Sentences with phrase «pretty much»

«Ever since then, the process of making tea has pretty much stayed the same.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

but accomplishes pretty much the same thing.

The U.S. State Department hasn't helped things by issuing a vaguely - worded travel alert covering pretty much the entire planet.

I'm talking about Jet.com taking on Amazon.com pretty much head - to - head and beginning to carve out a very sizable business in a very short time.

A decade ago, indoor cycling was pretty much relegated to a sweaty, crowded room at the local big - box gym.

Don't try to make one, clean line in one swipe — it's pretty much impossible.

Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said in an April earnings call that the company had been running «pretty much max gasoline,» a point echoed by several other CEOs that month.

The conversation was pretty much over.

Referencing a recent study by Life Meets Work, Inc. and the Boston College Center for Work and Family, Fell says that «pretty much any manager can successfully manage a telecommuting workforce if they're given the proper tools.»

There's little doubt that colleges in China (and pretty much everywhere) struggle to keep course enrollments perfectly balanced and workforces perfectly distributed.

ADDENDUM: A colleague forwarded me a piece written by author Chuck Klosterman a few years back on pretty much the same topic.

At the time, a phone that large was pretty much unheard of.

Spotify and its kin now deliver a simple proposition — the same, virtually unlimited choice, pretty much wherever and whenever you want it, but for a relatively low fee.

Just like your heat in the winter or the AC on a hot summer day, you don't know how much you'll miss it until it's gone and you'll pay pretty much anything to get it back as soon as possible.

Even if you have exceptional credit, the likelihood of receiving a startup loan or line of credit from a bank without personally guaranteeing it — which you should never ever do — is pretty much zero.

If you have an interest in computers, technology or software, following Bill Gates is pretty much essential.

That pretty much seems to be the logic behind Apple's decision to not update the physical design of Apple Watch Series 2.

Pretty much no one, for instance, is baffled as to why we're all most productive on Monday.

With 2015 - 16 looking like another throwaway year — the 76ers pretty much sat out of free agency, with their biggest offseason addition being No. 3 pick, Jahlil Okafor — that means they won't start aiming for the playoffs until at least Year 4.

(Since Hangouts pretty much exists as a separate product and even as two separate video - conferencing computers, there's no need to initiate those video chats from within Google +.)

I pretty much set everything to weekly except discussion replies, connection invitations, and emails from my connections 5 minutes

Since Mr. Price is not just the CEO but also the majority owner, he can pretty much do as he pleases with his own salary.

In fact, FundersClub is pretty much like any other VC firm, albeit with one other major distinction: it doesn't take a 2 percent management fee of investment funds.

You may think that sounds pretty much like Amazon's model, but you'd barely be scratching the surface!

This result was pretty much in line with the expectations of polling analysts.

They are stocked with ambitious free market fans who think Ottawa should pretty much allow any Canadian company, great or small, to sell itself to the highest bidder.

Coupled with the design, it pretty much nails the required basics.

A leaked video of him arguing with a driver pretty much sums up how he approached relations with Uber's vast force of independent contractors.

With using a standing desk, pretty much all of that research has focused on individual outcomes, and especially, individual health outcomes.

Microsoft was first and the company pretty much answered the questions about motion gaming, with a whole bunch of Kinect and Kinect - enabled games coming this year.

It pretty much wiped out any normalcy bias about what to expect from our political or economic systems.

Making the right moves every day doesn't guarantee you will make that first billion but skipping any of them makes it pretty much impossible.

The phenomena is larger than the people: having traveled a lot, I would argue that the entrepreneurs and engineers in San Francisco are pretty much the same sorts of people as the ones you'd find anywhere.

«But pretty much everybody needs exposure to stocks and bonds.

It's now the world's top PC maker and pretty much a household brand, at least to people who buy computers.

But there are two things happening in Silicon Valley that are qualitatively different from New York or London (or pretty much anywhere else): First, the sheer density of tech entrepreneurs per capita is 10 times greater than the norm for other cities, and second, there is a far greater level of information sharing between entrepreneurs here.

LAS VEGAS — Last week, Google revealed «Meltdown» and «Spectre,» a pair of big security holes in pretty much every processor.

Today, energy markets and cash pretty much sums up Cumberland's strategy.

Lindsay Lohan is following the referendum pretty intently right now, tweeting frantically about what is happening on a pretty much count - by - count basis.

She ranks higher than Katy Perry, which pretty much settles that debate.

The most important reason the test with James looks fake is that there isn't a human driver, which is pretty much what will happen with every Uber or Google (and sister company Waymo) test happening now.

So they're pretty much willing to try to sell anything they can get on file with a semblance of a straight face.

The site points out that since the chain spent no money in actually producing a commercial, they pretty much received «the best ad deal in the history of television.»

«In my desperate attempt to treasure my short time with him, I designed and developed a way that I could create an online memory - keeping tribute page for him with his photos, videos, music, life story and pretty much any detail that would allow me to always remember him and his life legacy, Rodriguez writes.

Then I noticed a freelancer coming in and out of the office on his own schedule yet doing pretty much the same work as me.

We're used to separating pretty much all our stuff into bins when we're walking through airport security.

These days with services like oDesk and Elance anyone can pretty much find a way to build something.

This got me thinking about portfolio management (which is pretty much all I ever think about, let's be honest) and it struck me that the parallels between insurance and investing were pretty perfect.

Once upon a time, computers were pretty much the only devices that connected to the internet.