Sentences with phrase «take more demanding»

At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving more purchasing power — after taxes have been paid on nominal gains — in... (continue reading)

The program grew from a privately financed initiative in Texas to encourage students to take more demanding high school classes to a federally funded national project that was plagued by poor management.

At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving more purchasing power — after taxes have been paid on nominal gains — in the future.

Not exact matches

«Usually customers want some more convenience,» says Felstiner, going on to list features that are common to many on - demand companies: «The customer may want access to other people's reviews of the [worker], they may want some guarantee of competence, or they want to know the person will arrive in 30 minutes, and then the service accepts payment on behalf of the person and takes a cut.»

With the increasing demand to ensure safety in online transactions, businesses need to take more control and better precautionary measures to avoid incurring costs associated with fraudulent transactions.

That does make it more difficult for women who want children to take on a demanding career, but that's not because of discrimination on the part of any given company.

As hyper personalization takes over on - demand industries, the equation for superior customer satisfaction becomes more complicated.

The National Institutes of Health recommends that women who are currently pregnant or who want to get pregnant take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily, since their bodies demand more of this nutrient when carrying a growing fetus.

The National Institutes of Health recommends that women who are currently pregnant or who want to get pregnant take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily because their bodies demand more of this key nutrient when they are carrying a growing fetus.

More hackers realize there's big money in taking over the computers of firms and demanding cash to set the data free.

The duo would typically demanded 30 takes or more per - scene and seemed unsure what they wanted at times.

If you Google «home cleaner,» or «babysitter» or «handyman» in a certain city, you'll either see ads for one (or multiple) of the aforementioned on - demand platforms on the first page of Google; or you'll find directories (like Yelp) listed high up in Google, taking you to a more curated and ratings - based search results page where those same on - demand companies are listed or have ads running.

The Lizard Squad incessantly took credit for the outages on Twitter, where the notorious group continues to issue tweets demanding more followers and retweets, now in exchange for bringing the PlayStation Network back online.

These batteries then in turn take up more space, weigh the car down and demand even more power, which means the battery needs to be bigger, and so on.

If the on - demand economy grows and more people take on this sort of work, the potential market could be huge.

«This book takes the position that mastering the ability to focus on a demanding task all the way through — without allowing yourself to get distracted — helps you more effectively process complex information and deliver better results in less time.

Known as experiential marketing, this technique is taking off in an Internet - driven world where in - person experiences are becoming more rare but higher in demand.

, this technique is taking off in an Internet - driven world where in - person experiences are becoming more rare but higher in demand.

Chouinard never took Patagonia public, and his iconoclastic ways have spawned a kind of cult around him and his business — a company that tells its customers not to buy what it's selling and ends up more in demand as a result.

Time Demands The switch to value - added selling will take more of your time — and more of your managers» time — than you may be ready for.

I realized that demanding more money probably wouldn't go over well, so I decided to take a much more methodical approach.

As facilities such as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.

Changing the status quo will take dedicated action, legislation, employer recognition, and courage for employees to demand more.

On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?»

Severe drought in California has already taken its toll on some high - demand products, causing price increases, and agriculture experts expect more of the same in the next twelve months.

To be more proactive, companies should be demanding from their security vendors what measures are being taken to guard against any future attack using any of these exploits.

Wang, ranked the 39th richest mainlander by Forbes, defined BYD as more than just a manufacturer of batteries and cars, pushing hard his message that BYD will take advantage of the increasing demand for new - energy vehicles to expand scale.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

More clients demanded and exercised audit rights or moved programmatic buying in house or into proprietary exchanges and away from outside shops like WPP's Xaxis that could take their own cuts of digital deals.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due to his influence over the cocoa price, blamed the rising power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position - taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors more difficult.

If you want to learn more about what is driving demand, and why these companies are worth watching, take a look at this presentation by Sid Rajeev from this year's VRIC.

Gold advanced the most in more than two weeks amid speculation that China, the world's biggest consumer, will take more measures to bolster the economy, boosting demand for the precious metal as a store of value.

First, find out what it takes to start, run, and grow a successful specialty food business fueled by a growing consumer demand for new tastes, cleaner ingredients, health benefits, and more convenient ways to shop and eat.

As an aside, it seems generally to be the case that the longer an adjustment is constrained, the more likely that the adjustment takes place in the form of what traders call «gapping» — which is a big, discontinuous change instead of a smooth adjustment — so when the change finally took place, the fall in demand (and iron ore prices) would almost certainly occur very quickly, in a matter of two or three years, perhaps.

When it was unexpectedly extended in late 2015, it ironically weakened demand, since some of SolarCity's customers realized they had more time to take advantage of the subsidy.

The rally in oil prices over the past year likely had more to do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the market by the OPEC / non-OPEC Continue Reading

AvidXchange, a provider of accounts payable and on - demand invoicing, also took in more than $ 100 million in August in a late stage round for $ 129.5 million.

However, after ignoring a lot of the demand for transaction batching and SegWit for the reason that latter's launch in August 2017, it appears as if the exchanges are lastly taking consumer suggestions rather more severely.

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

An easy way to remember this is that for taking on more risk, you should demand a higher yield and use a higher discount rate.

More importantly, taking large amounts of gold and / or silver off the market distorted their price by creating an artificial demand for them.

That means more specialized computers for mining are still being built, but it will take months to install enough hardware to catch up to demand.

Many questions demand answering but one thing is clear: the provincial government, together with the municipalities, needs to take much more serious steps than it has in the past to implement both flood minimization and flood damage mitigation strategies.

And they certainly aren't going to take kindly to it in addition to pages more of demands.

In the housing plank of their platform, the BC Greens have taken both a supply and demand side approach to creating a more affordable housing market.

While there are still a minority of companies that are actually taking advantage of this capability, most have improved greatly at being able to accurately assess what marketing and demand generation actions are more effective than others.

The increase of money relative to a decrease in securities creates more demand for existing securities, lowering interest rates and encouraging risk - taking.

However, at present the banks are not eager to lend a lot of money to the private sector — private sector credit demand has also decreased and in fact become negative (more loans are paid back than are taken out).

More recently, Germany has demanded that Greek lawmakers take the first step by passing economic policy changes, according to a planning document obtained by Bloomberg.