Sentences with phrase «from getting on his back»

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Even farther back, the Post published the Pentagon Papers — classified documents on the war in Vietnam that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg — and it also published information it got from an administration source about the Watergate break - ins and the connection to President Richard Nixon.

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

COPENHAGEN, April 20 - With melting ice expanding access to the Arctic, investors from China to Canada are watching Greenland's election next week for signs of the political will to get a flagging mining program on the island back on track.

When she got back to her home in New York, in Queens, just a 10 minute ride from the airport, she started to post on social media.

Dig Deeper: Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, on Corporate Culture Resources: * The Ethical Leadership Group and consulting firms like it serve companies who have gone astray from their philosophies and are looking to get back on track ethically.

It only recently dawned on me as to why the guys you're trying to hire from the corporate world don't get emotional about this stuff or understand that it's not simply an interesting exercise or some kind of a game of back - and - forth bargaining.

Over the past few months, the experts on our Team Digital have dished on everything from 12 Social - Media Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make to How to Get Your Marketing Mojo Back.

Reviewing emails recently confirmed my memory that the meeting was a waste of our time and that, in looking for a polite way to leave and get back to my work, I actually emailed an assistant from the meeting after I had been there for ten or so minutes and wrote «Can u pls call me on my cell?

Anyone following Turner on Instagram knows she just got back from what appears to have been a relaxing vacation in the Maldives with fiancé Joe Jonas.

Interestingly, the study says that while it takes an average 11 minutes for people to get distracted from a task, a good 25 minutes are consumed in focusing on the task even after getting back to it.

In an effort to get that deal, the U.S. appears to have backed away from one of its most contentious demands and is no longer insisting that 50 per cent of cars be made in the U.S., and is now floating a different formula based on autoworker salaries.

And since no one wants to get on the bad side of the Internal Revenue Service, when you get a call from the «IRS» and they talk about «fraud,» «police,» «back taxes» and «arrests,» it tends to get your attention.

Sometimes I couldn't get them an exact answer after hours, but a midnight response from the CEO over an order delay that says, «I am checking on it and will be back to you at 9:30 am,» turns a dissatisfied customer into an advocate.

The way my room is configured, my bed is on the opposite side of the room from the light switch, so it was annoying to get up and flip the light off before bed, only to remember I'd forgotten something and flick it back on again.

This explains why seniors were the first to get a taste of income splitting from the Harper government and why both the federal Liberals and NDP are campaigning on promises to push the old age security threshold back down to 65.

«We underestimate how long it takes to recover from interruptions and get back on - task,» Alex Soojung - Kim Pang, author of The Distraction Addiction, wrote in an email to HuffPost.

Russia should «get the message» that the U.S. is not going to back down from its pressure on the Syrian government, Kay Bailey Hutchison said.

From what I've seen, it's extremely rare for companies to push back on orders, since the secret FISA court always, without exception, tells them to settle down and get that data over to the NSA, pronto.

And, of course, there's the more recent passage of the tax bill, which will have an effect on what you pay and hopefully get back from Uncle Sam.

«China has poor intelligence on their movements and has been unable to produce much evidence» that they are indeed involved in militancy, said another diplomatic source, who is familiar with Chinese efforts to prevent the Uighurs from leaving and then trying and get them deported back to China.

A Basex study from 2009 shows that the average employee spends 28 % of their time dealing with unnecessary interruptions followed by recovery time to get back on track.

It's also fun when you get a «pat on the back» sent to your email from Todoist for being productive.

Keep in mind, once you get some ideas from Quora, it's perfectly okay to bounce back - and - forth between Quora, Google's Keyword Planner and KWFinder when you find people using keywords that weren't on your list at first.

Valve's Steam platform pioneered digital distribution back in 2003, almost singlehandedly rescuing PC gaming from oblivion while simultaneously putting a significant brake on piracy, getting consumers to accept the often widely hated digital rights management and increasing profitability for publishers and developers by cutting out physical retail.

