Sentences with phrase «of less talk»

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are... [Continue reading]

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are served.

Genital herpes remains one of the less talked about viral diseases and one of the most stigmatized.

billok said twice, «the comments really do help no one», So I was more of less talking to him, saying people can say whatever they want on here.

One of the lesser talked about but more important new features in Android N is seamless updates.

Not exact matches

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

Use these questions to talk less, listen more, and make yourself stand out in a crowd of networkers.

As I write this, the conference is less than halfway over, and there are plenty of non-political talks and performances coming up.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

As Nicholas Boothman, speaker and author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, explained in one of his talks, «when you like someone you see the best in them.

Although it only opened its first retail space less than two years ago, Glossier, Emily Weiss's millennial - friendly blog - turned - beauty brand has become the talk of the cosmetic industry.

«There are lots of people who were as liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to think they are.»

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

Lew credited past sessions of the annual U.S. - China Strategic and Economic Dialogue talks with helping to reach understandings that have made currency less of an irritant for the two countries.

According to Alexandre Lebrun of Facebook's artificial intelligence division, quoted by Business Insider, «The better we get [at artificial intelligence], the less time you spend talking to customer service.

According to the T - Mobile rep, those who have the $ 30 plan today are now «grandfathered» in, but for new customers the $ 45 a month offering — which gives unlimited talk, but 1 GB less of 4G data — is now the cheapest option.

In the wake of success stories such as Coolest Cooler, which raised more than $ 13 million on Kickstarter, I'm starting to hear talk that crowdfunding is making traditional financing less relevant.

If you have a friend who loves Trump and you don't, and all he or she talks about is Trump, well, spend less time with that person or just explain that you appreciate his followers» passion for the candidate but you hold a different view and don't want to let politics get between the two of you, so best to leave it behind.

China and the U.S. appear headed toward detailed talks and less sharp rhetoric, says John Carey of Amundi Pioneer.

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Repetitive uninspiring offerings aren't just less tasty, they're also less likely to spark the kind of informal talk that will bond your team and help them come up with innovative ideas about not just what to order but also how to improve you business.

And as the Guardian recently reportedly, these concerns are shared by a whole host of lesser known but still hugely influential technologists who, having less financial stake in talking up current realities than tech company bosses, are often even more frank about their worries.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Same thing IMHO with Google's unofficial «Do No Evil» motto — a perfect example of the law of inverse relevance: the less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.

Legg tends to stay out of the limelight and gives significantly fewer talks and far less quotes to journalists than his other cofounders.

Though the U.K. remains a full member of the European Union until, at least, March of 2019, transitional talks need to end by October of this year to allow enough time for parliamentary approval across the EU — giving U.K. and EU negotiators less than 10 months to decide how both sides will cooperate in the future.

Less than 20 % of the S&P 500 appear among the 1,200 companies talking about cryptocurrencies, and only 65 hail from the 2017 Fortune 500 list.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Hill changed his life to fit inside a 420 - square foot apartment and gave a popular TED talk in 2011, «Less Stuff, More Happiness,» where he previewed the concept of the LifeEdited apartment.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

We talked to the CEO of Revolut, a bank that hit a $ 1.7 billion valuation in less than three years, about US expansion and «building something bigger than» HSBC.

Of those investors whose advisors had talked to them about a crash, 62 percent believe their loss would be less than what their stated exposure to equities would suggest, the survey found.

It might take some work, but by remembering your talking points (instead of looking at a screen every five seconds), you can rely less on PowerPoint and more on yourself.

Declaring what we want to be and how we will get there causes us to somehow feel we are farther along the path of becoming who we want to be, and therefore less motivated — even though we've actually done nothing but talk.

Presidents through the years often escaped the majesty and protocol of the White House by choosing less formal settings for bilateral talks.

If all else fails and you still can't get noticed, produce an interactive recording of your new eBook, «Talk More, Listen Less.»

And while chatting and networking are important, Stephen Key of inventRight reminds us to talk less and listen more.

When Slava Rubin, the founding CEO of Indeigogo, one of the very first crowdfunding sites that launched in January 2008, talks about it, he hits a point rarely discussed and even less frequently understood.

Regulators talk sometimes about regulating the big bond mutual - fund complexes as «systemically important» institutions, on the theory that liquidity requirements, stress testing, regulatory oversight, etc. could make them less vulnerable to herding and the shock of redemption requirements.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

And making pharmacy less of a talking - point for comedians would be very pleasant side effect indeed.

So, corporate taxes are way less of a factor in American competitiveness than — I'm talking about overall business — than medical costs.

A collection agency, whether through the US government or private lender, won't usually settle a defaulted student loan debt if it's less than the amount that the lender is likely to receive over the life of the original loan — so negotiation is essential during settlement talks.

The acquisition announcement comes a little less than a month after talks of Ola acquiring Ridlr did the rounds.

The next time the premiers huddle together they should start talking about how to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels that the rest of the world has little need for today and will need even less of tomorrow.

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.