Sentences with phrase «get the year off»

Allegations of endemic companywide sexual harassment got the year off to a bad start.

Tottenham got the year off to one of the best possible starts when they beat Chelsea at White Hart Lane to move just two points off of Southampton, who currently occupy fourth spot.

We at Parenting Squad have rounded up the very best of the best back to school tips to help you get your year off to a great start.

and got the year off to a great start.

I got the year off to a lively start with the vintage dress I wore last New Year's Eve.

I invite you to share your effective early - year classroom management strategies to get the year off to a great start.

Whatever your goals for the first days of school, the 13 activities in today's Education World article will help get the year off to a great start!

This will get the year off to a professional start.

«If a new principal wants to get the year off to a successful start, I would suggest writing a letter to the students,» said principal Debbie Levitz.

Share the Pride: Six «Pride Statements» Get Year Off to a Great Start EdWorld columnist George Pawlas shares the «six pride statements» concept.

Get the year off to a good start with one of the twelve new icebreakers below.

It's the right time to create good study habits, make new friends, and get the year off to the best start possible.

The Institute For Literacy and Learning This website has overheads and sound files of eminent researchers discussing evidence - based instructional interventions for struggling readers, young and old, including: Dr. Deb Glaser - «Planning Professional Development for Positive Reading Success and Growth» Dr. Rollanda O'Connor - «Teaching Older Poor Readers to Read words» Dr. Jan Hasbrouck - «Using Assessment Data for RTI Decisions» Dr. Sharon Vaughn - «Teaching Older Students with Reading Difficulties» Dr. Randy Sprick - «Introduction to School - wide and Classroom Discipline: Getting the Year off to a Great Start» Dr. Ed Shaprio - «RTI: What's Working?»

Finding some toys and activities that make the grade can help get the year off on the right paw.

The Appellate Practice Section's CLE Committee got this year off to a big start with the Advanced Appellate Advocacy Seminar, which this year was moved to Coastal Law School in Jacksonville under the leadership of Co-Chairs John Mills and Celene Humphries.

Not exact matches

Brewer Molson Coors suffered its biggest one - day loss in 13 years after it said the U.S. beer industry got off to a slow start in 2018.

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.

They ended up at Celebration 6 1/2 years ago when they got off the road and started a family, but the drive to do something in the arts continued.

The federal government is talking about getting 20 - year production guarantees before signing off on the Airbus deal.

The program, Woman Entrepreneurs NYC (WE NYC), will roll out over the next three years and is targeted at underserved women, who might otherwise struggle to find ways to get their businesses off the ground.

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.

One morning late last year in sunny Los Angeles, Laurent Potdevin turned off his alarm clock, got out of bed and padded down the hardwood stairs to his kitchen.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

After realizing a successful exit selling Destia Communications, Levy took a few years off to get reacquainted with his family and get his financial plan together, and gradually began about what he wanted to do next.

A year later, I'm here to report from the other side that I wish I had been less scared to get off the treadmill and start sooner.

Once the booze wears off from Matthew McConaughey's final «Alright, alright, alright,» of our year in film, we can get down to the really important part of the Oscars and start second - guessing the winners.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

Four years later, I got a chance for a do - over when I was laid off from my job when I was nine weeks pregnant with my son Julian.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

«It took the Unites States 30 years to bring interest rates back up to 4 percent... with massive fiscal stimuli in between... to get people off that trauma.

To pull it off, Catullo's team had to get over 180 permits to do the shoot, create a perimeter around the Acropolis that included over 400 security people, bring in their own TV truck and all key gear from the U.K., and become the first production granted permission to film at the Parthenon in almost 60 years.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

A few years back, Netflix founder Reed Hastings told Inc. how he got started and how he fended off challenges from Wal - Mart and Blockbuster.

Unlike in past years, says Stewart, most were just getting off the ground in 2005, with baseline revenues that barely surpassed the minimum requirement of $ 50,000.

Once a year, companies get to shed their often self - serving reputation and show off their giving spirit.

Passengers got physically assaulted or dragged off planes in a series of nightmarish incidents that catapulted «airline spokesperson» to one of the most - unenviable jobs of the year.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

Four years ago, Corbett got an advance on his private pension — selling a $ 237,000 nest egg for $ 89,000 — to pay off his mounting bills.

«They struggled for 30 years to get a business off the ground and could never access a bank loan without refinancing their mortgage,» Ringelmann says.

«The stress took years off my life, but when you get that kind of responsibility, it's hard not to feel ownership.»

This year's Obamacare open enrollment push got off to an impressive start, with the pace of signups easily lapping last year's.

«I'm never going to say that we're never going to get off of [Oracle], but there's an investment that we made years ago,» Comstock said.

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

A 69 - year - old doctor, Dao was one of four people who was randomly selected to get off the oversold plane just before it was supposed to take off Sunday from O'Hare International Airport for Louisville, in order to make room for United flight crew members who needed to get to an assignment.

No matter how hard they tried, for three years and 98 episodes, the seven castaways on Gilligan's Island never got off the island.

The minute he got off the aircraft in Dallas, Bob called the head of in - flight catering and demanded to know how much they spent each year on black olives.

One year our best salesperson dressed up like Buddy from Elf and dropped off candy canes at clients just to get a laugh.

It contributes up to # 150 million a year in revenues to the BBC, mostly from foreign countries where viewers don't get to hear about his off - screen antics.

That number would almost certainly get a boost in the coming years, as legal markets grow in California and other states, such as Nevada (where legal recreational marijuana sales kicked off over the summer) and Massachusetts (where the adult - use market is expected to open in July 2018).