Sentences with phrase «longer than a letter»

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But perhaps what makes Bezos» letter stand out is its brevity (it's much shorter than Buffet's or Dimon's) and consistent focus on long - term values, like keeping a beginner's mindset through what he calls «Day 1» companies.

This letter comes less than a week after Airbnb released data on its listings, which states that Airbnb has taken down 2,233 listings in the last year that appeared to come from hosts listing multiple homes that «could impact long term housing availability.»

I had to save programs on a cassette tape, and the filenames could be no longer than two letters.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

Since it is five steps away from atheism out of a possible six, lovers of the letter of orthodoxy who might feel inclined to attack case two as little better than atheism, or as a blasphemous or at best a crudely inept doctrine, might pause, before indulging in such judgment, long enough to consider — and I am confident they will not have done so before — what the five steps really mean.

All day long I do almost nothing else than write letters; so I am sometimes unaware of whether I am forever repeating myself, but you will see.

The sugar snap peas I bought at the farmers» market were a little past their prime, so I blanched them for substantially longer than a minute, but otherwise I followed the recipe here to the letter.

While the hedge fund made clear in its letter that it's thinking long - term with Nestle, setting targets on margins to reach by 2020, the first test could come sooner than that: Schneider has promised to reveal his strategy at an investor day in September.

The chipboard letters will take longer to dry than the wood ones,

The open letter asks the organization to «identify practical and long - term solutions that serve both the needs of school districts and the health of our schoolchildren,» rather than legislatively mandated waivers and rollbacks at the expense of our children's health.

More than 20 of Brooklyn's elected officials penned a letter to Cuomo urging him to rescind his plan to grant Long Island commuters a 25 percent fare reduction and instead use the funds to repair the subway system's ailing signals.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams along with more than 20 of Brooklyn's elected officials have penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, urging him to rescind his plan to grant Long Island Rail Road riders a 25 percent fare reduction and consider using the recaptured funds toward desperately needed repairs to the subway's ailing signals instead.

WASHINGTON — Republican Jack Martins said he raised more than $ 150,000 and spent in excess of $ 250,000 on mailers for the now - scrapped Oct. 6 primary in Long Island's 3rd Congressional District, according to a recent letter he sent to the Federal Election Commission.

In a letter to the Social Security trustees in December 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries, the leading professional organization of actuaries, warned that infinite - horizon projections «provide little if any useful information about the program's long - term finances and indeed are likely to mislead anyone lacking technical expertise in the demographic, economic, and actuarial aspects of the program's finances into believing that the program is in far worse financial shape than is actually indicated».

The Long Island Republican declined to say what might constitute going too far in his mind, noting Cuomo has yet to really tip his hand — other than the everything - but - the - kitchen sink letter his administration sent to the outgoing education commissioner and regents chancellor late last year.

«Following the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, your administration tasked PSEG with chartering a better course for Long Island's energy future,» Croci wrote in a letter to Cuomo that was signed by more than two dozen elected, business and labor leaders, including the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.»

More than 60 groups delivered a letter to the governor calling for a large scale, long - term commitment to wind power.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

In a letter released Thursday and signed by more than 40 members of the Senate and Assembly, the group says the practice of isolating inmates for long periods of time amounts to torture.

Whitmire would allow applicants a bit more room; the letter, he says, should be «no longer than one to two pages.»

With more than 14 million Americans currently out of work and an unemployment rate higher than 9 %, the old job - searching strategy of crafting a resumé and cover letter, then electronically submitting them to job boards and corporate Web sites, is no longer viable for most job seekers.

The longest is 2.9 million letters long, more than half as long as the complete works of Shakespeare.

Other repeated sequences, more than one hundred letters long, appear to help genes move around, allowing «silent genes» to be moved next to an «on» switch where they become active.

It has been demonstrated in research that the majority of people in a long - distance relationship exchange more than 500 messages with each other, which would become quite costly in case of PPL (pay per letter / paid chat) scheme.

Purportedly a professional burglar, Bilbo is a timid soul who seems to possess no discernible skills other than writing letters and taking long walks.

After she answers a letter dated 1957, she inspires its author, Claire Smith (Vanessa Redgrave), to find her long - lost love in Italy, and thru events more love is brought into their lives than they could ever imagine.

Learning to spell English takes longer than learning to read, because around 4,000 common words contain spellings which are irregular (bed — head, said) or completely unpredictable (speak, speech, seize, siege), while only 2,000 words have letters with irregular sounds (out — group, couple).

Some letters have more than one phoneme (e.g., long and short vowel sounds).

The 2007 Audi A8 L W12 Quattro AT6 — we'll explain all those numbers and letters in a moment — is 204.4 inches long, more than 2 inches longer than a Chevrolet Tahoe.

It's much easier getting the VIN off a copy of the window sticker than it is trying to read that long list of letters and numbers behind the window along the dash.

And only FIVE of those query letters were longer than one page.

My query letter template isn't longer than a standard query letter, it just does more in the same amount of space.

And of course I tend to come up with my hot titles and irresistible query letters LONG before I've written more than a few chapters.

When you type a note, the letters are «readymade,» and although it might be quicker to type than write something down, the time you save might not be worth the long - run repercussions of what you would fail to absorb.

Remember the Ladies from a letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, dated March 31, 1776 «I long to hear that you have declared an independency - and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

Rather than give Rachael everything she asked for, which would require a much - longer article, I'm going to concentrate on the last part of her question / request, a query letter for a book of ten short stories.

It also examines why the «T» in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters and how Gotham helped Barack Obama into the White House.

The query letter should be no more than one page long, in standard query format and in 12 - point Times New Roman or other «reasonable font.».

Don't let your query letter run longer than 1 single - spaced page.

Hi John - thank you again for your recent response to my earlier letter... I believe I read somewhere on the site that you are a retired engineer, so let me speak for a second in math terms... more of a hypothesis than anything empirical yet, but it SEEMS to me that the partial derivative of the «ideal» stock allocation (let's assume for now this means the equity allocation that maximizes the SWR) with respect to changes in PE10 is less sensitive to changes in PE10 the longer your time horizon and / or the higher your target terminal balance....

Writing in this year's letters to shareholders, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger said that Berkshire would «almost surely remain a better - than - normal company for a very long time» even if Buffett left tomorrow and even if his successors were «of only moderate ability.»

Buffett predicts in his letter that stocks will continue to remain safer than bonds in the long run.

Simple loan agreements can be little more than short letters spelling out how long a borrower has to pay back money and what interest might be added to the principal.

I had a cp75 audit this year for the eitc faxed in the info they wanted, received letter stating it's taking longer than usual due to the the high volume of inquiries this year.

Letters of credit are most often issued for periods of less than 10 years, although there is no legal restriction on the issuance of letters of credit having longer terms.

To the extent that banks providing credit enhancement may begin to issue letters of credit with commitments longer than 10 years, the competitive position of financial guarantee insurers, such as MBIA Corp., could be adversely affected.

While the creditor must resolve the dispute within two billing cycles and take no longer than 90 days, consumers have to make sure the creditor receives the dispute letter within 60 days after the first bill containing the error was mailed to them.

In a 2014 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, he wrote that over the long term, cash is actually a riskier investment than stocks, due to the potential of inflation wiping away any gains.

On the other hand, a great letter likely will get items removed from your credit report, because a long battle with you is more trouble than most credit agencies are willing to deal with.

Typically no longer than a page, a standard mortgage gift letter states the amount of the gift, the source of the gift - giver's funds and the relationship between the two of you, Metzler explains.