Sentences with phrase «own acronym»

I warned you about the acronyms, didn't I?

Under his unusual pay deal, Trump Hotels granted its chairman annual incentive pay based on EBITDA, an acronym for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

«Unfortunately, there have been (these) incidents that have taken our focus away from fighting ISIS,» Dillon said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

There are also a lot of acronyms.

The acronym stands for making goals «specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.»

«TINA,» he explained to the audience, reference to a well - known acronym on Wall Street that stands for «There Is No Alternative.»

Karpelès took control of Mt. Gox — the name is an acronym for Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange, after the trading card game that inspired the original site — in 2011 from founder Jed McCaleb.

In today's marketplace, your company must meet a dizzying number of compliance regulations, with acronyms to match, if you store your customers» personal or financial information.

Hal Wolf, the CEO of the non-profit Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society — better known by its acronym, HIMSS — had suspected something was up.

Berger has spent years investigating the mechanics behind virality, identifying six key drivers under the acronym STEPPS.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

Not only does it lack a catchy acronym, but its reforms to the Fed are far more modest than the FORM Act.

An acronym for impact reporting and investment standards, Iris helps impact investors speak the same language so they can compare social returns from one investment to the next.

Open networkers on LinkedIn are often called LIONs (an acronym for «LinkedIn Open Networkers»).

«Ltare» is likely an acronym for LTA Research and Exploration.

He wasn't trying to show off — he just has a rich vocabulary and deep expertise and defaulted to technical language and acronyms when he talked to people, mostly because he thought it was efficient.

In this day of proliferating acronyms and swarming buzzwords, Gerdes supplies a working knowledge of corporation - specific nomenclature.

Originally organized around fundraising — Emily is an acronym for Early Money Is Like Yeast — the group now recruits and trains as well as finances women candidates.

SALT — an acronym for «State and Local Tax» — holds free tax seminars for potential customers at Wells Fargo Bank Texas N.A. locations.

Tor, originally an acronym for «The Onion Router,» is an anonymity network designed to keep your identity and location completely secure as you browse the web.

For example, one person offered this advice to new employees: «There's a ton of internal jargon floating around; if you hear terms or acronyms that you can't define, ask for a quick clarification and then do some research offline later.»

«We have made visible actions in deploying US forces as part of the coalition in and around Manbij to reassure and deter — that's to deter parties from attacking any other parties other than ISIS itself,» he said, using another acronym for IS.

Indonesia has the advantage of easy acronym acceptance (BRIIC or BIIC) and some compelling positives — at least on paper.

As acronyms go, it even sounds solid: BRIC.

The elite combat engineering unit, known by its Hebrew acronym Yahalom, has been doubled in size since the operation, and the unit's base in Sirkin, outside Tel Aviv, is now equipped with an exact replica of a Hamas tunnel for training purposes.

Don't be shy if you don't understand an acronym or if you don't understand why something is done a certain way.

«Great, he wants to have his YOLO moments, go ahead,» said Democratic strategist Mary Ann Marsh, using the acronym for the expression «you only live once.»

Richman says the best morning productivity concept she's found is Savers, an acronym that stands for six things — silence, affirmation, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing.

It's unprecedented that AMR would get this level of attention,» Coukell said, referring to the commonly used acronym for antimicrobial resistance.

Nothing could be further from the truth: Instead, stick to the KISS acronym: «Keep it simple, stupid.»

(RIA is an acronym for registered investment advisor.)

Cha, a God - fearing man, has implemented his faith into the business with a «Frog» being an acronym for «Fully Rely On God.»

Valeant and Allergan are also going to head - to - head with rival drugs to treat IBS - D, an acronym best left unpacked but which convention dictates we must spell out: irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea.

If you weren't an early adopter of Twitter, or don't spend a ton of time checking your timeline (or if you're just a normal human being with better things to do) you can get a little behind in Twitter abbreviations and acronyms.

Much like TBH and TBQH, these are acronyms you can tack onto a tweet to help you convey your opinion.

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada on June 7 released a study on the country's newfound love of home equity lines of credit, which often are referred to by their ugly acronym, HELOCs.

The bomb, the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, whose acronym inspired the nickname «Mother of All Bombs,» is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the US's arsenal.

The GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, sometimes grimly called the «Mother of All Bombs» because of its acronym, was loaded onto a pallet, flown in a C - 130 cargo plane, then dragged out the back of the plane — pallet included — by a parachute.

«Consider the acronym CALM: Communicate — more frequently and in a venue that works for your boss; Anticipate problems before they worsen, and have solutions; Laugh — use levity to help your boss keep a rational perspective; Manage up — set limits with your bosses diplomatically, and let them see the benefits of your suggestions.

NZ is the acronym for a separate operation called Nitro Zeus, which gave the US access into Iran's air defense systems so it could not shoot down planes, its command - and - control systems so communications would go dead, and infrastructure like the power grid, transportation, and financial systems.

These strange acronyms stand for «average revenue per user» and «cost of goods sold.»

The acronym's definition goes a long way in describing what it does: «d istributed d enial - o f - s ervice.»

Entrepreneurs have an acronym, too: Always be adapting, or ABA.

Brown also notes that the acronym can be used just as productively to assess your own trust in yourself.

Salespeople know the adage «always be closing,» referred to by the acronym ABC.

Established in 2012, OSL (the acronym is short for outsourced sales leadership), based in Mississauga, Ont., provides clients with a range of customized performance - related services including retail and direct sales, merchandising and customer acquisition.

Known by its acronym, CTMS, it now counts 25 major sports clubs as clients (it recently signed the NBA's Sacramento Kings) and just inked a contract with a major Canadian retailer, an account Osovitzki says is worth $ 200 million.

It's an acronym called ALGEE, and it outlines «the major steps of first - responder aid for a person experiencing a mental - health problem.»

I've actually created an acronym for «HEART» to represent the things that we expect to happen every single day but often take for granted.

Business schools love acronyms and formulas.