Sentences with phrase «likes of bad company»

Most of the sounds seem chosen for their titles more than anything, with the likes of Bad Company's «Shooting Star,» Cliff Richard's «Devil Woman» and Heart's «Barracuda» feeling more than a little on the nose.

Not exact matches

Like most cable companies, Comcast also seems to be doing not a bad job of shifting customers to lower - priced «skinny bundles» so that it doesn't lose them completely.

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»

In other words, even good news can be bad news for a company like Ecolibrium, which, despite the industry tumult, has racked up a three - year growth rate of 988.7 percent.

Take the example of a new class of cholesterol - busting treatments called PCSK9 inhibitors, from companies like Sanofi / Regeneron and Amgen, which decimate levels of «bad» cholesterol in patients.

Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

As Agnieszka notes, although having a high valuation doesn't sound like the worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.

Feldstein especially liked to point out the trucks belonging to ServiceMaster Restore, a multinational company that received bad press after workers with one of its subcontractors in Fort Mac went to the news media with health and safety concerns.

Startups based around a new idea sometimes get too sure of themselves, neglecting to keep a watch on the markets — competition isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you need to make sure you differentiate yourself in a way that makes your company seem like the more appealing service.

Focusing on elite schools to the exclusion of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea for a technology company that needs a steady supply of cutting - edge ideas.

One of the worst mistakes companies make is ignoring complaints like this.

Additionally, a majority of employees say being a micromanager is the worst trait a boss can have, according to a recent Comparably survey of over 2,000 employees at tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Uber.

Long - term, a multi-day setback like a bad case of the flu or bad back pain likely won't affect your position at the company, especially if you've worked there for many years and it doesn't occur often.

Joe, like a lot of sales - oriented entrepreneurs, believed that revenue could solve all problems but he would learn that bad business models remain bad no matter how much cash flows through the company.

With hard work, good cyberslething and a bit of luck companies like ours will keep pace with the bad guys» attacks — but companies need to do their part and get smart about the potential threats.

To be fair, Thompson inherited plenty of the company's issues, like menu bloat, but he certainly didn't make them better and made some of them, like issues involving pricing, he made worse.

Sandberg told CNBC that A.I. can catch «99 percent» of the «bad actors» in some content areas, but internet watchdogs are less sure, and after a week that was the worst for Facebook shares since 2012 — and saw tens of billions in Facebook market capitalization erased daily — it seems like the «responsibility» of companies merits more spending on human talent.

I had a pretty bad customer service interaction with jlab recently and I'd like to write about my experience with the company to make sure people know what they are getting to when they buy a pair of these earbuds.

If you hold yourself to the standard of making a product that is so good people spontaneously recommend it to their friends, and you have an easy - to - understand business model where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you'll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

That's not necessarily a bad thing — there's a graveyard of online music companies and other than Pandora, few that look like winners.

The tariffs are great for US steelmakers — but they're bad for a large part of the US economy that relies on steel, like construction companies, automakers, and appliance manufacturers.

Wharton professor Jonah Berger says negative publicity is like playing Russian roulette, so unless Amy's Baking Company plans to take the «reality show» idea all the way, it's safe to say that this example of bad press definitely blew up in the company'Company plans to take the «reality show» idea all the way, it's safe to say that this example of bad press definitely blew up in the company'company's face.

Kind of like when financial companies say they have a temporary liquidity problem, not a solvency problem, and all the bad news stories and nasty rumors are to blame.

But something about that prized demographic makes the uncoolest of tech companies lose its head and become even uncooler — and, even worse, act like the Donald Trump of the tech world.

Managing your company's accounting may seem like one of the easier things that you do, so you may not notice how much time you lose keeping track of income and expenses in an old spreadsheet — or worse, with pen and paper.

-- some of the many acquisitions could lead to further write downs, especially if a new CEO comes in and goes for the «kitchen sink» approach — especially the energy business has some structural problems — fundamentally the company is cheap but not super cheap — often, when the bad news start to hit, the really bad news only comes out later like for instance Royal Imtech, which was in a very similar business.

I don't see the worst of the worst companies out there that act like this or have to put up with this nonsense.

Whether he has time to read wine­searcher.com while enjoying his (alleged) bedtime cheeseburger is unknown, but in November the website published a direct appeal to him and his family - owned winery in Virginia with the words: «Listen up, Mr Trump, the proposed merger of the nation's second and third - largest alcohol distribution companies is bad for businesses like yours.»

