Sentences with phrase «of spending areas»

The Taxpayers» Alliance's report, Council Spending Uncovered, reviews spending by local authorities in all corners of the UK and identifies a number of spending areas which could be reduced.

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Looking at funerals as an event to celebrate an individual's life, Earp said customers want an «area where they can spend two or three hours sort of having champagne and canapes as opposed to having a cup of tea and a rich tea biscuit.»

Pay attention to how you spend each minute of your workday and look for areas where you can improve; I recommend installing a time - tracking app that will run in the background, gathering data on your activities each day and reporting it back to you.

I've been spending a lot of time lately talking about how fastest - growing startups should negotiate when they are trying to hire experienced, relatively senior talent (especially in the sales area) for their companies.

I've spent time in the Bay Area and in some of those other tech hubs and it's very competitive.

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

Using a platform such as Google Analytics is a must for collecting data such as what pages people visit, what products they bought after their first purchase, how much time they spend on certain pages, what pages they visit after, age, gender, geographical area of your customers and more.

So what is happening is that health care continues to grow apace but we're spending less on other things, other areas of potential governmental spending such as education, social supports, housing.

It's only logical that an environment where people spend so much of their time can have an affect, and sleeping habits are one particular area of interest.

We'll have a good chance of success there, and then we'll spend part of the time exploring another area where we haven't got the research but think that the resources might be there.

While household spending is similar in some areas, low - income Americans spend a significantly larger proportion of their money on housing, while high - income Americans spend a much higher proportion on insurance and retirement expenses.

Last, the terms of the benefaction mandate that half the cash flow goes into a fund to be spent by the dean to upgrade the school, in areas that are identified by students and faculty — anything from professional recruitment and faculty travel to minor capital upgrades and fund raising.

Mid-tier nickel miners Western Areas and Mincor Resources have released positive quarterly results on the back of lower costs and improved production, with Mincor also defying the industry trend by saying it would increase its exploration spending.

A recent Compas poll of Canadian CEOs and business leaders, sked whether spending in various areas should increase, decrease or stay the same.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

Spend about 15 minutes each day organizing a different area of your work.

The chances are good that you have some areas of spending you can trim and start sending more of your money into an interest - bearing savings account.

They would prevent money from the $ 8.5 billion FCC Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service to poor and rural areas, from being spent on goods or services from companies or countries which pose a «national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or their supply chains.»

Puma leads three areas that support all PepsiCo businesses In the global procurement role, she manages nearly $ 25 billion of spend across all lines of the business.

When we take out the areas of motor vehicles, furniture, building materials, gasoline stations, convenience stores and beer, wine and liquor stores, about one in every 10 retail dollars are spent at Walmart.

And that has deflationary consequences, as people reduce spending in other areas to take care of the necessity.

Also targeted for steep spending rollbacks are the agency's monitoring and enforcement of compliance with environmental laws, as well as regional projects intended to benefit degraded areas such as the Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.

Kamen adds, «If you include all the money we've spent on Stirling, and all the money we've spent on the water project, it probably is in the area of $ 50 million.

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

While this is just a sliver of the $ 1.1 trillion that was spent on insurance premiums in 2013, its an area primed for big growth, Hartwig said.

The tax cut and excess federal spending may boost some areas of the economy, but thus far, it has not produced anything more than a modest boost in capital spending (most of it from capital intensive technology companies) but a surge in stock buybacks and dividend increases, Apple being a case in point.

Use a tool such as BrightFunnel to clarify this kind of spending and make sense of other areas of your budget.

«We are going to spend more money in this area,» Claus Hjort Frederiksen told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in Copenhagen, though he declined to disclose a figure.

Emwazi was born in Kuwait and spent part of his childhood in the poor Taima area of Jahra before moving to Britain as a boy, according to news reports quoting Syrian activists who knew the family.

For example, wireless sensors allow the company to track space occupancy and utilization, helping the organization see which areas of the office employees prefer to spend their time.

Apple today announced a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple's domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast - growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone (R) and the App Store (R).

He was actually born in the Ring of Fire and spent his childhood trapping and hunting for years in that area.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Pets Americans are expected to spend a stunning $ 45.4 billion on their pets this year — one of the few areas apparently unaffected by the recession.

Meanwhile, there is $ 2.9 million more to be spent on mental health services, targeted at areas of the province «without quick access to out - patient clinics.»

During the week, there are anywhere between 450 and 550 employees spending time in the café area - in a business where consultants typically spend most of their time at the client's office.

These days when I travel, I make sure that the cards I bring don't have the fees, and — unless I'm in a country or area where cash is particularly preferred — I put most of my spending on the card without coming home to surprise charges.

We're constantly torn with decisions about how our time should be spent, which areas need closer attention, and whether a request of our time is worthwhile.

Sandberg told CNBC that A.I. can catch «99 percent» of the «bad actors» in some content areas, but internet watchdogs are less sure, and after a week that was the worst for Facebook shares since 2012 — and saw tens of billions in Facebook market capitalization erased daily — it seems like the «responsibility» of companies merits more spending on human talent.

When Amazon announced last year that it wanted to spend more than $ 5 billion to build a second headquarters with as many as 50,000 employees, it sparked a flurry of studies as to which metro areas had a chance to win the business that would transform most economies.

«However, while economic indicators have improved in several areas, Americans remain somewhat torn between their desire and their ability to spend; the fact remains consumers still have the weight of the economy on their minds, further explaining the complex retail spending environment we are seeing right now.

Prior to joining CNBC, Herera spent seven years as an anchor and reporter with Financial News Network, honing her expertise in the areas of foreign exchange and futures trading.

He spent four years in the research department of The Bank of Canada in the early 1960's working in the areas of monetary and economic analysis.

During this time, Jacqui had been spending more and more time in the Princeton area, where her husband was raised and has worked since graduating from the University of Delaware.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

Even small areas of waste or nonessential spending in your business can hurt your business over time.

He said that in some of Munchery's most mature markets, including the San Francisco Bay Area, the business is contribution - margin positive, meaning Munchery brings in more revenue than what the company is spending on local operations, food, real estate, and delivery costs.

Higher costs of living can lead to downward pressure on all areas of consumer spending.

On September 9, 2016, dozens upon dozens of neighborhood volunteers will transform the area into a place that children will spend hours playing.

Capalad recommends that her clients choose one category at a time and spend a couple of months paring down their spending in that area.