Sentences with phrase «been a great year of»

2012 is going to be a great year of «firsts.»

It was another great year of travel for me and I kept snapping lots of photos and sharing them on this blog and my Facebook and Instagram pages throughout the year.

I wrote an epic review on the game, so I don't have that much more to say except that this was a great year of surprises in gaming, and to have a Zelda game top that list is the most pleasant surprise out of all of them.

Looking back, I'd say that in many ways the year I worked for John Weber was the greatest year of my life.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

The bid emphasizes the importance of gaining a greater foothold in online sales in India, a market expected to be worth $ 200 billion a year within a decade.

The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil infrastructure.

«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.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

Earlier this year, senior deputy Bank of Canada governor Carolyn Wilkins warned of job losses and greater income inequality stemming from AI and robotics, though she expects these technological developments to eventually create more jobs than they replace.

«The spread between the 2 - year and 10 - year Treasury is now the tightest it's been since 2007,» said Rob Morgan, chief investment officer at Sethi: «The flattening yield curve in 2007 was a harbinger of the Great Recession of 2008.

Due to the number of seasonal workers in Canada, there is naturally a great deal of seasonality in the data, so it is helpful to look at year - over-year numbers.

Coffee By Design Entrepreneurs: Co-founders Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear Headquarters: Portland, Maine Again, so many things over the years: Choose to be great Instead of big.

Geologists said before 2009, the state historically averaged 1.5 earthquakes of magnitude - 3 or greater each year, and is now experiencing 2.5 earthquakes of the same magnitudes each day.

«What we're seeing across the board is that the consumer is finally beginning to open up a little bit, whereas post Great Recession, for years, it was sort of «is this for real or not for real»?»

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

«We had opened them about 12 years ago, at a time when the penetration of smartphones was very low, so this was a great growth opportunity.

As RBC Capital Markets» Mark Mahaney wrote, «There are three great deals in America today — the Happy Meal ($ 3.29), Netflix ($ 10.99), and Prime (even @ new price of $ 119 — up 5 Grande Lattes... a year).»

Looking at demographic and economic data, Mandelman and Zlate say that there may be good reason to believe that the sort of mass movement from Mexico to the U.S. that was seen in the years leading up to the Great Recession could be a thing of the past.

The New Year, full of clean - slate vibes and good intentions, can be a great time for establishing new routines and habits.

«Therefore, it is perhaps not too surprising that demographic trends — along with greater enforcement — have caused the inflows of undocumented migration at the U.S. - Mexico border to slow in recent years.

Considering that we've been at this for two years now, this will require a great deal of editing.

In the 21 years since the SPDR S&P 500 ETF debuted, the exchange - traded fund market has mutated and grown like some sort of monster that's all - knowing and great at making analogies.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

Those competitors include BuzzFeed and Vice, both of which now have private - market valuations that are greater than that of the 93 - year - old publisher, whose market value stands at $ 1.7 billion.

A great deal of spending on infrastructure, the One Belt One Road for example, which is a massive infrastructure project — trillions of dollars a year for the next ten years, and they are building roads, essentially think of Marco Polo on a bullet train, and that's what we're seeing.

My mom has been a scrapper for years and since she had a ton of their products I thought it would be a great fit for me at the time and I wanted to start my first professional blog along with it.

Jeff Weissman, who has run his Great Harvest location in Washington's Lake Forest Park neighborhood for over 20 years, doesn't feel as if he's part of a corporate operation.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

Having had the sublime pleasure of riding in a robot car a few years ago (and writing about it again recently), it was with great interest that I read the cover story in the latest issue of Wired.

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

This is the third and most extreme mass bleaching event in 18 years to strike the Great Barrier Reef, and in each case, the areas that suffered the worst bleaching were the areas where the water was hottest for the longest period of time, Hughes said.

It's not a great three - year return on capital, but it's not the money - losing house of horrors it's made out to be, either.

But Argenti says the misstep actually led to greater sales of Coke, so it wasn't necessarily a bad move, even though people can still recall it 30 years later.

Results are out, and it's not great: slightly down in Canada, slightly up in the U.S., but a full - year rate of growth of just 1.1 % in Canada and 1.8 % in the U.S.:

I think age and experience (I just turned 30 this year) mellow you out but it would have been great if I could have figured some of these things a bit earlier.

Earlier this year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions of items to its online assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S. sales are six times greater than Walmart.com's.

Just think about this for a second: 69 percent of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they experienced great on - boarding.

Forbes states that «building and delivering great mobile experiences will be the beating heart of your customer engagement strategy for the next 10 years.»

Since our founders have been in the industry for over 15 years marketing for businesses, we know what works to start generating a great income in a short amount of time.

A very successful and experienced businessperson once told me that when he looks back on the handful of really great partnerships that he has had over the years, he realizes that it wasn't the little things that mattered.

Obelisk is part of the Great Sandy Desert tenement, where Sipa is earning up to an interest of up to 80 % by spending $ 3 million over the next four years.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

For 20 straight years, Whole Foods has been counted as one of America's «Great Places to Work,» an annual list that is based primarily on employee surveys and published by Fortune.

«As hackers devise more advanced and less recognizable threats, organizations that continue to settle for cybersecurity strategies that rely on a «feeling» of security are taking even greater risks in the coming year.»

Garcea also noted the transaction is the third great deal done by Amaya, following the purchase of slot firm Cadillac Jack in 2012 and of casino gaming and lottery designer and manufacturer Diamond Game Enterprises earlier this year.

Becoming one of Glamour magazine's women of the year is just one clue that Nicole Kidman, 50, had a great 2017.