Sentences with phrase «as year of call»

This can be a frustrating disconnect: the lawyers I meet invariably are interesting, insightful, and well - rounded, yet their online bios are often stiff, stilted, and one - dimensional, providing readers with trivia such as year of call and source of law degree rather than information that clients can really use.

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Originally planned as a five - year competition, the deadline shifted a number of times before being called off in January.

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

Forty - five percent of us go so far as to call it the most stressful day of the year.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

As you'd expect from the founder of Facebook, he started a book club of sorts called A Year of Books on — you guessed it!

Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»

Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

It was, in fact, his last such call before retiring as CEO of Home Capital Group, the company he had co-founded 30 years ago.

This year, Adidas has created what it's calling «the perfect sneakers for Oktoberfest,» a pair of $ 200 ($ 238) kicks designed to repel beer and vomit, as well pretty much any other liquid you can throw, drop, or pour on it, a process the company is calling «Oktoberfesterization.»

Also known as the Ira Sohn conference, the event has been the site some of hedge funds» best — and worst — calls in recent years.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

And at the end of each year, in what he calls an «antiquated approach,» he had to answer 50 online survey questions about his happiness as an Andersen employee.

Whatever it'll be called, expect the new version of Apple's desktop operating system to launch later this year as a free upgrade.

When Kathy Jaques started her job as CMO of eVestment 4 years ago, the sales team was using a directory to make outbound calls to generate their own leads.

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

In defending its merger plan, Comcast is saying its real competition is no longer other cable companies, but rather so - called over-the-top Internet service providers such as Netflix, which is the same rationale Bell used in Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last year.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Just 3 percent of all Hong Kong - listed stocks, by capitalization, come from so - called «new economy» sectors — tech as well as biotech — according to a report last year by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse operator.

And if the bank continues to keep the ratio of its revenue paid as compensation lower than usual, it could result in savings of about $ 300 million for the company in the year, according to an estimate from Autonomous Research's Guy Moskowski in the bank's earnings call.

Many point to the a fifteen year - old book called The Alchemy of Growth as its origin.

CloudFlare, probably the most prominent DDoS - protection outfit out there, has for a couple of years been offering a similar free service called Project Galileo, for the benefit of journalists, as well as political and artistic websites.

Tesla's business plan calls for developing a less expensive sedan, code - named White Star, over the next few years, as well as opening a network of dealerships and service centers.

The group made the call as part of a five - year plan launched on Wednesday with the aim of creating equality for transgender people in Britain, of whom there are an estimated 650,000.

The partnership got its start four years ago, when Ian MacLachlan, head of research at Protiva Corp., which later merged with Tekmira, cold - called USAMRIID's Tom Geisbert, who had become famous as a «virus hunter» in Richard Preston's bestseller The Hot Zone.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

He says the frequency of his communication with the CEOs of Berkshire subsidiaries ranges from a handful of times a year — he averaged three calls a year with Benjamin Moore's CEO for a long time — to almost daily for a handful of key figures such as Berkshire's reinsurance chief, Ajit Jain.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

About eight years ago, just as he was running a white - hot chain called Dylan's Candy Bar (his co-founder was Dylan Lauren, Ralph's daughter), Rubin realized that much of his work — the kaleidoscopic displays, the lollipop lamps, the peppermint - patterned barstools — mattered not a whit to his target audience.

Over the next couple of years, Willms introduced other products — a teeth whitener called DazzleWhite, an acai weight - loss supplement called AcaiBurn, and colon cleanse marketed as PureCleanse, all of which were made by private - label manufacturers.

As the proprietor of a so - called two - sided marketplace, Travis Kalanick, who resigned Tuesday night as chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengerAs the proprietor of a so - called two - sided marketplace, Travis Kalanick, who resigned Tuesday night as chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengeras chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengers.

Some media and telecommunications deals in recent years have been announced with divestitures, such as U.S. cable operator Comcast's proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable in 2014, which was later called off after regulatory pushback.

Indeed, much of what Whitman has accomplished over the last five years involved reversing what her predecessors did — or unlocking value, as so many financial analysts call it.

Modern Meadow is just one of 19 futuristic startups that have received donations from the Thiel Foundation over the past two years as part of an unusual program called Breakout Labs.

«We are well - positioned to execute another year of strong growth for Encana as we prepare to cross the 400,000 boe (barrels of oil equivalent) per day milestone later this year,» said Doug Suttles on a conference call.

Last year it was «Call of Duty: WWII,» as seen above — a throwback to the many previous «Call of Duty» games set during the events of World War II.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

In general, so - called value stocks — often defined as those trading at earnings multiples below the market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors in the most recent phase of the current bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half years.

As you probably recall, President - elect Donald Trump recently took a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing - wen, a decision that flies in the face of 40 years» worth of U.S. - China diplomacy.

The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee wrote about in Fortune's year - end Investor's Guide.

Last year, the company agreed to pay $ 5.15 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a settlement in a suit against an Anadarko subsidiary called Tronox, Inc..

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

But while AOL could cut off Baker's salary, Mozilla was an independent entity, and Baker, who had become a popular and respected figure in the open - source world, remained as an unpaid volunteer for about a year, until a nonprofit called the Open Source Applications Foundation offered to restore a portion of her former salary to support her Mozilla work.

Zuckerberg, who is particularly «obsessed» with live video, added on the same call that he believes that, in as soon as five years, «most of what people consume online is going to be video.»

As a long - time fan, I actually quite enjoyed this year's installment, Call of Duty: Ghosts, more so than the past few releases.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.