Sentences with phrase «take calls about»

The city's 311 phone service will have a dedicated «lead line» take calls about lead paint concerns from city residents (July 1, 2016)

Not exact matches

Take what happened after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico: «The BP guy who was running the cleanup in Alabama saw a segment about us on Discovery Channel on Monday night, called us on Tuesday, we were there on Wednesday and had a purchase order by Friday,» recalls Dave Kroetsch, Aeryon co-founder and CEO.

So when Mary Alison, now 28 with a business degree from Florida State University and experience in marketing, told Saller about a new fast - casual restaurant concept called Burger 21, he took her seriously.

His team takes content marketing one step further by including aggregated news stories relevant to Sanders» policies, curating the most relevant information into a single feed on his website, called «Democracy Daily,» focusing on what Sanders cares about most and providing easy social sharing options.

I called it Lean Startup and started writing about it, and it's kind of taken over my life since.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

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.

Forget so - called «brain training» programs, which science has recently largely discredited, and instead think about taking up a simple meditation practice.

Take this four - and - a-half minute stretch of the opening, where Landa stops interrogating and instead talks about why he enjoys being called «The Jew Hunter»:

Some employees allegedly said that a post on Trump's Facebook page from December about the presidential candidate's call to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. should be taken down as hate speech.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

There's also a huge chance that Google will take this opportunity to tell us more about the next version of Android, called Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

In 2012, Benson purchased professional basketball's New Orleans - based team, then called the Hornets, for about $ 338 million from the National Basketball Association, which had taken temporary custodianship of the team in 2010.

Jay - Z took offense, called for a boycott, and stopped rapping about it.

Taking an hour to go play outside, call an old friend who knows nothing about your business and could care less.

But what makes Zappos incredibly powerful is that it took call - center jobs and online retailing order - fulfillment work and wove them into one of the most talked about corporate cultures in the nation.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

A researcher named Aleksandr Kogan created an online personality quiz called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which he paid about 270,000 people to take using Amazon's crowdsourcing platform, Mechanical Turk.

(The survey took place before news emerged about Trump's handling of calls to Gold Star families.)

According to Tawheed Kader, founder and CEO of sales success platform ToutApp, on average it takes about 30 touches across email, social, meetings and phone calls to get one deal done.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

Responding to questions about Trump's views on immigration, Thiel said he did not support a religious test for Muslims as Trump has advocated for, and went on to say he did not believe Trump supporters take literally the candidate's repeated calls to build a wall along the Mexican border and make the neighboring country pay for it.

Ellison took many opportunities to boast about Oracle's new cloud services, like one called Cloud@Customer that lets customers run Oracle's cloud computing infrastructure services within their own so - called on - premise data center infrastructure.

What about the time you spend researching someone or a company, or the phone calls it takes to build a relationship?

Some Swift Life users took to Twitter to complain about the heated political debates taking over the app — and to call for a focus on more Swift - ian discourse.

When Clinton later suggested Trump might find new ways to avoid paying taxes — a practice Trump has bragged about in the past, saying «that makes me smart» — he took personal offense, calling her «such a nasty woman.»

Wexley has taken on some unusual projects — a mass paper - airplane launch, for instance — but the company's founders were still surprised when they got a call from a U.S. Army colonel who had read about them in Inc. and wanted to send his communications officer for a little on - the - job training.

My advice - based articles about how to clarify your calling, overcome self - doubt, self - promote with style and take immediate action toward making your dreams a reality generated a string of clients and within a couple of months I was earning money both writing and coaching.

COO Sheryl Sandberg said on her last earnings call that Facebook might take a hit: «We're going to continue to give people a personalized experience to be clear about how are using the data and give choices, and we realize that this means that some users might opt out of our ads targeting tool.

Chen clearly feels strongly about them — he took an advertisement in The Times last year that called on the U.S. to accept the islands as Chinese territory.

Wal - Mart CEO Mike Duke told investors on a conference call this month that the retailer's customers remain concerned about their jobs as they juggle their credit card bills and take steps to conserve cash by clipping coupons and cutting back on vacations and eating out.

He also built a simple, text - based program called «Course Match» that allowed students to see who was taking which course and who was thinking about taking which course.

If you took Psych 101 in college, you learned about a famous behavioral conditioning experiment called the Skinner box.

If you're curious about how far the 23andMe founder and CEO takes this attitude, talk to the residents of Los Altos, the town she calls home.

That Facebook app, called «This is Your Digital Life,» was a personality quiz created in 2014 by an academic researcher named Aleksander Kogan, who paid about 270,000 people to take it.

Mittleman has agreed that until July 1, 2019 it won't take any actions against Aimia, including soliciting proxies, voting any shares, calling a special meeting, proposing the removal of board members, engaging in short selling or making disparaging comments about the company.

If you think about it, the number - one thing that people use their device for, other than making calls and sending messages, it's taking pictures.

Macy's found out about the affair in the worst possible way (a phone call from Stewart), and took both parties to court.

He recounts a recent story about an elderly woman who had to interrupt a call to ScriptSave because her husband had suddenly taken a fall.

People complaining about how risky the stock market is ought to take a look at the so - called safety of today's bond market.

Morfogen took the call at home from his customer - service rep and advised him about how to proceed.

Like last quarter, Michael Dell was absent from the earnings call, and a Dell spokesman said the other executives would not take questions about Dell going private.

Shortly after that conversation I got an email from Jordan Cooper about a company he was investing in called Soylent that was taking an open - sourced approach to developing science - based food products.

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) said it was disappointed in the agreement which will affect about 2,000 patients taking its drug called Repatha when the agreement takes effect July 1st.

«We have no specific indication or information that Ottawa is seriously considering such a change... other than to note that [the Department of Finance] is casting about for revenues, they are taking a long look at all so - called tax expenditures, and this government seems to have few qualms about taxing the «rich».»

What's ironic about the earnings conference call, which took place on Wednesday after the market closed, is that it was Musk's idea to extend the time for analyst Q&A.

Mark Zuckerberg plans to take questions from reporters about the changes during a 1:00 pm Pacific conference call on the subject.

On average, each question will take about 5 - 7 minutes to answer, so if you told the person the call will take 30 minutes, then plan to ask about 6 questions.

But Mnuchin extends that argument about transparency into something more like a rap sheet: take Beijing's money, he warns, and risk being trapped in a debilitating cycle of debt — something that has led to asset - stripping by Chinese practitioners of what the National Defense Strategy calls «predatory economics.»