Sentences with phrase «gets after it at»

They are going to face an under the radar Team Sternberg who really gets after it at both ends of the floor next Sunday.

Captain Landon has been dealing on the mound and they are really getting after it at the dish.

Not exact matches

After her nudge, Ryan got a part - time gig picking up golf balls at a nearby course.

After getting at least a secondary school education, you'll need either complete a four - to five - year apprenticeship, or at least four years of work experience in combination with school or industry courses.

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Zac Cohen, a web developer at UglyChristmasSweater.com, said he got the idea for bitcoin - themed sweaters after he turned a $ 100 investment in bitcoin into $ 5,000, as the price per coin soared.

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

Every hour you spend getting better at delegation will pay back 100 fold after two years when your time becomes incredibly scarce and precious.»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

After getting up at 5 a.m., the founder of Virgin Group said, he catches up on the news, replies to emails, organizes his day, and exercises, Inc. reports.

«Try to make norms explicit with your employees: «I don't expect you to work after 4 p.m. — or 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. — and if I happen to send you an email at 10 p.m., I don't expect you to respond to it until you get into the office the next day.

After all, there is a lot that must get done, and you have to be at your desk to do it.

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

It's even more important than how good you are at picking yourself up off the floor and getting back in the game after getting punched a few times by a client or a competitor — or one of your own folks.

Brokaw didn't get that answer until he received a full neurological workup at the Mayo Clinic — after being Medevac'd to Minnesota that very night.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

And when Ziskin's breast cancer had reemerged with brutal efficiency after a long remission, Parker had managed to get her into a last - ditch immunotherapy protocol at the Hutch, the famed Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los Angeles.

I write in a journal all day, right after I get up in the morning and have coffee, at night before bed, and during meetings and at conferences.

I ended up going to college in California and got hired as an admissions officer at Marymount College after graduation.

A pair of passenger jets collided on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy airport early Saturday as airport authorities struggled to get a handle on air traffic after the blizzard.

A good habit to get into: File these receipts away immediately after (on the same day at least) and keep your business receipts separate from your personal ones.

«Generally speaking, the US gets about a D + for things like this,» Vivek Shandas, an urban - planning professor at Portland State University, told Business Insider after the fall's triple threat of hurricanes lashed Puerto Rico and mainland US.

The practice, he said, «benefits men who don't feel the need to be at home looking after their children, and it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got.»

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

I graduated first in my class at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 1958, and after 52 interviews, I got a job for $ 2.50 an hour with the firm that designed the Empire State Building.

The company is giving press a sneak peek at the upcoming service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, and after a brief tour of what Hulu's got thus far, there are reasons to believe it's on to something.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

When the couple got back to California, after waiting two months for all the belts to be made, they spent another three months driving up and down the coast and living in Woodman's 1974 VW bus, stopping at street fairs and concerts to sell the belts.

I'm looking forward to the day when it gets really fine - grained — it would really have come in handy when I worked at the CBC, an absolutely giant maze of corridors that I still got lost in even after three years of working there.

After Vetras had returned to headquarters the following Monday, he got a call from a vice-president at Comp USA, asking a simple question: «Why aren't we carrying your line?»

After we got over our initial shock, we decided that eating at Lin Heung was actually pretty fun.

Mobile ad company AdMob hired her straight out of Stanford, where she earned her PhD after getting her master's at Boston University.

I let a friend come over and set up my computer at home so that I could get some work done at night after the kids went to bed.

He explained that the current Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who's also the Dutch finance minister, gathers significant support among the other finance ministers but failed to get enough backing to continue with his European role after having lost the general election, putting an end, at least for now, to the idea of a permanent president.

Cory Haik, who recently joined Mic as chief strategy officer after working in a similar capacity at the Washington Post, says a big part of what she and Mic's director of growth and editorial products, Marcus Moretti, are working on is an attempt to marry traditional measurements of reader activity with newer ways of determining if readers are getting long - term value from what the site is providing.

«You may want to go platinum after being espresso black but if the integrity of your hair is at risk you will need to take some time to get there,» she said.

After getting to know Ehret's work, Jobs became something of a nutritional extremist, subsisting on carrots for weeks at a time — to the point that his skin reportedly started turning orange.

Noah Link got his start at urban farming after moving back to Michigan in 2010.

Whether you're after one of those jobs, attempting to move up or out at the one you've got, or trying to make it on your own, thinking entrepreneurially will help you get ahead.

The best it got for her, she explained, was when after she had done some work for partner Ward Woods, he managed to give her a backhanded compliment at the year - end review meeting.

At about 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, after getting a call from the Anti-Money Laundering Council, RCBC finally placed a hold on the remaining funds: $ 68,305.

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

Or, after having my nose down for weeks, some big door would open and I'd get invited on an all paid trip to Africa to speak at a women's leadership conference or I'd have the opportunity to be on the news.

After graduating from Purdue, Thompson spent six years at defense contractor Northrop before getting a call from a headhunter about a job at McDonald's.

After getting caught trying to game Google, Rap Genius apologized, but at the same time, tried to deflect blame by saying others do the same:

Before getting to work on your downward dog, be sure to check the basics: curb your coffee or caffeine consumption after 3 p.m., sip cold water to keep alert, and limit alcohol intake that can mess with your deep sleep at night.

If you're a typical middle - class Canadian couple, a retirement nest egg of between $ 250,000 and $ 750,000 should be enough, at least after you add in the government help you get from the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security.