Sentences with phrase «little company except»

Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper.

Not exact matches

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

Since the company alerted reporters last week to a «secretive» event coming up on Tuesday in Cupertino, California, there's been little else to discuss in the world of tech — except for some stolen celebrity photos that were reportedly taken from Apple's iCloud service.

«He had a little bit of a paunch, he smoked heavily, he drank now and again... he was sort of the opposite of some of the ramrod - like leadership traits [we expect]-- except he was frighteningly competent and he cared deeply,» said Gen. McChrystal, who today advises companies on leadership and management as co-founder of the McChrystal Group.

But there is little else to report about Clinkle, except that it has yet to reveal a specific strategy or business model — or even how the company is different from, say, PayPal or Square.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

I haven't dated in 32 years so a little scary not sure what I'm looking for except a soul mate who enjoys my company and I his.

Since there is nothing left but the funeral, there is little of interest except watching Tom attempt to save his company as the vultures close in.

There isn't anything over the top special that any company can do for you, except a little education and convenience.

As a result, these companies suffer little, except maybe consumers switching to generic or store brands (which many of these companies make as well).

Now they hold little, except at a few mutual companies that are flush with capital.

However, very little is really voiced by G&D as to how secondary situations and workout situations ought to be analyzed, compared with their views on how to analyze the securities of primary companies, other than to state that secondary common stocks should not be acquired except at prices of two - thirds or less of underlying value.

Looking back, we enjoy the benefit of hindsight... but let's not under - estimate the existential threat to the company at the time: Operating free cash flow was minimal, there was little opportunity to realise assets (except at fire - sale prices) in 2009 - 11, almost EUR 400 million of net losses, investment write - downs & goodwill impairments were recorded in the five years ending in 2012 (which actually understates a near - 85 % collapse in net equity), as the banks kept shrinking their committed facilities & imposing harsher terms (and seriously considering pulling the plug).

The purpose was to drive home the point that little was changing, except for the good after Berwind, a family - owned investment management company out of Philadelphia, merged Eagle Pack Pet Foods with Wellness under the name WellPet.

I'm still waiting for one of those who think Gleick deserves to be sainted for stealing (and forging) documents from a private institution, to explainwhat we know now that we didn't know before about HI, except that they actually have very little money to throw around relatively speaking, and less still from oil companies...

There is little incentive for them to do so, except for energy companies themselves since their livelihood is dependent upon making proper judgments of how EROI relates to their monetary return.

Well it belongs to the OECD group so there is little risk, except if we take into account that Canada is the mouse in the company of elephants: US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, etc..

For non smokers, there is actually very little disparity in level death benefit pricing among all the various burial insurance companies (except for some fringe companies like Lincoln Heritage, Senior Life, or Colonial Penn).

With insurance companies all of the same holds true, except for this one kind of gray little area where a company has been making money from you for some time, and have stood ready to provide their end of the contract, a death benefit, but you choose to replace their policy with another or cancel it because you no longer need it.