Sentences with phrase «get on his back at»

Arsenal fans have always been quick to turn on Olivier when things have not gone well for the striker, but they have had no reason to get on his back at all this term.

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Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

Investors sit on many boards and have many other job tasks so often if you get a deck the day before and you're in back - to - back meetings and a dinner you're only likely to have a cursory look at the materials prior to meeting.

MONTREAL — Bombardier is hoping to get its Toronto streetcar contract back on track and prevent delays at two other Ontario transit projects by shifting production among four sites in Ontario, Quebec and Mexico.

In addition to that, Macy's has been looking to reduce store clutter and re-establish itself as a tastemaker and has relaunched its loyalty program as part of its efforts to get back on track as detailed in this in - depth look at the company in the current issue of Fortune.

If at times these standards are not met, work closely with your employees to find ways to get back on track.

I hope that when you look back at history, all of that will hit a peak, and then as people got comfortable with it and they move on to the next round of immigrants that came.

At the time of the acquisition, Gores had high hopes of getting Mexx back on its own feet: re-activating the Mexx brand, building its e-commerce business, and continuing to develop its European and Canadian operations.

It's easy to look back now and say that we should have done things differently, but it would likely have been a lot harder at that time to get shippers to sign on.

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.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

«I wanted to get back on the issue of taxes» at the debate.

Users get at - home kits to test various cellular samples on their skin, inside their mouths or other areas of their bodies.You then send the samples back to the lab for results and mapping.

Here are five issues you should address this fall, to keep those ghoulish energies at bay and get your business back on track and ready for the holidays.

Europe's integrated electricity network is getting back on track after a bizarre and unprecedented episode that caused clocks across the region to run at a delay of around six minutes.

«The ability to look back at the lessons learned through the dot - com disaster has many companies that are considering merging with or acquiring startups taking a closer look at what they'll actually be getting if they opt to sign on the dotted line.

The average worker in Corporate America spends 40 hours at the office, 10 hours on the freeway going back and forth to the office, and five to seven hours per week getting ready to go to the office.

When I did Undercover Boss, I went out with a painting crew and talked to the customer, looked at the house, went back to the truck, did up the quote on the tablet, printed it, went back and got it signed by the customer on the spot.

But with great minds on board and over $ 100 million in backing, Grail might present the best chance at getting closer to a cure.

Walk fast and self assuredly to the back of the main floor and use the elevator on your right Get off on the lower floor at the grill and find a table in the dining room or the lounge area that allows ample surveillance of the club and seats you next to people that will provide satisfactory eavesdropping.

A millennial may finish a project on the train ride home on a cellphone, whereas a boomer may spend extra time in his or her seat at the office, getting back home to family members late.

When he got back to Eugene, Bowerman, in cooperation with a local newspaper, announced a series of jogging clinics that started at the university's track on Saturdays and followed a course around town.

John Chen, who took the reins at the struggling mobile technology company in November 2013, has moved rapidly to try to get the one - time investor darling back on track.

The Globe and Mail first broke the story that Verizon was looking at getting into Canada, possibly by acquiring Wind Mobile, back on Jun. 17.

I left my first startup at the peak of my performance, because after five years, I needed to get back on a rapid learning curve.

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.

«We are hopeful that this change will end the recent distractions at the VA and put the focus back on advancing policy that will ensure veterans get the health care and other benefits they have earned,» Caldwell said.

On the day the announcement was made, Dorsey, who declined requests to be interviewed for this article, tweeted, «Today I'm thrilled to get back to work at @Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman.

At the last review in May 2014, Greece's public debt was assessed to be getting back on a path toward sustainability, though it remained highly vulnerable to shocks.

Smaller businesses tend to have more flexible bonus structures than their large counterparts and many are planning on holding back bonus money at least until they get a better understanding of where things are going, Alter says.

Even if she sells everything at a 70 percent discount, she will at least get back some of the cash she spent on it.

I took what I considered a radical move at the time to get back on track.

To his surprise, the agency got back to him fairly quickly with a candidate who on paper seemed ideal; he even had experience at companies both large and small.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

«While the fourth quarter was a disaster for both, Chevron got back on track» in the first quarter, said Brian Youngberg, an oil industry analyst at Edward Jones.

«We'd like to get back into game of printing guides at some point, I think people really like that and we'd love to start that again,» Stang told CNBC on Tuesday.

• Accidentally spilling food on people at a restaurant I worked at • Burning the chicken at my girlfriend's house, nearly causing us to break up • Accidentally throwing my phone away in a public trash can and having to dive in to get it back

Drivers get to know repeat customers and the locations they live, so they know to drop food off at the back door or the easiest place to park on the block, said its CEO and co-founder Tri Tran in an interview with Business Insider in June.

At a very high level, I'm investing in ventures where I believe we stand a chance of getting our money back within a timeframe we're willing to wait, getting a return on capital (including financial and impact returns), and investing in someone we trust.

So, back when I was at MIT, as a grad student, I had some friends of mine who were getting on NASA's zero - g airplane.

Tumi backpack «It's got a great handle, so that you can carry it at your side for a more professional look walking into a meeting, or throw on your back when sprinting to catch the last flight home.»

«You can put the rub on your lower stomach and lower back at work, and then when you get home you can get in the tub for a soak or make tea, and it allows you to continue to work throughout the day.»

We might end up getting a few pennies back on the dollar,» Scott Kupor, a managing partner at Menlo Park, Calif. - headquartered Andreessen Horowitz, told an audience last week at the 3686 South entrepreneurship conference in Nashville.

Additionally, you can get 2 percent cash back on the first $ 25,000 you spend at gas stations and restaurants each year.

It all amounts to a push toward one - to - one marketing at scale, but it's also a way to get real - time data on how people buy its products, which can then feed back into merchandising.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

Fed Chair Janet Yellen, based on her recent remarks at the Fed's Jackson Hole conference, clearly wants to get back in the game.

«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.

«We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,» Ryan said during an appearance on Ross Kaminsky's talk radio show.»

As long as they use the Amazon Rewards Visa card at Whole Foods, they'll get 3 % back on every purchase.