Sentences with phrase «of us no longer»

«I went from running a $ 100 million business at Fiskars to a $ 2.5 billion business at UP,» says Fritz, who, after all the businesses he'd seen sold, appreciated the tradition of long service at UP.

Coworking spaces offer an environment that allows you to put your head down and focus on building without the stress of long - term commercial office rent,» says Shannon Wu, founder of Mr.Progress.

In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

«However, given the already vast holdings of long positions in oil, there are doubts over the scope for further inflows.»

Paying down balances may be tough to pull off as a short - term move to increase your credit score, but it should be part of your long - term financial plan.

«We believe that it's not intelligent to grow in the short - term at the expense of the long - term potential.

The biggest complaint was that the auto shut - off was too short, though it is one of the longest on our list at 10 hours.

It would even encourage me with a little nudge when it noticed I reached my halfway point on one of my longer runs.

But there are some other financial and performance measurements that can provide earlier signs of trouble — or early indications of longer - term success.

Past Malaysian governments largely succeeded in lifting the country from poverty and attracting foreign investors, part of a long - term goal of reaching developed world income status.

«Because of our emphasis on the long - term, we may make decisions and weigh tradeoffs differently than some companies... We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long - term market leadership considerations rather than short - term profitability considerations or short - term Wall Street reactions... We aren't so bold as to claim that the above is the «right» investment philosophy, but it's ours, and we would be remiss if we weren't clear in the approach we have taken and will continue to take.»

Landscape architects are seeking to take advantage of a long - standing business model operating in the building sector to broaden their service offering and boost their bottom line.

Therefore, today's marketing efforts should focus on metrics like customer satisfaction, customer retention and employee engagement — efforts that often feel distant from ROI but are highly relevant from the standpoint of long - term performance.

The holding company for The First National Bank of Long Island posted revenue of $ 35.6 million in the period.

We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer.

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

The First of Long Island shares have declined 7 percent since the beginning of the year.

Even Toronto mayor John Tory does his best Derek Zoolander in front of a long mirror as he slips on a pair of casual blue Ron White shoes, officially known as the Jace Jeans sneaker, handcrafted in Italy from cashmere suede and retailing at $ 375.

They're not maniacally happy all the time - that would kill their desire to succeed - but their day to day circumstances don't take their eye off of their long - term goals.

Split between two islands, the country of New Zealand has — at 8,700 miles — one of the longest coastlines of any nation, not to mention some of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

For example, the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in southern California in July approved a plan to replace their current fleets of mostly diesel trucks with zero - or near zero - emissions vehicles by 2030.

Sukrit Vijayakar energy consultancy Trifecta said the rising options to sell were a result of huge amounts of long positions that have been built up over the past months of rising prices.

Further, in an era of constant fretting about the mismatch of skills and opportunities in our labour market, it is unhelpful to create the perception of long - term job prospects in sectors where they simply aren't plentiful.

Instead, focus on small pleasures, like scheduling dinner with a friend at the end of a taxing workday, arranging for a massage at the end of the week or at the conclusion of a long business trip, or even relaxing with a mindless television program if your brain has simply been firing for too long.

It is a question of whether it is right to inflict short - term pain to reduce the risk of longer - term devastation.

They caught him easily and pulled on the tail and pockets of his long white coat.

«Uncertainty is at a peak, and actually uncertainty is the enemy of long - term investment,» Soros said in Davos.

You might consider hiring VAs to benefit from a flexible workforce, lower overhead and the possibility of a long - term working arrangement.

«While the current recovery is one of the longest in history, it is also the slowest.

Within this free market ideology, pursuing short - term value is simultaneously a pursuit of long - term value.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

King may not agree that sports is the most valuable appointment programming available today, but the growing trend of longer - term broadcast deals forces him to plan for a future where sport's dominance in delivering a live audience is the reality.

Remember, existing customers are the prospects of the long - term business.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

Postelection selling of longer - dated maturities ran yields up by as much as 90 basis points, with the 10 - year briefly crossing 2.60 % on two separate occasions.

He saw the moment as a means to build a mutually - beneficial partnership of long term investment and trade.

Like so many other popular trends, they are the latest version of a long - standing part of American and world culture.

But I do worry about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends about the value of maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental leaves, for both moms and dads.

That helps take care of a long - standing problem, and the only way it could be managed was if we hedged the currency as a global company.

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

Automotive Holdings Group has announced an unusual 12 - month leadership transition under which current managing director, Bronte Howson, will become special counsel, while also getting a special cash payout and potentially early vesting of long - term performance rights.

However the clearly visible changes in volatility behavior, and the compression and rollover of the long - term GMMA show beyond doubt that the long - term uptrend has ended.

The great irony of the robotics revolution may be the unexpected resurgence of the long - derided bachelors of arts degree — you still can't automate creativity.

And that's just the start of a long list of funding deals.

A tall, dark geometric bronze sculpture, it features Jobs's head at the top of a long rectangular column.

You've got to ask yourself: By partnering with a company like Edison Nation Medical, are you robbing yourself of long - term gain in favor of short - term ease?

That caused some Wall Street houses to declare the beginning of the long - awaited «great rotation,» or mass exit from bonds into stocks.

While I don't presume to read traders» (or trading computers») minds (see Barry ritholtz» note this morning about ex post facto rationalizations), generally speaking there is concern that the «taper» of long term bond purchases will cause bond yields (the percent of interest paid on them) to rise.

Vito had been designed with a rough assumption of a long - term oil price around $ 80 a barrel.

The raids may be an offshoot of a long - running EU probe into pay - TV rights.