Sentences with phrase «person family did»

Then my four - person family did our own fantasy football draft, and we finished the evening with dinner at one of our favorite restaurants.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

People who watch this drama about a family of cops don't seem bothered to Tweet about it.

«They constitute an unpaid extension of the workday; they encroach upon things like family life and drinking with people with whom you don't share a copier,» wrote Lauren Collins for The New Yorker.

When brands create a tangible experience for consumers, as Partners & Spade tries to do, those consumers walk away with material to share, in person and via social media, with friends and family.

I figured the people who connected with me on Facebook really didn't give two shits about what I thought about tech startups and I really didn't want to share photos of my family or private life with the world.

Alcohol and cigarettes, which also «hook» people, destroy health and lives, and cause death and harm to those who don't use them (second - hand smoke, drunk driving, abused families) are legal, billion - dollar industries, and these drugs are available and consumed everywhere.

It's obviously harder to take the same approach with family members, but Schwartz says there's no reason to put up with people saying or doing things that are unkind.

Enhance your family, your friends, your colleagues, your clients, potential customers, readers, people who you don't even know yet but you would like to know.

In fact, a young person whose family volunteers are nearly two times more likely than another kid to do likewise.

Through a network of volunteers, Miracle Messages does just that, by letting people film video postcards to reach out to family that they've lost touch with.

Following Mendelson's disastrous 2009 campaign, the New York - based marketer did another trans - U.S. tour — this time to raise money for the families of people wounded in combat — in a red, white, and blue Mustang, doing T.V. and radio interviews on the way.

This year, people who only have streaming services like Roku or Amazon Fire TV don't have to beg friends and family to share their cable login.

At the same time, we must keep opportunities open for people looking to come to America to build a better life for them and their families, the same way my parents did when I was a kid.

The reason why the minimum wage does little for poverty is very simple — there is an incredibly weak correlation between a person's hourly wage and their family's monthly after - tax income.

«In reviewing our parental leave policies, we have decided to make this change because it's the right thing to do for our people and their families,» Goler said.

Even when people do sell the family home to downsize to a smaller townhouse or condo, they tend to make up for it by opting for a more upscale property with high condo fees.

What it does: E. coli are a large and diverse family of bacteria that normally live in the intestines of people and animals, in the environment, and in certain foods.

Our family did not have business experience and decided that franchising would give us a system from people who had more experience than we did in the quick service arena.

Nonetheless, she says, employers are not demanding employees work at home or during family time; people do it to themselves.

For profit tip: You can't have small children doing work, but you can recognize that people have families and obligations.

An Aboriginal Elder once told me that Aboriginal people walk into the future facing backwards so they don't forget their families, their communities, their history, and their values.

«Products and services that help people care for their four - legged family members are in a growth pattern that I don't see slowing down for the near future.»

People always want to protect their families; in fact, they tend to care much more about that then they do about the freshness of the quinoa salad being served in the cafeteria.

Then I do 20 more, one person at a time, begging friends, colleagues, family, and anyone I can get to listen and critique me.

«My concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian said.

Even people that are great at telling stories to family and friends somehow in their content marketing don't manage to capture the imagination and attention to get their point across with resonance and impact.

Smart people who didn't want their families put under the media spotlight wouldn't run.

The law would provide justice to some of the most vulnerable people in our nation: young people who do not have homes and do not have the strong family support needed to keep them free from people who would exploit them.

People don't want to leave their family during their off - hours, so make sure your budget allows you to include them.

All three of these things seem incredibly difficult to do at work, especially over time when close contact with the same people day in and day out makes your co-workers your surrogate family.

Even if your friend or family member doesn't change his or her mind about their gift, you can't be sure other people will see it the same way.

That might not matter much if you just don't want say, the family time - share, but it could make a big difference if you're disclaiming strategically with the aim of passing assets to a specific person.

It needs a complete overhaul, because, as do many family relationships, it creates a blueprint for systemwide dysfunction, characterized by poor social skills, unprofessional behavior, bullying colleagues and inferiors until they become successful enough to bully others — or, if they decide to leave, cutting them off completely, disowning them like a son or daughter who's married the wrong person.

He points out that while the Internet has slashed or even eliminated the price of entertainment, people have historically enjoyed many leisure activities that didn't cost much money, including taking solitary walks in the park and spending quality time with family members who weren't perpetually distracted by Twitter.

In the boardroom and on the potato field, McCain wants its people to feel and act like family, and for the most part, they do.

She doesn't mean the typical HR career planning goals that might be on file somewhere, but rather how you as a leader can help people get what they need and want for themselves and their families.

Not only do people lose their money, they lose their lives and their families» lives.»

I — I do sweat the specifics, because I think they matter, whether one more kid gets health care, one more person finds a job, or one more woman entrepreneur gets access to capital to follow her dream — those just may be details in Washington, but it really matters to those people and their families.

For instance, an Ivy League alum with a high GPA is great, but even better is the person who was the first in the family to go to college and did well while working an extra job.

It's something most people don't like to think about, but in the event of your death, an unpaid business loan can affect your family.

Brent Smart, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi NY, hosts monthly «Family Dinners,» where he gathers people from different departments, junior and senior, new and old, creating a new mix of people who don't normally work on the same teams.

It's simply a matter of bandwidth: As people are pulled into different engagements with family and friends, they find it easier to be distracted at work, especially with the opportunity to do online shopping on the sly.

Rubin writes: «It's useful because it allows people to choose their focus (work, volunteer, family, hobby)-- preferable to the inevitable question (well, inevitable at least in New York City): «What do you do?»»

The genteel Senate forces a Hobbesian choice, nasty and brutish: to get the stimulus to the people who need it most requires diluting it for families who also need it, while bestowing cash on those who plainly don't.

«People tend to ask their friends, maybe their family, for advice, but they often don't give them all the facts,» he added.

By staying small, I had to thread the needle of finding some bigger, but not too big, checks from family offices and high net worth individuals — all people who don't put themselves out there and who aren't necessarily staffed to take a lot of inbound.

I have done this same thing with my children, bringing them to the same grocery store every morning until they could talk to the people working there as family.

One person said both parents worked to support a family of four, while a 73 - year - old said, «I don't feel nearly as financially secure as I expected to be at my age.»

Successors in family businesses grow up in an environment where people think that success equals doing it the way that their parents did it.