Not exact matches
Your mother may have warned you
not to walk and chew gum
at the same
time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they
were sitting
with when they
were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.
(See How to Deal
with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for
at least half the people in the room.
«It
is not possible
at this
time to determine whether we will incur, or to reasonably estimate the amount of, any fines, penalties or further liabilities in connection
with the investigation pursuant to which the subpoena
was issued,» the filing said.
«The current pace of repricing in fed funds
is not immediately problematic for the Fed and there
is yet
time to price more into the curve, though we'd argue that
at the June meeting, it
's likely the markets will have to come to grips
with the possibility of a fourth hike in 2018 and price more appropriately,» Lyngen said.
Unfortunately, because tablets,
at the
time,
were adding more and more functionality and becoming more and more prominent, this system and this approach didn't mesh well
with the period in which we released it.»
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should
be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but
are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the
timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions
with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements
with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements
with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts
with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or
at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that
was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships
with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may
not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance
with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
«
At the
time, it didn't solve big practical
AI problems, it didn't replace the existing technology,» said Hinton, considered the godfather of deep learning, in a 2016 interview
with Maclean's.
Joe Issid, a contributor
with job site Monster.ca who has had his own publishing company and
is now an executive
at another, notes contract work can also
be useful for millennials who can't find a full -
time job in their field.
Plus, every VC
is working
with more than a handful of startups
at any given
time, so we simply don't have the bandwidth to hold a founder's hand on a day - to - day basis.
Not sappy and
at times completely relatable — I recommend it to young adults who
are in that stage of life themselves or adults who look back to those
times with nostalgia.
Most contracts don't explicitly discourage talking politics, but there
are often clauses that state that, as company ambassadors, employees must behave in accordance
with the principles, the values and the mission of the organization
at all
times.
I
'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal
with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job
at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may
at times adversely affect his ability to devote
time, attention, and effort to Square.»
I think HSAs
are a great innovation, and
not simply because they provide employers
with a way of buying cheaper coverage for their workers
at a
time when health care costs continue to rise.
It
is not inconsistent — in fact, it
is wholly reasonable — to say that some people (people guilty of multiple child murders for example) absolutely «deserve to die,» but
at the same
time to say that the state shouldn't
be trusted
with the discretion to hand out that sentence.
His question to them: «If I
'm completely stupid in a world that
is changing beyond recognition, in ways that we can
not imagine
at this point in
time, and we do
not take account of it in our decision - making, what
is the likelihood that I will end up
with value
at risk?»
Since everyone
at the outset
is doing multiple jobs and since you can't
be everywhere
at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there
's no rule book, no
time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there
's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression
with a lot of new and prospective customers.
As it turns out, it
's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview
with the
Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there
is at least one other case before the courts that he
's involved in.
It
's not as if it
's expensive to borrow and invest, what
with interest rates in both countries
at near all -
time lows.
In spite of all that testing —
at a financial cost of untold billions of dollars and an immeasurable
time cost for the patients who volunteered — no one
was able to say
with any certitude whether the drug would work in any one patient or
not.
But if you don't have
at least four full -
time employees, then you
're not much of an employer to start
with,» he says.
In a new analysis of 1 million U.S. teens, my co-authors and I looked
at how teens
were spending their free
time and which activities correlated
with happiness, and which didn't.
As a twenty - six year old who partnered
with my parents in building our company after college and who
is now a mom myself, I
am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or
not at the
time).
You'd think that even in these crazy
times of radical change most people would have learned to stick
with what has worked for them —
at least until it doesn't work any longer — and also to hang on to the advisors, the tools and the techniques that got them to where they
are.
If it turns out that a coworker or even a childhood hero of yours doesn't like your personality even when you
're at your best, then simply move on and spend
time with someone else.
«God
not only uses our trails to better equip us to help others, he also brings us the right people
at the right
time with the right resources so that our impact in the world will
be greater.»
