calling «the perfect sneakers for Oktoberfest,» a pair of $ 200 ($ 238) kicks designed to repel beer and vomit, as well pretty much any other liquid you can throw, drop, or pour on it, a process the company is calling «Oktoberfesterization.»

This would very much resemble fiscal policy and could properly be called a helicopter drop.

According to cryptocurrency news site The Merkle, at least some users at that time were already suspicious that the site was maneuvering towards a so - called «exit scam,» and the price of Nano dropped by 20 % on the news.

(He also veered more heavily into conspiracy theory territory when an analyst's call was dropped when asking a question: «Instead of answering, there was a death ray type of sound toward the end of the question, and the questioner was no longer there.»)

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

But the lack of any statement about when the next one would happen moved markets that trade in future interest rates hikes, causing the price of so - called Fed funds futures to drop.

Make sure the reception is good and the call won't drop.

Top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have called on Moore to drop out of the race.

Musicians can sign up for a subscription with Landr, drag - and - drop their song files into the service, and receive what the company calls a «professional» sounding mastered version within minutes.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

We started in Chicago and just dropped by the gym, door to door essentially, calling, emailing, just like traditional sales.

Or call 800-828-2214 for the nearest drop - off center.

They can't afford dropped calls or poor voice quality during business conversations.

After listing superstar entrepreneurs who dropped out of college — Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell — he calls post-secondary education a «cruel, expensive joke» that «happily churns out unemployed debtors of dubious value.»

Amazon regularly uses the U.S. Postal Service to complete what's called the «last mile» of delivery, with letter carriers dropping off packages at some 150 million residences and businesses daily.

Once all public transit projects in the 25 year plan — called The Big Move — are completed, that commute will drop to 77 minutes on average, Prichard said.

It's broken; it keeps dropping calls.

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.

Just one day after food blogger Vani Hari launched a petition calling for Kellogg and General Mills to drop a preservative from their cereals, she's already getting a huge reaction.

If the stock price moves up dramatically, a trader can use the call option to buy shares at a big discount, while if the price drops far enough, the put option will instead turn a profit.

Now the federal competition bureau has begun legal proceedings against Rogers (owner of Canadian Business) over alleged misleading advertising that claimed the startup services suffered more dropped calls.

After dropping out of York University, an 18 - year - old Cohl and a friend opened a strip club in Ottawa called Pandora's Box.

Larry Page just dropped a bomb on the tech community, saying that Google will now be part of a collection of companies called Alphabet, which Page and Sergey Brin will run.

They shadowed the managers at meetings, followed them around the office as they dropped in on subordinates, and sat for hours at their desks looking over their shoulders, recording their phone calls and e-mails.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

He called it «an unintended consequence of the Trump - led efforts to stop many Muslims from coming to the U.S.,» resulting in «a sharp drop in foreign tourism to our nation that imperils jobs and touristic income.»

You drop the errors of having to wait to go over the call, and you also can make sure you start the call in the same way every single time.

Part of the reason is happenstance: Gildan's original market is in so - called imprintables — T - shirts sold to screen printers who drop a logo on the front for concerts and other promotions — and Chinese manufacturers have not heavily targeted the sector.

He likes to boast with a soft humble - braggy smile that during college he spent so much time playing speed rounds of chess (called «blitz») with the hustlers around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he nearly had to drop out of school.

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Smaller cable channels such as Esquire are finding themselves vulnerable as more consumers cut back on pay - TV services, dropping their packages entirely or opting for a so - called «skinny bundle» of fewer channels.

So it would be unfair to call Poloz a currency manipulator: he has dropped Canada's benchmark interest rate to within a quarter point of its record low because otherwise inflation would drop below 1 %, the low end of the Bank of Canada's comfort zone.

Increased sales in what Fowden calls the «good - for - you» drink categories, like tea and sparkling water, offset the drop in juice and soda sales (5 % and 3.7 % respectively) last quarter.

Gates had dropped out of Harvard, and the two had formed a company called Micro-Soft (originally hyphenated).

CNBC's Jim Cramer called the nearly 1,600 - point drop a «flash crash.»

Quartz reports that a petition calling for Macy's (M) to drop Donald Trump's merchandise has gathered over 700,000 signatures.

Frank Cianciulli, CEO of Toronto - based business - services provider Wish Group, once had a client throw a fit because he had dropped his phone in a lake and it no longer could access the firm's conference - call services.