He then helped oversee Starwood's time-share division and the hotels that Starwood owned until he left in 2008.
The time-share operator would queue up an assortment of customers so that not a second of processor time went to waste.
Promises of free vacation tickets or maybe a free TV if you sit in on a time-share sales pitch are common.
Al Grimsley, owner of the Mountain Trail Rider Ranch near Salt Lake City, Utah, retired from the business of selling time-share property.
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Many Brazilian mansions have no hot water in the kitchen, and there are paulistanos who time-share helicopters but do not own a dishwasher.
McClurg aims to expand his time-share model to a fleet of four boats serving specific regions, such as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.
Monthly fees amounting to roughly half the expense of stabling, feeding and caring for a horse are attracting the same folk who are sought after for time-share properties.
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Getting into other services, like time-share or assisted-living units, would put the company back into real estate, which Choice abandoned in 1997, a year after being spun off from Manor Care.
Some of the developers are old time-share hands too.
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One example: David A. Siegel, the CEO of a big time-share company, Westgate Resorts, wrote to his 7, 000 employees saying that if President Obama were re-elected, higher taxes could hurt the company.
Excluding charges for cost cuts and other one-time items, per-share earnings fell to 28 cents from 33 cents.
The Lib Dem-controlled authority said the posts being cut are made up of part-time, vacant and job-share positions.
Plus, many of these options will probably never be exercised due to Cisco's boom-time share price.
For nearly all the same reasons that HP needs to buy Nokia, similar arguments can be made that Dell (DELL) should also be bidding on the one-time market share leading mobile phone manufacturer.
They live their lives in real-time and expect real-time responses from the information-rich world in which they openly share personal information, opinions and ideas with one another.
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And she must do all this without any full-time deputies to share the burden.
The quick fixes helped RadioShack to a 29 cents-per-share profit after one-time items, compared with the 13 cents analysts had forecast.
Some officials worried that adding encryption would make it harder to quickly share time-sensitive data within the U.S. military, and with allies.
Earnings per share came in at 11 cents per share, under the analyst estimate of 24 cents per share, but 3 cents above the estimate for earnings before one-time items of 51 cents per share.
Excluding one-time items, Coca-Cola earned 45 cents a share.
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For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?
It earned 23 cents per share from continuing operations in the first quarter compared with earnings of 16 cents per share in the fourth quarter (excluding one-time charges) and earnings of 22 cents per share in last year's first quarter.
In America they are expected to account for one-fifth of all share-trading in three years' time (see chart).
Imagine, for instance, the time-savings associated with simply being able to share a job posting across the company without the need for data-reentry.
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Imagine the legions of salesforces who can suddenly collaborate and share real-time feedback on situations?
Excluding one-time items, earnings per share were 33 cents, well above the 28 cents expected by Wall Street.
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Both leaders agreed that the two countries will share real-time credible and actionable information on any future terrorist threats.
Angriest are the long-time visitors now forced to share their favourite fishing holes.
"As our first U.S. 4GLTE smartphone, we're proud to launch the Anthem 4G with our long-time partner MetroPCS because we share their goal of providing consumers with outstanding value and a strong 4GLTE experience, " said Lixin Cheng, CEO, ZTE USA, and president, North America Region, ZTE.
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