Sentences with phrase «at the height of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

Server outages and bugs plagued Niantic's Pokémon Go at the height of its popularity last summer, and a similar situation occurred early into the game's first - ever, all - day ticketed event.

Denmark is facing its «Nokia moment»; drugmaker Novo Nordisk has ballooned into a $ 100 billion giant, dominating its home stock market just as the Finnish firm did at the height of the 1990s tech boom.

Imagine going to a communist country to make your product at the height of the Cold War.

Since the 2008 debut race, the event has generated S$ 150 million in tourism receipts every year on average, except for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis.

If you were a homeowner in danger of losing your home at the height of the foreclosure crisis, chances are you soon discovered that your bank's mortgage servicing division was a mess.

Henry Ford fashioned his original automobile from four bicycle wheels and a chain at the height of Detroit's 19th - century bike (yes, bike) manufacturing boom.

TERM SHEET: You got into venture capital in 2008 at the height of the recession.

«I would hazard to guess there are more foreign intelligence officers inside the U.S. working against U.S. interests now than even at the height of the Cold War,» said Crumpton.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

Cuba was formally removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism late last month, a critical step toward rapprochement 54 years after Washington cut off relations at the height of the Cold War and imposed an economic embargo.

Noting that the value of tech stocks at the height of the dot - com bubble was many times the size of the current cryptocurrency market (with a total value of about $ 519 billion), Citi's report conceded that it may be a while before the crypto bubble bursts: «Bubbles can build in plain sight, be duly identified, and prove highly durable for a period measured in years.»

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.