Sentences with phrase «of a few people at»

Er... why do you think the religion of the few people at the top of the company trumps those of the thousands of employees?

If the accuser gets more specific, he'll probably offer two reasons that it's foolish to make a fuss over the high incomes of a few people at the top of the income distribution.

As a member of both the AAAS and the AGU, I can assure you that they represent nothing more than the beliefs of a few people at the top.

Not exact matches

At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock soliAt the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock soliat all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

Even if it's small, they at least have a lot of attention from a few people.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

We will dig into all of this with some of the smartest people on the planet at our 2nd annual Fortune Brainstorm Health conference in just a few weeks.

Most people try to move out of that lane as soon as they can, but a few will cruise past the long line to merge at the last moment.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

(Read Dan's post; it's a great look at why so few people follow a routine of daily, intensive practice... and why, for those that do, it's transformative.)

Zymeworks had a payroll with 25 names on it, many of them with advanced degrees, and was even trying to hire a few more people at the time.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

With the cap for 60 - year - olds at $ 4,090 per person, a few months of 2018 premiums would give them a bigger tax break — again, assuming they are using the medical expense deduction.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

The effect previously cost at least $ 100,000 to pull off and required a crane and hours of setup; Schmidt's camera array can pull it off for a few thousand dollars (the price of that many cameras), with one person operating it.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

A few people wore dresses or nice pants, and some others arrived in costumes, but at least half of the attendees sported yoga or running gear.

«A lot of people have... told us that what it helped them to do is think about their role in the group so that they went in with at least a few ideas of how they would orient themselves to the group,» says Guido.

He bought a Blackberry and at the time Wills was one of the few people in his circle to have one.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest people I've met on this subject, says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.

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.

Barrel bombs filled with chlorine gas were also reportedly dropped on Sunday in the town of Saraqeb, a few miles from Maasran, which injured at least nine people.

After all, you meet very few people who get a thrill out of being the worst at something.

I was one of the few people with a computer at a very young age, so I sold, actually sold is probably a strong word, really just traded for candy, a lot of shareware.

More than a few people view Secunda, a gruff 59 - year - old trained as a mathematician, as the mad genius behind the terminal, a wizard at connecting the worlds of technology and finance.

When people want to give a car a closer look, they must stare at it for a few seconds to get a list of real - time information about the vehicles including the number in stock and their price.

There would be nothing left for people to do here,» he said in one of the town's few cafes, explaining that the private firm he now works at also depends on the plant.

Let the person know that this system of management is unhelpful, and suggest a few improvements — you might be surprised at how positively he or she responds.

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.

«There's obviously the threat [of sanctions] against others, but... it's surprising, to me at least, how few people have broken with Maduro,» he said during the AS / COA event.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

Rather than try to compete directly with Match, the industry leader, he created a website that cost almost nothing to run and was aimed at the sort of people who wanted to browse a few profiles but weren't ready to take out their credit cards.

Contribute a few comments on this issue during a meeting — you may be surprised at how seriously people take the input of someone who speaks sparingly!

Groups is very simple: For $ 65 a week, it offers group therapy in areas plagued by opioid addiction — targeting towns with fewer than 10,000 residents and little access to recovery programs — so people at different stages of recovery can learn from one another.

«At a high level, people find they fall asleep faster, sleep longer, and wake up fewer times in the middle of the night,» says Silbert.

It used to be that getting customers online meant throwing money at SEO and search advertising in hopes of attracting a few people that would buy.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

While a few of the people in his online courses have come close to replicating his initial success, the most common sales total at the one - month mark in one of his early classes was under $ 12,000.

But it was only a few years ago that people were afraid of online banking, and look at where we are today.

Over the last few years, many people have been alarmed at the job - destroying implications of automation.

But in a few years, when 5G gear sending data at up to 100 times the speed of current networks is commonplace, people may remember July 2016 as a major turning point.

A MacBook Pro redesign and the release of the AirPods are just a few of the things people are expecting at Apple's «Hello Again» event tomorrow.

The Jews, in the phraseology of Doctor Ruppin of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, having changed in the eighteenth century from an Oriental people to an Eastern European, have in the last few generations changed from an Eastern European people to a Western European and an American.

Fourth, he has to decide a few symbolic things he's going to do that people will buzz about that will set the tone for where McDonald's is going... Fifth, whatever the speed of action and decision - making at McDonald's, take it up five volts.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

Useful features include bulk uploading, which allows a person to add hundreds of events to a calendar at a time or automatically with feeds from other calendars, such as EventBrite or Google Calendar; recurrence scheduling; automated newsletters; and automatic venue matching that figures out where an event will be held after someone types only a few letters.

When he looks at the generation of people who were CEOs when he was a CEO, Sculley maintains that there are few he can remember particularly well.