Sentences with phrase «at any time of the year by»

Frame the party as a seasonal celebration during which you share the joy of the holidays celebrated at the time of year by some.

And, earn extra cash for the holidays or at any time of year by taking online surveys at sites such as Swagbucks and InboxDollars, cashing in unwanted gift cards at Cardpool, or selling unwanted electronics on Gazelle or uSell.

You can apply to go on the electoral register at any time of the year by contacting your local council.

Municipal governments usually respond at this time of year by organizing community cleanups.

However, in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, employees are guaranteed a day off at this time of year by the statutory holidays of differing names that are entrenched in their respective employment standards legislation.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

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 Associattime to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel AssociatTime Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

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.

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employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

Perhaps more importantly, if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per year, 5 times the current rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.

At the annual sales conference for my company this year, I did not lead off by speaking of victories but rather of a time when I was unable to make a sale.

Yet, no comprehensive solution to the problem was offered by the government at the time of the 2014 operation; nor in the years afterward.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

The 39 - year - old president, a newcomer to international diplomacy, will meet many of his counterparts for the first time over the next few days at the NATO meeting in the Belgian capital followed by a G7 summit in Sicily.

At the center of the study is a new map of the hazards posed by geomagnetic storms of a strength that scientists expect to occur every 100 years — five times more frequently than «500 - year» storms like the Carrington Event.

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

As Lavalife and Round13 Capital co-founder (and former Dragons» Den star) Bruce Croxon put it at the recent PROFIT 500 CEO Summit, the life of an entrepreneur is one of going all out for years at a time, followed by a year or so of total downtime.

Timmer: You know, the last two years until the January high, were really extraordinary times for the market, and I fear that investors got spoiled by that, because the S&P was up I think 52 % in two years and in 2017 the volatility — the standard deviation of those returns — was at an all - time low of 3.9.

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

Buffett, who for much of his career avoided tech stocks, has capitalized on that rally by doubling — or, if you will, sextupling — down on Apple stock: He owns six times as much of it now as he did at this time last year, making him one of the iPhone maker's largest shareholders.

The assembly rolled by at its set pace and no matter what time of day or year it was, and you screwed a certain number of widgets together every hour.

This year's bestseller, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof by Ina Garten ($ 35; Clarkson Potter / Random House), had topped sales of 132,000 at press time.

Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.

Start by identifying items that can be stored for longer periods of time, such as seasonal material, collateral and marketing items that are only used at a certain time of the year.

At about this time three years ago, it agreed to complete its multi-billion dollar acquisition of European druggist Alliance Boots, and followed that 10 months later by trying (and failing) to buy smaller rival Rite Aid (rad) outright.

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.

By time he got around to building computer software and starting Microsoft with Paul Allen at Harvard, Bill had already accrued nearly 10 years of experience writing software.

The appointment by Vivendi of two thirds of TIM's board last year, including its CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine as chairman, unnerved many Italian politicians at the time.

While demand for cranberries is at its highest this time of the year, the number of cranberries in inventories by September was large enough to satisfy consumption numbers, Bloomberg reported.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

The results were breathtaking: e-commerce sales fell by 33 % in 2012, and Penney's $ 1 billion loss that year left it hamstrung financially at a time the likes of Macy's, Nordstrom (JWN) and Wal - Mart Stores (WMT) were pouring hundreds of millions into their e-commerce firepower.

In the first five months of 2016, there have been at least 23 reported shootings by toddlers, as compared to 18 in the same time period last year.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

The number of times per year people eat a morning snack — either at home or away from home — has increased by 17 percent over the past six years, according to NPD Group.

Google has been on the 100 Best Companies list for 10 years, with this being its seventh time at No. 1, thanks to sparking the imagination of its talented and highly compensated workers, and by adding perks to an already dizzying array of freebies.

«Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by two to three hours / day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20 kg to 30 kg / year could occur.»

Establishing these routines at the beginning of the school year will help them become engrained so by the time winter, with its extra layers, and spring, with its muddy boots, come along, you won't be pulling your hair out.

Though the U.K. remains a full member of the European Union until, at least, March of 2019, transitional talks need to end by October of this year to allow enough time for parliamentary approval across the EU — giving U.K. and EU negotiators less than 10 months to decide how both sides will cooperate in the future.

In other words, Wall Street is convinced the creator of Snapchat, which up until 2015 didn't have any sales at all, will be big enough to make the Fortune 500 by the time it turns 10 years old.

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.