Sentences with phrase «than a future on»

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

NEW YORK / LONDON, May 1 - London cocoa futures on ICE rose to the highest since 2016 on Tuesday, buoyed by the weak British pound, while robusta coffee surged more than 3 percent within one minute to a 5 - 1 / 2 - month high after a flurry of automatic buy orders were triggered.

Tesla's future as a mass - market carmaker hinges on efficient, automated production of the Model 3, which more than 400,000 people have already reserved, paying $ 1,000 refundable fees to do so.

On their first film together, Verdi says Kraft was the hardest - working person on set, with the vision of a natural - born entrepreneur, always thinking further into the future than everyone else around hiOn their first film together, Verdi says Kraft was the hardest - working person on set, with the vision of a natural - born entrepreneur, always thinking further into the future than everyone else around hion set, with the vision of a natural - born entrepreneur, always thinking further into the future than everyone else around him.

May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

May 2 - Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

Rather than focusing on an early retirement, determine your long - term goals and exactly what you want your future to look like.

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

A matter of focusing on the present moment rather than reliving the past or worrying about the future, this practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve performance.

Rather than sell your Bitcoins and giving up future gains, you can buy a futures «put» (option to sell Bitcoin, rather than buy) contract on Bitcoin at a future date.

Oil prices were steady on Thursday following a larger - than - expected increase in U.S. crude inventories: U.S. crude futures were higher by 0.04 percent at $ 67.96 per barrel and Brent crude futures for July delivery were flat at $ 73.36.

The BOJ currently makes the distinction because buying long - term government bonds for monetary easing could bind its hands on policy for longer than it wants and make a future exit from ultra-loose easing difficult.

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Friday on better - than - expected employment data.

«It will be a celebration with a bittersweet taste as the future path for Europe has probably never been more unclear than today,» ING said in a note on Friday.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

In the past month, the cryptocurrency is up more than $ 8,000 to trade at $ 14,950.06 on the Coinbase exchange shortly before the beginning of futures trading Sunday.

Hence, past performance has more than the usual bearing on future performance, says Stammers.

Bogle advises investors to plan for the future on the assumption that returns will be much lower than they have been in the past.

We plan on relying on dividend income rather than the 4 % safe withdrawal rule to achieve FIRE, simply because we want to pass on our dividend portfolio to our kids in the future.

Even when you know to focus on the specific things you achieved here — rather than your job description, goals, or responsibilities — you need to write in a way that tells your future boss how you'll achieve in another job entirely — the one you want him or her to consider you for.

Benchmark wheat futures traded in Chicago jumped more than 30 percent from April 25 to July 5 as drought on the northern U.S. Plains ravaged spring varieties.

Pioneer has also pledged to retain more of its free cash flow, rather than spending it all and then some on capital expenditures and incurring debt that could sap future profits, as has been common in the industry.

While publishing will still be a drag on revenues in the future, Kupinski thinks that the company should be able to turn itself around sooner rather than later.

Businesspeople from the U.S. spend more on work - related travel than corporate travelers from any other country in the world, but Chinese business - travel spending is expected to overtake the U.S. in the near future, according to a new report from the Global Business Travel Association.

Earning anything less than stellar reviews and ratings will have a lasting and negative impact on your future success as a host.

This applies to food, too: Buying quality organic food can nourish you in ways that fill you up more than the prepackaged, processed stuff and potentially save you money on health - care expenses in the future, since you're taking good care of yourself.

Lost jobs; a leaky classroom ceiling that required 21 buckets; and stapled textbooks rather than the usual hardcover — it's not just future retirees that will suffer if investment returns from state - sponsored pension plans continue on their downward trajectory.

They're more focused on winning a deal than empowering future advocates.

Returns processing is regarded as a low - priority operation more focused on recovering lost value than in promoting future value.

Bitcoin leaped more than 9.5 percent to above $ 16,500 on Monday, according to CoinDesk's bitcoin price index, after the launch of bitcoin futures on the Cboe Futures Exchange Sundayfutures on the Cboe Futures Exchange SundayFutures Exchange Sunday night.

But if you ask actual manufacturing executives, they're far more bullish on America's future than many of its political leaders.

The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

Smart businesspeople like Buffett and Bill Gates know better than to focus too hard on the immediate past or the immediate future.

Rather than diverting money when it became clear NASA's future was elsewhere, it doubled down on the shuttle, then complained when Congress wouldn't give it more money to make up for its poor planning.

So rather than continue to focus on an internecine squabble, we talked to six of the smartest energy experts around and asked them to program the GPS coordinates for America's clean energy future.

How the future is going to look, we take no particular view on it, other than to recognise that whatever it is today it will be different sometime in the future, and after that it will be different again.

Teams get to this spot because they are more focused on what has gone wrong in the past, than what they can do about impacting the future.

Women are prequalified based on their character, credit rating, and ability to repay the loan from future business earnings, rather than on collateral.

It also includes a specific goal of winning more contracts for future core auto components based on profitability rather than external growth and thereby reducing the ratio of materials to 60 % or below.

This purchase part of the contract will specify either an agreed - upon purchase price — which can be higher than the current market value, depending on the length of the rental agreement — or include details of when and how the price will set in the future.

In fact, more important to your business's future than having a 30 - page, coil - bound plan to distribute is the business planning process that you undertake on a regular basis to hopefully keep your ship headed in the right direction without losing sight of your long - term destination.

For nearly 10 years in a row, more courses in the U.S. have closed than opened — but he is bullish on the sport's future.

The revelation, then, is that the Silver Snail is much better positioned for the future than HMV or a host of other pop culture purveyors — see Borders, Blockbuster and so on.

The findings «don't necessarily suggest future emissions will generally be higher or lower than current projections, but they suggest that this will depend more sensitively on how exactly economies grow (or shrink),» he said.

Traders on the fed funds futures market now are indicating a less than 50 percent chance that the central bank will move three times this year.

Rather than wiping out fingerprint sensors, though, the inclusion of facial recognition on the iPhone may lead to future phones with a greater breadth of biometric sensors.

Also consider the fact that your value to the company should be based on more than one year of contributions — how would you improve this company in the future?

They've poured more than $ 575 million into the ProShares Short VIX Short - Term Futures ETF (SVXY) since the start of the stock market's correction back on February 2, according to Bloomberg data.