«Some of our aircraft
are equipped
with mood lighting and while this
was not a company - wide initiative,
at times, our flight crews will adjust the lighting for a customer or group of customers traveling on their flight.
It
was opened partly in response to a
n examination by The New York
Times of condominiums
at the
Time Warner Center in Manhattan whose ownership
is hidden behind shell companies, according to the people
with knowledge of the case.
«The negotiations could fall apart
at any
time because some of the (preconditions)
are win - lose,
not win - win, and that
's not how you start a successful negotiation, you don't start
with the win - lose issues,» she said.
Things have certainly progressed since John Madden first sat down
with EA founder Trip Hawkins to discuss bringing the sport of football to the videogame space, which
at the
time wasn't the $ 74 billion global pastime it
is today.
He also said he still wasn't on speaking terms
with Kalanick
at the
time, due to something «wholly unrelated» to the company's recent sexual harassment scandals, so the two appear to have made up since then.
The technology allows Estonia's engineers to strengthen its encrypted data and lets Estonians verify
at any
time that their information has
not been tampered
with.
These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may
be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may
not agree
with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may
not be completed on
time or
at all; the results of our clinical development activities may
not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may
not occur or
be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may
not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may
be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture,
be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which
are available on the SEC's website
at www.sec.gov.
Then he added: «I have
been called a surrogate
at a
time or two in that campaign and I didn't have, did
not have communications
with the Russians, and I
'm unable to comment on it.»
This discomfort
with your new identity,
at least in mild doses, isn't something to worry about, according to the New York
Times, but it just might make you more prone to procrastination.
«I
'm lucky that my husband has a flexible schedule — one we've shifted to accommodate his love for the early morning hours and my preference to stay in bed... Even if I
'm not putting my work
at the center of this
time, starting out
with quiet
time always pays dividends later in the day.»
One group looked
at the effect of sleep loss on productivity
at four American companies and found employees who weren't sleeping well or enough to
be roughly twice as likely to report difficulties
with time management, decision - making and motivation.
But here
's the key: If you
're in a conversation
at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first
time, your best move
is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it
's to discover common ties
with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «work stuff,» but
with a deeper connection.
Such rates will generally
be higher than what home buyers currently pay,
not only because banks now offer substantial discounts from posted rates, but also because many buyers (40 % according to a July 2011 TD Bank report) take mortgages
with variable rates, which
are lower than fixed rates
at least 85 % of the
time.
While
at times the advice may
not seem to align
with your vision, it could
be critical to help you achieve your long - term goals.
If
at times these standards
are not met, work closely
with your employees to find ways to get back on track.
The successful challenger could build a coalition around a platform consisting of what used to
be Trump themes — «they
are laughing
at us,» «we don't win anymore,» «we
are weak and indecisive,» «they attack us
with impunity» — but this
time claiming that it
is Trump himself who has made that problem worse.
With two kids who
were in elementary school
at the
time, Curran asked administrators what their emergency plans
were, which he didn't find sufficient.
«It really showed
at the
time that Facebook didn't really understand the appeal of Snap and why this demographic
was using it,» Gallagher said in an interview
with Recode.
It
was popular
at the
time to worry about irradiation and «playing god,» so the magazine's stance on trying to understand the benefits of such technologies did
not sit well
with many.
«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources
with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the
time it
's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator
at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.
At the same
time, we
're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there
's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we
were not seeing that activity, but it
was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we
're providing other resources to do exercises
with the military in the remote parts of the world but
with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard
was providing a unique capability.
While there may
not be a lot of downtime
at sea, sailors and Marines make the most of their
time off
with «swim calls.»
The
time to think about tax season isn't
at the first of the year — it
's all year long, and these five strategies can help any small business plan for a simpler tax season
with fewer headaches.
Wearable devices that work
with augmented reality «will give people a way to play the game and
not look
at their phone all the
time and look around them
at the interesting places we
are trying to help them discover,» Hanke said.
But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can
be in money and
time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (
at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up
with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.