Sentences with phrase «figure advances do»

Malcom — Even those six figure advances don't make you rich.

His six - figure advance does not look so impressive when compared to that.

Not exact matches

Figuring this out in advance you will be prepared and handle it quickly and easily when something does come up.

While Fandango did not release specific figures for Black Panther «s first day of advance ticket sales, the film's fast start should put it on the path toward a blockbuster box - office debut next month.

Do what everyone who's ever had a successful career has done since day one: Get a degree in an in - demand field, get a good job with a good company, gain experience, figure out what you love to do, develop your skills, meet lots of great people, gain exposure to new opportunities, and advance your careeDo what everyone who's ever had a successful career has done since day one: Get a degree in an in - demand field, get a good job with a good company, gain experience, figure out what you love to do, develop your skills, meet lots of great people, gain exposure to new opportunities, and advance your careedo, develop your skills, meet lots of great people, gain exposure to new opportunities, and advance your career.

When you make those plans in advance you can hit the ground running, instead of spending your morning trying to figure out what needs to be done.

«As companies make their buying decisions especially for the holiday season, which they do six, nine to 12 months in advance they are trying to figure out how they will do this going forward.

Charges due at lease signing — such as a broker's fee, security deposit and advance payment of the first and last month's rent — vary, and they can easily become a four - figure surprise if you don't ask the right questions during your hunt.

Still, sticking with the first figure, soon the aging runner will likely finally cross the goal line, and we're doing better here than most other advanced economies.

Recession, rapid tech advances, need to do more with less fuel CMIT Solutions» record same - office sales CMIT Solutions» same - office sales figures rise consistently every year.

They'll have to figure it w / Hoops to advance in the Playoffs but they still have plenty of time to do so.

I did not decide to cloth diaper until after my daughter was born - I wish I had figured it out in advance so I could have registered for the supplies!

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

Doing so badly he had to lay off three girls... «Park Avenue,» a doc based on the best seller «740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building» gets a PBS airing Nov. 12... To hustle their nearly $ 4 mil advance for the new book by HBO «Girls» creator Lena Dunham, Random House figures they must sell 1 million copies.

«I don't want that moment to be lost on us, that's the reason that I come, and as the Speaker of the City Council I really want to be able to utilize this platform as a way of advancing the cause and figure out ways that we can be supportive,» Mark - Viverito said.

Not only did it contain nothing resembling those figures; throughout that year there was no paper published in this journal about glacial advance or retreat.....

So what he has to do is work strategically to figure out how to make sure that our core mission to both advance science and serve society will be accomplished.»

It won't require an advanced degree in psychiatry to know which side he'll take or what he'll do once his decision has been made, but it could be useful in figuring out the polarity of the film because Run All Night is a film of two halves.

Amazon has revealed how video game pre-order figures changed during the gamescom conference last week, revealing that Nintendo Wii U games rose the most, and while initially, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was nowhere to be seen, it's come to light the game did better than initially reported.

Like all astronauts, he's also an advanced scientist, one who's figured out a way to make drinking water out of dirt, and whose spaceship is carrying a reactor that's essential not just to his trip but to the job he's going to do once he lands on the red planet.

Foster declined to provide specific figures on pre-sales, but said advanced Imax tickets for the film do not appear to have peaked yet.

In contrast, they suggest, enterprises and individuals should be approaching the great advances with an «augmentation strategy,» by starting with «what humans do today and figuring out how that work could be deepened rather than diminished by a greater use of machines.»

She's almost certainly going to rival Randi Weingarten as a public figure — and to give palpitations to all (regardless of party) who don't advance what she sees as the rightful — and, in her view, inseparable — interests of teachers and kids.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's figures did indicate that the number of Milwaukee voucher students who showed they were proficient or advanced in math jumped 6 percent compared to a year ago, although those scoring in those categories for reading increased only by about 1 percent.

I figured I'd do the rewrite, get my tiny little advance, and move on to my indie stuff.

Kindle did launch a public notes feature in 2011, which allows people to make their notes and highlights available to others, but some still worry digital marginalia won't be preserved as technology advances, leaving future historians without the kind of marginalia penned by people like Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen, and other historical figures.

There are individual contracts in place, so Amazon's offer seems interesting, but would require significant negotiating on the part of agents and Hachette to get addendum's in place (unless Hachette just said, «Sure, you don't have to earn back your 6 or 7 - figure advances.»).

But isn't it nice to know that you won't be on the hook for that six - figure book advance you might get, if readers and / or the critics don't recognize your genius?

I do get extensive marketing for my books, but they have six - figure advances — most will not see these kinds of contracts.

Now, let's go back to the scenario where a first time author receives a six - figure book advance, but this time the book doesn't come close to earning back the advance.

Even if you look at ebooks only, these figures don't take into account the risk and up - front costs which self - published authors take on themselves,» she said, «Nor the impact of advances received by a traditionally - published author.»

He does not believe the stylus for the Big Mac to be particularly advanced either, but figures that the stylus could grow into a more advanced stylus over the years, model by model.

Which brings us to the most important thing that you can do as an author: Figure out as far in advance as possible what your publisher's plans are for your book — but not in a confrontational way.

No, I don't have a high - powered agent or an eleven - figure advance or PW and Kirkus banging down my door for a review.

My guess is, her books don't earn out the advances, so she's fearful of actual sales figures.

But when you consider that most books never earn out that advance according to publishers who never let you see actual sales figures, how do you know how much that book actually sold?

For all other sales partners, publishers can figure out in advance what they will earn; a schedule attached to the Findaway Voices contract provides the information they need to do that.

I don't know why it's any less vain to think your worth a publisher paying you a six figure advance for a novel.

The report has been attacked by critics who point out the figures don't include cash paid to authors as part of book advances.

And generally, they're only going to do that for their biggest authors where they've paid the six - figure advance that they need to recoup.

This means doing things like taking a look at how much the cash advance fees are for your credit cards and figuring out how much it would run you if you needed, say, $ 2,000.

Although Delta doesn't publish its award chart, it's easy to figure out what the lowest (saver) price for a particular route is, and, especially if you plan your travel a few months in advance, Delta can be generous when it comes to releasing space in the economy cabin.

The sea creatures kept my mind so busy that I didn't even realize I was diving at nearly fifty feet.I've heard horror stories from other divers about their first experience in the water — where instructors left them to figure things out on their own or put them in situations only for advanced divers.

Renewables, meanwhile, do receive support in the form of direct subsidies, but — in advanced economies alone — can these really be compared to the costly harm fossil fuels do to our health and the planet — now put into figures in the IMF report — plus the cost of importing fuels in the first place?

We recognise the significant recent advances in scientific understanding, but also note that no comparable crosscutting research and analysis has been done since the RCEP report and there is no broad consensus around what the figure should be, if it is not 60 %.

US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

I look forward to living in a world where CPU power never goes to waste, data - plans are shared securely, and you don't need an advanced IT degree to figure out how it all works together.

These tips don't require an advanced degree to figure out, and we're sure that rocket scientists make these same mistakes just like any other job seeker.