Sentences with phrase «on number things»

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At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

Hybrid devices like Surface Pro and iPad Pro, on the other hand, still need to iron out a number of things before becoming both great laptops and great tablets at the same time — and, also, potentially much more.

If companies are looking to attract tech talent, the number one thing they can do is take a stand on some of these social, moral and ethical issues.»

If you have a lot of old, antique things, you want to show that you're sophisticated, and if you have a large number of keys hanging from the side of your pants, it's likely you never really had control as a child, and you want to compensate for that later on.

It is not unusual for a president's staff to tell reporters to focus on some facts and not others, but things are qualitatively different now in the Trump administration compared to that of his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush in terms of «the number of untruths,» said the Times «David Leonhardt.

An employee's profile page includes badges for reaching milestones such as service anniversaries, a certain number of recognitions sent or received, or for doing things such as putting an item from the store on a wish list.

Two years later, a panel on competitiveness led by Red Wilson, a former BCE president, said the same thing and added a lengthy list of additional benefits, such as increasing the number of sources for financing existing telecoms.

Says Purdy, «We've been doing a number of things to get our hybrid fibre and cable system to a level where, both on broadband and on TV, we have a superior product in market.»

After testing some things out over the summer I settled on founding J Newell Media in August and got my tax - ID number.

That is, if you're buying a pair of sneakers online, there is no reason that a business should be asking for your birth date, social security number, annual income, copies of your ID or credit card, and so on (you'd be surprised by how many online businesses ask for these things).

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

«Any number of random things could work on YouTube,» Womack says, «and things that don't cost money often do work.

If you stay on top of the numbers, there are many things you can do to monitor and improve your performance.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

The CEO adds that IBM has done a number of things to keep women working, including shipping breast milk back to babies when their mothers are traveling on the job.

Here's a number of more mundane things that kill legions of people annually, but get little mention on the nightly news.

Even though adware is not considered harmful, it can collect personal information from the device that it is installed on including things like a user's birthday, location, serial number and contacts, according to the Verizon report.

But its own initiatives deserve a lot of credit: among other things, Best Buy has been reinventing its Geek Squad to better leverage its workers» expertise in stores and one - on - one house calls to help customers understand, install and better use the vast numbers of tech products.

The Internet of Things has hugely expanded the number of home security products on the market.

«One of the greatest things that Amazon has working in its favor is that it has credit card numbers on file,» says Sterling.

And in the last six months of 2009 we had a number of instances where really cool things were going on, but they weren't in budget.

Once you understand the power of FOMO and how to control it, you can reduce the number of things you're working on, improve the quality of your work on what remains, and get control, rather than letting poor choices control you.

One thing we can calculate fairly easily is the probability of multiple winners based on the number of tickets sold.

While emerging market indexes have been on a wild ride over the past few years, she thinks a number of developing nations are on the cusp of great things.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

«And we're going to lose our competitive advantage on a number of things.

The number one thing to watch is Xi's tightening grip on authority.

Mercifully, most of the negative press seems to have been pulled from its original homes on the internet, but thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, we can find reviews by the Chicago Sun - Times» Paige Wiser: «There are so many things I hate about his new show, Shark Tank, that I started numbering them just to calm down.»

«Despite the large, scary red numbers you see on your screen, the truth is that these things happen.

According to famed investor and co-founder of Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson, the # 1 thing that entrepreneurs should focus on when raising money is «90 day retention numbers for your acquisition cohorts.»

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

«Strong sales gains make it clear that the recovery is continuing and potentially setting things in motion for a strong summer buying season,» Edmunds.com senior analyst Karl Brauer said in a note on the sales numbers Tuesday.

If the number one goal of the leadership is to «sell out», you can pretty bet they are not focused on the things you care about most.

One of the biggest challenges that we all face is the steadily increasing number of things that we have to do on a daily basis.

Our information architect's focus on a number of things: such as the target audience, the technologies related to the website, and the data that will be presented through the website.

Khosrowshahi held an all - hands meeting on Aug. 30, discussing a number of things, including plans to go public in 18 to 36 months, as per The Information's Amir Efrati.

But when you get to call them stocks and you get stock quotes daily on these pieces of paper that bounce around put people put numbers on it and volatility and all these other things where really it's not that meaningful, you know from one sense if you're investing in businesses and you did a lot of research and invested in eight different businesses with the proceeds of your sale, people would think you're a pretty prudent guy.

Nevertheless, there are a number of things you can start doing today, that will have a positive impact on your profile in less time than you might think.

And I warned at a number of junctures in 1999 before the Internet bubble, and again in the winter of 2007, that the main thing we had to fear was the lack of fear itself, precisely because a sense that everything is stable is a self - denying prophecy, because if there is a sense that everything is stable, -LSB-...] people will take on more risk and that will then create the conditions for future instability.

Based on the numbers, things are going south for the unicorns.

The state of television, for as long as it has matured as a medium, has always hinged on the strength of one thing: how well networks have been able to measure the number of people that tune into programming.

Cordless tools have become the most popular operating drills that run on battery and can be used to do a number of things.

Analyzing and reviewing the wrong data tends to motivate your SDRs to focus on the wrong thing in order to meet a certain number.

This means that, all other things being equal, it's better to have one or two positions as number one than it is to have dozens of positions on the second page or lower.

Yet, even that sum could be highly conservative because Harvard's numbers — released last week on its website — fails to include such things as performance bonuses, reimbursements, profit sharing, 401K matching programs, restricted stock or stock options.

On the surface, savings accounts seem simple, but there are a number of things you need to pay attention to when picking a savings account:

We can blame this dip on a number of things: geopolitics, the slowing of real GDP growth across the globe, a huge oil surplus here in the U.S. and a strong dollar.

Whatever the case, one thing is certain: the number of Bitcoin transactions is on a steady increase.

I'm always amazed at the number of restaurant companies that incentivize their operators on the wrong things when it comes to building value.