Sentences with phrase «fire companies on»

Erie County Legislator Edward A. Rath, III honored the Akron Fire Company on Oct. 5 during Fire Prevention Week 2015.

The Ulster legislature's honoring of a Wallkill volunteer fire company on its centenary was a special occasion for Pine Bush Legislator Craig Lopez.

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A shooter opened fire on YouTube employees at the company's headquarters on Tuesday.

«Schultz said that the company never gave guidance in China in the first place and that anyone who believes their Chinese business isn't on fire is just plain dead wrong,» Cramer said.

Initially called the Three Fired Guys Brewing Company, the name changed to Steam Whistle in 1999 after Heaps suggested that they put a steam whistle on the factory to let workers know when it was five o'clock.

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

And they can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else.»

HANOI, April 26 - PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

«I really feel the company is firing on all cylinders,» he said.

When Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was launching a dating service, many eyebrows were raised: after all, this is a company that is currently under fire around the world for the lax way in which it has handled users» personal data.

In a company that loves bromides, there's one that has become infamous at Shell: «pots on the fire.»

Two employees with the electric vehicle maker told CNBC that a fire in the company's Fremont factory ground vehicle production to a halt, at least temporarily, on Tuesday morning.

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

«After looking at the company's slide presentation yesterday, one might have come away with the impression that KHC is firing on all cylinders; today's print was a reminder that the company still has a long way to go before this is the case,» JP Morgan analyst Ken Goldman said.

Ignore the fire hose of Internet advice on building companies and make decisions based on actual human behavior.

And in early February, the SodaStream Super Bowl ad featuring actress Scarlett Johansson sipping sultrily on a straw and sniping at beverage makers Coca - Cola and Pepsi only served to light a fire under the tinderbox steadily building beneath the company for years.

Slywotzky's book takes readers under the hood of companies that fire on all pistons, at least as far as exciting consumers is concerned.

Later that day, the company fired back at The Times via a letter posted on its website.

I also view it as my responsibility to hold the leadership team's feet to the fire on this issue,» Huffington wrote in a company blog post after the meeting.

The HR director or HR coordinator no longer just focuses on hiring and firing employees and making sure the company is in compliance with benefits and payroll.

And unlike the struggling carriers, when Comcast reported its own first quarter results on Thursday, the company was firing on all cylinders.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

Musk announced on Twitter yesterday that the Boring Company - branded flamethrowers were available for pre-order at $ 500 each (with extra for shipping and an optional add - on $ 30 fire extinguisher).

When you consider the full cost of hiring and firing employees — on top of the fact that it's going to get harder and harder to find and keep top performers — nailing down your employment contracts could be a huge factor in how well you or your company fares in the coming talent wars.

In June 2012 he ousted Abrams, a decision that attracted a wave of bad publicity when the New York Post reported — falsely, according to Buffett — that Abrams had been fired for spending company money on a Bermuda cruise.

Addressing the lawsuit, filed by plaintiff Marcus Vaughn, the company stated it had investigated the «disappointing behavior involving a group of individuals who worked on or near Marcus Vaughn's team» several months ago, and had fired three of the individuals involved.

The complaint added fuel to the fire of some on Capitol Hill, who have grown increasingly uneasy about the confusing ownership structure of the Chinese conglomerate since a July announcement revealed that a charitable foundation owned more than half of the firm and company executives and board members owned most of the rest.

«The company was firing on all cylinders,» Joly told reporters on a conference call.

In case you missed it, Wheeler set the Internet on fire earlier this month when it emerged that he had a plan to institute a right for Internet providers — cable and phone companies — to create a «fast lane» for online services and websites.

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

His generosity is remarkable: On several occasions Sterl has also sent the company's wood - fired pizza - oven truck stocked with 1,000 pizzas for thousands of miles to feed storm victims and disabled veterans and their families.

APPLE STILL «FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS,» the company's CEO Steve Jobs said in a news release about Apple's great sales numbers from the holiday quarter.

The end of its business on May 20, which Slide Fire announced in a statement on its website, comes as the company faces litigation related to the Las Vegas attack.

The Apple TV will run games such as Galaxy On Fire, Rayman Adventures, and «even games that [had] only been available on consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentatioOn Fire, Rayman Adventures, and «even games that [had] only been available on consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentatioon consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentation.

The Counting Crows have fired their record company and struck out on their own, Techcrunch reports, joining bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails which have decided to self - publish their music.

But Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager may be tempted to train her fire on European companies after a string of investigations of U.S. global giants that, especially after Tuesday's Apple (aapl) verdict, has enraged the United States.

Early on, I taught seventh - grade algebra and he worked at a fire and water restoration company.

The founder of the company, Jeremiah Cottle, patented the design and defended it in court numerous times, alleging competitors infringed on Slide Fire's patents.

For companies that have an especially hard time replacing staff on leave, there can be an inclination, as the Alberta survey suggested, to simply avoid hiring young women or, worse, to fire them before their maternity leave kicks in.

The company came under fire in 2015 after a Washington Post investigation found that, on average, one person per week died in incidents in which police used Tasers that year.

His company, SOT - G, which puts on the Leadership Under Fire series in partnership with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), has three full - time staff members, but will contract with 35 - 40 ex-Navy officers during a session.

Brixx's firing may be legal — and has its sympathizers — but the company is taking a PR hit: The postings on the company's page and on online versions of the story are overwhelmingly negative.

The statistic, revealed by Facebook on Monday, comes as the company takes fire for the role its automated advertising platform played in spreading the online ads.

Tyson Foods said on Monday quarterly profit fell 21 %, hurt by fires at two chicken plants, and that Florida's attorney general was seeking information from the company regarding possible anticompetitive conduct.

Understanding what's really going on inside a company under fire is tricky because the people closest to the problems are usually the ones with the most to lose by talking frankly about them.

With a roughly 536 % increase in revenues over the past decade, you could say that Westech Industrial is on fire — although that would probably be at odds with the company's long - standing expertise in industrial flame arresters.

Earlier this year, as spring finals week loomed over college campuses nationwide, Netflix — one of the earliest companies to incorporate live - streaming video into its social media strategy — fired up a broadcast on the company's Periscope account.