Sentences with phrase «which got about»

Last summer North Carolina charter school officials put the small suburban school, which got about $ 1.6 million in public money last year, under extra supervision because of state concerns about finances and parent complaints about building safety and school leadership.

The strongest results were in Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., a zone of struggling schools within a large, urban school district, which got about 30 applicants per position in the first two years.

In month one, you earn links from three new domains and you move up to position 5, which gets about 5 % of all traffic (according to the graph in the previous section).

«Or do you stay with Marriott, which you get about the equivalent of $ 70 [per share] and you continue to believe in the lodging cycle and the synergies Marriott can create here.»

That has not been much of a problem for Tomlinson, given that he plays at TCU, which gets about as much national coverage as it does snow.

Holmquist noted that in Oneida County - which gets about $ 12.5 million a year from Turning Stone — officials are beginning to sound the alarm about losing revenue if the new casino is built in Seneca County.

The 155 - year - old Smithsonian has 16 museums, the National Zoo, and a half dozen remote research units, all of which get about two - thirds of their funds from the federal government.

Other cars that the Countryman SE can be compared to might include the Ford C - Max Energi, which gets about 20 miles on a charge, so it looks like MINI has some more work ahead in this department.

The tower is a spindly metal staircase which gets you about two or three storeys high, and offers a decent view of two figures — the hands and the tree.

``... possible presence of harmful bacteria in dust, and Florida, which gets about 4 percent of the dust that blows off the Sahara... In recent years scientists have documented that dust from the great storms of China reach the west coast of North America, possibly carrying pathogens.»

The biggest selling point: For the average driver, plug - in hybrids would be twice as fuel - efficient as regular hybrids, some of which get about 60 mpg, a small but rabid group of advocates says.

And in California, which gets about 75 to 80 percent of its freshwater from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, that combination of rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation, particularly in the winter and early spring, could prove especially dangerous.

If I remember correctly, electricity rates in France — with expensive nuclear power producing 70 % of electricity — are half those in green Germany — which gets about 75 % of its electricity from fossil fuels.

The site, which gets about 20,000 users on a typical night, generates one - on - one Webcam connections between you and another randomly chosen user.

I used to live along the Fitchburg Commuter Rail, which gets about 10,000 passengers / day.

Not exact matches

«People who have financial means get the chance to have the moral, ethical and spiritual debates about which method to choose,» said Dawn Vander Kolk, an Illinois hospice social worker.

To build trust, business leaders must be honest about the state of the company, where they see the company heading, how they want to get there and which skill sets are needed to round out the team during the early talent - recruitment process.

The only thing the U.S. has gotten to Mars's surface is a robot, and no humans have been to the moon — which is about 1 / 170th the distance away — since 1972.

«I will certainly be wistful about the loss of the homes themselves because they were environments in which we grew up, we played, we got muddy in the streams and rode horses, and had games and all of those memories.

Curious about a blog post titled «How I make money: My 18 sources of online revenue» written by Mark which led to a candid discussion to serve as advice and inspiration to those just getting started.

There's a lot of hemming and hawing about how Facebook doesn't choose what kinds of information to show you, which of course is factually incorrect, and appears to be mostly a rhetorical dodge in order to get around accusations of favoring certain viewpoints in trending topics.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

The value of keeping a customer satisfied in many cases outweighs the loss on the returned purchase, which is why consumers can generally ask for a refund on just about any purchase — and usually get one.

If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the loss of traditional TV subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.

It has become a crucial way in which hundreds of millions of people get information about the world around them.

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

The good news about this truth is that, in comparison to simple mental horsepower, which is larger set at birth, it's far easier to «get smarter» about emotions than it is to just «get smarter» generally.

The Internet makes it easier than ever to distribute text and video, which can be a big help for human rights activists trying to get the word out about horrific conditions in war zones or repressive regimes.

For the $ 119 annual fee, Prime members gets a slew of benefits (which definitely range in usefulness): free two - day shipping, free same - day shipping, and free two - hour delivery on eligible items (of which there are many), exclusive rewards and discounts, Prime Video, Prime Music, online photo storage, music and books, and about 20 other perks.

By leveraging social media, CropMobster spreads the word quickly about local food excess from any supplier, which in turn, gets healthy food to those in need, helps local businesses recover costs and prevent food waste.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

United Airlines» plan to grow aggressively over the next several years was aimed at getting investors even more jazzed about its stock, which was already rallying more than its peers» this year.

«Canadians will see that the way in which we're going about it makes sense and that when the decision time comes that there will be a consensus, at least, on the process that got us to the decision,» Carr says.

The difference is that in an S corp, owners pay themselves salaries plus receive dividends from any additional profits the corporation may earn, while an LLC is a «pass - through entity,» which means that all the income and expenses from the business get reported on the LLC operator's personal income tax return, says Ebong Eka, a CPA who also pens his own blog about the world of entrepreneurship at MoneyMentoringMinutes.com.

The average commercial property tax rate in America is 1.940 %, which would mean that the church is getting out of about another $ 20 million annually in property taxes, based on the estimate that it owns $ 1.5 billion in real estate.

However, what they didn't ask themselves — or perhaps kidded themselves about the response — is whether one chance to win some money which might be up to $ 1.5 million would be enough to get a golfer's attention?

Employees love it because they get to learn about beekeeping and biomimicry, which is learning how to solve problems by imitating how nature solves them.

(For example, you could imagine talking to your boss about getting rid of useless meetings, which brings us too...)

My proverbial alarm clock was going to wake up around 6 am, which, from 3 am, gave me about 180 minutes each day to get my passion projects done.

I think about getting one of the businesses to «escape velocity» — setting up systems and recurring revenue and removing yourself as a bottleneck — after which I can focus on the second.

Check out these quotes from 25 high - achieving individuals who talk about some of the habits which help them get ahead in business and life.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

Be aware if some of your products generally get poor reviews online; your sales staff may have to answer more questions about these or know which benefits to highlight.

For decades, men have had only two ways to actively avoid impregnating a partner: wear a condom (which are about 85 % effective) or get a vasectomy.

«This is a risky drug about which women and their doctors don't get enough information,» said Cindy Pearson, who heads the National Women's Health Network, which released the report card.

The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.

He says he can't get into details about Offload's big announcement, but the direction in which he's heading is clear: the consumer market.

«Several months later, I got an email from the IRS that was very specific about my having to remove that logo — which was IRS - copyrighted property — within seven days, from the website,» says Weber.

For me, the benefits of having a nice set of knives with which to cook was less about the time and effort it spared me (which was noticeable), and more about how enjoyable cooking was when it felt like I wasn't fighting the food to get it made.

Unless you work in financial services overseas (or seriously need to get a life), you probably have not heard about the EU's so - called Solvency II directive, which will come into effect on Jan. 1, 2013.