Sentences with phrase «time of their meltdowns»

At the time of their meltdowns, for example, Kmart had six current or recent Fortune 500 CEOs on its board, and Warnaco had several prominent financiers, a well - known retail analyst, and a top - tier CEO; all those excellent credentials made little difference.

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Around the same time, a number of defined - benefit plans sponsored by troubled companies, including Nortel Networks, GM Canada and DaimlerChrysler, began to falter in the wake of the 2008 stock - market market meltdown and had to be restructured.

Those pundits who have spent the past 10 years predicting the end of the industry should remember the last time it was in meltdown: 1982.

Employees needed a process road map — from the timing of the cake presentation to the sale of game tokens — to keep parties running smoothly and guest meltdowns to a minimum.

And that means you'll need a lot more firefighters than snow cones at the risk of having your entire organization meltdown the next time you run into a crisis.

The timing, of course, couldn't have been worse: The Wall Street meltdown was already under way.

If all you were looking at was the effect of the global meltdown of world trade on Canada's net exports, you'd have a very hard time explaining just how Canada went into recession last quarter.

After all, we were told at the time that if taxpayers didn't open their wallets and bail out the banks, we could face a complete meltdown of the global financial system and an economic fate rivaling the Great -LSB-...]

The reason the shampoo cycle exists is because time - and - again, institutions increasingly get their risk on as the memory of the last meltdown fades.

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

Given one of the takeaways from the post, «Stock Market Meltdown Implications For Everyone,» is to figure out alternative ways to invest money on things that can last, it was time for me to get back to work!

Today, with dividends reinvested, the value of each share has increased several times over despite the dot - com meltdown, the war on terror, higher national debt, and a declining dollar.

It is no different this time around except that in the environment characterized by fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) that's prevailed since the 2008 Financial Panic, each instance of ebbing in data is feared to be the start of the next economic and market meltdown.

Ironically, the last time spreads on Spanish debt were this low was in late 2011 in the aftermath of the MF Global meltdown following its poorly timed bullish bets on European debt.

The only problem was that all of these algorithms were programmed to sell if the market fell — which they did, all at the same time on one day in 1987, Wall Street's «Black Monday» meltdown.

«Fears of [a] Chinese financial meltdown look to have been allayed for the time being,» explained Augustin Eden, a research analyst at Accendo Marketplaces.

Suffice to say we have been preparing for a China meltdown for a long time and have thought long and hard about the impact of a 20 - year commodity bear market on these businesses.

Of course, that wasn't the first time that the country experienced a major financial meltdown.

Squint is quite possibly among my favourite albums of all time and i absolutely loved «Drive, he said» from the Meltdown album.

Otherwise, you moved very slowly, which meant you had time to look around and see the tired faces: the many mothers and fathers lining the walls, nursing babies, charging phones, calming a child in meltdown or rousing a child from the despair of just learning he has to go with his parents to another talk.

My daughter then shared with me the antics of her oldest who was three at the time and who had thrown her first major meltdown at the further point from an exit at the local grocery.

This little trick is helpful when you have a chunk of time earlier in the day to work on dinner, since focusing on meal prep at «the witching hour» (AKA, 5:00 p.m. at our house) sometimes feels next to impossible between after school activities, homework, sibling bickering, and end - of - day toddler meltdowns.

I've just realised a couple of days later that while the kids had a great time, it was relatively calm amidst the chaos and we didn't have any tantrums or meltdowns... I wonder why...

Have a total meltdown over seeing pictures of myself from behind at my friend's wedding, send rantingly threatening texts to another friend begging her to not plan her wedding around one of her bridesmaids being 9 months pregnant (just in case I find myself in those shoes again next time around)...

During Buffalo's 3 - game meltdown, any points produced in garbage time in the 3rd or 4th quarter (The games were that bad) would artificially inflate your stats against a prevent defense / a defense with no realistic shot of actually choking.

Arsenal have had yet another meltdown much to the suffering of their fans as although they have lost just one out of the last seventeen league games, they have won just one in their last seven which has left them from being favourites at one time to nine points behind the leaders with only four games to go.

Ronaldinho's style, skill and accuracy seemed to be propelling him to the list of true all - time greats before a dramatic off pitch meltdown spelled the beginning of the end for his La Liga career.

I always worry that if I plan to do something date - related, we'll have a rough week (e.g., meltdowns, colds, etc.) and I'll feel a sort of crafty failure and sadness for my girl as I stuff the unused box of Paas into the back of the closet on Easter Monday... only to not be able to find it again next year when it turns out we do have time and inclination to color eggs.

We planned a two - hour chunk of time for exploring the Shedd and that turned out to be spot on before (narrowly) avoiding a toddler meltdown; Nap time was calling!

The «Witching Hour» is that time of the day when your baby is fed and dry but still having a meltdown.

The Surviving Summer Handbook is a guide for moms that want to plan an epic summer full of adventure, manage busy day meltdowns like a pro, and find time for yourself to rest and recharge.

During week 2 EBoy would have a bit of a meltdown about an hour before it was time to go home.

Instead of lecturing, do a «Time - In» where you stay with your child and let him have his meltdown in your attentive presence.

The Surviving Summer Handbook is a guide for moms that want to plan an epic summer full of adventure, manage busy day meltdowns like a pro, and find time for...

You want to have a definite day (versus «come over sometime») and time of day («around 11») but take into consideration that moms can't always control nap times or last - minute meltdowns.

Speaking of respect, during times that my son has an especially difficult meltdown, and starts to become violent, I don't allow him to destroy things or to hit me or himself.

When your preschooler crosses the line or gets too worked up for her own good, sometimes the best way to help her get a handle on herself is to remove her from whatever sparked the meltdown (or the limit - pushing) in favor of a little quiet time.

I don't have meltdowns as such, as I always make a big fuss of the reunion, but the Bunny likes a quiet time while I cook — she draws and colours at the kitchen table and chats away when she's ready.

Doing as much prep as I can ahead of time helps me to minimize the meltdowns (whether it is theirs or mine) and focus on the fun!

Changing up the time of day (perhaps the end of the day is meltdown time) or bringing some music into the bathroom, will change the mood for everyone.

A little extra work and preparation has saved me from a few meltdowns, I'll let you decide from whom, while allowing my homeschooled students to still have plenty of time and attention from me for their education.

If they slept, great; if not, they were able to get some sensory downtime that helped them make it through the rest of the day meltdown - free (most times).

Try them out the next time your kid has a nuclear meltdown over a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and channel your own ninja badass mom.

Children on the spectrum are much more demanding because of their special needs, sensory issues, rigidity and meltdowns; that all takes more of the parents» time and so does accompanying them to therapy.

I didn't take her to story time or the playground, for fear of starting a meltdown.

Cleverly designed in collaboration with a very clever dad in the UK - Simon Langham - he came up with this ingenious idea of taking the «meltdown'toddler away from family adventures back in 2011, «Freddie reached the age of three, and he wasn't at all keen on sitting in the pushchair for any length of time.

The public sector systems that people must use to try and keep things afloat are in meltdown a lot of the time.

For some time, even in the face of turmoil and economic meltdown, it was possible to believe Brazil was taking a decisive step in its long walk towards a more legitimate and fair democratic system in which not even the most powerful authorities were immune to justice.

In September 2011, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the RBS collapse noted in leaked excerpts from his upcoming book, Back From The Brink: 1,000 Days At No 11 that Goodwin behaved «as if he was off to play a game of golf» while officials struggled to prevent a meltdown.

The author of Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown is an economics reporter of sixteen years standing for the New York Times.