Sentences with phrase «at the height»

Since joining CNBC's Asia operations, Nancy has also interviewed Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al T; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on stage at the APEC meeting in Danang; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the height of the North Korean crisis in Shanghai and the CEO of Southeast Asia ride hailing and tech giant, Grab, after acquiring Uber's business in the region.

On Monday nights, the music would fill the hotel's lounge — and at its height, the hotel would have to turn away 50 to 60 people, he said.

Placing products at eye level is most effective, but in a small store, you only have so much horizontal space at that height.

FORTUNE: You launched Romulus Capital in 2008 at the height of the recession.

In addition, MQ - 9 Reaper drones would be deployed as part of a major increase in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets closer to levels seen at the height of the U.S. engagement in Afghanistan.

The last time time there was a one - year drop was in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Cate Blanchett in The Aviator plays Katharine Hepburn as she was at the height of her popularity and influence.

While gold prices are a long way from where they were at the height of the 2000s commodities boom — a reality that's hurt many miners — Barrick's wounds are mostly self - inflicted.

The outlook for the Milwaukee restaurant AJ Bombers looked bleak at the height of the recession in 2008.

By contrast, in 1929 their p / e was over 18 and at the height of the dot com bubble it was over 20.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Two years later, at the height of the tech bubble, Boyko sold the business for more than $ 20 million to the owner of Reader's Digest.

Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

It's no coincidence that the era in which Nike was at the height of its cultural power was also the one in which the Niketown retail experience verged on the sacred.

The storm surge — the quick rise in water caused by a hurricane's strong winds — crested several feet at the height of the storm on the Texas coast.

The home had been built at the height of a Fort McMurray boom, when overworked contractors verily threw such buildings up, too busy for rules.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

At the height ofEurope's migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants — most from the Middle East and Africa — arrived at the continent by land and sea.

«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

The meeting typically occurs at the height of the Atlantic hurricane season, but not since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have catastrophes weighed so heavily.

With monthly payments on the order of $ 30 and mobile service at risk, phone owners should be far more likely to stay current on their payment plans than overburdened homeowners at the height of the housing bubble.

My wife and I made the decision to start our company at the height of the recent startup craze, and I joined a wider community of other aspiring entrepreneurs — and immediately felt like an outcast.

The idea of Zenefits came from SigFig, which at its height had about 30 employees, too small to hire an HR person.

In the late 2000s, it suffered from such mind - boggling hyperinflation — at its height in 2008, a can of Coca - Cola that cost ZIM$ 50 billion in the morning would cost ZIM$ 150 billion at the close of business on the same day — that it abandoned its own currency in 2009 in favor of currency from other, more stable countries.

At the height of the Iraq War, it was easy for morale to dip and agendas to become confused, especially during a time of shifting politics and pressure back home.

Program - driven online trading platforms such as U.S - based Quantopian and QuantConnect and British - based Cloud9trader, which have clients across the world, did not exist at the height of the financial crisis of 2008.

Russia fared particularly poorly, with the survey being undertaken at the height of the Crimea crisis.

More significantly, small business owner outlook for the next 12 months, an index component, tumbled 19 points, the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2008, at the height of the financial collapse.

In 1999, at the height of the internet bubble, Cuban sold the company to Yahoo for $ 5.7 billion.

At its height, 27 % of the agricultural workforce in California were braceros.

At its height around 1920, 14,000 people worked at the steel mill in the town, which featured 200 homes and walkable streets.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

The result is that this third generation, now moving into the ranks of power in North Korea, has a greater understanding and interaction with the West compared to their parents, who came of age at the height of the Cold War.

At the height of its power it sent hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US and laundered billions of dollars in drug money.

Frazier applied to and was accepted at the United States Military Academy, at the height of the Vietnam War.

At its height last October, MTV's «reality» show Jersey Shore boasted 6.7 million viewers, but its stars invaded more than the beach.

BofA bet heavily on real estate loans at the height of the craze, and barely survived the meltdown.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

My grandfather founded what was, at its height from the 60's through the 80's, one of the largest apparel companies in Canada.

An economic update released that December — at the height of the U.S. economic crisis — did not contain any stimulus measures.

At the height of the Clayoquot standoff, MacMillan Bloedel employed public relations campaigns, marshalled exhaustive research from its foresters and scientists, and fought its opponents in court — and none of it was working.

At the height of their popularity, the Marx brothers were a thorn in the side of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

The Kardashian game's total bookings, which includes the cut Glu must pay to app store owners like Apple, fell to under $ 8 million in the second quarter, less than one - fifth what it brought in at the height of the game's popularity.

If you set the bar at a height you can consistently clear, you'll be more likely to succeed, get that dopamine rush again and keep your momentum going.

At the height of the recession, the Conference Board of Canada found that consumer confidence dropped to levels unseen since the early 1980s recession.

ALAN Eggers made about $ 60 million for himself, and $ 1 billion for other shareholders in Summit Resources, when Paladin Energy bought it at the height of the 2007 uranium boom.

Even amid a restructuring, why would a streaming platform in 2016 take on the name of a music sharing startup that was at the height of its powers around 2000 and is still best remembered by many for its legal woes and the record industry consternation it caused?

Brown advises that employees at computer workstations sit at a height that allows their legs to reach the ground, they should have a wrist rest, and not need to crane their neck, eyes, or back in the extreme.