Sentences with phrase «operate on what»

Lumens are not a mined currency, but instead, operate on what the company calls a «consensus algorithm».

We operate on what is typically called a contingency fee (percentage of recovery) basis.

Reefs operate on what scientists call a «tight» nutrient cycle, meaning there must be an efficient transfer of nutrients for coral to grow.

Instead, «all you have to do is operate on what they think is an appropriate weight» and, at least theoretically, people's weight will follow suit.

Call it what you will, but both sides are operating on what is in essence faith — whether it's faith in God, or faith in man / science / math.

Like many other managers I've worked with over the years, Bystrom operates on what I call the law of reciprocity.

Operating on what amounts to a shoestring, director James McTeigue deserves some credit for milking a premise the encompasses few characters and even less real estate for not - quite 90 minutes.

Overdrive's e-book platform currently operates on what I consider to be basically a «subscription» basis.

Using a scanner, Campus incorporated other natural objects and created digital collages like Robert Rauschenberg's «combines» operating on what Krauss terms the «plane of memory.»

Our personal injury practice operates on what is called a «contingency fee» basis.

Not exact matches

«So while [Tuesday] puts us on a bigger stage, it doesn't change who we are, what we are about, or how we operate.»

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

Tucker Mays, who came on board in May 1998, is now chief operating officer and has taken over sales, marketing, and operations from Connolly, freeing Spinergy's founder to concentrate on what he likes best: R&D.

But it didn't take long for Leung and his partners to stumble across what looked to be a mammoth opportunity: There was, he realized, an enormous craving for IT specialists who knew how to develop and manage web platforms that relied on so - called open - source software based on Linux — a non-propriety operating system beloved by Microsoft - loathing tech geeks the world over.

The question is whether Musk can continue to operate on the edge of what's possible — the key to his achievements so far.

While details are somewhat slim on what the operating system might deliver, a nagging rumor says Apple will finally bring Siri to the software.

What is the right valuation so that over the course of the time you can operate your business on the funds being raised?

On Thursday, Virgin America flights adopted Alaska Airlines» simpler call sign, «Alaska,» because the two airlines will operate under what's known as a «single operating certificate.»

WALINI, Indonesia — Indonesia broke ground Thursday on a new rail line between the capital Jakarta and Bandung, officially marking the start of three years of construction on what is expected to be the first high - speed rail service to operate in Southeast Asia.

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

Companies can operate in different worlds depending on their industry, size, geographic location, and much more, but the companies most prepared for the future of work have plans in place and know how to tailor things no matter what color world they end up in and how things shift.

Since gossip is most often akin to condemning other people's faults, it also puts the confidants on the same level, reassuring both that they «operate in the same moral universe,» and have the same views on what's acceptable, what's wildly inappropriate, and what's just plain funny.

So we all know that this goes on all the time, but what do we really understand about how these behaviors operate at work?

That includes a relentless focus on doing what's right for ALL of our stakeholders by operating our business through the lens of our Foundation Principles and a commitment to conscious leadership,» Reiff told me over email.

«Find out all that you can about how these companies operate, and more importantly, what's on the horizon for them?

«What's happening in robotics is we are going from robots in a structured, pre-programmed environment to a free - flowing environment working alongside humans, and that is a baby step to a car operating on its own on the road.»

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

Windows XP was officially retired on Tuesday, the end of the road for what was arguably Microsoft's most successful version of its still - dominant operating system.

But as anybody paying attention to what's been going on overseas knows, the days of central banks operating in concert are gone.

Technology is freeing up entrepreneurs to operate without crushing office overhead so that they can focus on what really matters: innovation and productivity.

«If you're operating a business, you have no idea what's going to come down on you from the continuum of agencies operating under broad mandate,» he said.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

A partnership agreement, an operating agreement or bylaws — depending on how the business is set up — can specify what should take place if the partners disagree.

If the economy were to grow at the pace I discussed earlier, this would likely translate into sufficient job gains to continue to remove any remaining slack in the labor market — which, by my assessment, is already operating quite close to a level that is consistent with what is achievable on a sustainable basis.

While the new Washington area offices were driven by what Burtzlaff said he believes is an uptick in demand for IT help, the franchise model depends on entrepreneurs willing to operate these offices, he said.

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But thanks to the subsidy they get from Canada, refineries in Cushing often enjoy refinery margins, or crack spreads as they're known in the industry, that have been as much as five times what refineries on the Gulf Coast, which have to pay full world oil prices for their feedstock, operate with.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

The exciting opportunity for startups is to skate to where the puck is going — by thinking beyond exploitative legacy business models that amount to embarrassing blackboxes whose CEOs dare not publicly admit what the systems really do — and come up with new ways of operating and monetizing services that don't rely on selling the lie that people don't care about privacy.

He said his biggest concerns for alternatives to what exists today include regulation and central bank reactions to options that rely on distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies, in addition to having a network robust enough to operate at scale.

With operating costs on the rise, and gold down from its peak of $ 1,900 an ounce in 2011, what producers need now more than anything is capital.

Figuring out what customers like is the eternal challenge for every retailer, and there's a lot of contradictory info out there: on the one hand, studies confirm that everyone is drawn to novelty, with many people operating under the assumption that the newest product must be the best (and they're often right, but not always).

What all this means is that the greater the focus on operating earnings, and especially forecasted operating earnings, the greater the vulnerability to disappointment on the GAAP earnings reality.

-- They have a constant pulse on what's happening across the sales organization, again using a common set of operating metrics, so they can see which managers need help, where there may be capacity constraints in terms of needing more leads from marketing or needing to hire more salespeople to handle increased market demand.

Since February 25, we have been operating on a «sell» signal that was generated by our rule - based market timing system (learn exactly what that means).

A computer's software is what you see when the computer is on the operating system

The focus remains squarely on operating earnings, and when cash flow is discussed, it is painfully clear that these people have no idea what they're talking about.

Google is spending $ 12.5 billion on Motorola Mobility in what looks like an attempt to fight back in a mounting patent war against its Android operating system.

Premiums for these policies are based on what type of business you're operating and what your projected revenues are.

Such is the mission of eight - year - old Startup Genome, composed of a group of researchers and entrepreneurs who, every year, interview thousands of founders and investors around the world to get a better handle on what's changing in the regions where they operate, and what remains stubbornly the same.