Sentences with phrase «americans made in a year»

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Many believe an engagement is forthcoming, which would make Markle the first American to marry into the royal family in over 80 years.

The full - year results also indicate that Mattel — which makes Barbie, Fisher Price and American Girl toys — lost market share in the critical U.S. market.

The beloved Canadian coffee retailer had a few activist investors at its gates in 2013 who questioned the company's U.S. expansion strategy, and 2014 will likely be the year that Caira either makes some adjustments or holds fast to the company's American approach.

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

The total amount of North American sales made through Groupon rose 30 percent in the second quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to the financial statement released Wednesday.

In my compressed work year, I did my first TED talk, gave a keynote speech at American University, programmed and designed my first app, made TV appearances on Al Jazeera America and other outlets, and joined multiple startup advisory boards - all while being my son's primary caretaker and keeping my writing career going.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Although «stuffed with fluff,» Pooh Bear might have had a larger impact on American pop culture, but it's The Richest Man in Babylon that has made a massive financial impact on untold millions of readers, myself included, over the past 89 years.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

But it makes sense to boost that allocation now because years of under - performance have made foreign stocks so much more affordable relative to American ones — in Asia and Europe and in emerging markets from South Korea to Turkey.

Now in its third year, Stewart says American Made celebrates the rising stars of the growing «maker culture» and awards individuals for turning their passion for handcrafted goods into small businesses.

During the Super Bowl earlier this year, the American Petroleum Institute (API) launched an ad geared toward Millennials, who now make up the largest generation in the U.S. labor force.

Wright, a 43 - year - old elementary school teacher from North Fort Myers, Florida, made it to this season's «American Ninja Warrior» finals in Las Vegas.

The Asian country spent $ 16.48 billion on American - made civilian aircrafts, engines and aviation parts in 2015, up more than 180 percent from five years earlier.

So the gamble you're making is that today's average American house will not exceed $ 728,000 in value after 30 years of appreciation.

In recent years, the U.S. has certainly seen a resurgence in manufacturing, with companies like American Giant and Black & Denim making a commitment to produce products statesidIn recent years, the U.S. has certainly seen a resurgence in manufacturing, with companies like American Giant and Black & Denim making a commitment to produce products statesidin manufacturing, with companies like American Giant and Black & Denim making a commitment to produce products stateside.

Warren Buffett, No. 3 on Forbes» list of the world's richest people and most prominent among the low - tax dissenters, wrote an op - ed in The New York Times arguing that, in concert with budget cuts, Washington should raise taxes — especially on dividends and capital gains — for those earning upwards of US$ 1 million a year and even more on the 8,000 or so Americans making $ 10 million and up.

American movies, in consequence, were made for years as Marcus Loew, Adolph Zukor, Sam Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Louis Selznick, Louis B. Mayer, Jesse Lasky, and William Fox thought they should be made.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

«Today's proposal, along with past regulatory actions, will make it challenging for banks to meet the needs of the estimated 50 million consumers who access a variety of bank and nonbank small - dollar lending products each year,» said Virginia O'Neill, senior vice president of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance, in a statement.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

A change in American Banker's size - based criteria for inclusion made New York Community ineligible for this year's survey, and thus unable to defend its title.

With three One Direction concerts going ahead and an American football match, it is expected that the GAA will make more than $ 6m in rental income this year.

Another report Tuesday showed orders for business equipment rose in May for just the second time this year, indicating demand for American - made manufactured goods is stabilizing.

In February 2006, after working on the lumber trade file for nearly six years, Ed Gillespie visited Vancouver to make the keynote speech at a forum on the softwood lumber dispute, NAFTA and American trade policy.

And Novo Nordisk, which makes Novolog, has pledged to limit price increases in the American market to less than 10 percent in a year.

Making the appointment of Cohn even more of a travesty and insult to the American people, Cohn is reported to own more than $ 200 million in Goldman Sachs stock, much of it awarded to him during the company's years of selling their fraudulent mortgage investments to public pension funds.

Apple's announcement, couched as a major investment in the United States instead of a massive financial windfall, followed years of criticism that the company did not do enough for the American economy because it makes most of its products in China and parked its profits abroad.

While American women have made up a slightly larger share of wine purchasers in recent years, the WMC found that the gender gap widens among Millennials, particularly younger ones.

As the Los Angeles Times reports, the Girl Scouts of America actually employ two different bakers — ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers — to crank out the more than 200 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies the Americans eat each year — and the cookies they make look differently, taste differently and, in some cases, even have different names.

[485][216] A Gallup poll, taken in the final days of Obama's term, showed that 68 % of Americans believed that the U.S. had made progress in the situation for gays and lesbians during Obama's eight years in office.

BOSTON — January 16, 2018 — GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that the comprehensive review and reserve testing for GE Capital's run - off insurance portfolio, North American Life & Health (NALH), will result in an after - tax GAAP charge of $ 6.2 billion for the fourth quarter of 2017, and GE Capital expects to make statutory reserve contributions of ~ $ 15 billion over seven years.

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Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

North American airlines are expected to make the biggest profit next year — $ 13.2 billion, from $ 11.9 billion this year — but see only a modest increase in demand.

«This exhibit was one we intentionally made very broad, because it covered the 230 - year history of music and politics in the US,» says the exhibition's guest curator Daniel Cavicchi, who also serves as an associate professor of American Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

The money I make enables me to serve the poor — instead of vacation this year I spent a week in a Native - American village serving for Christ.

For one night of the year (and many more in between), they're able to capture the attention of Americans in cities across the country — 111.3 million in total just last year, making it the most watched television event of 2017.

Thus, according to a Congressional report made in 1973 entitled Work in America, «in 1900, two - thirds of American men who were 65 years of age and older were working.

«All the groups that make up the new American population, as opposed to the population of 50 years ago, are now participating on equal» terms, in politics and American society in general, he said.

Many people now have ten more healthy years (or more) than people in previous generations, which makes 2lst - century Americans biological pioneers.

On the one hand, I am freshly amazed at how profoundly our country has changed over the past 50 years, how much progress has been made in such a short time, and how poignant it is to honor Dr. King the day before we swear in the first African American president.

Those who made the American Revision of the Standard Edition (1901) hazarded a guess unwarranted by the Hebrew: «Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel...» They admit to their guesswork in a footnote: «The number is lacking in the Hebrew text, and is supplied conjecturally.»

A lot has been made in the past couple of years about deep problems in the American justice system, particularly when it comes to prisons.

Timing doesn't make one any more nuts than anyone else who believes it will happen «eventually» or «in the next 50 years» (more than 50 % of Americans believe the rapture will be upon us in the next 50 years according to a Pew research poll, I believe).

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

Forty - five percent of Americans say the country has made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

Obama is the first president in my lifetime who has been about the American people and not about wasting 8 years accomplishing nothing (or accomplishing the wrong thing: letting the economy tank, starting a war in the wrong country, making America an international embarrassment).