Sentences with phrase «time of bad company»

But the whole openness thing seems to have been abandoned around the time of Bad Company.

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«Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.

A U.S. theatre chain that pays a dividend in the range of 3.5 %, Cinemark is Hearn's pick for a company likely to maintain its value in good times and bad.

Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»

Three out of four companies are topping Wall Street's estimates this earnings season, but investors don't seem to care this time and that's a bad sign for the market.

It's the company's first new console since 2012's Wii U — a console best known for being Nintendo's worst - selling of all time.

Merger skeptics argue that today's premium valuations make it a bad time for Gilead to be a biotech buyer: The recent M&A surge has driven up the prices of companies investors see as potential Gilead targets — including Vertex (VRTX) and Bristol - Myers Squibb (BMY).

«Our studies have shown that companies will switch brands 78 percent of the time if they have a bad customer experience,» says Marie Rosecrans, SVP of small business marketing at Salesforce.

Example: I recently met a B2B healthcare payments company that seeks to lower doctors offices» bad debts expense from 40 to 5 percent by helping them collect funds upfront at the time services are delivered, instead of 30 days later with an invoice in the mail.

There's never a bad time to start a health care company, and billions of VC dollars were already flowing into clean - tech before this recession.

The bad news is that the company poured a lot of time and resources into what in retrospect was a quixotic attempt to out - Facebook Facebook, as a Mashable analysis of the search engine company's shift in direction explains.

Crockett, who is bullish on SeaWorld, notes that even if things get much worse, the company has a portfolio of properties that, in its IPO filings, was valued at $ 5 billion; that's more than two times the current value of its market cap and debt.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

So if a VC rejects you on the grounds of a «competing portfolio company», don't waste your time feeling bad.

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

The timing could not have been worse, following charges of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the company leveled by a former engineer.

Companies across the board will get rid of their bad mortgages, and also their bad car loans, furniture time payments, credit - card loans, student loans — all the debts that any competent actuary could have told them never could have been paid in the first place.

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

The company has compounded its earnings per share at an annual rate of 15.41 % over the last decade, which is almost unheard of for such a large company over a stretch of time that included one of the worst financial crises my generation will probably ever see.

In mature or semi-regulated industries, these companies have non-cyclical cash flow that increases at a steady rate in the worst of times as well as the best.

As an example of my bad timing, barely couple of days after we bought D, the company announced that 2017 would not be as good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causes.

In studies covering more than 1,200 major deals, researchers have consistently found that, at the time of announcement, shareholders of acquiring companies fare worse in stock transactions than they do in cash transactions.

Overpaying may be harmful not only to the investors who will find it difficult to achieve their targeted ROI, but may also impact badly on the company itself: Many «unicorns» — who raise more and more capital at higher and higher valuations — are a great example of this, because when (and if) the time comes for their IPO, it's highly likely that they may not be able to live up to their inflated valuation.

Managing your company's accounting may seem like one of the easier things that you do, so you may not notice how much time you lose keeping track of income and expenses in an old spreadsheet — or worse, with pen and paper.

For example, investors buying a global index fund in 1989 would have had the bulk of their investment (44 %) in Japan at the absolute worst time to buy Japanese stocks.5 A decade later, they would have had nearly 25 % of their investment in technology companies that were grossly overvalued.6

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

Deborah Knight, AFR Sunday: Australia's largest listed wine company, Treasury Wine Estates, has run into trouble in one of its biggest markets and it couldn't have come at a worst time.

Whether he has time to read wine­searcher.com while enjoying his (alleged) bedtime cheeseburger is unknown, but in November the website published a direct appeal to him and his family - owned winery in Virginia with the words: «Listen up, Mr Trump, the proposed merger of the nation's second and third - largest alcohol distribution companies is bad for businesses like yours.»

Given that (A) SB Nation is a company at which people work, and (B) it is the Monday after the Super Bowl, many of our colleagues have spent some time Monday discussing the best and worst Super Bowl halftime shows ever.

And here's the final guess: this was a rubbish game, that was robbed even of being an indulgently, grandiosely rubbish game by a rubbish goal scored at exactly the worst time by a player who doesn't even particularly seem to enjoy his own company these days.

That's your money, the thing you exchange blood and sweat and time for as a life practice, and you hand a small mortgage of it to companies reviled as the worst in America.

They said companies who can save a small percentage of time and personnel expense in avoiding bad code early in the process could yield big results down the road.

- Meetic is now in ~ 22 countries - Marc sold his previous company for 200m Euros and started Meetic in 2002 - It was a bad time to raise money so he invested half a million dollars of his own money

Now that you have had time to digest our list of the best and worst films of 2011, it is once again time to look at the companies responsible for those films.

It proves that bad jokes can bomb not once but twice if offered consecutively (Bad Company, because it fears correctly that its target audience won't understand a joke unless it's repeated, does two Czech language jokes and two New Jersey jokes one after another to a rising chorus of crickets), and it will demonstrate by its inevitable box - office failure that even the dumbest members of the audience have the animal sense not to sit through something this appalling a second tibad jokes can bomb not once but twice if offered consecutively (Bad Company, because it fears correctly that its target audience won't understand a joke unless it's repeated, does two Czech language jokes and two New Jersey jokes one after another to a rising chorus of crickets), and it will demonstrate by its inevitable box - office failure that even the dumbest members of the audience have the animal sense not to sit through something this appalling a second tiBad Company, because it fears correctly that its target audience won't understand a joke unless it's repeated, does two Czech language jokes and two New Jersey jokes one after another to a rising chorus of crickets), and it will demonstrate by its inevitable box - office failure that even the dumbest members of the audience have the animal sense not to sit through something this appalling a second time.