As millennial tech workers cruise by in their workout gear — guys wearing Vans with high socks, backpacks with logos for companies like Uber and Optimizely, vintage striped basketball shorts — I face the worst burrito of my life.

At his worst he would stash a pint of vodka in his briefcase before leaving for his job as a sales manager at a forest products company in Wayne, N.J.. He'd promise the kids that he would do something — like take them to a Mets game, for instance — then beg off because he was too hung over.

I don't like to see a great footballer wasting his life under a bad management and system, because it reminds me of the common blue - collar workers» fate in a bad company.

Cotton Babies is one of my most favorite companies and the thought of them making anything disposable made me feel like they were promoting something bad for the environment.

«We can not let the progress we have made together and the promise of a decent life for all those who work hard, be undermined by pressure from multi-billion dollar companies like Uber who are taking a page out of the Trump playbook and turning good jobs into bad jobs,» the letter states.

The tirade sounded a little like a rock band rehashing its greatest hits: «knock the hell out of ISIS,» «take care of our vets,» «we don't win anymore,» «we're bringing companies back to the United States,» «take the oil,» «I will beat Hillary so bad,» «the press is so dirty» — and the biggest crowd - pleaser of all --» we are going to build a wall.»

However, the project isn't moving as fast as hoped for multiple reasons — Good Earth Power blames slow progress on issues like bad weather and a regional dearth of forest industry infrastructure like trucking capacity, but others are skeptical of the company's overall business plan.

There are a lot out there and, if we are being frank, that includes a lot of pretty bad ones — it is much easier to skip straight to high street and online favourites like ASOS or Topshop than sift through 100 generic «t - shirt companies».

It still feels like a battlefield game, with a nice blend of the features of Battlefield 2 and Bad Company.

GREAT GAME, i really enjoyed it graphics are just great and the girls are TO sexy, but sometimes i really miss the real men in the series, like auron and tidus it's just a lil» femminen i think an FF X-3 isn't a bad idea:p i want more adventures of yuna and company!!!!!

The story of the campaign was quite boring, the gameplay was dull, and there wasn't any special feature like in Bf Bad Company 2.

In the decades to come, Paymer would remain an ever - present force on screen, appearing in films like In Good Company, Drag Me to Hell, Bad Teacher, and Redbelt, as well as TV shows like Line of Fire and The Good Wife.

If you go to Meyers's latest, not only are you about to watch what is easily the worst movie of the year — you're most likely going to do it in the company of people who'll actually like it.

Bad Company is an example of what happens when filmmakers decide to engage in a feckless cash grab — a greatest hits compendium of stolen moments so bombastic and dreary that when the film actually rips off a gag from Fletch (like that balding loser at the bar thinking himself a wit while well into the second decade of quoting Chevy Chase vehicles).

Even with its few flaws, Bad Company is still the perfect summer film for anyone who likes a little bit of laughter with their action.

Enter Little Fockers, the latest in the franchise and Paul Weitz's latest stinker (Roach no longer directs — one can only assume that he ran out of trite puns), following crap like Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, American Dreamz, and In Good Company, is a film so monstrously bad that describing it as the devil's spawn would be quite the understatement.

Over the last year, critical news articles from national newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have questioned the quality of education the company offers, pointing out overbilling for ineligible students in Colorado and a Pennsylvania school where virtual students performed significantly worse than their public school peers.

Seeing as Mahindra has its own fair share of troubles, namely its long - delayed entry into the U.S. market, the idea of the automaker purchasing anything — let alone another car company — seems like bad comedy.

My favorite features of this vehicle include: gas mileage (18 - 20 in town, which is wonderful for such a large vehicle); leather heated seats in the front (so nice in the winter); third row seating (great for large families or those that like to have company riding along); factory installed side steps (great for those that are lacking in height or have bad knees), and lots of cargo space.

While contributing to post-article discussions, I stumbled on a fascinating article by David Vinjamuri (contributor to Forbes Magazine) that attempted to provide an even - handed approach to the state of the publishing industry — and didn't do a too bad job of it, although by its very nature, left out some elements, like the small and middle sized publishing houses, and their topology being different from the larger companies.

The Nokia C1 - 00 was released in the third quarter of 2010 to bad reviews as it just couldn't hold its own beside Dual SIM phones from companies like LG and Samsung.