Sentences with phrase «spending up to a week»

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Analysts estimate that the PBOC spent over $ 34 billion in November alone to prop up the currency, and figures expected next week from SAFE are expected to show reserves dropping below $ 3 trillion for the first time since 2011.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

Same Store Sales and Gallup consumer spending varied from weakly positive to substantially negative, although Gallup is almost certainly due to the hurricane: The ICSC reported that same store sales for the week ending October 26 rose +0.5 % w / w and were up +2.8 % YoY.

So rather than spending your marketing bucks towards a month - long campaign, just focus on the one or two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day.

We need to respond to that urgent email, finish up a project due at the end of the week, and of course, spend some time with friends and family — if there's any time left.

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

My clients work with me because I save them time every week (time they used to spend planning, shopping, cooking and cleaning up) and they still get to enjoy delicious and healthy food.

Weinfurter figures he spends up to four weeks, and tons of his workers» billable hours, per interview.

In January, when fellow classmates spent the first week of spring semester interviewing for traditional internships, Xu and Rai flew to craft brew - rich — and alcohol legislation - lax — California to drive up and down the coast, enlisting brewery owners to join their yet - to - exist platform.

Salespeople at Booklet Binding teamed up and spent eight weeks becoming experts in a topic area — saddle stitching, perfect binding, mailing, cutting, customer service, scheduling, estimating, and so on — then prepared a two - to three - hour presentation, complete with handouts.

For companies ready to make a small investment and save the half hour a week spent managing a mailing list, Nussey suggests a service like Constant Contact that provides a Web - based system that offers list management, newsletter templates, and tracking, beginning at $ 15 a month for lists of up to 500 names.

Blank, who recently spent two weeks in Chile lecturing about innovation, says Start - Up Chile could offer a breakthrough model for other small countries hoping to create a start - up climatUp Chile could offer a breakthrough model for other small countries hoping to create a start - up climatup climate.

In the week leading up to our trip, I spent pretty much any and all free time I had on my laptop perusing Craigslist for possible homes.

Last week, 25 entrepreneurs boarded the Start - up Bus in San Francisco and spent the next 48 hours developing business ideas, which they then pitched to a panel of judges at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum earlier this week, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff revealed that he spent about $ 3 million this year to bring the salaries of female employees up to the level of their male counterparts.

I recently spent a week getting up at 3:30 a.m. in an attempt to replicate the morning routine of company founder Dan Lee.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

This isn't how any CEO would choose to spend his first week on the job, but I strongly believe these difficult decisions are essential in setting Zenefits up for success.

Long gone are the days when you were forced to wait for monthly or even quarterly performance results and make up for weeks of time spent with lingering productivity issues.

In order to be given a turkey, customers were required to commit to spending at least $ 500 at the store over the 10 weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

Millions of workers find themselves caught up with email, staring at a blank screen or fiddling in their chair for hours each week — and have little to show for their time spent at the office.

For example, spending weeks coaxing journalists to line up exclusive coverage of your launch, only to find out that you're going to be delayed another month, puts your credibility in jeopardy.

Solyndra said in documents filed in Delaware's bankruptcy court that it plans to spend the next four weeks trying to drum up interest among potential U.S. and foreign buyers to avoid shutting down permanently and selling its assets piecemeal to repay its creditors.

Trump delays metal tariffs on EU, Mexico and Canada: Reuters Special Counsel Mueller has far - ranging questions for Trump: NY Times US consumer spending and price inflation picked up in March: Reuters Pending homes sales in March for US point to subdued growth: CNBC Dallas Fed Mfg Index: mfg activity rebounded «strongly» in April: Dallas Fed Chicago PMI edges up in Apr, remains relatively subdued vs. recent history: MW Fed expected to hold rates steady this week and raise rates in June: Reuters Rising gas prices on track to deliver most expensive driving season since 2014: AP Initial Q2 GDPNow estimate for US economy is a strong 4.1 %: Atlanta Fed US Treasury in Q1: 2018 borrowed the most since 2008: Bloomberg

The program, which ran this summer, brought in people with a core aptitude for programming, then spent six weeks «teaching them something to see if we could get them up to a level where we actually might want to hire them,» Bahat says.