Meanwhile, the story itself doesn't exactly offer viewers a whole lot new, but, any time you can get Sam Elliot to play the voice of a grizzled T - Rex telling campfire stories, you can't be in that bad of company can you?

In their research, Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta found: «If a bad hire costs a company nearly 2 times the employee's initial salary in recruitment and personnel costs as well as lost productivity, then each teacher who leaves the profession during the induction years likely costs taxpayers in excess of $ 50,000.»

And without a comprehensive examination of the education market in which these companies operated, the reader is left unsure whether these firms were bad ideas or just badly timed investments — or whether students and schools have gained or lost anything as a result.

At the time of Panorama's report, Stephen Sklaroff, of the Finance and Leasing Association, speaking on behalf of the industry, stressed that it was up to the schools - not the financing companies such as banks, to make sure they were not signing bad deals.

Over the last year, critical news articles from national newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have questioned the quality of education the company offers, pointing out overbilling for ineligible students in Colorado and a Pennsylvania school where virtual students performed significantly worse than their public school peers.

My truck was towed into the Mercedes - Benz dealership on Monday January 15th I was told that I would be able to get a loaner on the next day which would have been January 16th I understand due to all the bad weather that they may have not been open on the 16th of January so I didn't worry about it on the 17th when I called to see what was going on then turn tell me they were trying to see if they could get the warranty company to pay for the part which I was told was $ 1,400 by Frankie at this time I asked him what about a loner car well he in turn told me that it wouldn't take but a day to put the part on because they already had I was already been inconvenience because my truck is there I have no transportation and I work for the hospital so I have to get back and forth to work so after Saturday morning of my mom's passing I called the dealership and spoke with the young lady and she told me all the time cars had been taken for people that had appointments for them now at that point I'm thinking to myself while I'm a customer as well why wasn't I call to pick up a rental car so she in turn told me that she wouldn't have the manager call me back and indeed he did call me back but when he call me back he let me know that they did have a loaner cars and that they would be closing in 30 minutes well I live in Pearland and they're over by Greenway Plaza so that was no way I would have made it to get a car and he let me know that they're trying to wait to see what the warranty company it's going to do don't steal mind you I don't have a loaner car due to the fact they were closing in 30 minutes and I needed to get a ride back all in the same token my mom has passed so he went on to say that he had spoke with Brian from AutoNation Chrysler Jeep and he had told him that he would give him the family discount which was $ 1,200 if they were going to fix the car now mind you if the warranty company is going to fix the car they're going to charge them $ 1,200 but I was told by Frankie that I had to pay $ 1,400 to have this car fixed that I've only had two months that I had a 90 day warranty on but it doesn't cover the port so once he told me he was charging AutoNation Chrysler Jeep the 1200 I told him I didn't think that was fair to me that I would have to pay 1400 at that point when he noticed he had told me the price he would on to say that oh well it may be 1200 or it may be a little lower than 1200 and I informed him once again had to prepare things for my mother's funeral and then have to come up with $ 1,200 on repairs for a car I've only had two months I really don't think it's fair and if I have to pay the 1200 I'll have to I'll just have to come out of pocket with it but I will take it as high as I have to because if you have a 90 day warranty the car came from Mercedes - Benz Greenway Plaza someone should make it right.

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That gives us the huge advantage over other companies, because they have to outsource every time they get some difficult assignments, which alters the quality of their works badly.

Tintin, the plucky little reporter who spent more time investigating mysteries and running away from bad guys than doing any actual reporting, has made it to the small screen: Idboox reports that Moulinsart, the company that controls the rights to the works of Herge, Tintin's creator, has released an iPad app that contains all 24 of the Tintin graphic novels.

I guess this also proves that Publisher L's CEO was accurate when, in a 2009 New York Times article, he claimed that his company has «easily published the largest collection of bad poetry in the history of mankind.»

Also, when I had Lightning Source, they didn't have a distribution service at the time — only printing, so I went through Baker and Taylor, which was by far the WORST company I ever dealt with in terms of cusotmer service.

Needlessly conservative storytelling, crap coloring (maybe that's just me and my art snob friends though), bad comics, rising prices, a lack of speculators, the Hollywood money being exponentially better, companies going for the short gain instead of the long - term gain (I'm looking at you, Humanoids, and your reprinting of comics classics in strictly deluxe formats that are too expensive for the casual reader who needs that stuff and you, Marvel, who can't even keep a trade of a book that's buzzing super hard in print, and you, comic shops, for banging your doofus drum every time somebody does something in digital comics you don't like), and yes, piracy, have all hurt comics.

We currently are unaware of any Credit Card Companies at this time, that provide unsecured credit cards to people in Canada with bad to no credit.

Since small companies do not have financial strength to survive bad times, it is essential that one does a thorough research regarding the fundamentals of the company and track record of its management before investing.

A recent analysis by the real estate data company Zillow found that California is home to some of the worst housing markets for first - time home buyers.