Sentences with phrase «became egypts»

The group said there are nearly 151,000 wells operating in the United States, while in central and eastern portion of the country earthquakes have dramatically increased since 2008, when fracking became more common.

«They suggested he kept his distress over his splintered family and failing college grades hidden from others, and soon became vulnerable to the jihadist path offered by a radicalized older brother,» said the Boston Globe.

It would take a few years before Twitter's true power became clear, but its role in everything from political movements to how companies market themselves is undeniable.

As the U.S. suffered through a recession, economic downturn and slow recovery in the late - 2000s, it became tough for some car dealers to survive.

Sure enough, those revamped shoes became bestsellers.

Barbara Stymiest, who became a director in 2007, will now chair the board.

The two became partners and set off on a quest for funding.

Long before the work «pivot» became a generic cliché, a company like Athenahealth began as a straight service business before becoming an IT business.

Flaherty has been trying to establish a national regulator almost from the first day he became finance minister, only to be frustrated at every turn by provincial objections and most recently by the courts.

His simple design — a climber scaling a ledge — instantly became the imagery associated with Clif Bar.

But after fracking became popular, imports plummeted to 671 billion cubic feet last year.

NEW YORK — Taco Bell's new Nacho Fries were a hit with diners, with a quarter of all orders including the $ 1 spicy fries since they became available earlier this year.

Before Bentley's Corner Barkery (now rebranded as Bentley's Pet Stuff) became a crown jewel in Marcus Lemonis» small business empire, embattled owner Lisa Senafe, along with her husband, Giovanni, appealed to The Profit for help.

In 1996, Conlon became a millionaire.

If you're a startup founder, recently became an entrepreneur or content creator that has yet found a way to monetize your business don't despair, there are multiple ways to generate cash flow with little or even zero business development.

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

Winfrey described watching the Oscars in 1964 as Sidney Poitier (who also won the Cecil B. DeMille Award, in 1982) became the first African American to win an Academy Award and how that changed history.

At Delta, these talks eventually became known as the «Velvet Rope Tour.»

Born in 1970 in a village near Sevnica, Slovenia, which was then part of Yugoslavia, Melania moved to New York to pursue her modeling career in 1996 and became a permanent U.S. resident in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.

That eventually became Avant, where the trio currently work together.

Breaking with Ottawa's decades - long obsession with balanced budgets became a key point of differentiation

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Smith took his advice, starting pooltables.com, which became the largest retailer of pool tables in the U.S..

Smartphones became less about communication — RIM's biggest strength — and more about consuming media.

When Microsoft first launched the original Surface products, it pitched an idea that seemed either weirdly unconvincing or just too ahead of its time, which eventually became the device's very marketing tagline: «The tablet that can replace your laptop.»

Viacom's non-voting class «B» shares rose 6.7 % Thursday, with much of the jump coming late in the day, after the move presaging Dauman's removal as CEO became public.

Other cities followed suit, and such policies became a boon for China's electric - car makers.

Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers.

The sensors, initially used to analyze the distance of users to the television, was ultimately improved and became a core component in Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset.

Keith stayed on for a while as a consultant, while Marcus became a vice-president, managing the company's bids on giant public - private partnership projects, such as the first phase of the reconstruction of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a $ 300 - million gig.

Instead, he turned to love and passion and became the # 1 tennis champion in the world.

It became a hit with college students «who like to send... err... special photos to each other,» Swanson noted.

and it became a thing unto itself.

He spent five of those years in Silicon Valley where he became inspired by the fast pace of successful startups.

Kroetsch, who became CEO by default, doesn't seem attached to being in charge.

The appointment of five instead would presumably assure Sumner and Shari Redstone a 7 - 4 board majority, eliminating the possibility of a 5 - 5 deadlock if Sumner Redstone was deemed — or became — incapacitated.

In a voicemail to employees on Sunday, Blankfein said diversity was a hallmark of Goldman's success, and if the temporary freeze became permanent, it could create «disruption» for the bank and its staff.

For reasons known only to Trump, the former Celebrity Apprentice host decided to target the Fox anchor for ridicule and outright abuse well before he became the front - runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

After decades as an operations executive in the corporate world, including 15 years at Clorox, Tasner moved to Method in his late 50s and became immersed in the sustainability ethos.

I stopped being so involved in the day - to - day operations and became more of an adviser.

While only one of the candidates became a board member, I still speak with many other people who were part of the process.

While the makeup became iconic, the process of differentiation started with the band's name.

Before comedian Louis C.K. won Emmy Awards and became «America's Undisputed King of Comedy,» he built an audience doing stand - up comedy in Boston.

It was quite humbling, I left my strategy consulting job at McKenzie and I became a door - to - door sales person of original ZocDoc products.

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein became the first major Wall Street leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's order to halt arrivals from several Muslim - majority countries.

Online mattresses have become one of the most competitive areas of retail in recent years.

While the term has become popular in recent years, it's built around the idea of subscription - models, which has been around since long before the digital age.

The brewery hopes to show what could happen if the city's drinking water become affected by the algae situation in the lake.

But once you shake off the initial giggles of seeing someone wearing a robot suit and squatting by their workstation, the applications of the device become clear.