Sentences with phrase «time for a meeting of»

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

«We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society,» Obama said.

A feisty Obama — «We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society» — cited a list of projects to address climate change, but the centerpiece is crimping smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants.

«We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,» the president said.

John Kerry says we have no time for a meeting of the flat - earth society.

Not exact matches

While this may not work for chance encounters, it's crucial when a first meeting is planned ahead of time, such as a job interview or a consultation with a potential client.

A «short» meeting, for example, could be any amount of time.

Meetings are a waste of precious time not just for busy entrepreneurs, but for anyone.

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

«The current pace of repricing in fed funds is not immediately problematic for the Fed and there is yet time to price more into the curve, though we'd argue that at the June meeting, it's likely the markets will have to come to grips with the possibility of a fourth hike in 2018 and price more appropriately,» Lyngen said.

Companies are waking up to the fact that many meetings are a huge time - suck for staff and a waste of resources

Also, a bond fund is only going to have so much cash on hand, so if the investors in a certain fund all want to redeem their shares of the fund at the same time, it will pose problems for the fund manager trying to meet redemption requests.

They may be tedious if technology lets you down, but as long as each party is aware of the time (check time zones for overseas virtual attendees) and whether they have all of the right equipment for a Skype chat or a virtual hangout, these can be just as successful as meeting face - to - face.

In 1983, Schulz traveled to Italy, where he admired the way the espresso bars in Milan serve as a place for people to meet and share time together outside of the home or the office.

Heitkamp has generally advocated for working with the president and his administration when possible and, in a meeting last spring, called the anti-Trump «Resistance» movement «a waste of my time.»

Get to know who you're meeting — before you meet Get prepped for face time by reviewing the full profiles of everyone you'll meet.

Plan the meeting for that time, even if not in blocks of hours, half hours or even tens of minutes.

The meeting leader is responsible for ensuring the execution of the agenda, point by point, and keeping each segment within the determined time constraints.

If you've set the meeting for a specific block of time, it can be valuable to assign a time limit to each segment of the meeting.

This is useful for two reasons: First, you explain the purpose of the meeting to anyone who didn't take the time to read your preparatory messages, and second, you open the floor to any questions or concerns about the meeting's topic.

We tend to meet for blocks of time that fit neatly into our calendars.

The best strategy is to let the board member ask his or her question, write it down, tell them it's a good question and one you're happy to spend time with them explaining after the meeting but that your goal for today is to address the bigger issue of X.

I did the challenge for second time, for an additional 60 days to a closed community of young entrepreneurs, most of whom I'd never met and who live in different cities.

During his time as a war correspondent for the Associated Press, Steve Hindy's interest in home brewing was sparked by a group of American diplomats he met while he was working in the Middle East.

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

Ovaleye is using our time online with a focus of taking the in person meet for coffee sit down and scaling it.

It was also a chance to meet some of my social - media friends in the flesh for the first time, including Entrepreneur Equation author Carol Roth, conversion expert Derek Halpern of Social Triggers, and the Franchise King, Joel Libava.

For example, during his company - wide monthly status meetings, co-founder and CEO Doug Winter takes time to celebrate the accomplishments of individual employees over the past month, showing exactly how their work has contributed to the success of the company.

Quarterly bonuses are granted to all full - time employees based on the company's achieving its quarterly goals, and every August, the company hosts an employee - wide meet - up called Seismic Activity in its San Diego headquarters, bringing together all employees from across the globe for a week of team building and celebration.

The rest of the days are for meetings, etc. but this blocked out time each week is my most productive by far.»

If the meeting lead spends the majority of the time talking AT participants instead of WITH them, it creates opportunity for background email checking, solitaire playing, and coffee brewing.

Noah Kagan, entrepreneur of Gambit and AppSumo, suggests setting up meetings for a very specific time period to keep them effective.

Schedule the times and dates of your meetings for the year and distribute that information along with your business plan and meeting agenda prior to your first meeting.

When documents reviewed for production in connection with committee requests reminded me that meeting had occurred, and because of the language in the email chain that I then read for the first time, I included that meeting on a supplement.

Having a self - parking car (that can even scan for parking spots) not only saves time, but also takes away much of the possibility of small scratches and dents that could make you late to your meeting.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

Reviewing emails recently confirmed my memory that the meeting was a waste of our time and that, in looking for a polite way to leave and get back to my work, I actually emailed an assistant from the meeting after I had been there for ten or so minutes and wrote «Can u pls call me on my cell?

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If you're one of them, here's an easy hack to get over your shyness: «When you meet someone for the first time, just notice what color their eyes are.

Perhaps the best plan for most organizations is to follow the Ritz - Carlton daily lineup approach: a few minutes every day discussing just one of your list of cultural values or service standards, with the meeting led by a different employee every time.

Nearly a third of singles said they believe the grass is always greener, and have admitted to putting off a day and time to meet for a date, just on the off - chance they meet someone in the interim.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

For instance, assuming the SBA meets its goal of creating one job with every $ 50,000 of 504 lending — and the SBA says many Certified Development Companies exceed it — the cost per job in 2006 was a mere $ 188; the Treasury would earn that back many times in a single year's tax bill.

The Democratic former Secretary of State worries about ride - sharing service drivers making ends meet, but also praises the company for «creating exciting opportunities,» the Times reported.

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

In this video, Angel outlines ways you can use social - media management tools like Hootsuite and Meet Edgar to schedule posts to publish at certain times of days — especially important for international customers — and more.

For example, Clio Connect is an online portal through which lawyers operating out of home offices or suburban locations can offer their clients the same services through a «virtual office» — without the time - consuming meetings in the Class - A office space downtown.

Spending an excessive amount of time researching and pouring over materials for a basic meeting, conference, or speech is usually a waste of time.

Yellen is expected to chair the committee's next meeting on Jan. 30 - 31 for what will be her last FOMC gathering of her time on the committee spanning three decades as chair, vice chair, San Francisco Fed president and governor.

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.