Sentences with phrase «take on about»

The report found that, on average, African Americans take on about 31 percent more debt than the average Caucasian students.

Most agents only take on about 1 - 5 new clients a year.

World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), took on about 11,000 cases last year — a record high since 1999 — and had almost 1,200 churches volunteer to help.

The junior is nimble, averaging 5.1 yards per non-sack carry, but he's only taking on about eight such carries per game.

Over the years the facility has taken on about 100 volunteers many of which have been ABC students.

In an area low on resources in northern Arizona, a man took on about thirty dogs that had it rough on the streets.

Not exact matches

«Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.

First and foremost, I'm an actor, and as much as I love content creation, there's something about taking on a different role and playing a different person that I find so creatively fulfilling and fun.

The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

Denton's optimism about this recent investment stands in direct opposition to his previous, and very public, aversion to taking on outside money.

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 it's perfectly reasonable to ask detailed questions about a resume and to take everything on it with at least a grain of salt.

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

Taiwanese visionary Cher Wang spoke about her definitive leadership and what it takes to stay at the forefront of mobile innovation on «Managing Asia» in 2013.

Someone can see what they feel is the greatest advertisement in the world and be dead set on buying from that company, but if a friend tells them good things about another company that offers the same goods or services, most of the time they will take their friends advice and go with the alternative company.

This deal is only active today, so if you're on the fence, take a look at our Mac guide to get even more information about the computer.

«Given that the decline in home prices had so much to do with the de-leveraging that was taking place on the consumer side,» a recent 10 % rise in the housing market «is a key reason for optimism about growth improving,» Marple said.

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

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.

Take for example Michael Hebb, the founder of Death over Dinner, a nonprofit that brings together people — over dinner — to reflect on the consequential event that happens to us all, but that no one likes to talk about.

That idea paves the way for women not to worry as much about what would happen if they needed to take on multiple caregiver roles and / or be financially independent.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Speaking on what it took to turn her summer job into this multimillion - dollar business, Webber tells CNBC Make It that it's really all about fully investing yourself.

On CNBC's «Options Action» Friday, Cornerstone Macro's Carter Worth explained that after two years of consolidation, biotech stocks are about to play catch up to the market, and one way to take advantage of the move is with one of its top constituents — Amgen.

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

Flasks are a fun take on commemorative gifts because graduates are likely old enough to have them but probably don't, can continue to use them in their post-graduate life, and there's something charmingly classic about them.

People who are building careers are the ones who take the assignments that everyone else shies away from as a way to gain valuable experience and a new perspective, like the engineer who volunteers to work on a finance project to learn more about that side of the business.

This model exists in many other countries, and we see local food - based businesses, bars and pubs, art and creative studios and other product based companies taking advantage of these models and raising on average about $ 700,000.

With this in mind, you may need to take some time to find a freelancer who can deliver on the kind of content you're looking for; most writers will also require a little bit of time to learn about you and your business.

With a growing empire that reaches well beyond entertainment, the 47 - year - old opens up about the power of entrepreneurship, investing and the need to build wealth, leaving listeners with a three valuable lessons on how to take their success to the next level:

The scavenger thinks Poe's story about crashing on the planet is a humorous lie and agrees to take Poe to a town with another scavenger who might be able to assist.

She studied English and archaeology at Yale — taking the kind of classes that make you feel like «lying on the ground thinking about things,» she said.

A one - way ticket in May from Milwaukee to Pittsburgh on OneJet costs about $ 200 on the company's website, which says it takes about an hour and 10 minutes.

If you've always been accustomed to taking off on a trip whenever the spirit moves you, you need to think about a business that will allow you to build it but not run the day - to - day operations.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Asked about China's «Belt and Road Initiative,» he said developing countries need to take a careful look at projects backed by the program and avoid taking on unsustainable debt.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

However, the best part about this, and the most powerful route that entrepreneurs take to scale their businesses, is that if you know that sending 100 people to your site costs you $ 200, for example, but you get two people to convert at $ 300 each, then you have a $ 600 return on $ 200 invested (300 percent).

By taking a moment to address the awkwardness, both the employer and potential employee are able to get on the same page about the direction of the interview in order to see if they are a match for one another.

He has rarely taken formal action on the very regular publication of fictional stories that are written about him and he has worked hard to develop a professional relationship with the media, focused on his work and the issues he cares about.

When people land on your Instagram page, it only takes about 5 seconds for them to decide whether or not to follow you.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

You're probably not sending your team on a dangerous and deadly mission, but McRaven's advice about what it takes to lead troops in battle is equally valid in business and in almost any other aspect of life.

Another way to learn would be to take a part - time position at a repair shop or a rental facility where you could learn on the job, although you will want to be open about your plans.

But that clearly shows no outcome is certain, so if you are thinking you don't have to show up to vote on Tuesday because there is no way the impossible could happen, take it from somebody who has learned from painful experience: You are wrong about that.»

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

In addition to claims he didn't know what clingfilm was — and was heard «shrieking» at the site of kitchen staff using it to wrap up cold cuts — and that he takes truckloads of possessions, including his own toilet seat, with him on royal trips, Tom Bower's «Rebel Prince» includes a number of claims about Charles» extravagant travel habits.

Take a masseuse down to the finish line, promise massages (on your dime) and you'll soon have a weary line of runners to question about setting marathon markers.

The other thing about this approach is that you'll either need to spend as much time on sales as on making your food item or you'll need to hire someone or take on a partner to do the sales part for you.

When I took on competitors» salespeople who'd told me tales about the great things they'd done in their previous jobs, I learned that I shouldn't have been so quick to believe them.