Sentences with phrase «years of work done»

Take a moment to contemplate that fact: The positive impact of years of work done by thousands of educators to build networks like KIPP, YES Prep, Achievement First, Noble, Mastery, Uncommon, Aspire, IDEA, Harmony, and others is literally negated by the performance of virtual charter schools.

There are hypothesis, and then years of work done to prove the hypothesis, at which point it becomes a law.

Hawaii's pension system is based on a benefit formula that is not neutral, meaning that each year of work does not accrue pension wealth in a uniform way until teachers reach conventional retirement age, such as that associated with Social Security.

Not exact matches

Regardless of what you want to accomplish, you don't have to wait until the new year to work towards your goals.

«Brainjolt was built on the work I did for five years every day between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

When you fly 300,000 miles per year, you do one of three things on a plane: work, sleep or watch movies.

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

When I look back over my 30 years of experience, people don't work out for a couple of different reasons.

Only 45 percent of those surveyed said they trusted their leadership, while a little more than half said they were not happy at work, and one in every two employees did not expect to be with their organization for more than a year more.

As I have repeatedly said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they want to work against their clients.

«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

«I said if I do one more year of not working I need to make it a goal - I need to achieve something.»

Yet, goals don't always work: According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, a mere 9.2 percent of participants the institute surveyed said they'd successfully achieved their New Year's resolutions so far in 2017.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

I did that for a couple of years and during that time I worked on Everyday Shooter, which was my first commercial game and the first that actually came out and made money.

What am I going to do with my people, some of whom have been working for me for 10 or 20 years?

If you want to hit the world of work sooner, you might want to pick a UK university where the courses are generally three years long, rather than the five you have to do in France.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

«I could probably do more work in the next two years than I've done in the past 17,» says Chaulk, ballparking potential revenues of $ 60 million in that time frame.

The company frequently ranks number one on lists of «Best Places to Work,» like it did this year on Glassdoor, and as it has six years in a row on Fortune.

A lot of the work we're doing there has been planned five to 10 years in advance — the careers of professors and graduate students depend on us performing the procedure properly.

On the evening of Oct. 18, 2011, exactly 82 years after the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed persons, a flock of corporate elite descended on Toronto's Fairmont Hotel to celebrate the progress women have made, and investigate the work still to be done.

I have done a lot of policy work in the last few years on a national and international level.

New Year's resolutions simply don't work until you let go of the old ways of thinking that prevent you from bringing in the new.

The grab - and - go convenience of a laptop - only worklife has worked for me for years — but that doesn't mean I'm willing to sacrifice screen space.

The U.S. government has done a lot policy and emergency services [work] on Mesh networking, of which I have been a huge champion for years, and I have done a lot of work in Washington pushing that forward.

Plus, expats do well there — 25 % earn more than $ 200,000 per year (perhaps not coincidentally, the same percentage of the country's expats work in finance).

Every year at the start of January, millions of Americans pledge to shed extra pounds and, with hard work and determination, many do.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

In determining that participants» aspirations do not always match the reality of what they're working towards, such findings can ultimately help people better budget their lives — and make New Year's resolutions that they'll actually keep, said Emilio Pardo, president of Life Reimagined.

Proving that all work doesn't mean no play, trampoline park creators Sky Zone lands the no. 273 spot on this year's Inc. 5000, with 2014 revenue of $ 24.4 million and a three - year growth rate of 1,674 percent.

The process won't be much different from last year, though if you're one of the millions of investors who jumped into the cryptocurrency craze, you may have extra work to do.

In an open letter to Uber's investors and board, the Kapors blasted Uber for ignoring the work some of its investors have tried to do behind the scenes for years to change the company culture.

Like I mentioned the other day, that system may have worked in the past but since the wide - scale rise of the Internet over the past 20 years, the masses are more aware of what they don't have than ever before.

For the last few years, there has been a lot of work that's been done and that's leading to improved results like Macy's and Bloomingdale's.

Solace Technologies» first year of business was about what you'd expect from a startup — funds were tight and the company's founders, who didn't take a salary for 12 months, worked from a basement in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.

«I don't think we're looking at a global economic collapse anymore,» says Mintz, who works in administration at the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba, «and the Canadian economy will recover next year.»

«He's going to have a lot of work to convince people that if it didn't work over the last 15 years, how will it work over the next five, 10, 15 years,» says Dan Hallett, a director of Highview Asset Management.

Think about something you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do — and think about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

But the damage was done: Dealers revolted and today, two years later, the company is still recovering from the tumult, still searching for ways to expand its sales, and still working to regain the trust of its 4,200 dealers.

Your startup may have the coolest technology in the world, but without people who believe in your product and service, who are willing to work for you, to buy from you, to do business with you month after month and year after year, then that $ 1 million number will be what it is for the majority of startups out there: only a dream.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

I know now after years of doing it that it has worked.

After testing thousands of products in the last 16 years as a journalist, it has become more about asking certain questions: Does this really change how I work?

But Google has announced it will build 100 prototypes of that autonomous two - seater, working to refine its technology, and reports circulated in late 2014 that Google was seeking an automotive partner to bring that car to market, though it may take up to five years to do so.