As staff briefed him on possible measures and environmentalists pressed him to act, Romney frequently repeated a central thought,
people at those meetings said: That climate change is occurring, that the United States has the resources to handle its vast impact but that low - lying poor countries like Bangladesh would suffer greatly.
Not exact matches
«You learn a heck of a lot when you talk to
people not in a formal setting, not in a roundtable discussion, not in a town hall
meeting, but just when moms and dads are shopping
at a grocery store,» she
says.
«Before the housewares show — talk about
people you know — a good friend of ours was
at a shiva call and
met this gentlemen,» Och
said.
Amazon «is a big, big force, and it has already disrupted plenty of
people — and it will disrupt more,» Buffett
said at his most recent annual shareholders»
meeting.
«You try to
meet people with what they give you,»
says Shanna Quinn, senior marketing representative for social media programs
at United Airlines, who created the tweet.
But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest
people I've
met on this subject,
says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck
at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.
Activist investor Carl Icahn
says he will nominate four
people to join the board of Xerox
at the annual shareholder
meeting next year.
As a student
at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup,
says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to
meet new
people and attend social events.
So instead of
saying you're looking for a job,
say you're looking to
meet people at these five companies or with these five job titles.
Most
people know to
say the other
person's name first when it happens
at the beginning of the sentence; «David and I went to the
meeting.»
The 37 % Rule of statistics
says that
at age 26 you'll have
met enough
people to have some solid options without waiting so long that they start pairing off without you.
«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in
at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of
people who start investing
at the same time,» Buffett
said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual
meeting.
«I
said to management, this deal will only pass if I have the right hand to call the shots, get the
people I think will lead this,» Stronach declared
at the 2010 annual
meeting.
«Fifty - four precent of all
meetings have
at least one
person on a call with them,»
says Anguilo.
For,
say, a half - hour
meeting of six writers and an editor
at a company the size of Inc., the $ 189 spent could give clean drinking water to 9
people in Africa for 20 years, or «significantly impact» relief efforts in Haiti.
«All you're trying to do, whether it's a three - minute pitch or a six - or eight - minute presentation, is to whet the appetite for a follow - up and get an in -
person meeting,»
says Somak Chattopadhyay, principal
at Greenhill SAVP, an early stage venture capital fund in New York, and a longtime Pace judge.
When History,
at our first
meeting, asked me how I would think of promoting a show based on long - dead
people, I
said: «Put up a huge poster on Sunset Boulevard with just the word VIKINGS on it.»
«We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd - Frank because, frankly, I have so many
people, friends of mine, who have nice businesses who can't borrow money,» Trump
said at a
meeting with CEOs.
Think about it: When was the last time you heard someone
say, «You know, I pretty much suck
at accurately identifying my and other
people's emotions,
at applying emotions to thinking and problem solving,
at controlling my emotions and cheering up or calming down other
people... really, I'm probably the least self - aware
person you'll ever
meet»?
Buffett,
at Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) annual
meeting,
said over the years numerous
people tried to get him to buy the stock, or wanted him to
meet Valeant's former CEO Michael Pearson.
But anyway we did it and then finally I went to these acting classes there and I
met some
people and a cinematographer
at Universal years ago named Irving Glassberg called me up and
said who I'd
met and he had... We talked about sports and swimming and all that kind of stuff.
«Part of what Li & Fung sells» to retailers «is the right not to attend these
meetings or pay into these compensation funds when
people die,»
said Suri Gurumurthi, a business school professor
at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
«The admissions counselor
said to me, «It's nice to
meet you in
person, because your essay told me nothing
at all about your personality.
Some details may be disclosed
at next month's annual
meeting, but he
said people shouldn't expect any details about new airline partners until mid-2019,
at the earliest.
I
say, «Today I am going to
meet the right
people at the right time for the betterment of my business and my life.»
Now back
at Breitbart, Bannon is quoted in the book as
saying that if such a
meeting needed to take place, Trump Jr. and Kushner should have set it up «in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who
meet with these
people,» according to The Guardian.
«I was excited to
meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in
person,» Kim
said.
«
People really have been looking
at this [additive] technology historically more as a technology solution,»
said Bartel, «but it's now
meeting business needs for customers.»
Ford's top executives expect to present the plan to the company's directors
at the board's July
meeting, these
people said.
«We've deliberately looked for
people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class
at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because
at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo
Meeting and Skype,» she
says.
When he appeared
at Google's shareholders
meeting this month, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, surprised
people when he
said the company would release the data.
January 2016: Days before Levandowski left Alphabet, he had another group
meeting at his house where he
says 10
people in attendance were Alphabet employees.
«Chemical weapons have once again been used on Syrian men, women and children,» Haley
said at Monday's
meeting to discuss what appeared to be a chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49
people dead and scores injured.
«This is something that is way below other
people's radars and
at a point in their growth cycle when they are the most open to
meeting with us,» he
said.
She
said the relationship began with a sexual encounter
at the tournament and continued with phone conversations and in -
person meetings for about a year, some of them involving Trump's desire to put her on his television show, «The Apprentice,» according to the transcript.
«We have to get more
people joining the collaboration,»
said governor Jerry Brown
at the
meeting.
«One of the
people I
met with
at Harvard medical
said he might be able to get us millions of medical records and also genetic data to link up to everything.
He plans to build applications that will use data from Facebook to create temporary social networks,
say at a conference or sporting event, to help users
meet people who grew up in the same town or like the same band.
At the informal dinners and meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meeting
At the informal dinners and
meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back
at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meeting
at several aspects of the deal, the
people said, asking not to be identified discussing private
meetings.
Verizon, as well as some private equity firms,
met with Microsoft last month to talk about potential funding for a bid,
people familiar with the matter
said at the time.
I been
saying this a number of times in the blogs now, that if someone other than Christian did this
at a
meeting... I will tune them out if I choose to... my point had been... why cant anyone else tune
people out..
If you were
at a
meeting and after the prayer you got up and went to the podium and
said, «god is a fairytale, thanks for wasting our time, now can we get to the
peoples business?»
I am offended by many things my gov» t does, I can get offended by what
people say in public
meetings, some of the stuff I have seen in public
meetings bores me, makes me wish I wasn't there, but
at the end of the day... I am fine and I move on.
«You
said people can pray when it is their turn to speak, well if the leaders of the council
meeting pray
at the beginning of the
meeting... it is their turn to speak.»
Most
people like Jesus, or
at least have some respect for Jesus, but I recently
met a man who
said that he has never
met anybody whose life was better for following Jesus.
«We've all been taught to laugh
at the idea that some
people were «born criminal,»»
said Stark to a packed room
at the Religious Research Association
meeting last month in Houston.
In a briefing, sent out ahead of the
meeting, the Church
said the Synod would look
at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with
people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»
It continues even today — or would you
say it is OK for the announcer
at a mass
meeting in South Africa of a world - travelling evangelist to state the Lord has shown him the first xxx of
people who donated $ x000 within the next two minutes will become millionaires within 48 hours.
«I have yet to
meet a Jewish
person who hasn't heard about this,»
says Troy, who served as a Bush administration liaison to the Jewish community and was a former deputy secretary
at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
There is a class of
persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education
at college of fools; the building of
meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would
say, Brigitte.