Sentences with word «figured»

Costco may have figured out how to get dads back into the stores (tech, tools, and TVs), but Whole Foods made it fun for the whole family.

It took us a long time before we really figured out how to get traction with our business.

Until that point, Lubetzky figured that if customers tried the experimental flavor and didn't like it, they would just go back to the flavor that they did like.

One woman reached out to him from Poland and said that seeing it at a tough time at work helped her realize that even successful people didn't have it all figured out.

The Wall Street Journal reports Wednesday that a corporate wellness company, called CastLight, has figured out a way to tell that a woman may be about to become pregnant.

The Rev Demo judges obviously figured the company has a good shot at capturing a healthy portion of that pie.

And don't expect the team you work with to have everything already figured out.

To make the numbers, Knight figured that managers would need to deliver 15 % annual returns on all new business and capital outlays.

«We figured out a model that would work for us and that would work for them,» he says.

«If I had never gone through this experience, I would have never figured this out,» Mou says.

I'm not saying that you have not figured out a way to do it better.

«It's essentially a solution to a problem no one's ever figured out, other than buying gold.»

The company began moving production abroad in the early 1990s, around the same time that brutal conditions in overseas sweatshops started making headlines (Levi's figured in some of them, due to a scandal in Saipan).

«Somehow they had seen my tweet and then figured out what flight I was on, as I didn't mention it originally.

We figured it was easier to say «download my app» instead of texting this info back and forth multiple times a day.

I like that they've found a niche, identified a company making money in it, and figured out how to do it better.

South African officials should have paid attention to a country that long ago figured out how to deal with water shortages before they appear: Israel.

Probably the most important thing that I want to convey in this presentation is that I think we have figured out how to pay for it.

Migicovsky set a goal to raise US$ 100,000, which he figured would be enough to produce a thousand smart watches, and launched his fundraising drive on April 11, 2012.

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

They figured out a better and far more profitable way to serve their users, while shifting all the risk, pain and costs of production onto the backs of the gadget guys.

2018, in all likelihood, is the year that kind of transformation happens to the corporate communications field, due to the fact that corporations have finally figured out the best ways to leverage mobile phones and communications platforms in order to get their messaging across to their employees, and to the wider world.

«The idea is not just to help you,» Cuban writes on the site, «but to figure out how to help the economy.»»

A Trump Organization payment of $ 151,470 last month was intended to cover such profits from 2017, but the company refused to provide details on how the figure was calculated and which foreign governments were involved.

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said Wednesday that it is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to figure out how bad the breach was, and how many British people were affected.

In our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came before).

But there was cause for caution too: Disappointing British manufacturing and consumer lending figures added to Europe's recent run of poor data, worries about Iran's nuclear deal simmered in oil markets, and Wall Street was waiting for Apple's results following recent whispers of weak iPhone demand.

Even though Sun's startup is still figuring out how to make money, Globalive's partners are enthusiastic about its prospects.

«It's just a little bit too convenient for my taste to see a platform ban an entire ecosystem, or an entire market segment, just because they don't want to spend the time figuring out who the bad actors are,» Pakman told me.

The EPA, of course, has far different numbers, with their first year compliance figure coming in at $ 17,000.

True, the central bank indicated that it would be looking past inflation figures, arguing that the numbers are being skewed currently by idiosyncratic factors.

The median household income in Canada is about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures released last month.

But it could also mean a windfall for partners in private - equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, unless Congress can figure out a way to block them from taking advantage of the new rate.

Figure out your client's immediate concerns.

That figure has not increased in eight years.

You check your sales figures every day, right?

Once you determine that, you need to figure if that strong point justifies somebody choosing your company over the competition.

Whatever you do, you need to figure out if you can handle the pressure that comes with schedules that must be met and if you have the organizational and planning to skills to ensure you have satisfied customers.

Why it's effective: When you do tree pose, your brain has to work together with your nervous system to figure out where you are in space, calculate the amount of correction necessary to keep you balanced and then turn that analysis into physical adjustments.

Don't be afraid to experiment; you won't figure out your audience right away, but if you try different things and then monitor your data and evaluate the comments, likes, etc., that will help you determine what your audience appreciates — and wants to see more of.

That figure means agriculture is tied with fishing for second - last place on GDP multipliers.

The strong dollar was felt widely across commodity markets and the emerging economies that are now borrowing record amounts of debt in the U.S. currency — $ 3.7 trillion according to the latest figures this week from the Bank for International Settlements.

But its feedback is expected to figure prominently in the USTR's approach, since formal meetings with the relevant advisory committees in the Senate and House have yet to take place, according to congressional aides.

For now, we still trust that the crowd is smart enough to figure out how feasible a product really is.

Novartis, Amgen, and BAI are trying to figure out whether or not an experimental treatment called CNP520 can delay Alzheimer's in the people at high risk for the disease — or prevent it altogether.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

I used a power meter that plugs into an outlet to figure out how much electricity my rigs were using while mining, and I checked my bill to see how much my electricity company charges per month.

For the purpose of tracking changes in its results, and particularly its sales figures, the Group analyzes the following effects (unaudited analyses):

However, this number is only a very rough estimate, and the UN acknowledges that this figure may include armed defectors.