Sentences with phrase «floor than on the floor»

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These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

On the third floor of Fidelity Investments» Boston - based headquarters is a room that looks more like something you'd see at Apple or Google than at a 70 - year - old mutual fund firm.

The Deed: Chicago «Fires on Every Floor»: In this behind - the - scenes look, host Sean Conlon discusses the whirlwind that was Berta, a glamorous rookie flipper more prone to taking beach vacations than taking hold of her house flipping project, and all of the disasters her hands - off approach created.

We're on the second floor of a Japanese café, in a stuffy meeting room that Karpelès says is not much bigger than his jail cell.

Buddemeier said that at his basement-less condo, he'd move to the center of the middle floor after a blast «because the fallout is going to land on the ground around my house, and that first floor would have slightly higher exposure than the second floor.»

The CEO and CFO are part of the team and do much more than simply boast an open - door policy; the CEO actually ditched his office and sits on the floor with the rest of the team.

On the floor of Gas Monkey's headquarters, there is a thick white line, more than a foot wide, separating the offices from the shop.

That was more than five times expectations and included 12,600 new jobs on factory floors.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

Underpinning Bravo's depiction of the power dynamics between a boss and her underlings (played out in the open floor plan of a cramped SoHo loft), are the very real problems of a working business: What to do if your client doesn't pay, how to deliver on a tight budget, and even what if your assistant ordered more printer paper than toilet paper.

On the expo floor, more than 500 vendors will employ a slew of tactics to rise above the collective cacophony of cybersecurity sales pitches.

Colvin, who has worked on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor for more than 20 years, isn't ruling out a new gold spike caused by tensions abroad.

Rather than continually running between store floor and stockroom, clerks could build expertise in products like those on the «It List» and develop more of a rapport with customers.

Murphy was joined by more than 30 Democratic colleagues on the floor, many of whom angrily told stories of mass shootings in their own states and called for action.

As Murphy had been standing on the floor for more than nine hours, his own young sons, ages 4 and 7, briefly appeared in the Senate gallery.

An exchange that used to house more than 5,000 traders shouting out their business now is a mostly docile habitat in which those still left on the floor quietly tap out orders on hand - held computers and barely make a peep at swift changes in market activity.

Today it is a temple to trade, with more than 344,000 square feet of glossy exhibition space on eight floors.

The adversaryism was drying up as well: Rather than working on only one machine, for instance, shop - floor employees moved from one to another to help jobs get out the door more quickly.

Buffett, notoriously thrifty, paid even less than the estimate for housing, living on the sixth floor of an apartment building across the street from the university.

«We talk to the people on the floor rather than to the CEO.

Keeter said that while members of his band were carrying weapons, they were «useless» as bullets rained down on the crowd of more than 20,000 concertgoers from the 32nd floor of a hotel across the street, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

A month before that, a gunman in a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas shot at concertgoers below, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

For example, in his book Nudge, Richard Thaler talks about how grocery store products on shelves at eye level get purchased more than those down by the floor.

The lesson: Rather than try to time the market, buy stocks with good fundamentals at a good price, so you'll be on the ground floor if and when good news arrives.

This proves inconvenient, some say, as even though a few feet of cord are between the connection with the blanket and the controls, depending on the placement of your outlet, you still may have to set the controls near your feet or on the floor rather than have them near at hand.

Whether you loved him or claimed you'd sooner lick the floor of an abattoir than work for him, Martin Sorrell's impact on the advertising industry is undeniable and inescapable.

I spent most of my career on Wall Street trading floors, and like most traders and institutional investors I think of markets differently than do most economists and policymakers.

The vacuuming robot has been around for a while, but it's getting better than ever: The Roomba 980, a newer version of the floor - cleaning robot, has earned stellar reviews, with some testers saying it does a better job than any upright vacuum, especially on pet hair.

In a plant the size of six football fields, I did not see more than ten employees on the production floor, while various machines whirred all around me.

Meanwhile, bond king Bill Gross found silliness on the trading floor, Larry Summers did not become the next Federal Reserve chairman, and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called for spending cuts in a gold - laden throne room — making a bigger fool of himself than millions of tweeters ever could.

According to Ahlborn, more than 600 investors have approached the currently self - funded operation, hoping to get in on the ground floor.

When the head of the company is just down the hall rather than on the 30th floor or in a faraway city, talking to him or her is a simple matter.

That's because returns on retail tend to be significantly higher than returns on apartments, especially on lower floors, where the retail is housed.

Those 90 seconds felt like an eternity, most of which my body was spent on the floor rather than in proper plank position.

Amid all the hubbub over Michael Wolff's slash - and - burn Fire and Fury, little mention (other than a heated denial on the floor of the House of Commons, from the notoriously truth - challenged former prime minister Tony Blair, and from the relevant British agency itself!)

The fact that Centrica PLC was one of the index's top 10 performers with a decline of 0.33 percent says more about the mood on the floor in London today than we ever could.

The percent of your portfolio devoted to options gives you a floor on your possible exposure to massive losses in the equity market — you can not lose more than 10 - 20 % in any given year.

While this minimum payment is even lower than the 3.5 % floor on down payments for FHA mortgages, the Affordable Loan Solution ® is limited to certain property types and primary owner - occupied residences.

«You don't get any closer than being in the Apostolic Palace on the third floor right under the secretariat of state,» Gibson said.

«On the floor in room corners, Large size Brilliant Pebbles reduces comb filter effects caused by very high sound pressure levels that develop in the corners when music is playing — as much as 3 or 4 times higher than the average sound pressure level in the room!!

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

And so we too, daily engaged in our own all too human journey, searching for that which would have us be so much more than we are, and bearing our unworthy gifts, kneel on the stable floor beside these royal ones, worshiping with them the child who is most royal.

I would say that the fact that your watches and calendars are BASED on these calendars, would therefore mean that I could rip the floor out of ANY argument you make regarding this world to be more than 5773 years old.

Or how it's when you're down to the essence of yourself that you realize even cynicism is for the well - rested and undesperate, and how God deals so gently with us, more gently than we can suspicion, and I feel like I could lay down on the floor and just rest in the love I feel so strongly while I'm here in this daily luminous life, and then I think I should just quit and tell everybody to go read Brennan Manning or Madeleine L'Engle because this is absolutely ridiculous.

I since was told that they would have been «satisfied with nothing less than my blood on the floor of the church!»

Currently, shops that have more than 280 square metres of retail floor space are only allowed to open for a maximum of five hours on Sundays between 1 pm and 6 pm.

At a Friday Jum» ah prayer service earlier this month, more than a 150 worshippers trickled in, deposited shoes up front, and found a patch of floor in a chamber with bare white walls and exposed pipes on the ceiling.

There, with my Bible open before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time, and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart, and He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.»

There are reasons, for example, and reasons based on principles, that explain not only why classroom furniture should not be bolted to the floor, but why maps should not have political frontiers drawn in darker ink than other lines, and why epic poetry should be introduced by reading selections in their original language.

It shouldn't be news that I love a good margarita — I mean it has been less than a month since I posted these roasted strawberry margaritas and it's been less than a month since I overindulged at a local spot and spent the next day laying on the bathroom floor cursing their existence.