Sentences with phrase «of brisk business»

It is the fourth poorest region in the country despite its agriculture, fishing and the high level of brisk business which goes on in one of its towns, which is arguably the most expanding urban area in West Africa, Kasoa.

Still, much of the brisk business overall reflected the abundance of deals, showing that shoppers are as bargain - hungry now as they were during in the first years after the Great Recession, if not more.

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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport does a brisk business in «scorpion suckers» (hard candy with a scorpion in the center), and racks up a million dollars in sales of cactus plants each year.

Since the lenders take a percentage of a day's sales, the business owner pays less when sales are slow and more when business is brisk.

Meanwhile, the principal of Alvin's school suggested that the father and son get professional help, and referred them to John Cayton, a counselor with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, a family - therapy clinic that does a brisk business in absentee - parent cases.

If your prospect is a «nine - to - fiver» who reports that after a «brutal» eight hours, they feel a need to go home and unwind before a brisk evening of TV, they're unlikely to have the energy level or drive needed for your business.

The support on the part of Chinese investors to help fund tech companies comes as some of China's leading technology players are seeing brisk business.

The Japanese electronics and entertainment company posted quarterly profit that topped analyst estimates, thanks to demand for smartphone camera chips, a healthy music business and brisk sales of PlayStation 4 consoles and games.

There's a general consensus in the American workplace that time - worn ways of doing business are being upended at a brisk rate, thanks to factors like technology and globalization.

James Bowyer, writing about them in the South African magazine, Out There, noted: «Chiles are taken seriously on Rodrigues and the chile man is doing brisk business although brisk is a word that seems out of place on the laid - back island.

Heaps of rubbish have been left on the pavement unattended to with traders still doing brisk business.

He added that he wanted to see «brisker progress» in the day to day business of the House of Commons with shorter questions and answers and a «more considered» approach to business.

According to Mr. Nowak, the installers are already doing brisk business as word spreads, but the lack of governmental support for the technology has made progress far slower than it could be.

And wings of the federal government haven't overlooked the industry's growth and brisk business.

Or consider Olivier Assayas's French movie Irma Vep, another exciting state - of - the - planet address, which I saw at Cannes in 1996: it did terrible business in France the following fall but enjoyed an unexpectedly brisk box office at New York's Film Forum last month, where it's already been held over several weeks.

Nevertheless, since the great majority of home schoolers in the 1980s and 1990s were conservative Protestants, Christian presses did a brisk business selling textbooks and other material to them, at huge annual conventions attended by thousands, at local Christian bookstores, and, increasingly, over the Internet.

It is one of Overdrive's main business partners and does fairly brisk business in schools, libraries, and corporate institutions.

One of the largest reasons why companies like Pulse do brisk business is because of the lack of advertising within the app.

It was also during the beginning of this month that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had gone on record saying they are doing brisk business and that both the e-reader and bookstore have reached a «tipping point.»

The other leading bookstore chain, WHSmith, also does brisk business with Kobo and its expansive ecosystem of e-readers and ebooks.

I would hope that the next generation of e-reader recognizes the fact that tablets are dominating the landscape and need a new gimmick in order to continue doing brisk business.

In spite of these realities, adoption shelters are doing a brisk business while many pet retailers fight to survive.

You see, by examining how the blue - chip galleries of an arts metropolis utilize social media and social networking tools, I thought perhaps artists who are represented by smaller galleries (or themselves) could glean some wisdom - after all, the galleries I looked at do a very brisk business and many have been around since before Facebook was even a glimmer in a Harvard student's eye - on what should and shouldn't be a part of their online marketing strategy.

Many of the 180 galleries under the translucent white tent reported brisk business Thursday for the VIP reception.

Unlike last year, when the pall of U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration hung over The Armory Show and its largely left - leaning participants, this year «people seemed to have made their peace» with the political situation and were back to being focused on art, said Sean Kelly, whose booth near the fair's entry was doing typically brisk business.

Treize, a nonprofit in the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville, set up an artists» record shop as an experiment in production and distribution that was doing brisk business.

Shackelford said business has been brisk, in large part because of federal programs that substantially cut homeowner's costs through tax credits and other initiatives, like the National Home Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American homes.

It has received approval to do so from the Department of Energy, and given the current differential between US natural gas prices and LNG prices in other parts of the world, the terminal looks well - positioned to do brisk business.

According to a report by the New York Times, bot peddlers have done brisk business on the site, setting up thousands upon thousands of fake accounts to follow and retweet paying customers, sometimes even stealing identities to do it.

With a torrent of devices flooding the shelves of your local big - box store, business has never been brisker.

The business practices under operation are examined by this individual, and the IT solutions that are relevant are suggested to enhance a brisk flow of information.

In addition to having his own brisk sales business, Ho, 26, had a hand in almost every one of the Energized Realty Group's 170 sales transactions in 2011.

Prospective buyers will drive around the city looking for virtual real estate signs and you will be doing a brisk business at the centre of the real estate transaction, which, thanks to technological advances, has now become the focal point of a centrifuge of activity, spinning off revenue in all directions.