Merck (mrk) CEO Ken Frazier resigned this morning from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, a group of business leaders tapped to advise the president on «how best to promote job growth and get Americans back to work again.»

As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.

Practice good cybersecurity hygiene and back up your files - but keep the backups disconnected from your computer and network so that any malware that gets on the network does not infect the backups.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said late on Wednesday that «the message we're getting back (from the company) is that they are pleased with the high level of engagement that is happening between both us and the federal government.»

When he got back to the office he put his insight into practice, launching Soma's «Work From Anywhere Week» policy which, just like it sounds, allows the entire team to log on from anywhere they please for one week each quarFrom Anywhere Week» policy which, just like it sounds, allows the entire team to log on from anywhere they please for one week each quarfrom anywhere they please for one week each quarter.

She says that to bring order from chaos and get yourself back on a forward - thinking track, you need to ask yourself questions about what is going on.

Even if you've got time on your side, the financial strain created by buying back stock from departing employees is another limiting factor.

Michael Dell isn't necessarily buying his company back from an acquirer, but by taking the company private — as he is in the midst of doing — he'll get the leverage to put Dell's future back on track.

The Facebook executive and Lean In author got a tragic master class in resilience and bouncing back from searing loss when her husband died unexpectedly while the couple was on vacation in 2015.

Michael Leip founded the Panda Planner system to try to get his life back on track when he found himself mired in anxiety and depression after suffering from Lyme Disease, cancer, and traumatic brain injury.

«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

«I got it wrong,» Cramer told viewers, looking back on his April 9 recommendation of SunEdison (SUNE), the red - hot solar stock that was up over 900 % from 2013 until early 2015, only to plummet 60 % from its July 20 high.

On Tuesday, Fairchild Semiconductor International rejected a $ 2.5 billion bid from Chinese state - backed buyers because of fears that the deal would not get regulatory approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, also known as CfiuOn Tuesday, Fairchild Semiconductor International rejected a $ 2.5 billion bid from Chinese state - backed buyers because of fears that the deal would not get regulatory approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, also known as Cfiuon Foreign Investment in the United States, also known as Cfius.

Although he's got his work cut out for him, he took time out during his first week back on the job to talk not only about big - picture industry issues, but what he did with his personal time in recent months when he was barred from working for Zillow.

Had Canada kept disputing the tariffs, he said, the country would have likely got every penny back from the United States and would not have had to accept restrictions on lumber exports.

Got a note back from Personal Capital today with step - by - step instructions on adding in my JP Morgan 401K account.

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If you prefer to get one - on - one help from a professional, consider going to a nonprofit credit counseling center for help with budgeting and a consultation on options for getting back on track.

Some are relying on forbearance and deferment just to get back on their feet again, to have a respite from the high payments.

But «if anybody in Canada thinks they are going to get Donald to build a nation of windmills, and turn all America into a bicycle lane or a place for carbon taxes» — in that event, «if they are very, very polite, he'll give them a free ride on Trump Cruise Lines back to where they came from.»

Work flexibility is ideal because it gives extra time for things that need to get done away from work and allows you to take on other things like another job or going back to college as well.

Given one of the takeaways from the post, «Stock Market Meltdown Implications For Everyone,» is to figure out alternative ways to invest money on things that can last, it was time for me to get back to work!

In an article published in the Globe and Mail and the Financial Times on Monday, August 15, the Ministers of Finance from Canada, South Africa, Britain, Singapore, and Australia set out a fairly detailed coordinated strategy that they believe «would help the world get its groove back».

In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»

Cause - if - I could just get that magic shillelagh I'd make Cisco go back to eighty - two I'd drive my Enron to the sky, sell my Lucent at its high I'd recoup my investment on Sun Micro and Yahoo Oh, if I could just get that magic shillelagh I could buy a drink and watch CNBC But if I can't catch that Leprechaun, all that I'll be counting on is the monthly check from my Social Security.