Sentences with phrase «about a year and given»

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Later that year, Watson was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and gave an impassioned speech about women's rights.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

At this year's SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin entrepreneur Lyn Graft gives tips on how to get investors and customers excited about your new business.

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.

The common currency rose to a two - and - half year high against the dollar on doubts over the U.S. currency but also after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi gave two speeches last week with no indications about the bank's next steps for monetary policy.

Over the last few years, Trump has cultivated an image as something of a connoisseur, giving interviews to international media about her favorite artists and sharing advice for beginner art collectors on her blog.

Thanks to his contacts in the business, the report costs him only $ 35,000 a year to produce, and Hoffman says that when he asks recent hires, as well as people who have declined recent offers, «What gave you a favorable impression about us?»

Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

The original iPhone was still two years in the future when Jobs gave this classic speech in which he told three stories: one about connecting the dots, one about love and loss, and one about death.

Given that Canadian shoppers and snowbirds have been flocking to U.S. outlet malls for years, and have upped their visits with the rise of the loonie, the only question about the groundswell of domestic interest in this retail segment is: What took so long?

About 10 years ago I reached a point in my business where money would come in from a client, and I had the choice to give employees their paychecks on time, or pay the IRS.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

Over 40 years of launching new products and services, we have striven to listen very carefully to what our customers think they want and then set about giving them something that is often very different, but always a little better.

For Costco, «Renewal rates will remain the focus for investors over the next year, given concerns about AMZN, grocery delivery and a recent fee hike,» Jefferies» Binder reiterated.

A couple of years back, there was a phenomenal (and by phenomenal, I mean completely offensive, juvenile and NSFW) video about an animal called the honey badger, who just doesn't care about anything (or in the words of the video, doesn't give a s #!

Sisters Donna, 43, and Robin Barger, 38, of Four Idle Hands have spent several years selling their «devilishly good» jewelry at craft shows in Los Angeles and say the shows give them exposure to customers, fellow crafters, retailers and media personnel who might not know about their online store.

To give you an example, when I was 16 years old and felt all hope was lost, it wasn't until I got extremely clear about getting a college scholarship for football that my daily actions and behaviors started to change.

He launched his career as an early Amazon Web Services employee and then did a seven - year stint at Microsoft and wasn't about to give up.

Fear of failure often has deep roots in our early lives, so getting tough with yourself and giving yourself a lecture is about as effective as yelling at a teary two year old.

He was given no word on how he was supposed to go about boarding and securing a ship, something the marines hadn't made part of their repertoire for about a hundred years.

Myersdorf said a fast - charge phone would cost $ 100 - $ 150 more than current models and would ultimately be able to handle 1,500 recharge / discharge cycles, giving it about three years of life.

It also allows the 31 - year - old budding philanthropist to change his mind about what he wants to fund and how much he wants to give over his lifetime, making the $ 45 billion number more like a pledge than a gift.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

Mr Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, his wife, gave 18 million Facebook shares worth about $ 990 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December, nearly 30 per cent of the $ 3.4 billion total given to charity last year.

But a few years later the New York World's exposure of the racket behind the Klan had had its effect, the Coolidge boom had given the paraders something else to think about, Henry Ford had apologized and retracted, and the Protocols were on their way to the judicial examination which eventually stripped them to the fraudulent skin.

Ellen Kullman, CEO and chairman of DuPont, talked about how innovation is giving the 212 - year - old company a new edge.

Once someone converts into a recruitment lead in your system, you'll want to use the information they gave you about them (years of experience, industry, etc), to nurture them with contextual and relevant content - and hire them if they're a top candidate.

The 37 - year old, Mayer, who became Yahoo's CEO while 6 - months pregnant and gave birth shortly thereafter, returned to work after a two - week maternity leave, sparking debate about whether she could both lead the embattled internet giant and be a good mother.

«They want to physically give it to their two - year - old and let them chew on it and see how they feel about it,» says Chae about the bloggers.

Given that their combined income and property taxes is about $ 35,000 per year, their effective rate was approximately $ 26,000 per year.

The total transaction tax over a 10 - year period is only about $ 23, and our retirement saver gives up about $ 35 in 10 - year returns.»

Just as a rough example assuming no 401K and no company match and just an individual IRA with an assumed inflation adjusted equivalent of $ 6K per year for 18 years at say 5 % yielding about $ 170K at age 40 then it sits at 5 % for twenty more years would give you about $ 450K at age 60.

According to its estimates, those streaming and royalty agreements should generate about $ 50 million in cash flow this year given its projections that gold will average $ 1,200 per ounce.

On any given day about 75 % of our orders are from repeat customers, and we basically grew from no sales in 1999 to, in 2008, which was the first year where we hit a billion dollars in gross merchandise sales.

The 2014 law required states to take certain steps to help families get and retain child care assistance — and many have taken steps like allowing families to stay eligible for assistance for a full year without having to continuously recertify their income level, giving them a semblance of certainty about their finances for at least the coming year.

They talk about getting up to 3 or 4 %, which looks unlikely given that 10 year rates are at 2 % and as you pointed out their predictions of 10 year rates increasing have always been wrong.

Matt, maybe you can give us perspective as it relates to change, the economics of the change and how it compares to maybe some of your broader independent restaurants, specifically focusing on CBK and Panda since they are larger and one more, you talked about adding more throughout the year, sort of give us perspective on the cadence of that.

At longer horizons, the 6.3 % growth rate that we've assumed for nominal GDP over the coming years will begin to bail investors out given enough time, and as a result, our projection for 10 - year S&P 500 nominal total returns peeks its head up above zero, at about 2.4 % annually from current levels.

is calling fellow lawmakers about the lawsuit and vehemently denying the allegation that he fondled a 16 - year - old after giving her a strange - tasting drink in 2007.

I thought about starting this site for at least a year before I hired someone from Craigslist to give set me up and push me forward.

Cunha's family claims he made lewd remarks about Cunha's 14 - year - old daughter and tried to give her his phone number.

I have seen bloggers raving about it for years and never gave in.

Given the remittance requirements, about forty per cent of corporate income tax revenues are received in the months of December, February and March, such that the current monthly results may not be reflective of the final results for the year as a whole.

I say old as I've since sold a lot of stock recently (2/12/13 -2 / 13/13) given the markets are up 6 % + and I only expect the market to be up about 9 % for the year.

Years of frustration and mounting discontent from Yindjibarndi people about the current applicants and YAC and the endless division and fighting within the community provided respected Yindjibarndi Elders Rodney Adams, Sylvia Allan, Maudie Jerrold, Francis Phillips, Allery Sandy, Ken Sandy and Diana Smith with the motivation and the courage to give all Yindjibarndi people a voice and an opportunity to vote on 23 June.

One of the disheartening things is that as my W - 2 income grows (our combined W - 2 income is about 70 % higher than it was 5 years ago) it becomes a harder and harder target to reach, AND it makes it harder and harder to give and harder target to reach, AND it makes it harder and harder to give AND it makes it harder and harder to give and harder to give up!

I have thought about this story countless times over the years and only recently applied it to my business, but it has given me perspective on many of my successes and failures over the years.

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