But Kathleen Wynne's spending binge next week will press the deficit back up to $ 8 billion dollars from the previous balanced budget — Notley, governing a province three times less populous, has had to (gently) scrape its way to an $ 8.8 - billion shortfall.

The money is being provided by other governments (mainly the German Treasury, cutting back its domestic spending) into a kind of escrow account for the Greek government to pay foreign bondholders who bought up these securities at plunging prices over the past few weeks.

Toronto - listed The Stars Group has spent more than $ 550 million in about a week on Australian gambling assets, shaking up the rapidly consolidating bookmaking sector in a series of deals that could eventually cost it up to $ 785 million.

Employees spent hours coding their passion projects during Hack Weeks and Innovation Weeks, teamed up to conquer the Tough Mudder and consumed over 350,000 cups of coffee and 280,000 cans of La Croix.

When I took a week off from my Harvard communications jobs last month, I'd planned to spend a lot of it catching up on blogging.

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From dietary restrictions to multiple medications to spending up to 10 hours per week in treatment, dialysis requires a significant lifestyle adjustment, not just for people with kidney failure but for their family members, too.

I'm pretty sure that if you get up by 5:30 am every day to write for a couple hours before work (if you work), publish three posts a week in your specific niche, and spend another couple hours after work writing, commenting, and sharing for three years, you will no doubt make at least $ 1,000 / month from your site if not much, much more.

Wheat prices spent the first few days of this week pushing back up towards their highs made back in early March as crop tours began this week to determine just how much production has been lost.

«Even after an overwhelming majority of British Columbians rejected her, Christy Clark has spent weeks putting up delays and distractions to cling to power.

When we saw the durable goods report last week that reflected a disappointing pace of capital spending in light of the tax reform bill that was specifically meant to encourage companies to pick up the pace of expenditures, I listed a bunch of possible reason why.

Until I found out that my then - boyfriend - now - husband (a poor, broke, medical school student at the time) spent close to two months eating bologna sandwiches every day in order to cut down his grocery budget to $ 10 a week, just so he could save up enough money to buy me an engagement ring.

Non believer, approaching 70, retired US Navy, spends a large part of his week fixing things up around the neighborhood for those who do not know how, installing water heaters, replacing broken parts on automobiles, helping repair damage to piers and bulkheads (they live on the water), in general, he can fix anything, so he does, for free.

I had a wake - up call a few weeks ago because I was feeling mad at my own church for making me so busy, and I was feeling shame at the reality that I spend most of my time with Christians, and most of those Christians go to my church.

This year, American consumers will spend $ 2.6 billion on candy — to give out to trick - or - treaters, at Halloween gatherings and at harvest parties and church activities — during the weeks leading up to Oct. 31.

I'd spent many weeks with Turner in Iraq for a story in the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, but I didn't know about his troubles until I drove up to meet him and his wife, Heather, earlier this year at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Foreseeing the approach of death in days rather than weeks, here is how they spent their last sleepless leisure, sitting up against the wall: Timofeyev - Ressovsky gathered them into a «seminar,» and they hastened to share with one another what one of them knew and the others did not — they delivered their last lectures to each other.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Having lived through a few of these, as well as inheriting a couple of them, I understand what it's like to have people hate me just for showing up, to preach to people who spent six days every week telling other people what to do, and to people who just assumed that their version of gossip, slander, personal and family attacks, and pettiness was «normal.»

Bill Deacon PS: So I guess you will spend the week gathering up all the trinkets in your church and put them on e-bay to raise some money for the poor in your neighbourhood, or not, hypocrite.

In the weeks leading up to the movie's release, hundreds of boycotts have sprouted up on social media: # 50dollarsnot50shades encourages potential viewers to donate the $ 50 they would have spent on a night out at the movies to a local women's shelter for survivors of domestic abuse.

So I spent last week and this past weekend drifting in and out of a feverish state, catching up on several seasons» worth of Archer and Portlandia episodes, and trying to find new ways of incorporating bone broth into my diet (hint: developing recipes while under the influence of flu medicine is never a good idea).

It profiles people who spend up to 40 hours a week clipping coupons, researching online for their stores deals, shopping at different stores to get different deals.

When I was younger, my family and I would head up to Minnesota every summer and spend a week there.

Sadly, I didn't get to enjoy it quite as much as I would have liked, since I ended up spending most of the week fighting off a minor flu.