Sentences with phrase «early numbers for»

Last month, I wrote a blog post looking at my early numbers for The Snow Queen's Shadow [Amazon B&N Mysterious Galaxy].

Reports have said the early numbers for «Hard Choices» reflect that it will not sell enough to cover Clinton's advance, or to sell the million copies shipped, which are sent on consignment, with unsold copies ultimately going back to the publisher.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Advertisers pay based on the number of viewers or listeners for a show, and Stern learned early on that the people who hated him actually listened to his show more than his fans.

WHILE it's too early to gauge the long - term prospects of subscriber - based online DVD rental companies, the increasing number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.

This number is phenomenal in itself but more so for the fact that the medium of social networking was largely unheard of until the early 2000s.

It may still be early days, but Amazon's arrival in Australia has yet to damage the numbers for some high - profile traditional retailers.

In early June, payroll services colossus ADP suddenly blocked Zenefits accounts from accessing its ADP Run HR and payroll solution for small businesses, claiming that Zenefits traffic was overloading its servers and that Zenefits connected with ADP payroll resources in a manner that threatened to expose Social Security numbers and other sensitive customer data.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

Seeking to provide classes for kids eighteen months and up, she founded Little Kickers, a program that promotes a curriculum of early learning skills (colours, numbers, etc.) alongside a love of sport.

There's a blog for a product that doesn't really exist yet, a growing number of early adopters who are waiting, like you, for the app to come out; you're commissioning great content and paying out of pocket for it, and shopping around for an office space because your data is telling you that as soon as you get the product out, people will be positively chomping at the bit to get to it.

But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the small number of consoles available.

That's when Doron Petersan, the tattooed, raven - haired owner of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, where I had had the cookies - and - cake number earlier, leaps onto the top of the bar and shouts for attention.

In June, the office had disclosed an earlier breach affecting 4.2 million such workers, which included performance reviews as well as social security numbers for federal employees.

Today, Brazil sits at No. 5 in a 2010 UN ranking of countries receiving FDI, and early numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil put the economy on pace to eclipse the previous year with US$ 43 billion in FDI for the first six months of 2011.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

It was the second straight month of declining breaches following a harrowing summer for health providers — but the numbers are still significantly higher than they were earlier in 2016.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that NRG's earlier tracking had estimated a $ 125 million opening for Black Panther as recently as two weeks ago, but the number has been climbing as buzz for the film builds.

Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods said an unexpected reaction to medications was to blame for his early - morning DUI arrest.

Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods said an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications was to blame for his early - morning DUI arrest near his Jupiter Island home in Florida on Monday.

The legislation proposed earlier this summer - the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act - would exclude most such workers and would reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Branson, in spite of the rest of his astoundingly varied schedule (it would exhaust me to even list a few of the pies he has his fidgety fingers in) showed up early for rehearsal, where he spent over making sure he was appropriately synced up with the ladies in lederhosen for their musical number.

To find this conclusion, SeatGeek looked at the number of NHL tickets that changed hands on secondary markets for all games in the 2011 - 12 season, then isolated which tickets were purchased on Sept. 12, 2011 or earlier.

But critics point to the high numbers of one - and - done players — who declare at the earliest opportunity under the rule — as evidence that the rule is not working as intended to prepare young athletes for life as an NBA player.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

The association of childhood bereavement with success (a disproportionate number of accomplished people lost parents early) is a bit of an eyebrow raiser, but the theme of personal compensation for adversity rings true.

The company, which has dubbed itself the «un-carrier,» will pay early - termination fees of up to $ 650 — on up to five total lines — for individual customers or families who opt to trade in their devices and port their numbers to T - Mobile's service network.

The early months of 2015 proved a difficult time for the relationship between Indonesia and Australia, with the bond between the two countries and neighbours strained over a number of high - profile incidents.

The closeness between the two men changed earlier this year, however, at about the same time that Redstone started to become closer to his daughter Shari, who had been estranged from her father for a number of years.

Although the FCA said it would publish a detailed summary of the report in due course, Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Nicky Morgan said earlier this month there was an overwhelming case for publishing the full report, since it was now in the hands of a number of third parties.

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

The bets for an earlier shift receded after the latest inflation numbers, but there now is a consensus the Bank of Canada will raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point in the autumn, probably October.

Therefore, because you have four times the number of startup companies finding and accepting early - seed funding, you also have four times the number of startup companies competing for series A funding later.

Other temporary headwinds being cited for the first quarter numbers include strikes, the threat of trade wars and an early Easter holiday.

Earlier this month, the Merriam - Webster Dictionary added 850 new words and definitions to its online dictionary, including a number of words related to cyrptocurrencies, including the word «cryptocurrency» and the term «initial coin offering» (a sort of initial public offering for digital tokens).

The number of users who view and apply for jobs at the company increased by 35 % year - over-year, according to LinkedIn, while «unique job appliers nearly doubled in February from a year earlier.»

Incentives for early and late retirement will be modified to decrease the attractiveness of early retirement and increase the attractiveness of late retirement; phased retirement will be facilitated by allowing people to collect benefits while contributing and earning new claims on CPP retirement benefits; and the number of years of low earnings that can be deducted from the calculation of a CPP retirement benefit will be increased.

«Sales volumes for new - energy vehicles exceeded 700,000 last year, and this number is further expected to increase to more than 2 million in 2020, and to more than 5 million in 2025,» Kevin Li, a senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, told CNBC early this week.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

«BP is continuing to plan for a lower oil price world,» chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this month, adding that «I'm not expecting big shifts in prices anytime soon and a price of $ 50 a barrel looks like the right number to plan on for the rest of the decade.»

Snapchat is also dealing with the snafus that sometimes afflict young and fast - growing technology companies, including having to apologize for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users» phone numbers to be exposed.

Car - pooling was popular in the earliest days of the automobile, but for much of the last 100 years, the numbers have been going in the opposite direction.

The company said the number of people in the United States and Canada who use Facebook on a daily basis fell for the first time ever in last year's fourth quarter, dropping to 184 million from 185 million a year earlier.

The trend looks likely to spread beyond the early movers and capture the attention of others for a number of reasons.

Earlier this month, Verizon (VZ) blamed Apple's iPhone 5 supply constraints for the surprisingly low number of iPhone 5s that Verizon sold in their first week on shelves.

ADP's number was also below earlier analyst estimates of at least 200,000 new jobs added each month for the remainder of 2012, and barely above the 150,000 new jobs needed simply to keep pace with economic growth and new job market entrants.

Lack of capital is the number one reason for early stage business failure.

In early 2013, the leadership team determined that as a result of the fragmentation in the market there were a number of opportunities for us to capture market share, either through acquisition or strategic acceleration.