Sentences with phrase «new point person»

The City Council's new point person in overseeing the $ 50 billion municipal budget didn't do such a hot job overseeing a nonprofit group at the center of a Council slush fund scandal, records show.

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All the hype around startups overshadows the fact that fewer people are starting new businesses today than at any point since 1978.

This person had a point, of course: getting something done — whether it's opening a new division or launching a new product or strengthening your CSR profile — takes passion.

One reason why some people may be worried is that Tilk has never worked in the potash industry, but analysts point out it's not like he's a new face in the commodity sector.

How many people did Apple put out of work this week, when the tech giant announced the Apple Watch and the Apple Pay point - of - sale technology built into the new iPhone 6?

The whole point of Collections was to lift content and offer people the opportunity to discover a new title, rediscover titles they loved, and I think that's what's happening.

I know that I drive people mad by refusing, point blank, ever to rate their work or new product ideas a perfect 10.

I'd wager it won't, but then again, with today's accelerating tech cycles, most people will be ready for a new phone by then so the point may be moot.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

People work with those they know, like and trust, and it can take time for a new site to get to that point.

He points out that people have constructed terrible technology before, notably the 18th century «Satanic Mills» powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood.

If you are are considering starting a new company, creating a new cause or just want to get a massive group of people to follow you for one reason or another, then take a second to consider these points:

Today, signs point to the emergence of a new era, driven by the rise of «big data» — the 2.5 quintillion bytes produced each day, which represent the collective output of every person, organization and instrumented thing.

Now, when you drop in a photo, a new facial recognition system can identify that there's a person in the photo and adjust the cropping and position automatically, making the person the focus point of every shot.

Few people even used the term «social media» at this point, and it wasn't clear whether any of these new social networks would last.

Twenty - five percent of people who started new businesses in 2015 were aged 20 to 34, a decrease of nearly 10 percentage points compared to 1996, according to a Kauffman Foundation report released this summer.

This point person would also need to keep the social media firm updated on new developments like the introduction of a new product or service or other related business news.

At this point, it looks like the «new and improved» Kinect will be bundled with the Xbox One, meaning that the console's price will inevitably be pushed upward by something that certain wrestlers and I — not to mention a whole bunch of people — don't want or need.

«What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction» - Oprah Winfrey

Co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk tells Fortune that the most important is the new «Plus» level offering, slightly more expensive lodgings that have passed a 100 - point in - person inspection.

He says there were several issues at play: for one, Zhang had been the point person for investors, and in his absence, his co-founders reportedly struggled with their new responsibilities.

The results of the new study point to 15 different DNA locations associated with being «a morning person.»

Rather than just a gadget event, MWC is proving to be the meeting point where new and better ways of connecting people and things are coming to fruition.

If you want to expand your circle, make it a point to introduce yourself to five new people at every event you go to.

On the other hand, there are those pages that post several times in a day to the point that people can't tell if it's a new post or they are experiencing deja vu.

Facebook's new focus on people and connections and butterflies and whatnot sounds great, until you realize it has nothing to do with how Facebook actually, you know, makes money, points out Shira Ovide.

And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgagNew York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgagnew aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgages.

New Mexico Representative Ben Lujan made this point to Zuckerberg's face last week and ended the exchange with a call to action: «So you're directing people that don't even have a Facebook page to sign up for a Facebook page to access their data... We've got to change that.»

Pointing to Amazon's new «no checkout» grocery stores, he said, «People are getting more savvy in the ways they pay for things.

We were also told this is hardly a new and several people pointed out Charlie Chaplin's 1936 movie Modern Times covered this trend.

Financial markets are best entered at the inflection point, when even if the data that most people use to make their decisions is ugly and the news is not so great, there exists nevertheless a launching point for a new, positive market cycle.

So, generally, the biggest deltas are, one, a little bit weaker on the handset side; two, a little more conservative modeling of what happens later in the year than what we had, which frankly is not, again, just to drive that point home, nobody knows how many people are going to buy a new handset when it's launched on the market — not us, not our customers, not analysts, or you name it.

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Remember, Zillow is in nearly every respect already an Aggregator: it is by far the number one place people go when they want to look for a new house, and at a minimum the starting point for research when they want to sell one.

«I'd argue it's more on the psychological side of things, whereby people see a new major policy pointed at the housing market and take a bit of a step back, temporarily reassess where they are in the marketplace before perhaps moving back into the market.»

A measure of the underemployment rate, which includes employed people who want to work more hours, also reached a new low point of 6.4 per cent, a rate last seen in the December quarter 1989.

While many people will point to Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 damage done in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast as a model for what we may expect from Harvey, the 2016 floods in Baton Rouge may be more realistic.

... [People] behind the new group acknowledge that conservatives have been much more effective at turning the courts into a rallying point for their voters.

It is important to point out the fact that last year, bitcoin transaction fees skyrocketed to a new all - time high, as people saw fees as high as $ 55 for relatively small transfers of value.

I am merely pointing out that this «new» information has been around for 200 years and the claims that these people are making that martyrdom was somehow not important to the rise of Christianity is false.

I got pointed the finger several times and people honked the horn at me and yelled from the window It's hard to be a nonbeliever in America... I live in New Jersey BTW.

Since the emergence of the new political landscape dominated by the Ethiopian Revolutionary People's Democratic Front (ERPDF) in 1991, Protestantism in Ethiopia has grown to the point where it now accounts for almost 21 percent of the population.

Don't misunderstand me; some evolutionists (particularly some of the neo-atheists like Richard Dawkins, who argues in his new book people who don't believe in evolution are on the same level as Holocaust deniers) have gone ape over their theory (forgive the pun) to the point that they seem to forget it is a theory, and refer to it as if it is an undeniable scientific fact.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

Underscoring this point, they note that religious switchers adhere even more closely to the dominant moral ethos of their new groups than do people raised in those groups.

Obviously, there are always new things proven by science that explain what people in the past have attributed to things super natural and they seem silly at this point, but that's not the case for everything.

The God of the Covenant laid claim upon his people pointing them to a new life and a new destiny.

Ask for a systematic theology, and the Lutheran might point the person to any one of several theologians, old or new, who wrote subsequent to Luther.

Nygren can include election in his list of the themes which keep the dynamic aspect of the Christian doctrine of God, for election, as we have seen, means God's self - disclosure to a people at a point in history, his creation of a new relationship and the assuming of its consequences.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».