Sentences with phrase «of getting to the closing»

We all realize the importance of teaching children as early as possible the dangers of a fire, and the consequences of getting to close to it, but when dealing with babies, actions have more power than words.

This will add time to the overall process of getting to the closing table.

If BOA is servicing the loan you expect to be on the longer side of getting to the closing table.

In that capacity, we are additionally motivated to connect your referral with the best agent possible who will maximize it's chances of getting to the closing table.

This will add time to the overall process of getting to the closing table.

Not exact matches

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

All of these places offered an opportunity to get close to one another and bond with locals in your community.

If we want to close the income gap, if we want to really be — address the issue of income inequality, we need to understand that we've got to prepare these kids better than they're being prepared globally and around the world, but also in America.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

With millions of smartphone and tablet users scattered about, it is essentially another way to connect with your audience and get closer to their wallet.

«One of the biggest challenges in the industry as a whole is to get closer to market,» says O'Neill.

If you think you're getting close to the top but there's a possibility it has more to go, exit a portion of the position (scale out) and take some profits off the table.

While Lyft is yet to run any sort of public pilot of self - driving technology, the company says it's getting close.

Speaking of Google, two months ago the company announced its bid to get in on the car - as - rolling - smartphone race, saying it aims to complete its Android - vehicle integration system by the close of 2014.

On the first anniversary of the company's bankruptcy filing, Canadian Business spoke to close to 30 former employees in Canada and the U.S. to find out how Target, one of the best retailers in North America, got it so wrong in Canada.

To get a better sense of where things are heading, Business Insider has taken a closer look at technology's developing role in the field of education and outlined the advances that could be spelled out for the future.

You may wonder how a teenager even got to the point of finding his opportunity in such a close - knit industry as business - to - business credit card processing?

I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family, and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids.

That is true, but you also have to know that the vast majority of companies that are funded by VC firms never get close to the million - dollar paydays.

«As the company runs out of reasons why the technology won't work, and gets closer and closer to illustrating that it will work, I think it's entirely possible that they will raise the billions of dollars they will need to prove this concept out,» he says, noting that it was Cenovus's investment, more than that of Bezos, that turned heads among investors.

Shell's Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said the oil sector had yet to emerge from troubled waters, but huge cost savings meant oil majors were getting closer to balancing their operations at today's oil prices of around $ 50 a barrel.

While I believe almost everyone should get the advice of a professional certified financial planner when making this decision, there are some ways to start figuring out how close you are to realizing your retirement dreams.

«To optimize their perception of you and get the outcome you want, perform the entire presentation aloud at least once, and the opening and closing at least three times,» she suggests.

«Kelly is now just another staffer who could get fired any day of the week by Donald J. Trump,» said one person close to the White House.

I guess if I were to pick one piece of advice for other young entrepreneurs, I would suggest getting a close adviser who has good entrepreneurial experience, is really smart, and is someone you really trust.

In the Marines, we are often working in close quarters in really uncomfortable settings (like a chest deep fighting hole, and, oh yeah, it's probably raining), and if you can't get along in the group, you're not going to be able to effective leader or member of the team.

Kureluk believes that Yardstick has to get itself in front of potential customers in order to close a deal, and that means working the phones in the traditional way.

IBM's Watson will get to work before the ceremony even starts, analyzing and sorting «hours of video and close to 125,000 photographs» taken during the Grammys» hours - long red carpet show ahead of Sunday's event, IBM said in its announcement.

Once you accumulate all of the kitchen tools necessary to cook a variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes, the single drawer you use to store them in gets hard to close.

One night while I was hanging out with the manager in the concession booth, waiting for the last shows to get done so we could close up, a guy comes out of one of the theaters with his family and demands to speak to a manager.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last month that the U.S. central bank was getting closer to raising interest rates, possibly as early as September, saying that the Fed sees the economy as close to meeting its goals of maximum employment and stable prices.

Some people even believe that as we get closer to 2015, the percentage of failed businesses will increase.

In the course of the day, they are close to the top of mind for me, I get to put some fresh brain power into them.

Don't impose your own thoughts on the conversation until you've gotten plenty of feedback and feel that you are close to a decision.

Just because you closed your first one or two big sales doesn't mean you'll be able to close again without putting in the same amount of time, effort and dedication that got you to your first customers.

'' If there's a real effort made to try to close out and to compromise and to do some of the things we all know we should do, I'm optimistic we can get something done, in principle, in the next little bit.

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

Opinion differs on whether Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, Ont., can buffer its bottom line by establishing a significant beachhead in the increasingly lucrative tablet market to go along with its ever - growing smartphone sales, or whether it should close up shop and get out of the game while it still can.

Getting in front of a customer and providing a quote or proposal means you are very close to the sale, but only if you do the right things from that critical time on.

You can get so close to a situation you just assume your choice is right, but your board of advisers may not have the same context.

That could threaten the company's chances of at least getting closer to profitability, as it targets an IPO within 18 to 36 months.

Participants were apt to complete a tedious task (entering 10 - character strings of code) faster when they could tackle quicker segments first, with their motivation increasing as they got closer to completing the task.

Consider working on a more flexible schedule to make the most of each day and get you one step closer to completing your goal.

«We see that there is this drive in the region to become the Silicon Valley of the GCC, and I think they've done wonders to try to get it closer to that, but it's still relatively premature as an ecosystem,» Toubayly says.

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

You know, I've had people say, «Don't get too close to your employees,» because if you connect in a deep way, it makes it very difficult to exercise your duties as the leader of the business.

The closing days of the Olympics were also overshadowed by a U.S. announcement on Friday that it was imposing its largest package of sanctions aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programs.

While hundreds of millions of the world's people get ready to watch the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday, North Koreans are still waiting to see the first event.