Sentences with phrase «was fairly»

Customers were grateful rather than finicky, marketing was fairly simple, and the revenue funded expansion into bigger markets.

In both cases the company was fairly close to closing the deal when Google made counteroffers, showering them with restricted stock grants that are reported to be worth more than $ 50 million in each case.

It was a fairly stunning reversal for Apple, and one that came without any PR campaigns or orchestrated news releases — just a series of tweets from a senior executive, effectively apologizing for the company's prior stance:

In the old days, dropping by someone's office or picking up the phone was a fairly straightforward affair.

Because the lawyers ended up with a good chunk of what was a fairly small asset pool to begin with, that meant downsizing.

For a long time, Canadians were buying from American stores where duty and shipping was fairly expensive.

In South Orange, I think there was a feeling that the community was fairly disconnected from government and there was a desire to bring someone in from the outside who is able to look at the challenges that face our municipality from a new perspective and bring people in more as part of that process.

Meanwhile, the Stranger Things ad was fairly low - rated on USA Today's annual Ad Meter — coming in 49th out of 66 spots.

In general, the difference between the average engagement levels for Facebook and Facebook Live videos was fairly small.

«There hasn't been such a wide open field since Goldwater ran against Rockefeller,» Bill Whalen, a research fellow specializing in California and national politics at the Hoover Institution, said in earlier interview with Inc. «Even then it was a fairly focused race, now there is not one solid frontrunner.»

We were on stage with him at the Empire Club a few weeks ago and the feedback was fairly positive.

And I was fairly certain no one could crack my access with a simple piece of Scotch tape, as I suspected they could with the reader.

They performed reasonably well but not exceptionally in untracked snow that was fairly soft.

His oldest was fairly obedient.

It was a fairly painless promise to make, Moneta says, because the vast majority of customers return goods within the first few days of receipt.

Since executive pay was fairly transparent prior to 2018, the only new piece of information is median employee compensation.

The campaign undertaken to drive in more attention towards the company's website was a fairly local one with a slogan called «changing lives» and needed people to participate by messaging or emailing friends and letting them know about the campaign and its benefits.

«I wouldn't say he's the only person in the world who heard something similar last year, but it was fairly unusual,» said Lars Daalgard, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who brokered the Imgur investment and now sits on Imgur's board.

Playing for the then - Division II UC Davis Aggies, O'Brien was fairly unknown heading into the draft, so much so that Jets fans attending the draft booed his selection, having preferred the more well - known Marino.

I'm fairly sure my parents paid for that computer, just like I've paid for subsequent Apple (AAPL) laptops, phones and tablets.

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

Like I mentioned before, the building envelope (the walls and roofing) will be the most difficult to update, but lighting and HVAC are fairly easy fixes.

«Licensing laws have typically been fairly strict on who can sell a motor vehicle because of the possibility of fraud,» explains Jim Moors, director of franchising and state law with the National Automobile Dealers Association.

As a fellow alumna of Harvard, I found it to be a fairly instructive guide on what and what not to do to become a successful entrepreneur.

[Employees] are fairly used to people saying good and bad things [about the company].

Ultimate Frisbee is a fairly simple game: Like football, the objective is to catch the Frisbee inside an end zone.

Proven business concepts — another dry cleaner, burger joint, or online clothing retailer — are important to everyday life, but their business models are fairly «safe» and not innovative.

The free Skype client is fairly obvious to find and use, although there's one that runs in Windows 10 on the desktop and one that runs as a touch app.

«We run it on a budget of about $ 500,000 per year, which compared with other campaigns such as Road Safety is a fairly lean and mean campaign.»

Although an APR is a fairly specific indicator of cost, using it as the sole metric risks confusing some customers, says Brock Blake, Lendio's co-founder and chief executive.

Look, it's fairly easy to dismiss The Chairless Chair — a wearable exoskeleton developed by Swiss company Noonee that allows you to sit wherever — as a ridiculous piece of technology.

Minneapolis commuters don't have it bad — average commute is 12 minutes and transportation costs are fairly low at 27.5 % of annual income.

Study high achievers and you'll find the recipe for success is fairly consistent and includes hard work, perseverance, as well as a willingness to take risks and learn from failure.

This hardware movement has adopted many names (everything from «Hardware 2.0,» to an all - out «hardware renaissance,») but the reason behind it is fairly straightforward: While it may not be easier to ship a hardware product, it's definitely becoming cheaper.

Luckily, it is all encrypted, so it should be fairly safe.

This represents a «sea change,» according to the report; until recently, affordability outside of Vancouver had been fairly stable since the 1970s.

One of the nice things about copyrights is that securing such protection is fairly straightforward.

In our example, defining the above is fairly simple.

The list is fairly lengthy, but the most common is that you don't need to send a 1099 to corporations or for payments of rent to real estate agents (typically property managers — yet they are required to send them to the property owners).

There has been a fairly sustained increase in job creation over at least the last five months, Desjardins said, and the level of initial jobless claims has been decreasing.

Chicago's commute time is fairly high at 13.5 minutes, but transportation costs are on the low end at 27 % of annual income.

To - do lists, it seems, are a fairly lousy reflection of what most folks actually get done, and most items that actually do end up getting done are completed very quickly after being added to the list, so quickly that you probably didn't need the list to remember the task anyway.

Compared to a gaming company such as Kixeye, Tista Games is fairly scrappy — but its appraoch to gaming is unique.

The way it works is fairly simple.

Once again, this is a fairly simple point.

Some are fairly insignificant, like the clothes we put on in the morning; others, such as the vocations we settle on, have life - changing consequences.

In any case, the main point of both posts is fairly obvious.

Weekly staff meetings are a fairly normal occurrence in business.

David Ceron, a special agent for the inspector general's office in Washington, told Kaiser Health News that «it's fairly common» for family members to be the ones neglecting or abusing seniors and the ones committing the fraud.

This is another fairly obvious factor with any businesses office space.