Pick one
number a day for the next 3 - 4 months and give your old, broken, and tired stuff the heave - ho.
Not exact matches
Leading employee research firms agree that 272 is the magic
number of personal
days for your newfound no - work / life balance.
With 2.5 billion people online and more added every
day, are the
numbers working
for you?
So good earnings news from Berkshire (BRKA), especially on the same
day where the jobs
numbers were a lot stronger than expected, and showed signs that wages are finally increasing, would seem to be a really good sign
for the economy.
While Desmond won't give me precise
numbers, he tells me that the cost of this particular five -
day Disrupt in San Francisco is «north of $ 1 million» — and that the event is quite profitable
for the company.
Most companies allocate only a certain
number of
days for sick leave and personal time.
An increasing
number of Twitter users are tweeting their support
for the boycott, which will start on March 1 and last all
day.
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support
for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard
days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible
for the largest
number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover
for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore
for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program
for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
If you use a smartphone, the
numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work
for 13.5 hours a
day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center
for Creative Leadership.
Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past —
for example how many staff have been hired, the
number of
days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.
«It's not a huge
number, but
for a four -
day show, with a total booth staff of six, it makes a difference to my small business's bottom line,» says Mojica.
I've seen entrepreneurs work
for days trying to come up with a fair offer
for someone they'd love to have onboard - sweating the
numbers, comparing the offer to the comp of other key players, checking with outside advisors, doing every bit of homework possible in order to get to their best proposal.They become heavily invested (financially, but even more psychologically) in the offer and the outcome because they believe it's fair to everyone and the absolute best they can do.
It may still be early
days, but Amazon's arrival in Australia has yet to damage the
numbers for some high - profile traditional retailers.
Using the app takes about five minutes each
day: participants in our experiment log in to Plasticity's online platform, pick a
number out of 100 to rate their happiness level that
day and post a brief note about something they're grateful
for at work.
Last year, the
number increased modestly
for the second year in a row, to an average of 16.8
days.
Having some standard to get to, whether it's a word count you'll write or just a
number of
days for which you'll do a thing, sparks that tiniest bit of competitiveness and energy.
«I bet the
numbers show a 20 percent increase over last year's Prime
Day, which I expect to cause a boatload of retail analysts to come out of the woodwork and downgrade any retailer that is still standing that they haven't downgraded yet,» Cramer said, adding that only then might the market find a bottom
for some of the hardest hit brick - and - mortar names.
For starters, it's football season, which means that we have a
number of on - going promotions at our restaurant including a limited - time menu featuring game -
day grub, a digital loyalty program and Super Bowl ticket giveaway, among a
number of other NFL season festivities and celebrations.
Eurasia Group predicts that whatever the election's outcome this fall, Ontario's
days as a bright spot
for renewable energy may be
numbered.
Though the debate over emotional versus rational advertising is as old as the martini, rationality's
days have been
numbered for some time.
In order to find what
days of the month will be lucky
for you, you have to add your birthday
number to the
number of a calendar
day.
Any date that reduces to the
number two, then, is going to be the most auspicious
day for your marriage.
Within a
day and a half it had an acquisition
number for Cerilli.
These
days, there's an unprecedented
number of brands competing
for consumers» attention.
But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early
days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend
for the small
number of consoles available.
Still, «range anxiety» — the fear of getting stranded with a dead battery — is the
number - one worry
for people considering an EV (despite the fact that 80 % of Canadians drive 50 kilometres or less each
day).
The below graph,
for example, shows us how the
number of posts we send per
day relates to the
number of clicks we receive:
Staffers currently believe Kelly's
days in the White House might be
numbered, The AP reported, though talk of his imminent departure has swirled around Washington
for some time.
Don Thompson's
days as CEO were
numbered, it appears, when criticism
for the chain's sluggish performance began to be aimed at the company's directors.
Project cost would be an all - inclusive
number including contractor, furniture, fixtures and equipment, inventory, marketing and all hiring and training of team members, as well as working capital
for 90
days.
If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways —
for example, by limiting the
number of tickets sold on any one
day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.
To mark Apple's big
day, we checked the
numbers to revisit several of the most downloaded apps
for business.
By offering a
number of paid sick
days each year, you give good employees breathing space
for those rare occasions when they are too ill to come in.
«There's so many interesting applications out there, yet
for me, there's still [a] very small
number of apps that are fundamental
for my
day and my week,» Pincus told the FT. «Even if you're a big huge company, or a scrappy entrepreneur, you still have to build a product that resonates with people.»
Although we were too busy during the
day to tweet and Facebook ourselves, a
number of our guests did it
for us.
«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition
for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited
number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90
days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.
The cyber insurance policy is the hottest insurance product in the market, but it is untested
for wide - range, catastrophic cyber events, and many risk managers and security experts warn the
days of low premiums and cover - everything policies are
numbered.
Also in an effort to ramp up e-commerce, Wal - Mart recently introduced a free two -
day shipping service
for orders of more than $ 35, and worked to increase the
number of items available
for purchase online to more than 35 million — up from just 8 million in 2016.
Fortune crunched the
numbers through the market close Friday, the
day before the meeting, adjusting
for stocks Buffett has bought and sold in the meantime.
As dismally low as success rates are
for NIH grants these
days, they are dramatically lower
for younger scientists — and that's slowing down science in a
number of ways.
The company says it's adding one or two extra
days in shipping time
for an unspecified
number of deliveries.
DQYDJ's stock return calculator tool, which gathers its
numbers from data - platform Quandl, properly accounts
for stock splits and special dividends by creating a «data structure [that] contains the initial purchase and the price fluctuations using stock closing prices on each
day,» according to the site.
As we enter the home stretch
for 2013, many businesses are looking at the next 60
days as the final push to hit year - end
numbers.
The startup's billing software lets companies that sell cloud services create recurring billing cycles
for their customers based on the
number of hours,
days, months, or the amount of computing resources they consume, according to Orbitera's website.
For almost every single hour of every single
day, there is a new
number about the business crossing my desk.
Because 800 -
number costs are predictably intricate — varying by distance, frequency, and time of
day — a home businessperson should get out a calculator
for the final analysis.
For instance, organizations may allow their employees a certain
number of «work - from - home»
days throughout the year.
One physician familiar with Einstein's case wrote, «
For a number of years he had suffered from attacks of upper abdominal pain, which usually lasted for 2 - 3 days and were often accompanied by vomiti
For a
number of years he had suffered from attacks of upper abdominal pain, which usually lasted
for 2 - 3 days and were often accompanied by vomiti
for 2 - 3
days and were often accompanied by vomiting.
Since signing up
for the loyalty program is through the customer's phone
number, Soulman's was able able to send out a quick Valentine's
Day promotional text that involved customers showing the cashier a message to get 20 percent off and some free desserts on Valentine's
Day.
The logic: Diggs was the savior
for the Vikings last weekend, but I'm guessing this
number was listed a bit over-inflated to compensate
for the huge boost in attention he has received in the
days since his miraculous scamper.