Sentences with phrase «than a longer one when»

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Maintenance contracts drive service calls, which drive customer relationships, which drive sales of new systems, since it's a lot easier to sell a $ 300 maintenance contract than it is to sell an $ 8,000 system — and when that time comes he's no longer «selling a new system» to a cold - call customer, he's «replacing outdated and inefficient systems» for a current customer.

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Ethridge also believes that tech CEOs are generally waiting longer than ever before when deciding to go public — which may explain why Twitter is taking its time.

As long as you understand this and both embrace your stress rather than battling it and reach out for social support when you're under pressure, «the harmful effects of stress on your health are not inevitable,» McGonigal concludes.

When InBev asked candidate firms how much extra work they'd be willing to do without compensation and how much longer than the company's already astonishing 120 - day payment terms agencies would be willing to wait for their money, the ad biz was in high dudgeon.

On average, Americans hold eye contact for seven to ten seconds, longer when we're listening than when we're talking.

Like Robert, I tend to work fairly long hours, but I have greater control over mine than he does; I can take breaks if I want, work in the evening instead of at mid-day... the total number of hours I work isn't particularly flexible, but when I work them is.

Living out in the country, I knew losing power was a possibility back when we moved here, but having never lost power for more than a few minutes to an hour or two, I didn't plan for losing it long term.

Then there's the wild card that the deal itself can under perform when the merchant takes longer to pay back than the originally agreed - upon term.

When getting paid up front, the life cycle of the payment should be longer than whatever you're using the money for.

When we want a huge commitment from someone, many times we go into a long explanation than make the big ask.

When a stock's current P / E ratio is much higher than the long - term average, it's a sign that shares have gotten overpriced.

I say strive for balance because there will be times when you are pushing hard for a deadline, or for a championship game, or a launch, and you will be outside the comfort zone for maybe longer than you wish.

Indeed, it takes longer to fix the mistakes you make when you're moving too quickly than it does to avoid those errors in the first place by taking the necessary precautions.

Trade has grown 1.5 times faster than gross domestic product over the long term, and twice as fast when globalization picked up in the 1990s.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

All the more reason to make sure that, if and when the market does turn, any moves you make will be driven by a long - term plan rather than the emotions generated by the last thing you heard on CNBC.

When it comes to saving for retirement, we are facing all kinds of risks, from skyrocketing healthcare costs to running out of money because we're living longer than we expected.

There was a time not long ago when Jeffrey Sachs — the Harvard - educated economist who tried to end poverty forever — was known more for his capitalism than his bleeding heart.

Plus, I realized that when I settled into using relatively short strides, increasing my stride length slightly while maintaining the same cadence automatically increased my pace — and for me was a lot less painful than trying to maintain a long stride while increasing my cadence.

As I said when we launched this exciting project: after more than 100 years, we can not delay, so the next bill to be redesigned must include women, who for too long have been absent from our currency.

If you sleep longer than about 30 minutes, you may feel groggy when you wake up.

For their part, Gino and her colleagues say they're interested to know when women's lists of priorities start to grow so much longer than those of their male counterparts.

It may be clich, but plenty of companies invest too much money into initiatives longer than they should when it may be better to cut losses, learn some lessons and move on.

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

When he takes longer than usual to respond to an email or his performance at work suffers, you remind yourself of the situation he's going through.

But rather than waving a white flag, or simply, hoping for the best when traffic comes through, there are specific updates you can make to turn a quick site surveillance into a long - term conversion.

It's an especially good feature if you're reading a long article or simply don't want the phone to go to sleep when you're looking at something longer than the screen's default 30 - second time - out period.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

There are now more than 150 organic products, but Nell is no longer involved with the company, which became apparent two years ago when the company replaced the American Gothic - like photo of her and her dad on the labels with just Paul's picture.

The mental pressures of meeting an ambitious goal (especially when you're working long hours) can be harder than physical hurdles.

In response to a question about whether Trump had paid no taxes in recent years and how long the negative tax liability of the late»70s continued, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks emailed: «You must be kidding, that is more than 35 years ago when we had an entirely different tax system.»

«When asked what news they had heard of recent economic developments, more consumers spontaneously mentioned the expected positive impact of new economic policies than ever before recorded in the long history of the surveys.

For example, when Alysa Marsh of Fresh Free Fruit Inc. wanted to sell fruit smoothies and yogurt health drinks, she found that long lines at her counter could be put to better use than just looking around at her stock.

Although it's good for the overall economy to have more people working, it's not necessarily a sign of confidence when people are hanging on to jobs longer than they normally would.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

It's going to take longer than that with equity crowdfunding simply because of the due diligence and information sharing that needs to occur when investors are buying a piece of a company and hoping to someday see a financial return.

Upper limb RSI occurs when your tendons are straining more than they should for long periods of time, which can be because of movement repetition, a sustained awkward position, or prolonged pressing against hard surfaces.

When we've built up a good claims - loss record, we'll try to switch» — that is, just so long as Kinni can persuade an insurer to agree to a temporary, rather than permanent, moratorium on payments for preexisting conditions.

When it comes to preparing for the long term, women face a «perfect storm» financially: They are paid less than men are on average, typically have more gaps in employment, engage in more part - time employment and are often more risk - averse investors.

When Bernanke's taper talk caused long - term interest rates to rise much faster than the Fed intended, one of the ways in which the central banks sought to allay market fears was to stress that it would keep short - term rates steady until the jobless rate had reached at least 6.5 %.

Additionally, when visual objectskeeps visitors on your landing page — even for a few milliseconds longer than they would normally stay — it increases the chance of click - through rates to other sections of your site which can result in better engagement with your company and social media pages.

«Anything more than a couple of weeks when people's jobs are at stake is a long time for them to have uncertainty,» Hanrahan acknowledges.

In one day, when the legendary investment bank said it could no longer meet its obligations and would file for bankruptcy, the Dow plunged more than 500 points, sparking market turmoil that eventually eliminated $ 7 trillion dollars in value.

Simon, who was less than a year old and already three feet long, was being flown from his hometown in the United Kingdom to Kansas City in early April when was found dead in a kennel during a layover in Chicago.

Talking (and tweeting) to other entrepreneurs, I have found that many of us burn the midnight oil, but you are never warned that you could be working much longer hours than when you were an employee for a corporate.

Long copy can do a lot more with that than a button can (usually), but thinking about POV at all when writing your call to action is clearly critical.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

Magnets in the earbuds allow you to clip the Latitude around your neck when you aren't using it, and the eight - plus - hour battery life will get you through more than a week of hour - long workouts before you have to recharge.