Sentences with phrase «leanest years of»

Founded in 2002, Qualtrics survived and even grew through the lean years of 2008 and 2009.

Reaching adulthood during the lean years of the Great Depression meant Mr. William Payne applied for any job he could.

That attitude probably kept diaper services in business through the lean years of the last two decades, when a falling birth rate and disposable diapers seemed to be pushing the diaper service industry into the museum along with doctors who make house calls.

Before any more roles are given to the great and the good of the Cabinet that did so much damage to Britain I'd like to see rewards for the people who toiled so hard for the Tories in the lean years of opposition.

After his father's murder by rivals, and lean years of exile subsisting on scavenged food and steppe rats, Temujin began climbing the tribal ladder with a cunning strategy: He paired pragmatic alliance - making with unbridled use of force.

The Modenese manufacturer has survived both the gilded era of Italian racing and lean years of quiet desperation.

We racked up some of our consumer debt during the lean years of grad school — mostly spent on moving, car repairs, dental work, and vet bills.

I didn't have a solo show in New York until 2004, but without the support of Hudson during those lean years of the 1990s, I might not have lasted until then.

He was one of the San Francisco painters who in the lean years of the Depression showed and traded his work at the Iron Pot restaurant under the aegis of the late saloonkeeper and boulevardier Henri Lenoir.

They also show the work - ethos Black Mountain demanded during the lean years of the Depression.

Construction disputes have risen globally in value throughout 2013 and 2014 as the market heats up again after the lean years of 2008 — 2012.

Her husband made up for their lack of income by taking on a part - time job, but they had accrued significant credit card debt to make ends meet during that first lean year of building the business.

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«We run it on a budget of about $ 500,000 per year, which compared with other campaigns such as Road Safety is a fairly lean and mean campaign.»

Zymeworks, meanwhile, went through a number of lean years; investors in Canada were still more comfortable with a development model that produced widely applicable chemical drugs.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

Feldstein says his lawyer had to lean on the insurance company before he could collect on the hotel job, and that it took him more than a year of negotiation to secure his money.

He also noted that EasyJet had achieved # 28 million ($ 39 million) in «lean savings» during the first quarter of this financial year.

In recent years, however, Lewis has missed his goal more often, most likely due to the poor economy, but possibly also due in part to the public's loss of interest in televised variety shows, and the telethon's increasing inability to attract big name talent, forcing it to lean on D - list celebrities like Tony Orlando and Charo.

The year can start a little lean, but by June it looks pretty darn impressive, and by the end of the year, holy smoke.

The CEOs of this year's Inc 500 also believe in leaning on others for help.

2013 is the year of Lean In.

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

But here's the rub: nfrastrucutre's lean, focused, strategic growth is not a byproduct of its startup roots (Pickett began the company in a liquor store basement 21 years ago).

The supply of starter homes is so lean that March sales were down in that sector over 21 percent compared with a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Gennette's plan, dubbed «North Star» in a nod to Macy's logo, leans heavily on the «Gifts We Love» approach, stressing the idea of Macy's as not just a store but a retail «authority» — a favorite word of the imposing 56 - year - old CEO.

However, in recent years the wardrobes of many successful men and women have leaned toward casual.

Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

The left - leaning think tank wants Canadian businesses and the federal government to put up $ 670 million each a year to create new jobs, internships and training positions that would guarantee employment to those under the age of 25.

I lean toward a system in which each new member of the board agrees to hand in their resignation every six to eight years, with the idea being that some directors will be asked to serve multiple terms it they are uniquely qualified to help the CEO and company build value, but most will be thanked for their service and move on after that time frame.

Cyber security is «very high on the agenda» for the right - leaning government, but also for the broad selection of Danish political parties negotiating a new defence strategy for the coming six years, he said.

«And those are really forward - leaning forms of advertising that didn't exist in the company three or four years ago.»

(In October, we called 2013 «the year of Lean In» in our women in the workplace package.)

Speaking at a private club in midtown Manhattan, they will present ideas, share tips and may even commiserate after years of lean returns.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

Adorable forest creatures are looking ahead to winter around this time of year and using the threat of the lean months to spur them into a frenzy of preparation.

Meanwhile, as you may have heard, she released a book (and launched a nonprofit) called Lean In early this year — a «sort of manifesto» for women's ambition that's stood atop bestseller lists and has sold a million copies since it dropped in March.

That shouldn't stop exchanges concerned about their reputations and corporate governance standards from leaning against the fashion — perhaps by limiting dual classes to the first five years of public ownership, or capping nonvoting stock at, say, 25 percent of all shares.

Through various initiatives and a keen focus on managing the business through a Lean / Six Sigma lens, Checkpoint experienced a significant rise in profitability in 2 years which ultimately led to the successful sale of the company.

So Mr. Khosrowshahi, who was appointed Uber C.E.O. late last year, leaned on his history with Google from his previous job as chief executive of the travel site Expedia.

«As we enter the new year, some 2 1/2 years since the floodgates opened, we urge Uber to «lean in» and join the ranks of technology companies that are reporting your diversity and inclusion data,» Jackson wrote in a letter to Kalanick in January, which TechCrunch obtained.

High Schoolers Should Take 4 Years of Leaner, More Relevant Math, Teachers» Group Says flip.it / vkRBFA #STEM

I can't possibly work longer hours than I already am, I've been killing myself for years in that department and I'm actually cutting back some to try to preserve my health, but we've been living lean for awhile now and still looking for ways to save, so I'm also looking for ways to increase my income without adding a ton of extra hours and labor.

With lean and simple operations, the business boasts continuously high and steady gross and net margins of c. 80 % and c. 65 % over the past year, respectively.

But on the left, there's the Tides Foundation, which gives out tens of millions of dollars each year to thousands of left - leaning groups in the US and overseas (including Mother Jones «nonprofit arm, the Foundation for National Progress).

Over the past couple of years this Lean LaunchPad model has proven immensely effective at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and, of course, the National Science Foundations Innovation - Corps program.

We're still leaning towards having one year in cash and be more aggressive with the rest of the funds.