Sentences with phrase «than the train on»

It was a little longer than the train on my dress and I loved that it was simple, yet added a little drama.

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They focused on new workforce improvements, and interviewed more than a dozen local NGOs to help with in - factory training sessions.

I was surprised when I learned that Kevin Johnson, CEO of America's most popular coffee brand Starbucks, decided to close more than half of the company's U.S. stores on May 29 to conduct racial bias training for staff, following the uproar over two black men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — being arrested at a Philadelphia location.

On - demand virtual training programs featuring more than 1,400 modules, videos and webinars for continuing education

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.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

The manager who called the police on Robinson and Nelson has since been removed from that restaurant, and the company is closing more than 8,000 locations on May 29 so that its employees can undertake racial bias training.

Chris Gibson, executive director of the federally funded Oregon - Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said the distinction matters less than the fact that marijuana continues to leave Oregon on planes, trains and automobiles, and through the mail.

Rather than have you spend hours on a slow train or in a cramped car, Blade's flights promise to get you out to the Hamptons in just 40 minutes.

As for China's ever - expanding network of bullet trains, Chinese media report trains on several of the new lines frequently run with more than half their seats empty.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

The cost is nothing more than a little bit of lost productivity on the part of the top employees who act as coaches, and even that's partly if not entirely offset by the performance bump in those they train.

But, then again, Ottawa already spends more than $ 12 billion a year on post-secondary education, plus billions more on joint labour force training agreements with the provinces.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

The social media giant also said it would be providing digital skills training for more than 15,000 women in France, following on from similar drives in the U.K. and Italy.

Refocusing our sights on precision health won't be easy — because it involves achieving something more elusive even than a technological leap or a breakthrough in biological understanding: It demands a wholesale re-thinking: We have to convince and train people to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to their own health.

(Poets & Quants)-- Hurtling into Shanghai at more than 200 miles per hour on a bullet train to attend a pre-MBA boot camp at a leading Chinese business school gave international participants a striking welcome to China's breathtaking ascendance.

Believing you're smarter than people trained in a subject you're not isn't just obnoxious, but also deadly; as the Challenger and perhaps Ford cases show, the lives of human beings are on the line.

Based on 40 years of recruiting and training more than twenty thousand recruiters and hiring managers on how to actually predict on - the - job performance, one problem always stands out:

In cycling, I always thought I was better suited to climbing than riding hard on the flats or sprinting, but that's just because I liked to train on hills and mountains.

That player would be able to get into cardiovascular shape more quickly than his peers; knowing that would allow him to spend more of the off - season focusing on skills training.

Or try connecting with people in unexpected ways, like this fitness company ad that appeared on German subway trains showing a man hanging out to a weight, rather than a subway railing.

MONTREAL — Bombardier is implementing one of the deepest job cuts in its history by eliminating 7,000 positions — including more than a third in Canada — though it took pains Wednesday to instead train the public spotlight on a large CSeries plane order with Air Canada.

Here in the information age, train wrecks are often brought under a spotlight for cross-examination, and there's nothing more fascinating to rubberneckers than a company imploding on its favorite social network.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

If you're on a tight budget and need someone who can hit the ground running, it may be more cost - effective to get along with an unfilled position than to hire someone who not only won't be productive from Day One, but will also take up another employee's time to train, lowering overall productivity.

Earlier in the day, Phelps's close friend, training partner and fellow U.S. co-captain Allison Schmitt had talked about how she had never seen a happier smile on Phelps than after his 200 - butterfly win on Tuesday night — but made clear that he was as intensely focused as ever.

While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

«So effective training programs represent a far greater return on investment than what you would at first think.

Musk originally believed a hyperloop connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would cost about $ 6bn, 10 times more than the $ 68bn the government is set to spend on a high - speed train line connecting the two cities.

He has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and has trained and certified more than 600 coaches in his acclaimed Guerrilla Marketing Coach and World Class Speaking Certification Programs.

It compelled me to justify myself, to explain to my interrogators how I planned to live in New York City on so little — less than minimum wage after accounting for the cost of my uniform and unpaid training time.

Those experts state that not only can we have a Hyperloop train running in California within a decade, but that it will cost between $ 7 and $ 16 billion, which is actually a lot less than the high - speed rail system that the state is working on.

Having trained more than five million salespeople on five continents, I've met a lot of strong individuals who are on the fast track.

With four years of experience as a competitive sprinter, I believes that our motivation to train should be positive rather than negative; instead of training because of a negative body image, we should focus our energy on training like athletes, aiming to be the fittest, fastest and strongest version of our selves.

«[W] e have over 5,000 employees who are all being trained in new processes and new systems that are more advanced than the systems that they are used to working with,» said CEO Matt Salzberg, who will sit for an interview at Recode's Code Commerce event on September 13, on a call with analysts.

The company is closing its stores on the afternoon of Tuesday May 29 to conduct the training at more than 8,000 Starbucks locations.

Starbucks reiterated its 2018 outlook but said the guidance excludes the yet - to - be determined impact on its previously announced plan to close more than 8,000 company - owned stores for half a day to conduct racial - bias training for its employees in the U.S. Comparable - store sales are seen up 3 % to 5 % globally for the year, and revenue growth is seen in the high single digits, Starbucks said.

By implementing elearning with the help of an elearning company, it allows employees to train on new concepts with short and relevant training rather than going through a long gruesome training that includes material that may not... Read More

OTTAWA — An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of expanding by up to 20 times the volume.

Dexter Hadley thinks that artificial intelligence (AI) could do a far better job at detecting breast cancer than doctors do — if screening algorithms could be trained on...

YogaFit is the largest yoga fitness education school in the world with more than 200,000 instructors trained on six continents specifically designed for presentation in health clubs, fitness facilities or other group exercise locations.

FACT: Sigurdson also told CBC Radio on July 13, 2015 «There's very little in the way of language for training opportunities for British Columbians, and I fear that we could have more temporary foreign workers on the project than what are required.»

It also possesses a durable competitive advantage: Going to any other flight - training provider than the best is like taking the low bid on a surgical procedure.

Following the reprehensible event in one of its stores on April 12 in Philadelphia, Starbucks announced it will close more than 8,000 company - owned stores in the United States on May 29 to conduct racial - bias training for all partners (employees).

It gives you a brake and an accelerator to apply rather than putting you on rails until your retirement train terminates.

By: Donald Makhafola 4th May 2018 Minerals processing specialist Multotec spent more than R10 - million on education and training development in 2017, while an additional R2 - million was spent on the newly built, state - of - the - art training centre in Spartan, Kempton Park, says COO Jannie de Jonge.

Meanwhile, more than two billion dollars that could be spent on training will remain unspent, while the EI fund is rolling in billions of dollars of surpluses, being used to pay down the deficit instead.