Sentences with phrase «year at a friend»

I had tasted a few bomb homemade hummuses over the years at my friends art potlucks (attended by some very talented chef - types).

On the other end of the spectrum sat «Belinda,» also a mother of five, who spent nearly a year at a friend's house in Arkansas before returning to New Orleans.

I spend part of each year at a friend's house in rural France, in a region that is populated by more cows than people.

In grad school I interned with Youth East side Services, and worked for nearly three years at Friends of Youth as an outpatient counselor.

Not exact matches

At the same time, Apple released Find My Friends a year ago.

College was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing cars on the side.

Last week, an 18 - year - old named Keziah Daum posted pictures on Twitter of herself, her date, and her friends at their prom.

Twelve years later, I'm a CEO at that same company, which I now co-own with my best friend from college.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

A year ago, I suggested persuading a bunch of your friends and family to quit at the same time would make it easier for everyone to stay away.

Years ago at a marketing conference, my friend Jonathan Long from Market Domination Media told me that «You're never going to please everyone, so don't try to be everything to everyone.

After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after birth.

I was 25 years old in a new country, at a new university, with my close friends back home.

In 1997, after two boring, well - paid years at Procter & Gamble in Argentina, Bilinkis and a college friend co-founded Officenet, an office - supply company that served businesses in Argentina and Brazil.

If your down - on - her - luck pal has been sleeping on your sofa for the past year and earned less than $ 4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $ 4,050 on your federal return, even though the two of you are not related at all.

Kyle Stephens, who was a Nassar family friend, said he molested her for years at his Lansing - area home.

Twenty - two - year - old Daniela Vargas had just spoken Wednesday at an immigration press conference in front of Jackson City Hall in Mississippi when, according to her attorney, ICE officials pulled her and a friend over on the freeway as they were driving back.

At the F8 Developer Conference this year he advised: «No one enjoys calling a business, or installing a new app for every business or service they want to interact with, people should be able to message a business in the same way you'd message a friend.»

Benioff started his career at Oracle 30 years ago and was a top lieutenant to Ellison, whom he calls a friend and mentor.

During a speech at their wedding, Macron thanked family and friends for «accepting» and «supporting» the couple throughout the years.

An app that let players pretend to be friends with Kardashian published two years ago by Glu Mobile at first seemed to have the same kind of irresistible popularity.

«Several years ago, at the encouragement of a friend, I started carrying a gratitude rock in my pocket.

A year later Taylor debuted Quip, the resulting productivity software suite and company built with co-founder Kevin Gibbs, a friend from his days at Google.

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

Zuckerberg developed the social networking site with friends while an undergrad at Harvard, ultimately dropping out his sophomore year to focus on Facebook full - time.

Paul Smith — who among other things spent six years at Dear Friends and more recently at Friends at the Hyatt — has taken up the task of creating outstanding food at the valley's newest venue.

President Donald Trump spent the weekend in Washington, rather than at his Palm Beach estate, where he had planned to celebrate the anniversary first year in office with friends and supporters.

My friend Jeff Saut at Raymond James noted that there are people who have been in this business over eight years and have never experienced a Fed rate hiking cycle.

«For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family,» Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page at the time.

For the first five or six years, I shared a booth at the Fancy Food Show with a friend, a salesperson repping canned fish, honey, and a garlic spread.

With «a decent amount of cash saved up» at the age of 18, he took a gap year before starting university to travel to Southeast Asia with friends.

According to Chicago police, 28 - year - old Antonio Perkins was shot at about 8:45 p.m. while streaming video of himself and a number of friends who had gathered on South Drake Street.

The fact that O'Kelley, 38, and McKelvey, 41, have remained friends 20 years after competing for stardom on the basketball court is a testament to how they learned to handle conflict at South Eugene.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

APPLE HEALTH RESEARCHER DEPARTS COMPANY: Stephen Friend, a prominent health researcher at Apple, has left the company after less than two years, according to CNBC.

The most memorable perk, though, was the time four years ago he spent a weekend at Camp David with President Barack Obama and some of the president's closest friends.

While friends and family tend to be one - off investors, they pour $ 8 billion a year into Canadian businesses, according to Allan Riding, a Deloitte professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management who specializes in the management of growth enterprises.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

That, at least, is what Quebec's leading drugstore chain has for years been telling consumers on TV, radio and in flyers: You can find everything here, «even a friend.»

Trust had a major impact on employee loyalty as well: Compared with employees at low - trust companies, 50 % more of those working at high - trust organizations planned to stay with their employer over the next year, and 88 % more said they would recommend their company to family and friends as a place to work.

In about 75 % + cases, when I have run the numbers for clients or friends, buying almost always makes more sense if you are going to live in the house for at least 3 years.

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I've been a member of a mastermind group for three years, that two of my friends and I began when we met at a business conference in the Philippines.

While this let developers build powerful, personalized products, the privacy concerns led Facebook to announce at F8 2014 that it would shut down the Friends data API in a year.

Earlier this year, I lost one of my dearest friends to diabetes, which doesn't sound good at all.

The deadline to nominate a business for NaVOBA's Women's Veteran's Business Enterprise ® of the Year sponsored by our friends at JP Morgan Chase is coming soon.

There is opportunity for everybody, no matter where you live, you just have to be willing to work harder (and smarter) than everyone else, while my many of my friends in college worked at McDonald's and partied, I started my own custom harvesting business with loan for a 10 year old combine, and an old tandem axle truck.

At that time of the season, demand is lower than in the summer, and ending the cuts in March — ahead of peak demand — could exacerbate the glut that OPEC and friends have been fighting this year.