Sentences with phrase «agency a year ago»

A local businessman suggested the city contact the state's job - creation agency a year ago, but that didn't happen.

Alshon Jeffery hit free agency a year ago with only two 16 - game seasons under his belt.

Kevin Durant was the only better player to switch teams in free agency a year ago.

My investigations are increasingly proving that such data was flagged by non-NOAA agencies years ago, but NOAA declined to publish notice of the faults until the problem was publicized loudly and widely in my first «satellitegate» article, US Government in Massive New Global Warming Scandal — NOAA Disgraced.

I owned a travel agency years ago, and I see many of the same changes happening in the real estate business.

Not exact matches

In September, the U.S. government moved to ban the use of Kaspersky products from government computers after it was revealed that Russian hackers managed to obtain U.S. National Security Agency information through the software two years ago.

In an interview with Russia Today Friday, Tsarnaeva said that she had been contacted by the FBI about her eldest son several years ago, and that the agency had believed him to be a «serious leader» with ties to Islamic extremists.

A few years ago, when I was departing the ad agency I'd co-founded, a friend sent me the link to an obscure YouTube video entitled When to Take My Name Off the Door.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

Evans, who previously ran a design and marketing agency in Montreal, was looking for a new business venture, and connected with Mansbridge a few years ago.

About five years ago, overwhelmed by the logistics of planning at least two trips per month, he made the switch from organizing his own travel to using an agency.

She moved from London to Cornwall 10 years ago, when she launched her own copywriting agency Radix Communications.

Popova began her blog by pulling together all the interesting things she stumbled upon while working at an ad agency a few years ago.

One night long ago, my business partner Ed Moed and I tore up the town after being named PR Week's best small agency of the year.

I have publically said to the whole agency, because we started planning for this many months ago, that we will not have to furlough, and we did early retirement a year ago.

And while the conversations he's having today with sponsors are more productive than when he started his agency more than three years ago, «in the U.S., we're a lot further behind.»

Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.

In pursuing Mr. Corzine, who ran MF Global when the brokerage firm collapsed two years ago, the agency never offered to settle.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

Four years ago when Mills arrived in Washington, D.C., the SBA was a very different agency.

Digital agency AKQA's Rei Inamoto wrote a few years ago that, «Creativity and innovation are about finding unexpected solutions to obvious problems or finding obvious solutions to unexpected problems.

Laura and I started DigitalFlash about five years ago and have narrowed the focus many times over the years,» says Sara Walker - Santana, co-founder of the digital agency DigitalFlash.

Many years ago, I worked at an agency that brought in a consultant to review our new business pitches.

I remember when I opened my own agency several years ago.

On Thursday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said global oil supply increased in February by 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) from a year ago to 97.9 million barrels per day.

A couple of years ago, the FBI caught flak when one agent acknowledged the dilemma and said the agency often simply advised companies to pay up when they had no other recourse.

That informal atmosphere is encouraged by Ford's CEO, John Caplan, who joined the agency five years ago.

They are people like Spencer X. Smith, a 39 - year - old father of two in Madison who left a corporate sales job a year ago to start his own agency, where he's already earning 60 % of his former six - figure salary.

He started the business a couple of years ago after being bought out by his partners at Teehan + Lax ad agency.

If experts had been asked to perform a theoretical overhaul of CMHC a few years ago, many would have designed the agency that exists today.

Three years ago, Nikki Hickman, director of organizational development at the marketing agency nFusion, decided that two of nFusion's 65 staff members had been incorrectly classified as contractors.

(Another recent consumer study, this one conducted by advertising agency Bensimon Byrne, found that more than half of respondents thought they were doing better financially now than they were a year ago, or before the recession.)

The Small Agency Awards were launched seven years ago to ensure that the groundbreaking campaigns and innovative brand ideas generated by smaller companies receive the recognition they deserve.

That was 10 years ago and over that time my business as a communications professional has gone from freelancer to running a small agency, and I've started several successful side businesses along the way.

And remember, these are the same agencies that, a few years ago, with their magic wands, turned worthless mortgages into AAA securities, but just until midnight.

This is in contrast to an incident one year ago in which U.S. intelligence agencies had video and other evidence of certain aspects of the actual attack, which involved the use of Sarin gas.

Mr. Obama's address made no reference to the Consumer Financial Products Agency he promised a year ago to be the centerpiece of financial reform.

He's led the agency since its inception eight years ago.

This article discusses how SEO has evolved to become a collaborative effort between clients and agencies, which is far from what it used to be even just a couple years ago.

It's a big shift from the stance Facebook took a year ago, when agencies including GroupM called out the fact that posts published by clients were being seen by fewer of their fans.

Credit rating agencies have downgraded or lowered their outlook on commodity exporters like Angola, Ghana, Mozambique and Zambia, which were the darlings of international investors until just over a year ago.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

Anonymous: unfortunately the PCs re-wrote the legislation in favour of the oil companies a few years ago and appointed industry and PC insiders to key regulatory posts — Gerry Protti, formerly of CAPP, is the chairman of the new Alberta Energy Board, Jim Elliis, formerly DM for Environment is Protti's CEO and Lorne Taylor, a former PC MLA is the head of the oilsands emissions monitoring agency.

Ikea consolidated its agency roster two years ago, retaining long - running indie agency Mother for creative and bringing its global media buying into two networks — WPP and Dentsu Aegis.

It wasn't long ago that economists were worrying about the threat of a populist takeover in the Europe and predicting an investment led boom in the U.S.. However, since the start of the year, ratings agencies have upgraded their growth forecasts for Europe's largest economies and slashed its predictions for the U.S. Moody's is expecting...

SINGAPORE — When the International Energy Agency published a report four years ago heralding a «golden age of gas» it seemed little could derail a bright future for the energy source.

Last month, Amazon reported that its first - quarter profit more than doubled from a year ago, fueled by the growth of online shopping and the cloud - computing service it provides to businesses and government agencies.

CNN: As U.S. senators visit, Egypt's president says remarks were not anti-Semitic Egypt's president says comments he made more than two years ago that are being criticized as anti-Semitic were taken out of context, Egypt's official news agency reported Wednesday.

Christian humanitarian agency Tearfund has built 108 houses in Nepal after a catastrophic earthquake in the country three years ago.

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.