Sentences with phrase «of calls today»

We have been experiencing I high volume of calls today.

The Labour peer and former military chief Lord West even took the unusual step of calling the Today programme to dismiss his colleague's claims as «nonsense».

Our first port of call today is the town of Mohacs, close to the Hungarian border, you could take an optional walking tour here or an optional excursion to Puszta.

Not exact matches

Now that everyone has caller ID and most people are weary of telemarketers, the question arises whether cold - calling is still viable in today's world.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

According to Sam Cooper, senior director for Call of Duty in Activision's marketing department, in today's video game business, any successful «AAA» franchise is as focused on post-launch engagement with fans as with the actual launch of the game.

It revolves around what he calls the «four superpowers of tech today.»

Now factoring is considered just another kind of so - called «asset - based commercial lending,» a category that as a whole grew from $ 100 billion of credit extended at any one time in the early 1990s to more than $ 325 billion today.

These are sometimes called futures, as they lock in the future price of an asset today.

This myth is based in some truth — one of the first IUD models, called the Dalkon Shield, was linked to infections that can cause infertility — but it's not pertinent to IUDs that one might get today.

It was a beautifully written, if distressing, bit of what we today call «research translation».

Most of what we call «artificial intelligence» today is still very rudimentary, but that doesn't mean it can't be useful

«I rise today to say, «Enough,»» he told his colleagues, ripping the president of his party for policies and behavior he called «dangerous to a democracy.»

Today, there's one more for the list: LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman has announced a new podcast focused on entrepreneurship called Masters of Scale.

I called today a victory because both of my kids brushed their teeth the first time I asked and haven't killed each other yet on this, the fifth day of their week off from school.

Today games are everywhere at Pace, though some of what Pace people call «games» might go under a rubric like «team - based continuous improvement» elsewhere.

Today he sees a tight connection between finding great employees and bottom - line growth, and calls HR one of the «larger» sources of cash within the company.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

Today, patient experience is measured by a survey called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (H.C.A.H.P.S.) The embattled survey asks multiple choice questions and aims to establish the quality of the care provided.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

The 12s are what the Seahawks call their fans, and it's become such a huge part of the team's identity that the number was actually retired in 1984; today, a number 12 flag is raised before every home game.

While Sirius was wrought from Rothblatt's passions regarding the commercial capacities of outer space, today she is on the hunt for immortality, a pursuit that currently includes the creation of robots called «mindclones,» or digital replicas of human minds.

Today, hundreds of companies host so - called bug - bounty programs spanning apps, software, and company networks.

More cutting - edge ideas would use real - time analytics, the kind enabled by the hundreds of sensors in today's cars — what Nasser calls «the really exciting stuff.»

But that was a more shrewd than conciliatory strategy on the government's part: Today marks the 86th birthday of the nation's much adored monarch, King Bhumibol, an occasion that calls for sober celebration and peace.

Others might point to the qualities of today's so - called celebrity CEOs — charisma, virtuoso communication skills, and a confident management style.

«Williams» discovery was to project an estimate that offers intrinsic value and it is called the «Dividend Discount Model» which is still used today by professional investors on the institutional side of markets.»

According to a blog posted today by LinkedIn senior data scientist Mathieu Bastian, people who call out skills on their LinkedIn profiles receive an average of 13 times more profile views than those who don't.

It's called behavioral targeting, and Google, Facebook, and others make lots of money off it today.

In a blog post expected to go up today, Chesky calls hiring Johnson «one of the best decisions we ever made.»

Calling them «echoes of the past,» the pieces of history revisited in this podcast become an influence on many of the things we deem important today, from how we pray to how we raise our kids.

That's one of the findings of a new report published today by the Business Development Bank of Canada, called High - impact firms: Accelerating Canadian competitiveness [PDF].

You might already use Slack or Convo today, two of the most popular apps in this space, but the big news here is that, with a simple click if you're already using Microsoft Office 365 for word processing and email, you can now chat with colleagues, exchange documents, start a Skype phone call, and communicate in real - time.

«Call volume exploded today on that rumor,» Dan Nathan of RiskReversal.com said Thursday on CNBC's «Fast Money.»

Today ToutApp launched a new feature called Sales Campaigns, essentially a power task list which knows the kinds of things a salesperson needs to be doing, and queuing actionable buttons up at the right time.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

And like many of today's companies, the military is turning to so - called graphics processing units to help it do so, Newmeyer said.

And today, when litigation related to noncompete agreements and from so - called patent trolls are on the rise, an excess of court proceedings may have already damaged public offerings and other longer - term prospects.

Cyber policies today typically limit coverage to the so - called «hard» costs of a breach: investigative, forensic and recovery expenses; privacy loss notifications; and even extortion payments, says Ray DeMeo, chief operating officer of Virsec, a supplier of web application security systems.

Today's decision will be a judgment call more so than any of Poloz's decisions to date, with the possible exception of January's shock rate cut.

Today, Friedman, 38, and de Icaza, 43, are the chief executive and chief technology officer, respectively, of a San Francisco company called Xamarin.

Now, imagine the opposite of a cold call, because that's how customer engagement works today.

Today's Economix blog discusses what it calls «the anti-mommy bias,» or, more technically, the concept of Family Responsibilities Discrimination.

I spent the morning today speaking at a Centre for Accounting Ethics Symposium called «Accounting Ethics and Tone at the Top» (hosted by the School of Accounting and Finance, University of Waterloo).

From 12 until 3 p.m. today, Thinx is hosting a phone bank to call a select group of female elected representatives.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

The Disney CEO also noted that 83 % of all multichannel households turned to ESPN in the first quarter of this year, and that 96 % of all sports programming is watched live, which he called «particularly valuable in today's rapidly changing advertising marketplace.»

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

Google launched its twist on Facebook's Instant Articles feature today — an open standard for delivering mobile web pages faster for publishers of all kinds, which the company is calling «Accelerated Mobile Pages» or AMP.

The commission today took what was once called «the nuclear option» by reclassifying broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) as «telecommunication services» subject to regulation similar to the telephone monopolies of the last century.