Sentences with phrase «than repairs for»

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When I was talking to psychologists, they said that's not using a to - do list for productivity, that's using it to do what's called «mood repair,» to make yourself feel good, rather than get things done.

Entrepreneur's Franchise Zone (entrepreneur.com/franchise) lists nearly 20 automotive franchises, including windshield repair and auto appearance reconditioning, that can be started for less than $ 20,000.

More than just donating money, your company can be a platform for serving others who can benefit from your company's existence, whether it's the efforts and labor of your staff, the distribution of profits (check out Life is Good's Playmakers program), or just spreading important messages to your customers (for example, Patagonia, which has encouraged its customers to repair products, rather than replace them).

Maintenance and repair: Most landlords attempt to hold tenants responsible for maintenance and repairs of anything other than the roof, exterior walls, and parking lots.

-- Taki Skouras, CEO of Cellairis, a cell phone repair and accessories brand with 500 locations across the U.S. and which has expanded internationally to Canada, Jamaica, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, and Dubai, for a total of more than 600 company - owned and franchise locations

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Less than half the nearly 95 miles of border construction, including levees along the Rio Grande in Texas, would be for new barriers, with the rest for repair of existing segments.

The Coastal Bend Recovery Group received a grant of $ 250,000 to work with case managers to identify an estimated 8,000 households and refer them to community resources for further assistance; purchase materials for and coordinate the repair or rebuild more than 100 homes; and, to initiate an initiative to address additional unmet needs in the area.

Renting can be less expensive than buying since you're not shelling out money for things like maintenance, repairs, property taxes or homeowner's insurance.

Like all skeptics, you can deny anything, not just God, but you chose to deny God, while accepting that... anything... your car was repaired adequately and not tampered with... or the food was not older than the package says... or it really is a live broadcast... pick anything that someone tells you, and you had the choice to believe them, or not, based on you choozing that for yourself.

A woman working for a janitorial firm servicing the Baltimore World Trade Center says she now can buy clothes from a regular store instead of Goodwill and pay for the basic repairs on her house rather than watch it deteriorate.

We would probably not survive for very long, certainly would have little quality of life, if we did not draw and defend reasonable boundaries in this less - than - perfect, upside down, disordered world that has, in many ways, only begun the process of being healed and repaired by Grace.

The biblical text was strictly defined, there were no subtexts, and hermeneutics was more like a home repair manual than an intuitive art, a set of rules for applying textbook formulas to problematic situations.

If I decide that I won't repair motors and won't teach theory any longer because I don't believe in it, I daresay I won't retain my position for more than a few days.

Nothing could have a greater impact on the wholeness of the next generation than providing in every community a network of readily available growth and growth - repair (therapy) opportunities for parents of young children and parents - to - be.

It would be the one great means for the conversion of England, which would indeed «more than repair» the damage done by the Reformation.

The product repair that the company does on large foodservice equipment is still doing well, but smaller appliances — such as warmers and fryers — are oftentimes replaced rather than repaired because parts for them are more expensive when the cost of labor is included than new, low - end products manufactured overseas.

And making sure your repair shop isn't keeping your vehicle on the lot for longer than necessary can cut hours or even days off of your downtime.

The former GrainCorp chief executive has also repaired CCA's relationship with The Coca - Cola Co and agreed to sell off a 29 per cent stake in the Indonesian bottling business for more than $ 600 million to fund market development.

Please Note: We will pay the return shipping for the repair only if your sprayer is less than 1 year old.

I've discovered that these small business owners provide better customer service (such as complimentary gift - wrap for toys or fast repairs for broken glasses) and have a more diverse product selection than what I find in big box stores.

Shafer has been repairing and building clocks for more than 30 years.

«This is kind of repair is more extensive than we've ever had before,» said Mary Eysenbach, director of conservatories for the park district.

The decision to tear down the school built in 1962 was made this year after the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new school.

The Park District is exploring whether outside firms could provide refuse collection for all of its regions - except the lakefront - and repair its truck and auto fleet more cheaply and efficiently than in - house workers.

But the committee recommended that workers complete minor repairs and sodding at the site for no more than $ 10,000 and build a practice field at the Park District's Pebble Park on Westbury Drive for about $ 40,000.

Estimates for the repairs include more than $ 75,000 to replace the heating, cooling and ventilation system, and $ 80,000 to fix the pool filter and heater.

He plans to take a short course in musical instrument repair (woodwind) in Wales in October, so we're thinking of going to the UK at the end of September for a few weeks, rather than earlier in the year.

This summer, hundreds of CCSD teachers are taking advantage of training opportunities offered by CCSD; school nutrition workers have been busy learning new skills and ideas for tastier lunchroom fare; more than 400 school buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school campuses.

The two parties should agree to govern for no more than two years, and to use the time to clean up and repair Britain's broken political system.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- More than 350 nonprofit organizations serving people throughout New York are urging state officials to increase funding for building repairs, technology upgrades and other critical improvements.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies notes that today's cuts are «less than a tenth of the fiscal repair job» that Alistair Darling said was going to be necessary.

«But more than this we heard confident and fresh thinking from the Labour leader about how this party will repair our nation but also prepare us for the challenges ahead.

12 % said the way things are done in state government were broken and beyond repair, and fewer than 1 % believed no change was called for.

They want the buildings to trade for less than the current asking price to a preservation group designated to repair them.

That's more than 7 times the $ 243 million in debt the city faces now for bridge repairs, athletic fields, snow plows, and sidewalks currently on the books.

At a special session held on Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Legislature approved more than $ 29 million for road work, including $ 950,000 to repair Amsdell Road from Route 5 to Southwestern Boulevard.

This bill, according to experts and city elected officials, addresses an increasing problem of investors who acquire older properties to flip them for profit without making needed repairs, such as finding the source of a leak rather than just plastering over a water - logged wall.

MTA board member Veronica Vanterpool, who also works as executive director of the nonprofit Tri-State Transportation Campaign, said that rather than picking a fight with its fellow transportation provider, the MTA and Cuomo should advocate on Amtrak's behalf, including by pushing for emergency financial assistance from the federal government for the summer repairs at Penn, which Amtrak has said will cost between $ 30 million and $ 40 million.

Miner has been asking the state for more than $ 700 million for years to help repair and replace its aged water main system.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

«There is absolutely no option than to close the runway for these six weeks because it is not a repair work.

But the Cuomo administration later solicited proposals from legislators for how they would like the money to be doled out, leading city officials to worry that the money would be spent on less necessary items than roof repair.

Claim: The Telegraph says that the Labour backbencher made claims for a bath mat, gardening equipment and more than # 7,000 for property repairs at his home in Birmingham, labelling them as office costs.

«She recognized that our skilled Highway Department employees are a significant and valuable resource,» Maloney said, «capable of repairing a landfill cap adhering to DEP regulations, which they completed for about $ 144,000 less than the lowest independent contractor's bid.»

If this law were enacted it is estimated that more than $ 15 million dollars of additional funding would be generated for the Road Fund which is devoted to the repair and upkeep of Erie County Roads and Bridges.

Homeowners were not allowed to apply for repairs on anything other than their primary residence.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

DeFrancisco said Mahoney's offer this week to pay for the repair of some city streets was praiseworthy, but he questioned why it was accompanied by public statements suggesting that Miner had no plan to repair infrastructure other than begging for more state and federal money.

The report says 79 percent of residents said NYCHA did nothing when lead paint was discovered in their apartments; 80 percent had children whose blood - lead levels have not been tested; and 54 percent had called NYCHA for repairs but have been waiting for more than a month.