Sentences with phrase «with less than no time»

Turning up as an aspirant partner with a fondness for dodgy smokes and The Doors meant you were as much use as a chocolate teapot — worse, people with less than no time had to really re do Everything you touched.

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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

The motivating force behind this model, Times executives say, is that breaking news has more or less become a commodity because anyone with a website — or even just a smartphone and a Twitter account — can publish news as fast or faster than a newspaper.

Ask, «If I had 10 less hours of low - value work each week, could I fill this time with higher value activities that would be worth more than the cost of an assistant?»

If you agree with Bannon and Yeh that going full on all the time isn't just unhealthy but also bad business, there is still the less than minor matter of actually banishing the guilt you feel when you switch off.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Less than two years later however, AirAsia had turned itself around, having repaid its debt — even with the challenging travel environment it was in at the time.

Every business owner I work with thinks their project will take less time than it actually does.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

Forge told me that he wrapped up a conviction of Dusty Foggo, an executive director of the CIA, in less time than the SEC has taken so far with the Wal - Mart investigation — and the Foggo case involved classified documents.

Though Jobs's explanation was logical enough — with iTunes sales set to outpace those of CDs, he said it was time to drop the compact disc from the logo — observers were less than understanding, loudly deriding the blue bubble and black note as everything from «nondescript» to «hideous.»

At the same time, it's continued to expand globally, with U.S. market now representing less than a third of sales.

Chipmakers are already among the market's best performers this year, but Ankur Crawford of the Alger Spectra Fund thinks Broadcom (avgo), at less than 16 times 2017 earnings, looks undervalued following its merger with Avago.

While he may be a «world - class player» — in President - elect Donald Trump's words — the financial metrics of his time as Exxon's CEO reveal some less than stellar results compared with peers.

Wellard shares were hammered for a second time in less than a week, with the company warning of yet another potential profit hit before the end of the financial year.

They are (mostly, preferably) outsiders — they are outsiders on purpose — and so by definition they spend much less time in direct contact with the organization than, say, the CEO or other employees.

Time spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprTime spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprtime with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprise.

Yet, a recent report from the Financial Times shows that over the past two years MBA graduates have cooled on entrepreneurship, with less than one in five choosing the less stable startup experience.

«We had to find a niche [that had] less competition but also generated a better return than the market with less risk over time,» he says.

Small companies with less than $ 100,000 in revenues applied for loans from online lenders 30 percent of the time.

But if you're serving a larger market and operate on miniscule profit margins, it might not be worth your time to optimize your site for keywords with less than 3,000 to 5,000 average monthly searches.

Adopting these best practices and going the extra mile to protect yourself online may seem tedious, but it is far less time - consuming and traumatic than dealing with the aftermath of a hack.

Microsoft's overarching goal is to «democratize A.I.,» which Nadella explained has something to do with analyzing the mountains of data produced by consumers and businesses and then presenting the findings to people who have far less free time than they used to have.

The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.

Although entering your information every time you shop online or memorizing your credit card number may be tedious, it's much less tedious than dealing with being hacked.

Managing finances internally is not necessarily a drain on employees» time, with 50 % of respondents saying they spend less than five hours a week on it and only 9 % taking more than 15 hours weekly.

With less than $ 3 million in sales at the time, Carroll's company qualified for net - 15 terms.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

The study also showed that time spent on social media sites is more for personal reasons than for job - related activities, with less than 7 percent of respondents indicating they use social media exclusively for work purposes.

By the time the boy arrived, I was quite familiar with the diaper bag, though perhaps still less than a master of the mobile diaper change.

In less than a week, the company pulled together the legal and banking infrastructure, all while leasing cloud - based servers capable of delivering outbound calls to ten times more customers than Splice had served with its North American clients.

«Although we are pleased with these annual results, this relatively short - term performance is far less meaningful than our long - term results as financial markets can move sharply in either direction over shorter time horizons,» CPPIB chief executive Mark Wiseman said Friday as the fund manager released its annual report for the year ended March 31.

The viewer of our digital content is younger and more affluent and spends more time with the content than our older, less affluent more rural viewer of our magazine.»

But, four sources familiar with Elliott's thinking said Europe offered a lot of scope, as fewer activist funds operated there than in the United States, and European companies have been subject to the attentions of activists for less time.

But the fact that Verizon seeks to buy AOL is just the latest chapter for the Internet pioneer, which saw its merger with Time Warner (TWX) fizzle out less than a decade ago.

With very little cost upfront and with very little time and effort, Marsh found that with an investment of less than $ 1,000, she was able to increase her sales and recoup her initial investment within two monWith very little cost upfront and with very little time and effort, Marsh found that with an investment of less than $ 1,000, she was able to increase her sales and recoup her initial investment within two monwith very little time and effort, Marsh found that with an investment of less than $ 1,000, she was able to increase her sales and recoup her initial investment within two monwith an investment of less than $ 1,000, she was able to increase her sales and recoup her initial investment within two months.

Now we're on the verge, for the first time ever... of being able to have one pill to treat people with HIV and AIDS that costs less than $ 100.

Investors are set to snap up the bonds with an interest rate of less than 3.4 %, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, or about half the rate Sprint would have had to pay if it issued the bonds without any backing.

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During an interview last year with Fortune, Apple's head of HR, Denise Young Smith, said that 43,000 employees had visited one of seven on - site doctors during the first year and that the center has an average wait time of less than five minutes, as well as a team of chiropractors, physical therapists, and dietitians.

Time's exclusive Q&A with Taylor Swift touches on the saga swirling around her less - than - savory opinion of Spotify, the music streaming service that she attests keeps artists from being properly paid.

Compare these 10x returns with a mainstream movie like The Dark Knight, which made less than six times its budget of $ 185 million — and that's among the more successful hits.

With a bake time of less than two minutes, the pies are ready more quickly than it takes to bake a standard frozen pizza.

Less than a year later, it's closing in on $ 2.2 billion, if reports from buyout talks with Fox and Time Warner are to be believed.

Those with relatively high household incomes — 41 % of Americans with an annual household income of $ 100,000 or more have used four or more of these services, three times the proportion among households earning less than $ 30,000 annually.

The monthly payments for this loan are more expensive than with a 30 - year mortgage as you are paying off the same amount of money in half the time, but you will pay less interest.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

But it widens to 6 percent by the time employees reach midcareer status, around level five, with women earning, on average, $ 11,000 less than men.

According to the December 2016 Realtors Confidence Index Survey Report, 81 % of first - time homebuyers buy with less than 20 % down.

«At that time, the relatively unpopular Rolex model — a chronograph with bold numbering designed for timing motorsports events — retailed for less than $ 400.