Sentences with phrase «good times than in»

Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

The other side of the story is that there is no better time than in situations like this, for reinvention.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

So let's try to take advantage of Mr. Market's little mania, and what better time than in December?

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Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

«Now Mark, I am more than willing to give you my time and really work with you to find out exactly what the best solution for you and your specific situation is, I'm just going to ask for one thing in return... As we go through this, if you don't feel that what we have is a good fit, are you okay telling me that?

So if you have a work habit you've been meaning to start with the best of intentions — getting in earlier, whipping your inbox into shape, getting up from your desk for an hourly stretch — the day after Labour Day is a better time to start than most.

While this might seem extreme, driving a few hours to help ensure you get to where you need to be can be a better use of your time than just waiting around in the airport.

But I think over time because Hinge is getting better and better, you'll be able to use it for a broad array of purposes and one of them will be if you're serious about finding a specific kind of person, it will actually be a great platform for that and still in a much lighter - weight way then having to fill out a whole profile and just using people's ambient information because there's so much information that already exists about people through their interactions that they already have through Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all these different kinds of platforms that allow us to match you up probably better than stuff you would say about yourself on an online dating site because frankly its more validated and it's more real.

Well, that's B.S. because it's not going to take more time than going to the doctor, or leaving work early because you're in pain.

The Iowa caucuses were a good illustration: The New York Times reported that the Sanders campaign spent more than $ 350,000 in advertising targeting millennials on Facebook and Instagram.

(See Why You Never Saw it Coming) At the same time, in the good news category, once we're free of the drudgery of dragging all the usual stuff home, our actual shopping at the market may once again be an awesome experience rather than an unavoidable chore as well as an opportunity to discover and try new things.

Cornell's decisiveness, along with a better - than - expected holiday - season increase in sales at the website and stores open for at least a year, has revived Target's stock: The shares have jumped 30 % under the new CEO, to all - time highs.

It was the first time in 13 years that anybody other than my family had actually spent 30 minutes thinking about my well being.

Probably more important to CNOOC than the 35 % stake in the problem - plagued Long Lake project that provides all of Opti's cash flow are the three undeveloped oilsands properties which it can now proceed to develop at a time of its choosing using the best technology available.

While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

Though Knight announced plans in June to step down as Nike chairman, he's leaving the $ 30.6 billion — in sales — company in better shape than ever, with the stock and revenues at all - time highs.

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.

New prime minister Malcolm Turnbull brings with him a better working knowledge of how Western Australia functions than any of his predecessors since the days of war time PM John Curtin, who died in 1945.

If you can't meet in person, a video call saves a ton of time and helps build rapport better than the phone,» says O'Loughlin.

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

There are more holes in Bay Street's thesis that the good times have returned than it cares to admit.

Student - loan debt is a ticking time bomb for our economy: It's higher than ever before, and it may be preventing some of the best and brightest young graduates from making their mark in the world of entrepreneurship.

Bitcoin is having a pretty good week — rising more than 11 % and breaking above $ 9,000 for the first time in more than a month.

Nothing is better than asking personally or assessing where you could still improve cause a lot of times we over think on what yet should be done to improve when in fact our customers have already been ranting or praising our business.

When I ask what he hopes to be doing in three years time, Mast replies that he wants to continue to make chocolate that is more delicious and of better quality than what mainstream confectioners sell today.

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

«The difficulty that Mercata faced was that it wasn't able to capture great discounts and, in fact, the search bots like Ask Jeeves turned up better prices than Mercata,» Andrew Bartles, senior e-commerce analyst told CNET at the time.

The good news is that now is probably the best time to rethink your compensation strategy and put a plan in place that will make your company more competitive than ever.

That didn't quite match the NES or Nintendo's best - selling console of all time, the Wii, which had more than 101.6 million unit sales, but it was enough to beat the Genesis, which is estimated to have notched more than 30 million in unit sales over its lifetime.

A certified financial planner, certified fund specialist and chartered financial consultant with more than 30 years» experience, Carson authored «Tested in the Trenches» and co-authored The New York Times best - seller «Avalanche: The 9 Principles for Uncovering True Wealth.»

Kipchoge's time sliced more than two minutes from the best time, but the closed racetrack just north of Milan where his run took place was a far more controlled setting than the major marathons where such records are usually made, including the one Kimetto ran in Berlin.

With a projected revenue of 50 billion dollars to be realised in 2018, there is no better time to join than now.

«It remains clear to us that Nordstrom is on a much better trajectory than most other players in the department store segment,» GlobalData Retail Managing Director Neil Saunders said at the time.

Better to make the best decision you can based on the available data at the time than delaying until a crisis sets in that limits choices and offers less attractive options.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

He will argue that seeking «peaceful solutions» is a better way of protecting Britain than «the kind of unilateral wars and interventions that have almost become routine in recent times».

So, while I'm not making a case for paying more than your mortgage payment for cosmetics in one month, I am saying that if you're gonna do it, early in the year is the best time.

The takeover should more than double Hitachi's rail business revenue to around 400 billion yen a year, according to an article by Japan Times, giving the company a better footing in the European market.

Rush jobs come up, but in almost every case, taking the time to gather the facts, analyze the issue and double check your work yields a better result than shooting from the hip.

In short, you as the boss might just want to be helpful and supportive by offering up these best practices, but nearly half the time your employees feel they know how to do their jobs better than you and feel held back by your dictates.

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

A recent study by McKinsey found that not only is email three times more likely to result in conversion than social media, but the average purchase price is 17 percent higher as well.

People were willing to spend a lot of time on a good product like WeChat, for example — even more so than the people in the U.S..

Rather, it means only that, in a crisis, for a limited period of time, the ability of the employee to do some essential functions is better than none.

As such, startup MVNOs such as Ready SIM are having a much easier time getting good wholesale rates down south than they are in Canada.

In many ways, it's better than taking those same customers to a sporting event because you'll have time to get some insight as to what they're all about, and get insight about how you run your business.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.