Sentences with phrase «because of last year»

The new foreclosure avoidance measures are available «to certain borrowers who live and work in Presidentially Declared Major Disaster Areas and who became delinquent on their mortgage payments because of last year's disasters» according to the FHA official site.

Now because of last year's incredible turnout there I would suggest getting your money and skills in order.

«The governor will not assemble the nominating committee because of last year's court ruling that the current process is unconstitutional.

Because of last year's wedding things have been pretty slow for me over the past year business wise.

It's gambler's fallacy to think this kind of season was going to show up just because of last year, but it's exceptionally good for I - told - you - so» ing.

I think it is because of those last years that I began to look.

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That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

The tax cut plan approved last year will have a disproportionate impact on Verizon because almost all of the company's revenue comes from inside the United States.

«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.

Canada - wide, 67 % said property sales to foreign buyers increased in the last year (a number that's largely diminished because of a decrease in foreign buying in Calgary).

Probably, in the last year, this has emerged more so than ever because of the political climate.

President Donald Trump's staff did not want him to attend last year's White House Correspondents» Dinner, because they were «terrified that he would die up there in front of a seething and contemptuous audience.»

Beyoncé was supposed to perform at Coachella last year, but had to forego the opportunity because of her pregnancy — she delivered her twins last June.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

PDVSA has this year bought 19,000 bpd of U.S. crude arriving in Curacao, down from 30,000 bpd imported last year because of payment delays, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

After YouTube TV's debut last year, Fortune noted that the service was incomplete compared to most cable offerings because of its lack of cable channels from the likes of Turner and Viacom.

Because the performance - based stock grants also aren't worth anything until Valeant stock hits $ 60, the current value of Papa's paycheck last year is much lower, or about $ 14.7 million.

Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn't afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services.

Revenue declined nearly 6 % last year, in large part because of the sale of its pharmacy business to CVS.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

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Last year New York City - based Adafruit did a booming $ 10 million trade in sales of DIY open - source electronic hardware kits, so - called because project designs are free and publicly accessible, and customers are encouraged to modify or «hack» the final product.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

Bush was recently named one of GLG's Social Impact Fellows because of the group's innovative approach and quick growth (last year, the organization got roughly 5,600 applications for 140 spots).

In fact, this may be the single reason why so many of us fail to make lasting change each New Year: because deep down, we don't really want to.

Last year Banks made an operating profit of 18 million pounds ($ 22 million), down from 27 million pounds the previous year because of a fall in the coal prices.

One of them, Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, said the incomes of the richest Americans surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal has become a political flashpoint because Republican President Donald Trump vowed last year as a candidate to block it and because of his frequent sharp criticism of news network CNN, owned by Time Warner, including in a new tweet on Wednesday.

4 %: Increase in sales last quarter, in large part because of the company's limited - edition «Girl of the Year» doll.

Revenue at NBCUniversal rose by 12 % to $ 7.5 billion, and theme park revenue climbed by 38 % to $ 1 billion, in part because of the addition of Universal Japan, which Comcast acquired a stake in last year.

This is a great source of offline advertising because you pay for the cost up front and the value lasts for years.

Last year, MSCI rejected the A shares because of limitations on how much foreign investors can withdraw and a requirement for pre-approval from Chinese authorities for direct foreign investment in A shares.

U.S. officials blocked a $ 2.9 - billion bid by Chinese investors to buy a controlling stake in a California - based unit of Dutch electronics firm Phillips last year, while another U.S. semiconductor firm rejected a lucrative offer from Chinese investors in favour of a lower bid from an American company because of concerns the deal would not win regulatory approval.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

The fate of the deal has been widely followed because U.S. President Donald Trump criticized it on the campaign trail last year and because of his repeated attacks on the reporting of Time Warner's CNN news network.

SeatGeek initially approached TopTix last year because it wanted to license its software to run the back - end technology of SeatGeek Open.

The Greeks behind taxi - hailing app Beat, bought by Germany's Daimler last year, set up in London because of the more flexible legal framework and lower start - up costs.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

In a related issue, Google had to remove one of its «auto - complete» suggestions last year because a number of users found that if they started typing the words «Are Jews» into the search box, one of the recommendations was «Are Jews evil?»

Watch Dogs stole the show at the last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was unveiled, not just because it's an entirely new property, but mainly because it looks like it's going to capture the zeitgeist of the super-connected era in which we live.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

«This is obviously a confidence vote that China's out of the shadow of the market crash last summer and also the mini-crisis in the beginning of the year because of the currency volatility.»

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.

Unilever, for example, filed a suit against Hampton Creek last year claiming false advertising and unfair competition because Hampton Creek's Just Mayo doesn't contain eggs — a requirement under the current standard of identity for mayonnaise.

Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Sprout Pharmaceuticals» treatment for hyposexual desire disorder (HSDD) in women — in simple terms, a lack of sexual desire — because it wasn't convinced of the benefits.

Neha Mahajan, IDC senior research analyst of devices and displays, referred to U.S. PC market as having a «strong last quarter of the year» partly because of «impressive growth in the retail PC segment,» which IDC didn't elaborate on.