Sentences with phrase «last year the gap»

Last year the gap between fourth - placed Force India and third - placed Ferrari was, by any measure, huge.

Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.

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To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

While wage growth has been solid over the last five years, the salary gap between new workers and experienced rig hands tends to be relatively small.

A growing opportunity gap in access to resources, opportunities, and adult investment has emerged over the last 25 years as income inequality has accelerated, especially among families with children.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

Last year, in an attempt to address the growing STEM skills gap in Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) led a collaborative effort by 29 organizations to give every 7th grader in the country a pocket - sized programmable computer that helps teach coding in a simple, fun, and accessible way.

«If I'm not mistaken, it's the biggest gap we've seen [between food at home and food away from home] in the last 10 years,» McDonald's USA President Mike Andres said in August.

While some might sniff that Victoria's Secret is to lingerie what Gap (GPS) is to haute couture, the Fashion Show remains a cultural touchstone (though a shrinking one: last year 9.1 million people watched the show, down from 9.7 million a year earlier.)

Netflix itself finished its transition to AWS servers last year, and has made a practice of filling gaps in those services with its own software, which is available on Github, a sort of library for freely available software.

But Gap's growth in this arena casts a dark shadow over Vancouver - based Lululemon Athletica, which has become the authority on fashionable yoga gear, and boasted a 28 % increase in sales over the last fiscal year.

Sales at Gap North America, owned by Gap Inc., have declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last year.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

«So the gender pay gap data is from April last year, we've already increased the percentage of women to nearly 37 percent in our senior leadership and our 40 percent minimum is our 2020 targets.»

U.S. sprinters Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian put a capstone on the night by winning gold and bronze, respectively, in the 50m freestyle — a remarkable 16 - year - gap for Ervin between his last gold in the same event in 2004.

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

While these issues are coming to the forefront for some companies, others are trying to fight the gap: Salesforce invested $ 6 million in the last two years to adjust the gender pay gap that impacts 11 percent of the company's 25,000 employees.

Google says it performed that analysis across 52 jobs categories last year and found no pay gap.

Last year, Gap Inc (gps) said it was an idea worth considering.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

Last year, ad revenue fell 3.4 %, despite a rise in digital ad revenues, because print revenue is declining faster than digital revenue can fill the gap.

The gap between what markets pay for light Texas crude and Alberta's heavy blend has risen to $ 30 US per barrel from $ 10 last year, largely because of the pipeline capacity crunch.

If you multiply the sum of these two gaps by the total amount of household and farm deposits (very roughly around 80 - 100 % of GDP a few years ago, when I last checked), you get an estimate of the total transfer from the household sector to banks and borrowers.

Startups including Bird, founded by former Lyft - then - Uber executive Travis VanderZanden, LimeBike, and Spin, have been dumping internet - connected scooters on city streets over the last year, ostensibly in an effort to fill the gaps in municipal transit.

The declining value of the dollar last year, which makes American products cheaper to buy overseas, also helped to lift exports, but not enough to prevent the gap from widening.

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

The overall United States trade deficit in goods and services with the world widened 12.1 percent to $ 566 billion last year, the largest gap since 2008.

Now below $ 300, we've actually filled gaps in the assortment, so there we've seen a significant increase and we think that bodes really well actually for the holidays where we had gaps as we know last year.

In the same period last year, the gap between the two vendors was more than 50 million units.

However, the widening gap between the rich and poor has very much become the defining issue of the last several years.

Looking at the individual pillars of the Index, the report finds that in 2017 that 27 countries have now closed the gender gap in Educational Attainment; three more countries than last year.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

At this rate of progress, it will take another century to close the overall global gender gap, compared to 83 years last year.

Last year, to help close this gap, the New York City Department of Education announced signing and retention bonuses for Pre-K For All teachers working outside public schools.

We bought many items elsewhere last year, sometimes with a pretty large price gap with Amazon.

And, demographic gap notwithstanding, Pollard's second panel features three other success stories, just a bit older but with lots of potential left after guiding three of last year's biggest M&A deals.

Ticket sales for the infield at the Preakness Stakes — the state's biggest single - day event — are down 30 percent compared to this time last year, even as organizers are facing an Under Armour - sized gap in their lineup of corporate partners.

2) May I remind you that this God of the Gaps has been steadily on the retreat in the last few thousand years and especially in the last couple of hundred years.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 years.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

Toynbee observed that since the dawn of civilization there has been a growing «morality gap» between humankind's physical power over nature and the level of its spirituality — a gap that has increased rapidly in the last 200 years.

And did you ever wonder why there is over 600 year gap between the last book in the old testiment and the new?

Not only are they underrepresented politically, but in 74 of the 140 nations studied, economic gaps have actually widen in the last year.

The Roman Catholic Church in America owes a profound thank you to American evangelicals who, thoughout the last thirty years, stood in the gap created by a retreating Roman Catholic Church.

Coles was slapped with a $ 10 million fine in December last year for engaging in unconscionable conduct in its dealings with its suppliers, and subsequently forced to refund $ 12 million to suppliers who were forced to pay for wastage and even profit gaps.

The price gap between CCA's core products and those of Pepsi / Schweppes has risen from 30 per cent in 2004 to 50 per cent last year, taking a toll on CCA's volumes.