Sentences with phrase «began scaling back»

Microsoft substantially downsized its stand last year — compared with its vast, sprawling space (complete with hot air balloon) in 2015 — as it began scaling back its mobile ambitions.

He recalled a time earlier in his career when many hospitals began scaling back offerings of vaginal birth after an earlier C - section in the mid to late 1990s.

The company at one time had bold ambitions of having 1 million customers by 2018, but began scaling back its plans at the end of 2015 as costs for funding that growth mounted and demand began to slow.

A third of Mirabela Nickel's workforce at the Santa Rita mine and 180 contractors have been made redundant, as the troubled miner begins scaling back production at its nickel project in Brazil.

North Carolina's class size crisis began as a 2016 legislative order that, starting in 2017, local school boards would begin scaling back the size of K - 3 class sizes.

A recent report by insurance broker Marsh warned that insurers have begun scaling back workers compensation policy options available to businesses with high concentrations of employees in major cities — amounting to a de facto transfer of risk onto buyers.

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The Federal Reserve is expected to begin the transition early next year, scaling back its $ 85 - billion - a-month in bond purchases that have injected cash into the sluggish economy to boost growth.

In an effort to restart the securitization market, on November 25, the Fed announced the Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP prBacked Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP prbacked securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP program.

In the past, many economists and analysts predicted a sharper rise in long - term interest rates, as the Federal Reserve began to scale back its bond - buying stimulus program.

When times get tough and we have market declines, we can always scale back a bit since our essential expenses will be low to begin with.

Beginning in 2018, the deduction is scaled back to interest on debt up to $ 750,000, instead of $ 1 million, for people who buy homes on or after Dec. 15, 2017.

This been accomplished in several ways: 85 % have scaled back on their exploration and development plans; 68 % have reduced their marketing and investor relations budget; 60 % have already begun laying off existing employees; 40 % have implemented organization - wide hiring restrictions; 34 % noted a reduction or elimination of incentive pay; and 32 % have made salary cuts.

Central banks from around the world are also beginning to scale back their stimulus programs.

No stranger to prop bets, I'd never really thought about them as being profitable long - term but beginning that spring, and for nearly three years since, I've scaled back my action on traditional game lines and totals.

Beginning with this fall's freshman class, Stevenson will scale back some academic pressure by no longer naming a valedictorian or salutatorian.

They tell me that they never got back to their «starting weight,» the number on the scale at the beginning of the first pregnancy.

But when they actually began their case, it seemed to have been scaled back significantly.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in April that it faced a $ 10 million deficit and would begin to scale back costs.

Queen Elizabeth, 91, has also begun to scale back her duties due to her advancing age, handing over some of her responsibilities to her heir, Prince Charles.

I would like to point out a couple of targets I reached since starting Vivica's program... and of course thank her for her dedication to help us and the passion she puts in her job My blood pressure is getting back to normal and now my sleep is good again (I began not to sleep well because of high blood pressure... I think)-- I had some pain in my knees and hips (nothing serious, but it bugged me from time to time) and I realized today that they do not hurt anymore — I also find that I'm less «bloated» (or, at least, I find that some garments are less tight, although I don't know if I lost weight or not... I had such a bad relationship with the scale throughout my life that now I tend to stay away from it So Vivica, thanks so much for what you did up to now... and for all you will do in the next weeks.

After studying the routines that he did (and scaling them way back for a guy that didn't have 5 hours to spend in the gym) I embarked on a weight lifting journey that ended almost as fast as it began.

Sony scales back offerings that didn't run very deep to begin with.

Yesterday we brought you a look at some promotional images for Hot Toys» upcoming Tactical Batsuit Batman from Justice League [see here], and now we're going back in time to 2005 for the latest collectible, a 1/4 scale Dark Knight figure based upon the likeness of Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's acclaimed franchise reboot Batman Begins; -LSB-...]

Further, it begins to intercut between this framing device and the actual plot of the film for the rest of the runtime (this is something that happens in act one as well, but is gratefully scaled back during the adventure on the dinghy itself).

She concludes,» Student gains have stalled just as policymakers have scaled back the key policies that had begun to lift student achievement.

President Trump's efforts to scale back the role of the Department of Education began soon after his election, when he announced his intention to nominate Betsy DeVos for secretary of education.

The news story began with «State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.»

However, since the fiscal year began, the governor's budget office scaled back that increase when the administration assigned line - item reductions to various state accounts to achieve the $ 130 million in unassigned savings the adopted budget called for.

In the past, many economists and analysts predicted a sharper rise in long - term interest rates, as the Federal Reserve began to scale back its bond - buying stimulus program.

I no longer contribute to RealMoney; I scaled it back because my work duties have gotten larger, and I began this blog to develop a distinct voice with a wider distribution.

Beginning in 2018, the deduction is scaled back to interest on debt up to $ 750,000, instead of $ 1 million, for people who buy homes on or after Dec. 15, 2017.

Following the HHS decision, VXGN ceased actively developing its anthrax vaccine, scaled back its biodefense activities and began pursuing strategic and other alternatives.

Now that you've begun giving your dog food rewards every time again, it's necessary to start scaling back.

You can cover a large percentage of the floor in the beginning and then gradually scale back as the pups become accustomed to doing their business on the papers.

Beginning in February, PenFed is scaling back its cash - back rewards on the card.

Using A330s and A340s, Iberia will start off with three flights a week, increasing to five a week May 17, then six a week beginning June 6 and daily frequencies from July 3 to August 28 before it starts to scale back the schedule again.

This is all before you even begin to switch on the modifiers — such as one that straps a jetpack to the back of your critter, it the tall goat (read Giraffe)-- which brings a whole new scale to proceedings.

Packed with wit, warmth, and a staggering scale of options, it's really rather fitting that the game that goes back to the beginning of the story is also the one that gives Assassin's Creed a fresh start.

As Borek scales back his translation work to devote more time to photography, he'll relentlessly document the world around him until projects and series he can't yet define begin to come into focus.

Working with Rhoades to realize large - scale installation projects like The Plexiglas House (2006), Dodd began integrating performance and architectural interventions to create holistic environments that generated their own narratives and pointed back to the performative quality of the artist studio as well as the everyday.

Later in his career, Twombly began producing large - scale works that harkened back to the tradition of historical painting.

Step back and the colours begin to interact, further away still a field of closely modulated harmonies cut by strong contrasts opens up» — B. RILEY Immersing the viewer in a shimmering cascade of colour, Greensleeves (1983) is a captivating large - scale vision in Bridget Riley's «Egyptian palette.»

Since there was modest research and zero satellite images dating back to the beginning of this century (for obvious reasons), we lack sufficient time scale with glaciers in the Arctic and the Antarctic.

With rapidly growing utility - scale solar capacity, CAISO has regularly recorded new hourly output records going back to 2010 when it first began publishing the daily data.

All PFIs, beginning with OECD countries in 2017, should report annually on their progress in scaling back support for fossil fuel - related transactions.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

The ExxonMobil Foundation, which had given millions to Cooler Heads members, began to scale back its donations.

Given the large - scale cyber-attack on NHS systems a few weeks back and the ongoing impact of the ransomware which has since spread globally, firm leaders are now beginning to understand that it only takes one click to take down a whole business.

Blue - chip firms such as Borden Ladner Gervais have begun setting aside staff to figure out how to scale back on paper.

I'm scaling back my year - end prediction, as I think we're going to see miners begin to find alternatives with this latest correction and too many mineable coins coming to market over the coming year.