Sentences with phrase «fewer shorter works»

As I intend to read fewer shorter works in 2012, this should end up being slightly more than what I read last year.

Not exact matches

Too many options makes it impossible to work through, and too few means you can come up short.

A few recent examples include Cornell, who came in from Sam's Club to run the American food business and left less than two years later for Target; John Compton, the former president, who left in 2012 for a short stint running Pilot Flying J but didn't return when it didn't work out; and Zein Abdalla, his replacement, who retired abruptly in December.

Now that Mr. Peña Nieto's working visit to Washington has been cancelled as a result of Mr. Trump's offensive tweets about the wall, and the high - level team Mexico had sent to Washington to discuss an array of issues has returned to Mexico City, there seem to be few avenues open in the short term to put the relationship back where it was a week ago.

Armed with a concrete system, thanks to Tom and Nick, tireless working coaches Mike and Sarah D, and the whole Rock Star team behind me, I've been accomplishing far more, in a few short years, than I could have ever imagined had I been on my own.

«It's one of those moves that will quiet critics, will win some short - term praise and maybe will even work for the next few years,» Tusk said.

While some rights holders have argued that the standard for a substantial is very low (the National Post recently argued in a case that «even the reproduction of a small number of words in a newspaper article can be an impermissible reproduction»), the Copyright Board says that its preliminary view is that «copying of a few pages or a small percentage from a book that is not a collection of short works, such as poems, is not substantial.»

In short, it's going to be an exciting, and crucial, few months ahead for our privacy, and we'll need all hands on deck to make this work.

«It's one of those moves that will quiet critics, will win some short - term praise and maybe will even work for the next few years,» he said.

Simplified, the gold price rigging scam works by the orchestrators allowing natural market forces to increase the price in roughly $ 50 — 100 increments, whereupon they unleash massive, synchronized, simultaneous, shock - and - awe - style naked short sales, unbacked by any physical gold they actually own, that take the price right back down by $ 50 to $ 100 in a matter of minutes to a few days.

That's a far cry from the triple - digit figures that prevailed only a few short years ago, but Chevron has worked hard to make it through the tough period for the energy sector.

And, worst case scenario, if things don't work out as planned, I can always stay in the workforce for a few extra months or a year, work part - time, or (worst case scenario) go back to working full time for a short stint later on in retirement.

Even if things work out well over the short term, it is rarely rewarding to chase such advances, since prices typically retreat to the same or lower levels a few months later (and in some cases, can remain below those levels years later).

Imagine the impact on today's gross domestic product if millions of low - wage working Americans, who got short - term help from a social service program with long - range goals, started earning a few more extra dollars.

And even in the difficulties, even in the exhaustion, even in knowing that I have to rise and shine for every one else in the house in just a few short hours and how my work has suffered, even knowing I can't do this forever and knowing that I'll finagle for a tandem nap while everyone is at school, even here in this moment, I admit it: I delight in her and in this rickety glider that creaks on the ease back motion.

After just a few short days, I had to fly back up to Vancouver and hit the ground running at work, so, apologies if this recipe post is a bit late.

When you're going so rustic that you're short on stove top space, this recipe also works pretty well by sticking the smashed potatoes in the oven and roasting for a few minutes.

I substituted a few things... pecans and peanut butter to replace almonds, some coconut flour works great when short on flaxmeal, no vanila due to allergy and Earth Balance for half of coconut oil and they are so good they disappear in half a day.

a few of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you From a grandmother

Wild blueberries have arrived and sadly, they're only here for a few short weeks, so I take advantage of the short season and work very hard at eating my weight in wild blueberries during the month of August.

Here is a few talking points which are doing the rounds, and start with the shortest - lived story, and work my way up to what I believe will be the longer saga.

The damage wrought by the PSUs, Baylors, and MSUs is so enormous, so incomprehensibly reprehensible, that the frameworks of «well they paid a fine and lost some scholarships» or «some of the admins went to jail» or «the head coach was fire and laid low for a few years before getting another gig» falls laughably, horrifically short.

We left our little one there for short periods, and hired one of the women who worked there (Laura) to sit for us when we went to dinner a few times.

It worked within a few days, but was soon back probably because of too - short treatment.

We were afforded the same opportunities but I have moved up in pay drastically in a few short years, mostly because I have worked my ass off and demanded more.

The working mom schedules for each stage are pretty short hours and seem limited to only a few professions.

Arming yourself with a few tips on how to minimize leakage from the get - go can work wonders for regulating your supply and keeping the «leaky» period of time as short as possible.

Some parents stated their unit stopped working after a few short months.

Now that the working mom in your life has child care lined up, give her a day at a spa — or even a few hours — to forget her stress for a short while.

Even if we ignore the many negative long - term effects of spanking, it simply makes no sense to rely on a method of discipline that will only work for a few short years.

During our short hiatus we focused on family and work, took a week - long trip to Vegas, and (of course) squeezed in a few new afternoon tea places to share.

Ann: I'm going to have a guest blog post in a few weeks from a dad who's been working hard on that issue — lunches being so short that kids don't have enough time to eat.

The thought of leaving your baby to return to work a few short months after bringing her into the world is stressful to many new moms.

After just a few short weeks of working with Meggan, my son now goes to sleep without a peep and typically sleeps 9 - 10 hours straight....

Here is a short list of just a few of the organizations we work with to donate cloth diapers, and other items for children and parents in need!

Short Life: As mentioned above the Motorola MBP36S Remote Wireless Video Baby Monitor often stops working correctly after the first few months of use.

In the short term, some countries may decide to use two approaches: supplementation to save lives within a few months, while at the same time working on improving people's diets.

I only met Ozzie a few years ago, but in the short time I worked with him it was easy to see what a special person he was.

Trickle - down economics works as a very short term solution that further degrades long - term stability of the majority for the benefit of the few.

A few elected officials praised Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg's efforts to work with them on borough - specific issues, but they stopped short of embracing parts of the mayor's «Vision Zero» agenda.

Responding to the figures, the Department for Work of Pensions said that few people affected by welfare reform have moved; when they have it is generally short distances.

In short, we're demanding that voting be easy, that all votes count, and that politicians work for #allofus, not just the few.

This delay in recognition can place authors of «high risk / high gain» papers at a disadvantage in the contest for funding and career advancement, because their work does relatively badly on the «classic bibliometric measures» of article impact that generally «use short citation windows» of only a few years, the authors note.

The cup is shallow with a few short fingers to help work the air through your hair.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

With fewer experienced controllers in place, those remaining are forced to work overtime with fewer and shorter breaks and less time between shifts in order to handle the volume of air traffic.

«The implication is that we will get fewer hiatus periods, or hiatus periods that last for a shorter period,» says Wenju Cai at CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia, who wasn't involved in the work.

I agree with Mark van Vugt's well - reasoned, sensible and logical proposals for overcoming the environmental tragedy of the commons by everyone working together (22 August, p 40), but I doubt that this will spontaneously happen within the few short years we have left before we become overwhelmed with tipping points.

Now just a few weeks away from the height of the Martian winter, Squyres and his team are managing a new challenge: Maintaining the solar - powered rovers in working order as the days grow shorter and sunlight becomes scarce.

Today, we find ourselves cueing up yet another DVD episode of Mad Men at 2 am on a weeknight, knowing we are due at work within a few short hours, or avidly turning the pages of a trashy paperback when there are more productive things to be done.