Sentences with phrase «spent years calling»

HTC has spent years calling its cameras revolutionary, but with specs that didn't meet the standard.

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Poloz this year has argued that current conditions — essentially the same conditions that existed a year ago — call for more government spending.

Prior to working at SoundCloud, Toig spent more than four years at Virgin Mobile and founded a music company called Muve.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

In a February address to Congress, Trump called for a $ 200 billion federal investment intended to spur at least $ 1.5 trillion in spending from state and local governments over 10 years on roads, bridges, ports and other projects.

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

At just 15 years old, his father sent him to spend eight days alone in a remote cabin on the coast of Washington in a heavily wooded place called Iron Springs.

After graduating from Purdue, Thompson spent six years at defense contractor Northrop before getting a call from a headhunter about a job at McDonald's.

While working as a server, stability has frequently been a challenge for Ottawa resident Aaron Quinn, who spent seven years at a restaurant which expected him to work at least one «on - call» shift each week.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Last year it launched a new service, called Attribution, that allows advertisers, brands and publishers to measure how their media spending translates into actual visits to retail locations.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

It has also created a Government Revitalization Unit that is now attempting to pare trillions of yen of what Hatoyama calls «wasteful spending» from next year's ministry budgets.

The minute he got off the aircraft in Dallas, Bob called the head of in - flight catering and demanded to know how much they spent each year on black olives.

As the proprietor of a so - called two - sided marketplace, Travis Kalanick, who resigned Tuesday night as chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengers.

In 2004, Pashak, who had spent a couple years as a DJ and a drummer in an indie band, opened up a now - renowned music club called Broken City.

The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.

During the campaign, President - elect Trump called for committing at least $ 500 billion to infrastructure spending over five years.

As a result, the Supreme Court is spending the anniversary hearing the fourth challenge to the law in as many years, in a case called Zubik v. Burwell.

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.

Schroeder has for the past two years cleared his calendar so that more than half his time is spent doing what he loves: nurturing new ideas while getting his hands dirty in the greenhouse, and calling impromptu brainstorming sessions.

He had his staff spend two years and close to $ 2 million building a complex computer program called Pipeline, which tracks the cost of every second of every call so that he can find and stamp out any inefficiencies hiding in the traffic.

Madan spent more than 16 years running an investment fund called Excalibur Capital Management before forming MyHealth.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

«The years I spent in the Navy and so many moments remembering that the Navy gave me a wake - up call.

The decline came after management said on a conference call that its first - quarter profit will be «the high - water mark for the year» due to higher investment spending.

Ayer, who worked at the airline for over 30 years and spent roughly a decade as its CEO until his retirement in 2013, has joined the board of a relatively new drone startup called AirMap.

Her husband, meanwhile, who has a fairly common name, had spent years getting debt collection calls intended for somebody else.

On a conference call with analysts following the earnings release, executives admitted that this spending is being accelerated, tightening the company's margins for the year.

Comcast (cmcsa) spent a little over a year and $ 336 million trying to acquire Time Warner Cable (twc) before being forced to call off the deal.

Earlier this year, while on a coaching call with a senior Fortune 1000 executive, she confided that she was feeling super disengaged; she was dreading having to spend the next day or so ensuring that a very important spreadsheet was error free.

«That year I got a call from our accountant on April 14 telling us we owed $ 15,000 to the IRS — and we didn't have the cash because we had spent it on our expansion.»

Last year it spent $ 57 million on marketing that included a campaign called «Real Is Rare» featuring hipsters wearing understated bling.

It was over seventy - five years ago that MLB player Lou Gehrig called himself,»... the luckiest man on the face of the Earth», for being blessed with the ability to spend the majority of his life in pinstripes.

Banks have spent years fighting the so - called QM and ability - to - repay rules that essentially banned the most egregious types of loans that helped spark the mortgage meltdown.

Moon Express spent about a year working with the F.A.A., the State Department and other agencies to jerry - rig what Dr. Richards called a «temporary patch,» using the F.A.A.'s existing authority to review rocket payloads in order to gain the approval Moon Express was seeking.

During the Internet bubble years, I spent some time as chief technology officer at a company called Electron Economy, which was basically a cloud - based order and warehouse management system.

I've spent 10 years of my career in startups: did Y Combinator in Summer 2012 with a social referrals startup I founded, called Referly.

As a result, as I got a little older, it was probably no surprise to anyone that I would spend the first 10 years or so of my professional career in field sales — we called it outside sales at the time.

I think we will get some version of the so - called penny plan to reduce spending as well (penny plan = hold flat nominal discretionary spending, or reduce it or 1 % each year until the budget is balanced).

If you are subject to an extended call or order to active duty and you've already used the 3 years allotted to suspend your service obligation due to your time spent on active duty, you may qualify for a discharge of some or all of your service obligation.

In 2007, the then prime minister, Wen Jiabao, called the economy unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and ultimately unsustainable, a situation that was exacerbated by a # 400bn expansion of credit and stimulus spending the following year.

Likewise, the so - called «Smartphone Patent Wars» have ballooned in recent years and today, several major companies spend more on patent litigation and defensive acquisition than on research and development.

Ji Hye spent three years in management roles at Zingerman's Delicatessen before stepping onto the entrepreneurial path with a popular Asian street food venture called San Street at Mark's Carts in Downtown Ann Arbor for four years.

And I ended up spending the better part of 10 or 11 years as a cold calling retail stockbroker, trying my best to pick good stocks and build portfolios.

Deciding to spend money on a convention centre that depends so heavily on the revival of the automotive industry was obviously a tough call, given that two of the US car companies that used to be known as the Big Three filed for - then emerged from - bankruptcy last year.

In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.

But when you've spent five years crunching millions of data points on markets like oil, gold, and technology, looking for patterns that happen 80 to 100 % of the time for the last 10 years, you've earned the right to a moneymaking tool to call your own.

But when you've spent five years crunching over 328 million data points on 3,000 stocks, looking for patterns that happen 90 to 100 % of the time for the last 10 years, you've earned the right to a moneymaking tool to call your own.