Sentences with phrase «spend at least some of»

Most businesses and dedicated employees spend at least some of their time considering the ways that they might be able to maximize efficiency and productivity in the workplace.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Kids should be active for an hour a day, and it's best to spend at least some of that time outside.

HARLEM — A West Harlem community group, under fire over its use of $ 3.5 million in Columbia University's expansion funds, did spend at least some of the money on a summer youth jobs program, a city agency confirmed Tuesday.

And I want to spend at least some of it with a sweet someone.

Fifty per cent indicate spending at least some of the funds on classroom resources (down from 58 per cent in 2012), with 23 per cent indicating that none of the additional funds will be spent in this way.

(By contrast, public school teachers who receive a pay increase probably would spend at least some of that increase on local businesses.)

And for those globe - trotters who spend at least some of their travel dollars overseas, you'll be happy to know that this card has no foreign transaction fees.

A substantially larger number of consumers also say that they're spending at least some of their extra money on a vacation.

If legit, Lara Croft will be spending at least some of her next adventure...

But you'd be a fool not to spend at least some of your trip checking out its amazing art.

It also means that 15 percent of all Washington lobbyists spent at least some of their time on global warming in 2008, based on a tally of the total number of influence - peddlers on Capitol Hill by the Center for Responsive Politics.

I find spending at least some of my time helping SkS more satisfying than empty and repetitious catharsis spent in an endless «debate.»

U.S. citizens are not the only people looking to spend at least some of their year down south or out west.

Not exact matches

One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

There's also the matter of whether mobile medical care will ultimately reduce national health spending: At least one recent report suggests that the technology may well cause people to pursue care they don't need precisely because it makes it so convenient to get.

CNN media analyst Brian Stelter, host of the show Reliable Sources, spent most of his broadcast on Sunday talking about how the media missed the boat on Trump, and how this was at least in part because of a certain snobbery on the part of mainstream media analysts and journalists.

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

According to a survey by Industry Week, 2,000 managers shared that at least 30 % of their time spent in meetings were a waste of time.

Yet Canadians didn't spend it, or at least not all of it.

Surveys show that at least half of working mothers and fathers say they're stressed out about work - life balance and how much time they spend with their families.

Is at least 50 % of our time spent here?

I spend at least an hour every day reading and engaging communities — I consider it part of my lifelong education.

There was at least some evidence that China, the world's second largest economy, had stabilized, if only because of a burst of government spending and a red - hot housing market.

So, our dentist here ought to spend double the money, putting in two ads; one with a «smiler whitener» hook to attract the (yellow teeth - ed, at least in their own mind) new clients, and a separate, ad for those with a toothless grin, who want to have teeth so they can look good in pictures at the upcoming wedding of the grandkid whose finally settling down... well some of the toothless anyway.

Those that I have spoken to, by the way, we have been talking about a handful of impressions and pennies not pounds of spend — that's in the case of the ones I've spoken to at least.

O ver the course of a week or so, Tisch, who makes the final decisions about whom to accept, spends at least an hour with each of the 30 finalists.

He required managers to spend at least 10 percent of their working hours socializing with their employees; he offered new hires up to $ 4,000 to quit in order to weed out those who wouldn't give the kind of service Zappos required.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

Answering yes to 5 of the 10 questions above would suggest you approach matters from a Quantum perspective at least 50 % of the time; the more you answer yes, the higher the percentage of your time is spent leading from a Quantum perspective.

(At least that's how I spent my single days, which is one of many reasons why I'm glad to be married.)

You probably spend at least a couple of hours each week training your body — doing cardio, weight training, or even just walking.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

Spend no more than 20 percent of your time in self - promotional activities and conversations, and at least 80 percent on non-self-promotional activities.

But for now, at least, Canadians had better get used to spending more on the stuff we've long taken for granted: the era of cheap food and fuel, it seems, is over.

In large corporations with strict planning routines requiring annual, semiannual and quarterly plans and plan updates, managers spend at least part of their time working on or thinking about a new plan or plan update.

One - third of all marine life spends at least part of its life cycle on a reef.

(To qualify, consumers had to have spent at least $ 239 in subscription fees, which means the majority of paying players aren't eligible.)

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

Prosecutors have alleged he spent more than two decades pilfering secret documents and hoarding them at his home in Maryland, where investigators said they seized at least 50 terabytes of data.

When last December's government funding bill prevented the SEC from «finalizing» a rule regarding the disclosure of political contributions, Warren joined dozens of other Democratic lawmakers to remind White that the bill did not prevent the SEC from at least discussing or developing a rule for political spending disclosure to be finalized at a future time.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

Take time to walk a mile in a franchise's shoes, or at least around the store, before spending six figures on the figurative pair of Pumas.

Indeed, a recent paper by IHS concluded that spending on production growth in the U.S. from 2009 through 2013 had exceeded cash flow by an astounding $ 272 billion — and at least 40 % of that was raised by taking on debt.

After all, Musk explained, he spends at least 90 % of his time on either the electric car company or SpaceX; 3 % to 5 % on Neuralink, a venture aiming to create interfaces between the human brain and machine - learning technology; 2 % on his new tunneling project called the Boring Company; and the remainder on OpenAI, a non-profit dedicated to artificial intelligence research.

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This card, which carries an $ 95 annual fee after the first year, also doesn't assess foreign transaction fees and offers 25,000 points if you spend at least $ 3,000 within three months of opening the account.

The Bright bonanza is part of $ 5 billion that Netflix will spend on programming this year alone, including at least 60 original shows, a dozen documentaries, and eight feature films.

In its survey, WalletHub also singled out the Lufthansa credit card as the best for airline rewards, due to its signing bonus of 35,000 miles if you spend at least $ 1,000 in the first three months — a value of about $ 780 in airfare, according to WalletHub's calculations — as well as the lack of foreign transaction fees.