Sentences with phrase «hundreds of years on»

The business world has been focusing for hundreds of years on meeting the needs of their customers for goods and services.

That's a good thing, in a way, because engineers have been working for hundreds of years on sewage management solutions.

Lemons have been used for hundreds of years on both skin and hair.

But it is undeniable that the same kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress others for hundreds of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the other.

Not exact matches

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

Late last year, Officevibe, the leader in employee engagement software, released an unprecedented, real - time report on the «State of Employee Engagement,» based on hundreds of thousands of answers from their customer survey software.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

Over the course of a year, the company went from roughly 3,000 fans on Facebook to 38,500 and from a few hundred followers on Twitter to more than 12,000.

An excerpt on The Berghoff's official website says its history is the «quintessential American success story of an immigrant who built a hugely successful business that has stayed in one family for more than a hundred years.»

I've observed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people over the years and hear from new ones practically every day who, like those unfortunate chefs, insist on living in a utopian, make - believe world where:

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

On average, a broker who connects a small business with a healthcare provider collects between 4 and 8 percent of the company's health premiums — fees that translate to several hundred dollars or more per employee per year, and keep coming in for as long as the business customer continues to maintain coverage.

«It is amazing how many people will spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on concepts that people «really like» without ever asking them if they would buy it,» says Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Progressive Health Innovations.

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

The appeal of this, a hundred years on, when Britain and Germany are together in the European Union, is humane and understandable.

More than a decade into the business, he's a still young 31 years old but is increasingly aware of the responsibility that comes with having hundreds of people on his payroll.

On Detroit's East Side hundreds of trees have been planted this fall and 57 blighted homes will be demolished by the end of the year.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

Building on their firsthand experiences, Hammer and Champy show how some of the world's premier corporations use the principles of reengineering to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to achieve unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, and to speed up and make more flexible all aspects of their operations.

Over the last seven - plus years, Obama has repeated the phrase, «Let's get back to work» hundreds of times after delivering a rousing speech on some sort of accomplishment.

The reusable menstrual cup is a technology that's been around for nearly a hundred years, but it languished in obscurity for much of that time, stuck on high shelves in the back corners of health food stores.

After years of snubs, Steven Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar for «Schindler's List,» based on the true story of a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Scientists are working on emergency interventions and they've been shown to be effective — bringing corals that took hundreds of years to grow back from the brink in just a few years.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

«For a hundred years, we basically helped companies sell their products,» Stewart Beck told the crowd of entrepreneurs on the morning of the Toronto boot camp.

The World Travel and Tourism Council says governments are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tourism this year.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

The Washington Post ran a long investigative feature Saturday on borrowers who walked away from their homes only to discover years later they still owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on their now defunct mortgages.

Once dominant United States department store operators such as Macy's and J.C. Penney have announced plans to shut hundreds of stores in recent years, putting pressure on landlords to find new «anchor tenants» or come up with new ways to grow returns.

Based on hundreds of case studies, thousands of A / B tests, and years of experience, I've developed the A-list of conversion optimization techniques.

A hundred years of inflation - adjusted US housing prices suggest that a home increases only 0.1 percent in value per year on average.

Barbasol first started making shaving cream back in 1919, and over the course of the last hundred years, the company has perfected the recipe for a rich, creamy product that goes on thick and helps you get a nice, close shave.

The 32 - year - old chief executive of defunct Mt. Gox pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges relating to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins and cash from what was once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange.

Global Mail Ltd., a $ 13 - million deliverer of international mail (# 35 on this year's Inc. 500 figures each «little» slipup costs it hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix.

Over the past 20 years, he has published hundreds of articles, white papers, eBooks, and blog posts and presented on dozens of webinars on a wide range of marketing topics, including B2B marketing, marketing automation, conversion optimization, and search marketing.

By putting hundreds of kids between ages 18 months and 12 years old in a room to play with 80 toys — and then having them vote on their favorites — the company identified five toy trends ahead of the holidays:

He was given no word on how he was supposed to go about boarding and securing a ship, something the marines hadn't made part of their repertoire for about a hundred years.

A laptop should work for at least three years to justify the hundreds of dollars you're going to spend on it.

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

Among them is why Sarao's actions on this particular day caused so much damage, when the indictments state that he'd done the same thing hundreds of times over a four - year period, concluding in April 2014, without causing similar market earthquakes.

Silicon Valley executives like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey are going on Buddhist meditation retreats, high - end spas in big cities are installing «meditation pods,» meditation app Headspace has raised $ 75 million, and each year hundreds of Wall Streeters are following Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio's lead and paying almost $ 1,000 to learn Transcendental Meditation.

One hundred family members ante up $ 60 monthly (on top of a $ 200 initiation fee) to play year - round on this club's six clay and two hard courts.

For the past few years I've hosted or have been a guest on several hundred webinars, teaching people a variety of things from LinkedIn marketing to how to start a business from scratch.

These and many other cases and over two hundred years of business experience with profit sharing in America and serious academic study on profit sharing have created a rare opportunity for political leadership.

Many of the brands are also able to sell drinkers on the legacy stories for their brands, some of which are hundreds of years old and still family controlled.

Google makes subtle tweaks to its algorithm all the time, on the order of hundreds of time a year, but the announcement of Hummingbird is a much bigger architectural change.

A poor family can make do on little and a wealthy family may spend hundreds of thousands per year.

The principles on money have pretty much stayed the same over the past hundreds / thousands of years, so every now and then you have to change it up a bit to make sure those epiphanies happen.