Sentences with phrase «matter to the people at»

I was proud that Conservatives were tackling the issues that mattered to the people at the time.

Not exact matches

There's also the matter of whether mobile medical care will ultimately reduce national health spending: At least one recent report suggests that the technology may well cause people to pursue care they don't need precisely because it makes it so convenient to get.

It's easy to get a little star struck by a personality representing your brand but remember that these people, no matter how great they are, put their pants on one leg at a time (or so I've been led to believe).

You know, you look at all the outgrowth of Me Too, and See Her, and Black Lives Matter, and people standing up and having a voice, and saying, «I want to know where brands stand on issues.

Prosper, another online lender, has been looking to raise a new round of funding in exchange for equity at a price that would slash its market value by more than 70 %, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

• BK Brasil Operação e Assessoria a Restaurantes SA, the Brazilian operator of Burger King, is expected to price its IPO at the high end of its range, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Abraaj Group, which backs Libstar, is considering a $ 300 million IPO, which would value to company at about $ 1 billion, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Find hire the people that have the drive to execute at all times, no matter what the circumstances.

At five dollars per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter.

One person familiar with the matter said that a group of investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic would be allowed to buy $ 1 billion to $ 1.25 billion of new Uber shares at a company valuation of $ 69 billion and 14 to 17 % of stock from current investors at a discounted valuation.

The IPO could value Bojangles at nearly $ 1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, says the Journal.

His friend Landgraf is likely to stay on at FX, the people familiar with the matter said.

Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg film, a respectable opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions in marketing costs.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

You will never, no matter how good you get at interviewing, be able to identify every wrong person before they get a job.

Amazon hired banks last week to arrange a series of fixed - income investor calls, a person with knowledge of the matter said at the time.

(Reuters)- U.S. wireless carriers T - Mobile and Sprint are finalizing terms as they seek to sign a merger by Monday that could value Sprint at around $ 26 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

People will look at you a little funny, Vigeland warns readers, so prepare yourself to be able to withstand subtle pressure to get back to work at a job — no matter how ill fitting — ASAP.

Snapchat is looking to raise as much as $ 500 million in a new funding round that would value the mobile messaging company at up to $ 19 billion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

A good manager knows how to empathize with his / her people by celebrating their successes, understanding the tough times they are going through whether at work or home, and always challenging them to reach their full potential, no matter what happens.

«Whatever those two people want to do — may it be to give company at a dinner or end up in bed together — is a private matter and should be agreed upon in the chat before meeting,» Poppenreiter told TechCrunch.

What you end up doing has more significance that what you say you're going to do and at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what this other person thinks or says about it.

April 10 - Embattled blood - testing company Theranos Inc laid off most of its remaining workforce to preserve cash and avert or at least delay bankruptcy for a few more months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

We [at Quest Nutrition] had TVs that would cycle through images of people that have used our product to go through these tremendous transformations, because we wanted them to understand what you're doing is significant, it matters.

Beyond voting, the greatest opportunity is helping people stay engaged with the issues that matter to them every day, not just every few years at the ballot box.

«No matter how open you are as a manager, our research shows, many of your people are more likely to keep mum than to question initiatives or suggest new ideas at work,» wrote James Detert of Cornell and Ethan Burris of University of Texas as Austin on HBR recently.

At the end of the trial, if the selection committee approves a candidate, SumAll's entire 35 - person team puts the matter to a vote.

If you naturally come alive at night and feel like a zombie before midmorning no matter what you do, you've no doubt spent most of your life being nagged by well - meaning parents, teachers, and advice peddlers to mend your ways and become a morning person.

China is preparing to hit back at Trump's planned sweeping tariffs with levies aimed at industries and states which tend to employ his supporters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.

As Gingrich pointed out, the rich have been particularly skilled at avoiding taxes, no matter how high the rate, by hiring the best people to help them find ways around the regulations.

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

Although JPMorgan operated HenryBath at arm's length on a corporate level, the commercial ties ran deeper, according to a person familiar with the matter.

«We have quite a list of marketing techniques, but it doesn't matter if people aren't willing to go through a barricade to get to you,» says Robert Smith, the director of operations at Uncle Jack's.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

• JAB Holding Co is looking to sell Bally International AG, a Switzerland - based luxury shoe brand which could fetch at least 600 million euros ($ 707 million), people with knowledge of the matter said.

It's simply a matter of bandwidth: As people are pulled into different engagements with family and friends, they find it easier to be distracted at work, especially with the opportunity to do online shopping on the sly.

«Our goal at Facebook is to connect you with the people and things that matter, every single day.

100 percent of the people you actually want to hire are smart enough to have at least 2 to 3 references who will rave about them no matter what.

Sharon Kraun, former sustainability practice leader at Cohn, Overstreet & Parish Integrated Marketing in Atlanta has had to rely on the good old - fashioned way of person - to - person networking particularly for her start - up Marketing Matters.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

Pinterest Inc. the online scrapbooking company, is seeking to raise funding at a valuation of about $ 11 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, continuing the soaring values of a group of high - profile technology startups.

As a contractor - owner, it's up to you to promote a work environment in which people focus at the task at hand and keep their personal opinions on outside matters, especially politics and religion, to themselves.

«But if you think to yourself, what are my values, and why am I choosing to leave at this time, it matters less what other people think.

«Now the lab can come to people at the time it matters, rather than the other way around.»

A proposed settlement figure of about $ 20 billion was discussed at the bank, according to people briefed on the matter, but it is not clear who proposed that number.

If you grant a proxy, the persons named as proxy holders, Larry Page, Eric E. Schmidt, Patrick Pichette, David C. Drummond, and Kent Walker, or any of them, will have the discretion to vote your shares on any additional matters properly presented for a vote at the Annual Meeting.

then the persons named as proxy holders, Luca Maestri and Bruce Sewell, will vote your shares in the manner recommended by the Board on all matters presented in this Proxy Statement and as the proxy holders may determine in their discretion with respect to any other matters properly presented for a vote at the Annual Meeting.

Baldet, who has spent a lot of her time in tech working with at - risk populations, stresses how having someone at the design table who represents the people who are going to use the technology can sometimes even be a matter of life or death.

«While we see CEOs and the heads of diversity talking about it, what really matters is what those frontline workers and everyday people think and feel about diversity because that's where the real cultural change is going to happen,» said Aubrey Blanche, global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian.

As I started thinking about how to change that, I became very focused on the laboratory space and the context of the power of laboratory data — which drives, some say, 80 % of clinical decisions — and the ability to help make access to that information more available to people, and to try to create actionable information that would be accessible to people at the time that it really matters.