Sentences with phrase «in classing up»

Golden Dreams of Geneva specializes in classing up iPhones, cases, and bags, and it's turned its monocle - rimmed gaze to Apple's new smartwatch.

I think he was in a class up here in the summer before I went to New York.

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He said that many airlines have set up a sort of «caste system» for members, cramming passengers in together and dividing them into numerous tiers of travel classes.

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

They offer classes in personal responsibility and accountability, they teach men to forgive themselves and to forgive the people who perpetrated them as children because they all grew up surrounded by bad influences.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

Abrams, who could become the country's first - ever black female governor, describes the realities of growing up in a working class household and providing financial support to numerous family members.

And local efforts at changing that are not at all helped by businesspeople from affluent countries — with supposedly sophisticated markets and best - in - class business practices — show up with briefcases full of cash.

Back in April, Uber settled class - action lawsuits with drivers in Massachusetts and California in an agreement that has Uber paying drivers up to $ 100 million but preserving the right to treat them as independent contractors.

He grew up in the working - class city of Fitchburg, in central Massachusetts, the middle son of five kids.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

If you transfer them to airline frequent - flyer programs and use them to fly round - trip to Europe — or even one - way in first class — you could end up getting a much higher value.

«Consequently, it will spur economic growth in Canada by attracting talent and investment, supporting scale - up firms and enabling established firms to be best - in - class adopters of artificial intelligence.»

I grew up in a working class family in South Dakota, married an astonishing woman, and 55 years later we're still together through good news and bad news — including cancer.»

There are online courses or classes at community colleges and universities that can give you a leg up in getting savvy at writing copy for brochures, catalogs, advertising and, of course, marketing copy for the web.

They have decades of experience making money in up and down markets and across all asset classes.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

Most of us were brought up poor or in the middle class — and then continue the rest of our lives plagued by the thoughts, ideas and actions of the poor and the middle class.

I hadn't had anyone come in in a couple hours and was brushing up on my class notes for the week feeling pretty good about being paid to study.

The idea was to have students describe their challenges in waking up in the morning for class and to obtain their feedback on a new product designed to help them do so.

«She ambled into class with a cigarette dangling from the corner of her mouth, walked over to a table, threw one leg over its corner, and began to lecture in her slightly cleaned up Brooklyn accent.»

I grew up one of six children with working class parents in the Deep South.

Hamilton, who'd grown up without much money, was often one of few black kids in her honors classes.

Employees are now drawing up a new profit - sharing plan, and cofounder Ari Weinzweig is teaching a class in basic deli finance.

Four - year - old Eli was strapped into a car seat in the second row, and Raquel, 15, whom they'd just picked up from ballet class, was in the front passenger seat.

In the grander scheme of things, and as a red flag, this is another asset class that has enormously benefited from asset price inflation, stirred up by the Fed's well - targeted monetary policies since the Financial Crisis.

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

Having grown up in a working - class New Jersey family with nine siblings, Barbara Corcoran starting working from a young age.

Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a better option to fly in first class, and it's virtually free — earn a credit card sign - up bonus and use that toward the flight.

In mid-2017, NATO navies shadowed the Krasnodar, a Improved Kilo - class sub, as it sailed around Europe to take up station with Russia's Black Sea fleet.

We loaded up on the latest movies on DVD, handed them out to our fliers and, bingo, we were the first airline with personal movies in business class.

Fink, who earned US$ 23.6 million last year, grew up middle - class in Los Angeles.

So, in between classes, I set up meetings and appointments with students and professors at the business school to share my idea and get their input.

Steve Jobs grew up in an average, middle - class household.

The classes will include a virtual reality workout experience that is said to burn up to 300 calories in 20 minutes.

Dual - class structures can be a good thing for investors if they're set up properly, says Som Seif, founder and CEO of Purpose Investments Inc., a fund manager with more than $ 1 billion in assets under management.

Russell, who grew up in Manhattan, spent the semester attending classes and interning with Superfly, the company behind the Bonnaroo music festival.

Snap and its co-founders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, have pledged to donate up to 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock over the next 15 to 20 years to a foundation to support arts, education and youth, the company revealed in its S - 1 filing Thursday afternoon.

The son of a psychoanalyst and a sociologist, Bilinkis grew up in Buenos Aires, went to a prestigious private college on a scholarship, and graduated at the top of his class.

In September, in the most worrisome setback yet for 1099 - reliant sharing - economy companies, a federal judge granted class status to Uber drivers, vastly upping the stakes on its legal defense and the likelihood it will have to settlIn September, in the most worrisome setback yet for 1099 - reliant sharing - economy companies, a federal judge granted class status to Uber drivers, vastly upping the stakes on its legal defense and the likelihood it will have to settlin the most worrisome setback yet for 1099 - reliant sharing - economy companies, a federal judge granted class status to Uber drivers, vastly upping the stakes on its legal defense and the likelihood it will have to settle.

The bill also would create a new class of visa for foreign - born entrepreneurs who want to start up in the States.

WeWork has already launched an app, also called WeWork Wellness, where co-working members and non-members can sign up for classes in yoga, pilates, kickboxing, Krav Maga, and more.

While business undergrads may complete all classes in a year, part — timers take up to eight years to complete their degree.

Bob Reiss is the author of Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build Your Business with Limited Cash and Free Outside Help, and has been involved in 16 start - ups and has been the subject of two Harvard case studies, in addition to speaking frequently at university entrepreneurial classes.

In fact, they recalled that a number of their non-athlete fraternity members took so many AFAM classes that they inadvertently ended up with AFAM minors by the time they graduated.»

In almost every class of entrepreneurs I teach, I ask the question, and a staggering number of hands goes up each time (and that's after I tell people to leave their hands down if they want to keep their childhood private).

Bonus: purchase a first - or business - class ticket and Emirates picks you up in New York City in a town car — a hidden luxury for all who have traversed city airports in rush - hour traffic.

The classes, offered three days a week, sell out so fast he recommends signing up two months in advance; demand is so strong he has started offering pasta sessions as well.

The high - intensity class had me sweating in no time and my heart rate up during the entirety of the one - hour session.