Sentences with phrase «works as a forced»

The AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellowship is funded and supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and these fellowships aim to help develop and support researchers in public engagement and policy work as a force for making change.

Vampirism may work as a force for generosity.

Just above and to the right of my head I can hear the NACA duct on the roof working as it forces air into the two beautifully arching carbon beams that feed the turbos and which I can see in the rear view mirror.

Because Wilson is black, he's sent to work as forced labor in the mines rather than being incarcerated with Roscoe.

If you have your insurance and investment bundled together, it works as a forced savings vehicle so you don't have to worry about both.

Fragments also play an important part in Ai Weiwei's work as they force attention on foundational elements and the most basic units that combine to create a whole.

While it is possible to trace specific decisions the artist made, one can also step back and experience the work as a force of nature, like the snapshot of a starling murmuration.

-- GHGs can work both as forcing and as feedback, the notion is clear, also that water vapour is a positive feedback effect — When water warms the amount of water vapour will increase, as will C02

Cash value life insurance works as a forced savings vehicle to help provide supplemental retirement income.

Not exact matches

Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

For - profit schools have become big business in the United States, especially as the unemployed seek a way back into the work force.

«The process forces employees to reflect and to jot out a forward - looking plan for getting stuff done, all while requiring a minimal disruption in the employee's actual work,» writes Chen, who adds that as employees can compose their Snippets on their own schedule, the practice is maker friendly, i.e., it doesn't break up long blocks on concentrated work.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

The forces that led to these HFT practices in the U.S. were at work in Canada as well.

That sets Cogito apart from other work - force - management tools, which often treat employees as would - be malingerers to be policed.

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

The survey of 16,000 people in 15 countries highlights the changing global retirement landscape as economic pressures and longer life expectancy force people to work longer.

He spent his childhood working in factories, and at night he forced himself to sleep as a way to forget his constant hunger.

«Banks are still a dominant hiring force for MBAs and continue to attract top talent, but working for larger, established companies off of Wall Street is becoming more attractive to MBAs as they offer a different type of lifestyle,» Scott Rostan, founder and CEO of Training The Street, a company that offers technical training to financial firms and business schools, said in a statement.

He noticed there was an opportunity to develop such modules, as well as virtual reality simulators, for so - called «ground school» training for helicopter pilots or the maintenance crews working on military airplanes such as the Royal Canadian Air Force's Hercules transport.

Even skeptics who once deployed euphemisms such as «robust» to describe Toronto real estate can no longer ignore the troubling forces at work.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

The main campus of Bell Labs was designed so that researchers working on different projects would be forced to interact with one another as they went about their daily tasks.

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted a «summer of hell» for commuters as scheduled repairs force a partial shutdown of the busiest passenger train hub in the country from July 10 through Sept. 1, or longer if work falls behind schedule.

Calliet has stopped working with Boyega, as the actor had to do press for «The Force Awakens.»

And with just 46 million Gen X behind them, as compared with more than 70 million Millennials, the talent gap will require hiring from the youngest generation in the work force.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

Recruiting women into the work force is an important element of Saudi Arabia's economic reform, known as Vision 2030.

Works with clients such as McDonald?s, Harvey - Davidson, United States Air Force and Delta.

The constraints should force you to consider an unfamiliar scenario, and you should try many of them as you work toward a viable solution.

Indeed, working from home seems like heresy if believe in the «collaborative, innovative workplace» idea, or (as I call it) the «let's - force - everyone - to - work - in - an - office - that - looks - like - a-hotel-lobby-from-outer-space» management fad.

As a result, most people are forced to sell their home and survive on Social Security benefits when they can no longer work.»

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

Air Force officials have cited «cultural issues» — such as training requirements and trouble maintaining a work - life balance — as reasons for the service's recruitment and retention problems.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

And he treats each worker as an individual, trying to find a way to make them work within the system rather than force them into a specific role.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The political rhetoric that floods our media and forces its ugly face in our lives daily becomes irrelevant as people work in teams to build products and services.

As expected, stronger literacy skills lead to post-secondary education and higher wages, but they also lead to a more easily trained and committed work force, as well as fewer workplace accidentAs expected, stronger literacy skills lead to post-secondary education and higher wages, but they also lead to a more easily trained and committed work force, as well as fewer workplace accidentas well as fewer workplace accidentas fewer workplace accidents.

«With no lines of authority to lean on, they were forced to have leadership emerge,» says Lloyd Fickett, a Phoenix - basedmanagement consultant who works as a part - time executive at Rodel and who taught the class.

«The Great Document Hunt» saw his Chicago sales force help customers identify the most important documents in their companies, such as new business proposals or contracts, and then work out which ones caused bottlenecks or reduced productivity, and look at how Xerox could help.

Most of those opening private clinics are major corporations with large work forces, such as Intel and Hewlett - Packard.

With his threats of large tariffs on imported goods, he has succeeded in forcing these giants to make uneconomic decisions — such as Carrier paying $ 25 per hour to its workers in Indiana to do work that can be done by Mexican employees for $ 2.50 per hour.

One of us would say, «well, I have to check this recipe» or «I have to check something for work,» and the other would jump on their phones, forcing us to write the day off as a failure.

That optimization may mean changing the way ground troops, including those from the Air Force, work with aircraft providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as with the personnel who analyze the information that is gathered.

It's sometimes viewed as a roadblock, layering you with debt — forcing you to work a «normal» job to pay down said debt — and pushing off your entrepreneurial dreams for a long time or forever.

The «Wheel of Fortune» host joined the US Army in 1968, first working as a finance clerk in Vietnam and then as a disc jockey for 18 months on armed - forces radio.

The increasingly diverse work force will demand benefits plans that adapt to individual needs, allowing employees to spend their benefits dollars as it suits them.

The list came with many surprising data points: Muncie, Indiana, was named as the city with the best access to financing, and Southern California (otherwise lauded as the «Silicon Beach») was said to have one of the least educated work forces in the U.S. — in the cities of Bell Gardens, Maywood, Coachella, Soledad, and Wasco.