Sentences with phrase «up picking up the slack»

That means that your back and abs end up picking up the slack, which puts a lot of pressure on your lower back.

After all, no one opposes family values — until they're the person who winds up picking up the slack at the office while co-workers are home caring for a child or sick family member.

Not exact matches

It will take several years for Ontario and Quebec to pick up the slack from the resource provinces.

It found that social - support providers — those who ask co-workers to lunch, arrange activities in the office and help pick up some of the slack — are 10 times as likely to be engaged at work than introverts and 40 percent more likely to land a promotion.

The government projects that business investment will help pick up the slack.

The bears don't believe Genworth will be picking up the slack because «they too are subject to a parliamentary cap of $ 250 billion,» at least as stated in this article, «The under - the - radar changes that may soon deflate (or pop) the housing bubble.»

Uber drivers, for instance, have been shown to pick up riders in the whiter areas of DC more regularly — though to their credit, Uber drivers have also been picking up the slack left over from racist taxi drivers in what may or may not be a sincere social marketing ploy.

The data center market is going to have to pick up the slack if Intel's going to have a solid quarter (and outlook).

I'm expecting another so - so revenue performance from IBM, with job cuts and buybacks picking up some slack for the bottom line.

Says Herrick, «automation picks up any slack in your business processes and translates into higher sales.»

Rise above your competitors by offering more than your customers expect — an area where big retailers often fail and smaller businesses can pick up the slack simply by being more in touch.

But cloud is starting to pick up the slack.

More than two - thirds (67.3 %) of funding requests are approved by alternative lenders, who picked up the slack from the SBA slowdown and are now offering more lucrative terms to borrowers.

Reviewing resumes, interviewing, onboarding, and picking up the leftover slack has been exhausting for all of us.

He finds that by extending payment terms to customers to 90 days and using Fundbox to pick up the slack, he gets paid faster and more often.

It also makes it easier to pick up the slack for a partner that's recently been let go.

Discontent can brew among co-workers who are left to pick up the slack during a mat leave, then sometimes watch as their absentee colleague gets promoted upon her or his return.

E-commerce is a booming industry, and as brick and mortar retail continues to suffer, the Internet is picking up more and more of that slack.

«Angel investors are picking up the slack to invest smaller amounts in early stage funding.»

It's the person who always picks up the slack you can't afford to lose.

While their employers let taxpayers pick up the slack, that's not the attitude Costco has assumed.

There are plenty of up - and - coming retailers in the wings to pick up other slack, including retailers that started out exclusively online.

Make sure that other team members know what's going on so they can pick up the slack when someone leaves.

Identify where you're not strong and lean on others to pick up your slack.

As emerging economies slow down, Europe could pick up some of the slack.

It's not like resource demand in other markets is ready to pick up the slack.

«Many people who aren't consistent with their family budget turn to credit cards to pick up the slack,» he said.

In my judgment, weak demand has been a drag on the economy and strong fiscal stimulus could help to pick up the slack.

Unfortunately, they also may not have anyone else to pick up the slack in this area.

Fiscal policy can pick up the slack, but not if Congress refuses to step up.

If the US contracts its deficit with most of the rest of the world in terms of economic size, it's not mathematically feasible to have someone else pick up the slack to even hold the deficit stable.

In Australia, for example, several foreign banks have ceased their market - making in corporate bond and derivatives markets in recent years and have drawn down their inventories.7 In core markets, such as domestic sovereign bonds, domestic dealers are likely to pick up at least part of the slack.

Without it, Lilly is counting on other fresh market entries to pick up the slack, including diabetes drug Jardiance and Basaglar, its new biosimilar version of Sanofi's insulin blockbuster Lantus.

Conventional institutional investors are unlikely to pick up the slack, he adds.

You're right that the margin of safety is so much smaller in bonds because the yield won't be there to pick up the slack.

The government should aim to reduce this kind of involvement in mortgage lending, but the private sector must be made ready to pick up the slack first.

It contracted in the first quarter of the year at an annualized rate of 0.6 per cent — in large part due to the steep drop in oil prices and the failure of other sectors to pick up the slack.

«We are seeing weakness in manufacturing that means another sector will have to pick up the slack.

Ontario decided to pick up the slack, restoring the needed healthcare — and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander had the nerve to scold the province for stepping in.

A rich Calgarian once told me that he was sick and tired of the government expecting wealthy Albertans to pick up the slack.

Mining and oil related investment evaporated and there weren't enough infrastructure projects to pick up the slack.

Low corporate taxes, for example, mean that personal income tax must pick up a good deal of the slack.

«The successors to China who will pick up the slack in demand growth aren't quite of a size yet to have the impact that Chinese growth has had.

Their banks are well capitalized and positioned to pick up the slack from Chinese banks that are facing loan losses and potential recapitalization.

Assuming the Fed will be done purchasing Treasuries by perhaps mid-2014, just who will pick up the slack?

But you can't just throw it all out and assume that the non-profits will pick up the slack.

I won't always be here to pick up your slack, but do carry on...

The one who can't hates to do laundry or cook etc doesn't have to, because someone else is there to pick up the slack.

And then when it is crunch time — when the book is due, when the proposal needs to be sent it tomorrow — you can carve out the time by having a strong home team to pick up the slack.

But in the medium term (a few decades), a larger bureaucratic government can seem more reliable than parents who aren't there and civic institutions that do not pick up the slack.