Sentences with phrase «year day at»

54 - year - old Rev. Iye Akpata (not his real name) never envisaged his first son spending Christmas and New Year Day at Igbobi.

Then memories of the patient with shattered calf bone, the one who just had his leg amputated, the girl with dull and drowsy eyes, the youngster singing in delirium, young Destiny waiting to have his femur filled with iron, and of all the other patients who would spend Christmas and New Year Day at Igbobi in pains and anguish came to this reporter.

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When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

«We were not crossing into Pakistan that day,» she said, according to USA Today, «We had been in Pakistan for more than a year at that point.

At the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these dayAt the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these dayat home these days.

At its analyst day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the year ending January 2021 to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared with this year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

After a couple of years of cleaning during the day, painting apartments at night and stuffing his earnings in a shoe box for safe keeping, Conlon had saved enough money to buy his first apartment.

At its investor day on Wednesday, Home Depot said it would roughly double the investment spending in the next three fiscal years to some $ 11.1 billion.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d, with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d, to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.

Since Trump took office last year, Kuwait has twice held its annual «National Day» celebration at his Washington hotel.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

One such firm, Datalogix, was acquired last year by Oracle for a rumoured high nine figures, a tidy sum for a black - box process that, at the end of the day, can essentially only correlate interest and purchase behaviour.

Against this bleak backdrop, Venezuela's year - on - year production losses are likely to total at least 800,000 barrels a day this year based on current trends and could top the 1 million barrels a day mark.

At the time, each day seemed to pass really quickly — since each day meant I was one day closer to missing my deadline — but because I have so many detailed memories, looking back, the year feels like it passed really slowly.

Total upstream production came in at 689,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter, compared to 725,100 boe / d in the prior year quarter, as oilsands output fell to 404,800 barrels per day from 448,500 bpd.

This year, South By Southwest is embracing the gamer spirit with the SXSW Gaming Expo, a three - day affair taking place from March 8 through 10 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas, with more than 50 exhibitors.

So by making roughly $ 2,555 a year through mining (at the current price of bitcoin), I'm on track to pay off the extra parts I bought for mining in about 230 days.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

Even during the school year, we don't get a break at 3 or 4 p.m. when the school day ends.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

So, to compensate, he committed himself to attend at least one networking activity every day for his first year.

Late last year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her with new mentors, new skills and the chance to go home at the end of the day.

I keep track of the comments, and at the end of the year, the employee who received the most gets an extra vacation day.»

«The injury rate at our Fremont factory is half what it was in the final years of the UAW plant operated by GM / Toyota immediately before us, and we care deeply about the safety and well - being of our people and strive to do better every day.

To get an idea of its scope, consider that the company sold more than $ 14 billion worth of goods at its annual Singles» Day sales event on Nov. 11, a 60 % increase from last year.

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

According to Verizon's paper Bring Your Own Device: The Facts and the Future published earlier this year, over 60 % of workers report using a personal device at least once a day in their work, with 44 % using a personal smartphone in their job.

A company's price at IPO often is not a definitive indicator of where the corporation will be valued later that year or even that day.

Twitter said it is «taking action» against 10 times more abusive accounts than it was at the same time last year, which means the company is levying account suspensions — or, limiting users» ability to use the service — on «thousands more abusive accounts» per day.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

Unfortunately, that day came much sooner than he expected when his dad passed away only a few years later, at the age of 59.

Since I tend to be on the quiet, introverted side, and knowing that networking is a requirement for small business success, I committed myself mentally to overcoming this issue by attending at least one networking activity every day for the first year.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

For the first year, the duo kept their day jobs (both worked at Clarity Systems), putting their energy into refining their product and strategy rather than attracting resources.

The upset came just a day after the ten - year anniversary of Appalachian State's wild upset over Michigan in Ann Arbor, but as ESPN notes, that game did not have a spread archived at the time it was played, making Howard's win the biggest upset in history in the context of Vegas lines.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

«At the end of the day, I've been very fortunate to have been as successful as I have been for the last 22 years in digital marketing.

I'm looking forward to the day when it gets really fine - grained — it would really have come in handy when I worked at the CBC, an absolutely giant maze of corridors that I still got lost in even after three years of working there.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

His name is on the honour roll at Aquinas College for academic excellence, which I brought to the attention of my grandson on grandparents day in May of this year.

Someone at Ralph Lauren introduced her to Amy Astley, then the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, and Weiss spent her sophomore through senior years cramming her classes into two days so she could spend the other three interning at the magazine.

A year ago, McDonald's was basking in the glory of a successful all - day breakfast launch that boosted sales at the fast - food purveyor's U.S. restaurants.

President Obama sang «Happy Birthday» to his 18 - year old daughter Malia at an Independence Day event in Washington.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

After three months, employees qualify for free health care, provided by a full - time nurse and a part - time doctor at the plantation's infirmary, along with 15 paid vacation days a year.