Sentences with phrase «few years called»

There's a hot new genre that's been floating around the publishing world for a few years called New Adult Romance.

With many decades of experience in the education sector to draw on, Gratnells has developed an approach over the last few years called «Learning Rooms», which takes this challenge on and aims to transform the environment in which teachers teach and learners learn.

«We don't want penny - pinching» says Cameron, who has spent the past few years calling for just that.

Not exact matches

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

A few years before that, another outfit called Muddy Waters Research alleged Canadian firm Sino - Forest Corp. was «a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.»

A few years later, he sold the entire company for $ 225 million to Standard & Poor's after a routine sales call.

«A few markets were softer than we anticipated going into the year,» CEO Inge Thulin said Tuesday during a call with analysts.

Yale legal scholar Robert W Gordon wrote a nice piece a few years back called «Why Lawyers Can't Just Be Hired Guns.»

Liu built a network of contacts with old - fashioned cold calls, and the new division was humming within a few years.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

(But can you actually call fewer than 4,000 cars sold globally per year mass appeal?)

Facebook's call - to - action began rolling out yesterday, and will appear in the U.S. over the next few weeks before going international next year.

A few years ago, Internet - savvy nerds were ga - ga over something called the Slingbox.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

Tesla's business plan calls for developing a less expensive sedan, code - named White Star, over the next few years, as well as opening a network of dealerships and service centers.

Are you drudging through a few happy hours a year and calling it done?

A few years later, Tran decided to sign on with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions (then called Yahoo! Stores).

Freenome, headquartered in South San Francisco, is one of a slew of so - called liquid biopsy (i.e., blood test) companies to break out over the past few years.

While the famed investor hasn't said much about bitcoin recently, he called it «a mirage» a few years ago.

Today, Detroit has 700,000 residents, far fewer than the almost 1 million people who called the Motor City home more than 90 years ago in 1920 and half the 1.6 million people who lived there in 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Ullman had called Johnson about a director position a few years back, but Johnson had rebuffed him.

A few years later, Hollywood came calling and turned The Book Thief into a major motion picture.

As a long - time fan, I actually quite enjoyed this year's installment, Call of Duty: Ghosts, more so than the past few releases.

Already previewed earlier this year alongside a new messaging app called Allo, Duo will roll out over the next few days.

I read a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain a few years ago.

Just a few years ago, eSports was a community for video gamers who gathered together at conventions to play CounterStrike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

The company has dealt with a few high profile customer service complaints in recent years, most notably from a car owner who sued the company after he says it stopped responding to his emails and calls about repairs.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

In the early days of Amy's Kitchen, founder Andy Berliner got a few calls a year from large companies looking to purchase the budding maker of natural frozen foods.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

Earlier, he told investors on an analyst call that fewer consumers viewed the brand as being discount driven now than a year ago, citing company data.

A few years ago, he and co-founder Aaron Goldstein introduced a feature on Genome called Chatter, essentially a Facebook - like news feed.

For 2015, Wall Street sees stocks gaining some ground, but few strategists are calling for the fourth straight year of double - digit gains from stocks.

A few years ago, I received a call out of the blue from the publishing company McGraw - Hill.

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).

Over the last few years, we have observed that when participants in The Regis Company simulations become aware of some the contributing factors to breaker moments, they do better at filtering incoming data, helping them when they need to make tough calls.

To call Pettis's success the past few years as «extraordinary» would be an understatement, second only to calling 3 - D printing's potential «revolutionary.»

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

When negotiations were getting tough with PayPal a few years ago, Sandberg would call up John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay, PayPal's parent company.

A few days ago, I mentioned the a so - called «valuation» indicator derived by comparing the earnings yield on the S&P 500 (based on projected future earnings) with the 10 - year Treasury note.

In the past few years, Alphabet has poured money into its self - driving car company, Waymo, the anti-aging project Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy - kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, and more.

By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com Myth Number One: Cold Calling is Dead A few years ago, when social media and social selling came out (sales 2.0 they called it), there was an almost euphoric sense that spread among the sales community because everyone suddenly hoped (and, some still hold out the hope), that the worse part of

Entering 2017, few strategists» calls were as unanimous as the view that the U.S. dollar, already at a 14 - year high, would strengthen because the Federal Reserve was hiking interest rates while other central banks remained accommodative.

They've worked with us (and still do) in a number of cold calling capacities over the last few years.

Trish Bertuzzi, recently wrote a book called The Sales Development Playbook that I wish was available a few years ago.

IDT begins selling prepaid calling cards, and becomes world's largest prepaid calling card provider within a few years.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

They note, for example, that the size of large trades of US investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined in recent years.6 Furthermore, in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing in some market segments.