Sentences with phrase «few acts in»

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Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

Especially after losing legends such as David Bowie and Tom Petty over the last few years, I'm treasuring the chance to catch my favorite acts in concert while I can.

The president warned that North Korea «better get their act together, or they are going to be in trouble like few nations have ever been in trouble.»

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

As I have explained elsewhere, many of the policies put in place by the Federal government since the election of President Obama in 2008 — banking reform, business regulation, tax policies, and the Affordable Care Act to name a few — have made entrepreneurship more difficult to undertake.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

Although the Ohio governor says he opposes the Affordable Care Act and would repeal it, he is one of the few Republican governors who approved expanding Medicare in his home state to help pay for the new health care program when it began in 2012.

Aside from being asinine business, that would violate Title II Section 222 of the Communications Act, which says common carriers can not permit access to «individually identifiable» customer data except in a few specific instances, like when required by law.

Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone — investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for those who have reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a commensurate decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for the very people who have, so far, reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

«Next year's Commission should consider acting quickly to reverse any damaging policies put into place over the last eight years and in the last few weeks of this Administration,» O'Rielly said in a speech last month.

«The Japan virtual currency act has likely had a major impact, as there has been a lot of buzz in Japanese media over the ruling over the last few months,» Aurélien Menant, founder and CEO of Gatecoin, told CNBC by email.

One of the few escape clauses is a recession, which the statute defines as «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

We've assembled links to a few online resources that may help guide small - business owners as major provisions of the Affordable Care Act go into effect in the coming months.

In a few hours Mayer will join a group of CEOs meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss their priorities for the so - called «fiscal cliff» of tax hikes and spending cuts set to take place Jan. 1, unless Congress acts.

Speaking from my own experience growing up as a closeted gay man, male role models that acted like me and aspired to work in areas that interested me were few and far between.

After a topsy - turvy few weeks that saw deep divisions among Republican lawmakers on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, draft legislation is finally expected to be released in the coming days.

Bayh - Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told mIn a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told min economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told mIn a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told min economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

Policy makers in the United States acted quickly to clamp down on myclobutanil use when it was discovered a few years ago.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

I don't know how much Starbucks can do about employees» racial biases in one day of training, but by providing clear - cut, companywide policies on restrooms and customer ejections and posting them in its stores, it will give its employees fewer chances to act on whatever biases they have.

Only a few acts have delivered live concerts in virtual reality.

In the few months following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, utility companies in 48 out of 50 states, and DC, have taken action to pass their federal tax savings on to their customerIn the few months following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, utility companies in 48 out of 50 states, and DC, have taken action to pass their federal tax savings on to their customerin 48 out of 50 states, and DC, have taken action to pass their federal tax savings on to their customers.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

Few would argue against the idea that all advisers should act in their clients» best interests.

«Taking a few minutes can help taxpayers ensure they don't have too little — or too much — withheld from their paycheck,» said Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter in a statement.

That's why the Economic Stimulus Act ended the Great Recession in just a few months.

Eduction Minister Jeff Johnson could introduce an Education Act, which would mark the third time the Tories have attempted to introduce a consolidated piece of education legislation in the past few years.

I realize there are very few publicly traded companies that act the way Berkshire Hathaway does (in terms its relationship with Wall Street, executive pay, corporate governance, stock options, etc...), but it's still a point worth making.

On Friday, Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, a $ 1.5 trillion proposal that gives corporations a massive permanent tax break, temporarily cuts rates for individuals, and repeals the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — a move that is estimated to leave 13 million fewer insured in the next 10 years.

Numerous traders need a demo account to familiarize with the trading platform, to experiment a few trading strategies, to perceive how prices act in this present reality and to test how their own mental trading theories work while they are under pressure to hit the right choice if the market prices of an asset hit the target or when the time lapses.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

It is true that hetero - ists sometimes do sin in the actions of sodomy which is a vile and wicked malignancy of all social constructs that endorse the sodomizers» wants and wills all for but a few moments of pleasure and then comes one's thoughts of doing the abomidable Act of sodomy!

The democratic vision offers, Robert A. Dahl writes, the hope «that by engaging in governing themselves, all people, and not merely a few, may learn to act as morally responsible human beings.»

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

It is possible that a few people will die in that act (which will be publicly condemned but privately supported by many Americans)- showing that many Americans DO in fact approve of murder of innocent people when it is «for a good cause»...

Doesn't the NT verses we have talked about - no matter how few, since when does the number matter - indicate that homosexual acts are included in those lifestyle choices that God does not want us to make.

Few judgments, however, have matched Runciman's own withering peroration: «the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost.»

Not at that moment, but, a few days after his return to Rome, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, issued a statement, explicitly approved by the pope, reaffirming a directive of 2005 that nobody is to be admitted to priestly formation who suffers from deep - seated homosexual tendencies, engages in homosexual acts, or supports the «gay culture.»

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

Men of realization are few in our time, which makes up for them with the doers and performers — those who act without being, who give what they do not have, who conquer where they have not fought.

Altizer's response to this whole discussion was that the meaning of the word God in the spiritual history of the world can not be determined by a few theologians acting in the privacy of an academic discipline.

Soldiers that served in Iraq have blown the whistle on such acts... and these are just the few we hear about.

So far in this chapter we have looked at some of the wonders of our reality that fit with a belief in God, we have briefly answered the question of how God acts in this world (in keeping with our common sense), and we have addressed a few questions about what God is like.

And yet these sporadic chinks of light are couched in the context of heavy and unhelpful language in which abortion is variously referred to as an «abomination» (p87), «this moral leprosy», «this savage beast» (p175) or «a violent and soul - destroying act» (p218), to name but a few.

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

A few hundred years ago, gods, ghosts and goblins inhabited the terrifying night and virtually every act of Mother Nature was interpreted as God acting in some way.