Sentences with phrase «talking about a year in»

And by «early,» I'm talking about a year in advance of the relevant primary or general election.

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My friend took my hands in hers, looked me in the eye and said, «Ric, you've been talking about that dream for twenty years.

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

«The technology is just not going to be there in this 10 - year time frame he's talking about.»

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.

I'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.»

Karen G. Mills, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks about the agency's 2011 record year in small - business loan guarantees, helping to fill gaps when banks were reluctant to lend.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Fifteen or 20 years ago, it wasn't necessarily the thing to talk about, especially in corporations and board meeting or banks.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

«I've been talking about this issue of off - duty conduct, and especially social media, for years now,» says Stuart Rudner, a founding partner at the law firm Rudner MacDonald LLP that specializes in employment law.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

Starting off with my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween is one of the most mindless holiday marketing months and I am not talking about zombies; though when I read some of these Facebook pages it makes me wish I was one... What I mean is that it's relatively easy to research and find quality content that can be used to boost interest in your cause, so why not do something more ghoulish?

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

Assignment sales, the more benign name for the transaction Sousa is talking about, have occurred in the condo market for years.

The topic of diversity in advertising has been a hot one for many years, whether you're talking about the creative workforce or the work itself.

«My core view is that this will be gradual, so we're not talking about something imminent,» Pinto said, «but when the cycle does turn, maybe in a year or two or three — who knows?

Entrepreneur: Can you talk about how Dell has changed its approach to women as consumers in the past five years?

In Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire shareholders last year, after saying that the investments of Combs and Weschler had outperformed his own, Buffett joked that if the» humiliating comparisons» continue, «I'll have no choice but to cease talking about them.»

And yet, a year ago, the UP's (first) release came after the product had been hinted at in TED talks and blogged about for months.

«We've all heard lots of talk over the years about the fear that analytics will drive the types of stories you do in a bad way.

At one moment in the play the actor playing Frankie Valli is talking about his longstanding relationship with Bob Gaudio, the primary songwriter for the band: all this, the fortune, the fame, and the songs, was done on a handshake 40 years ago.

«60 % of European capital market business is conducted through the UK, banks in the UK are the largest borrowers and lenders of euros outside of the eurozone and when we talk about critical mass, when you look at the London Stock Exchange Clearing House, they've estimated that critical mass, that size of business, saves some # 17 billion a year.»

For example, we talk about the dot - com bubble in 2000, but that was 18 years ago.

Gross has founded 100 companies in the past 30 years, and he knows what people are talking about in Silicon Valley — and he wants you to know, too.

He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

In fact, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flock to the tiny town of Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him talk about investing.

2016, in his words, will be the year people start implementing the tactical changes they've been talking about for years, while doubling down on existing mar - tech partnerships.

CB: How should the government talk about the tougher issues touched on in this budget, such as cost cutting, in the coming years?

Lots of people are talking about a study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about how the average Canadian CEO will earn as much by lunchtime today as the average Canadian does in a year.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

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In recent years, research has shown that, individually and collectively, we are becoming more narcissistic — and I'm not just talking about millennials.

For example, if you don't want them to work for a competitor for a year, you need to be willing to pay them a severance that lasts that same period (we'll talk more about severance in a minute).

But in an environment in which income inequality is becoming an important issue, and when Stumpf talks about the 5,300 employees who were fired from «good - paying jobs» were making $ 37,000 to $ 60,000 a year, the size of Tolstedt's compensation raises eyebrows.

In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that «Horizon Zero Dawn» does.

«I'm talking about... the possibility of what could happen — not in the near term, but in a few years from now — with a consumer application in which there's trust and legitimacy with regard to a digital currency.»

«I am certain that, a year from now, we will not be talking about Toys R Us in this negative light,» the CEO added.

Though the TSA and the hotel group have been in talks for more than a year, the conversation kicked into high gear about four months ago, according to Susan Peckenschneider, director of global partnerships for Carlson.

When I thought about the Shkreli situation and the Valeant situation where you have folks who, in the instance of Shkreli and Turing, buy a drug that's been sold for 60 years at the price range of $ 13.50, then overnight to raise it to $ 750 per pill — and we're talking about life - saving drugs — that really concerned me.

I was offered a year's supply of fish oil, but I couldn't think of a great way to talk about in a natural way.

Adweek applauded Duracell's «Island Without Power» ad talking about Puerto Rico's struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, saying,» «Island Without Power» is an example of a brand doing activism right in the wake of political upheaval and natural disaster in a year when many brands got it very wrong.»

Tetrick says he also wants to talk to the FDA about the products the company has coming out in the next few years in order to avoid future issues.

After initial talks with Summit last year, Halliburton shifted its focus to reaching an agreement with Novomet Oil Services Holdings, a Russian supplier of electric submersible pumps that has operations in about 17 countries.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

As a passionate advocate for accessible computer science, she spoke at this year's March for Science in Washington, DC and has presented a TEDx talk, which you can watch below to learn more about Eyeagnosis.

This time last year, fund managers in Perth were talking bullishly about continued strong investment returns and plans to rapidly expand funds under management.

Tsinghua Unigroup, which had revenue last year of about 12.3 billion yuan, was also in talks about cooperating with a «world - class memory chip giant» to build a new chip factory in China, Zhao said, a move that could help his company acquire intellectual property needed to manufacture memory chips.