Sentences with phrase «first year challenges»

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The tariffs, which have increased frictions with U.S. trading partners worldwide and have prompted several challenges before the World Trade Organization, are aimed at allowing the two U.S. metals industries to increase their capacity utilization rates above 80 percent for the first time in years.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

A heart surgeon who pioneered a life - saving new medical device first challenged conventional wisdom as a medical student 28 years ago.

In June 2014, however, Target Canada released its apology on YouTube, which featured employees and executives reflecting on the challenges of the first year and confessing to their sins.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

He spoke about accomplishments like deregulation and the Republican tax bill, but mostly emphasized the challenges he's faced during his first year.

If you're one of them, and you have expertise in, say, one or two areas, the broad range of questions you must answer — with little or no prior experience to draw on — burdens those first few years of running a business with challenges.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

«After a challenging first half, the firm performed well for the remainder of the year as the operating environment improved,» CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

It was only the second such permit DOE has given out so far and the first in nearly two years, but it does pose a serious challenge to B.C., especially if more approvals will follow.

Through all of the successes and challenges of the past year, Dan has never once put himself first,» read the post, which includes a video of Price accepting the surprise gift.

«We expect the first quarter used vehicle pricing challenges to continue throughout the year.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

«The first two to three years were both glorious in their own right and extraordinarily challenging,» Doshi says.

As for «challenged,» CNN just finished its second highest rated first quarter in the past nine years.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

The experience of launching one of your first businesses reminds me of the stunts and challenges I have embarked on over the years to promote Virgin and put our businesses on the map.

Their «No Ceilings Full Participation Report» identifies the significant gains women have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.»

For years, I defended the position challenged by my first question.

When I interviewed for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if issuing challenge, «That's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary is $ 15,500, though at least she was candid.

During his 30 - year career with the company, he spearheaded crucial marketing campaigns that positioned Pepsi on par with Coca - Cola for the first time, pushing celebrity endorsements and the Pepsi Challenge.

Delvinia designs the Next Great Innovator Challenge for RBC Royal Bank — a crowdsourcing competition created to gain insights into the innovations young adults wanted to see in banking within the next 30 years — and helps RBC become the first Canadian bank to launch a banking blog.

The challenge of trading around quarterly earnings reports When I first began my trading career about 15 years ago, I had no idea how to manage trades that coincided with the quarterly earnings reports of various stocks.

Revenue specific to emerging technology (including app development)- — an area related to the top customer challenges that Anna's team helped identify and address --- grew year over year by 41 % in the first quarter and 44 % in the second quarter.

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

«We are raising full year EPS guidance today due to the strength of our underlying operating performance of our first two quarters, despite the challenges facing Walmart U.S. in the short term, and the current economy,» said Tom Schoewe, executive vice president and chief financial officer.

The first week of 2016 was a challenging one for many financial markets worldwide, as (1) It was the worst opening week of the year in history for both the S&P 500 ® (SPX) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, (2) The Shenzhen Composite Index of Chinese stocks fell 14.2 %, (3) Crude oil futures (Feb..

This is not the first time the team has taken on such a feat; for most of them, this is the fifth consecutive year in which they take to the saddle for a punishing long - distance cycling challenge.

«It's been one of the many challenges I've encountered in the past two years, along with being a first timer with no connections, as well as fighting for my artist visa and getting the script in the right hands.»

Be patient and be prepared to manage every challenge that comes your way so that you can get through that first critical year.

Dan Caplinger (First Solar): First Solar has had its share of challenges in recent years, as the company found itself slipping from a competitive standpoint as cheaper panels with higher efficiency flooded the solar market.

Still in his first year in office, Rosselló had already seen his share of daunting challenges by the time Maria made landfall as a Category 4 storm.

It was a real adjustment for the first couple of years, and a challenge.

But in the last three years, as I have begun to question and challenge certain elements of how we «do church,» I decided to seriously examine Isaiah 28:10 - 13 for the first time in my life.

This is an important and helpful book for the Catholic community as it struggles to respond appropriately to the challenge outlined by Watkin — and by Ronald Knox two years earlier in 1945 (see the first part of his God and the Atom, summarised in Faith Magazine Nov / Dec 2012).

My role as a non-Indian, a Lutheran pastor and a Western - trained psychotherapist was first challenged years ago while I was working and living with a number of Chippewas, members of my first rural parish in northern Michigan.

... The UN Commission for the nutrition challenges of the twenty - first century, in its Report submitted on March 20, 2000, has pointed out that» about one in four new - born children in developing countries - around 30 million each year - suffer retarded growth in the womb, an indication of how the nutritional well - being of mothers in pregnancy remains one of the most neglected areas in world health.

The atheist professor with docorate degree of course who claims he can change our belief in God on our first class meeting by the end of semester challenged Jesus» birth date, but didn't challenge the use of our year from the time Jesus» death which probably wasn't January 1st either, lol.

Many of the young people Nicodemus is currently supporting were once homeless at Christmas and know first - hand the desperate challenges so many kids will face this year.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

but, there are many accounts written by first hand witnesses, at a time (10 to 40 years after His death) when many others who had also witnessed the events of Jesus life were still alive to challenge any error in the written accounts..

Chad: [«but, there are many accounts written by first hand witnesses, at a time (10 to 40 years after His death) when many others who had also witnessed the events of Jesus life were still alive to challenge any error in the written accounts..»]

I wrote this post five years ago as my son got ready for his first food allergy food challenge.

We were invited to attend Floriade for the first time this year and were given the challenge to create two recipes that could be made «Out of the Box».

Children are, for the most part, quite dependent up until the age of six or so, making those first five years of having multiple children under that age the most logistically challenging, though joyous and fulfilling to be sure.

The first time competitions will add new heat to old flames including the much loved Official Great Aussie Pie Competition and for its second year, the Sausage Roll Competition, plus the National Pizza Championship, Culinary Challenge, and the ever exciting Bake Skills.

Now wine enthusiasts have something new to look forward to: In honor of the first collaboration between SIMEI and drinktec, the «SIMEI Innovation Challenge Lucio Mastroberardino» will also be held in Munich this year.

(You can check out my experience on the Tone It Up 7 Day Slim Down, when I first joined Tone It Up and a day of meals during the challenge from last year!)

UK: Charges drag Punch Taverns into the red for H1 Punch Taverns has swung into the red for the first half of its fiscal year, underlining the challenge faced by management to reform the business.