Sentences with phrase «meeting the week of»

Highland Park — At an unusual joint meeting this week of the City Council and Park District Board, park commissioners called on the city to give up running the city - owned Highland Park Country Club.

You can always count on physicists and engineers to have a sobering effect, which is just what they planned to do at a meeting this week of physicists, engineers, and neuroscientists.

We met the week of the so - called Franzenfreude debate, when writer Jennifer Weiner claimed a book by a woman would never attract the kind of attention Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom has received.

Washington Studio School is closed the following holidays: July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day and classes do not meet the week of th or Thanksgiving.

Not exact matches

But a dramatic improvement in relations between Pyongyang and China, with a secretive Beijing visit by the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in late March, followed by last week's historic inter-Korean summit and an upcoming meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, has caught the notice of some opportunistic investors.

And the press outreach will provide «an efficient week of meetings and demos — probably the biggest value of the event,» she says.

AS one out - of - pocket investor left the Pulpwood Plantations meeting last week, he noted that the heads of the fallen bid to take over Great Southern timber schemes could have done something to ease the pain.

After a week of workshops on social entrepreneurship and meeting with local leaders about enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem, those who attended, pledged to choose the latter and here are a few of the opportunities we identified:

At an event co-sponsored by Keds and LOLA last week in honor of Women's Equality Day, Whelan spoke about her millennial mentor and why she schedules monthly meetings with her.

While Toyota declined to comment on details of the meeting, Toyota «s North America Chief Executive Jim Lentz told Reuters earlier this week that the company was focused on reminding policymakers in Washington about the automaker's extensive U.S. manufacturing operations.

Finance ministers from the 19 countries of the euro also will meet with the goal of settling the matter before Greece runs out of money next week.

BEIJING, April 24 - China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers» meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

Still, the company met its sales goals for the first year within three weeks of launch, Blumenthal said.

Chartered Secretaries Australia will become the Governance Institute of Australia, with members overwhelmingly backing the rebrand at a general meeting last week.

Tesla has acknowledged problems with production of batteries, but said it is still on track to meet its target of 2,500 Model 3s per week by the end of March, and 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of the second quarter.

There never seems enough hours to meet the demands of a small business but a few hours a week invested online can pay big returns.

The huge numbers of Dutch people working less than 30 hours a week I met in Amsterdam stirred me to think critically about work culture across the Atlantic.

But the suit was dropped this week after a series of meetings between Huy Fong and city officials.

According to a survey by Industry Week, 2,000 managers shared that at least 30 % of their time spent in meetings were a waste of time.

I'm sure many of the people requesting meetings with me last week (and didn't notice the email signature) thought I was getting a little ahead of myself — or that Business Insider had some serious cash to burn, and was giving its section editors their own personal lackeys.

Last week, Derwin was invited to a meeting at Tesla's factory in Fremont, where he sat down with Teller, Tesla general counsel Todd Maron, and Tesla's vice-president of business development, Diarmuid O'Connell.

«I scheduled these meetings at the beginning of each month or week, so they would be on the calendar and it would be harder to rationalize skipping them,» he explains.

And the Wall Street forecasts that Apple met were a result of weeks of analysts reducing their projections based on fears the higher priced iPhones might scare off some customers, particularly in emerging markets.

Its concerts coincide with gatherings of world leaders, such as its Global Citizen Week in New York last month during the UN's General Assembly meeting, as well as encouraging people to lobby governments and institutions year - round.

Quarterly bonuses are granted to all full - time employees based on the company's achieving its quarterly goals, and every August, the company hosts an employee - wide meet - up called Seismic Activity in its San Diego headquarters, bringing together all employees from across the globe for a week of team building and celebration.

The rest of the days are for meetings, etc. but this blocked out time each week is my most productive by far.»

May 2 - The Trump administration has invited a group of U.S. senators to the White House early next week to discuss biofuels policy, the latest in a series of such meetings aimed at helping refiners cope with the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

«Even being able to meet once a week to ensure you're on the same page in terms of the project really helps.»

I scheduled these meetings at the beginning of each month or week, so they would be on the calendar and it would be harder to rationalize skipping them.

Greece's bailout expires June 30th, and will leave the country with no realistic way of meeting debt payments to the IMF and ECB over the next few weeks.

On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, van Houten won the Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership for his pursuit of a circular economy — development without waste.

Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind cofounder and head of DeepMind Health, told Business Insider on Monday that the review panel met roughly four to five weeks ago.

US President - elect Donald Trump talks with media, after his meeting with families and victims of last week's attack at Ohio State University, December 8, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio.

Bourses in Europe were lower Monday as investors took a cautious approach as they came to terms with a hung parliament in the U.K. and awaited a meeting of the Federal Reserve later this week.

On the blog of his company, he shared the results of his radical rethink of his approach to meetings: Rather than try to keep one day a week clear of meetings in order to engage in deep, thoughtful work, Schweikardt decided he'd move all his get togethers to a single day, leaving him four days for his own projects rather than one.

For example, the Federal Open Market Committee explains the reasons for its policy decisions in a statement released after each regularly scheduled meeting, and three weeks later we publish minutes with a detailed summary of the meeting discussion.

I met him a few weeks ago at Adam Braun's Pencils of Promise gala after party.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings with Congress members to discuss the fate of a Utah man imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of an American imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

After all, it's not an academic exercise; there's a bonus check for each employee at the end of every four - week game that meets profitability guidelines.

France doesn't see the need to enter into a trade round with the U.S., Le Mair said, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron — who met with Trump this week in Washington — «has been very clear with President Trump during the state visit... First of all we are waiting for an exemption for the EU from the American tariffs.»

The moves followed Trump's abrupt announcement last week of a yet - to - be-arranged meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Despite having previously said he did think a deal would be possible by December, he said last night: «After my meetings here in London my main message is I am more optimistic, there is progress... That is the most important thing because the perspective from a European point of view towards London was in the last weeks not so clear.»

However amidst the talk of «no action» from the BOJ this week, the finer details of the meeting could be missed.

Other suggestions like declaring one day of the week a meeting - free day offers staff uninterrupted time where others can count on them to be available.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week, seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of a U.S. citizen imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday.

In currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.

He spends 24 % of his work - week in in - person meetings (coincidentally, that's also just under the 25 % limit recommended by management guru Peter Drucker).

Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting a man who was the third generation owner of a sausage and ham making business.

The upheaval comes after the Organization for the Petroleum Exporting Countries met in Vienna this week and said it will maintain its current output of 30 million barrels a day.