Sentences with phrase «best from year to year»

«Each year I've been at Monte Vista we have progressively gotten better from year to year and I expected that to continue this season which I think it has.»

They didn't look equally good from year to year, though: each enjoyed some years basking in the sun and spent others cowering in the doghouse.

Not exact matches

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public marketTo get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public marketto repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public marketto mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. actively managed large - cap funds are beating their benchmarks for the year to date, the best performance through April for any year since at least 2009, according to research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

They said the comments from Hastings and Sarandos were only intended to suggest that the streaming - video provider wants to do more Vice-style documentaries, as well as news - related shows such as the one it is planning with comedian Chelsea Handler for next year.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existencTo be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existencto the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

For people in their 20s and 30s, Ponnapalli concedes that rules of thumb and general targets are a good place to start since it might be hard to gauge a detailed retirement budget from that many years away.

«This year, we wanted to showcase some of the hottest holiday gifts from across the U.S. in toys, fashion, and electronics through an interactive heatmap, which can help create more successful gift giving and better inform seller promotions,» says Zoher Karu, eBay's vice president of customer optimization and data.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

Well, there are several factors, including a fan base that's grown over the years from the original Redditors who found Imgur a handy place to save a meme or personal photo.

We've made many changes to it over the years as we've learned from our experiences, and we're always looking for ways to make it better.»

The two CEOs hope that the changes resulting from the merger will be implemented over the next couple of years, creating a «dramatic change» for consumers in which the store will be «not just about products, but also service offerings that can help people on their path to better health.»

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.

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

From big cities like Hong Kong and Barcelona to less prominent destinations like Valparaiso and Reykjavik, these are the world's best New Year's celebrations.

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 combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).

It's been hard to keep up with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez over the years: One minute they're together, and the next they seem to want to move on from each other for good.

The Tories are committing $ 44.9 million over five years to expand the focus of the National Anti-Drug Strategy from illicit street drugs to prescription drug abuse as well.

In July, Eli Bartov, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and two other researchers found that «aggregate opinion» from tweets before earnings announcements could predict earnings surprises as well as market reactions for individual stocks, leading to outperformance of 5 % to 10 % per year.

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

Though Herbalife's quarterly sales and profit dropped from the previous year, to $ 1.1 billion and $ 85 million, respectively, that was well above analysts» forecasts.

The Warriors are currently the favorite to win the NBA title, and given their youth — from the players to Kerr as a rookie head coach — they could conceivably get better in the coming years.

«Cash flow after organic investments increased to $ 2.8 billion, up by more than 50 percent from a year ago, thanks to good operational performance and continued spending discipline,» added Pouyanne.

Each tree can replace its bark every 9 to 12 years and the very best quality corks come from a tree's second or third or subsequent harvest.

Return on average common equity (ROE), a measure of how well the bank uses shareholder money to generate profit, was 6.4 % in the quarter, down from 14.7 % a year earlier.

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

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It is also planning to drill up to three new oil wells on a new project in Colorado after strong results from its first well drilled last year.

Start with just one thing that you're going to stop doing and work your way from there to create an even better business in the New Year.

They put a lot of effort into buying ingredients from suppliers who treat their workers well and look after the environment, using sustainable packaging, and donating 10 % of their profits to charity each year.

DTS earnings before tax of $ 13.1 million increased 16 % compared with $ 11.3 million in 2017, due to revenue growth and operating performance, as well as favorable developments related to self - insurance claims from prior years.

Matthew Roberts, who has been diligently flying a drone over Apple Park for over a year to photograph it, has delivered the best look at the campus's finishing touches from the skies.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

By that metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).

The ability to put a new spin on the old: That's what catapulted Jason Lucash and his business partner, Mike Szymczak, from aspiring entrepreneurs to creators of one of Time's 50 best inventions of the year in 2009.

Zukunft: Well, the first is you think beyond the tyranny of the present, and you need to think at least five to six years out, and you can't just think of what's going to happen during your four - year tenure and then just truncate it and just say it's going to be somebody else's problem four, five years from now.

It's hard to verify independently the claims of retail traders who say they have made good money this year, when worries about a slowing Chinese economy and the slumping oil price have wiped up to $ 8 trillion from world stock markets in January alone.

As well, the company's gross margins before fair value adjustments shrunk from 58 per cent of sales or $ 12.5 million, compared to 64 per cent of sales or $ 6.2 million in the fiscal third quarter a year ago.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

«People have seen results go from the best in the industry to one of the worst in the course of three years,» says Stephens analyst Will Slabaugh.

She was out of shape, she looked about 30 years older than she was, and now her life was going to go from better to worse.

Falling fuel costs kept Japan's core consumer prices unchanged in January from a year earlier, well below the central bank's 2 % target, highlighting the daunting task policymakers face in attempting to lift Japan out of stagnation.

The Top 10 is completely different from year to year, and the same is true to a lesser extent for the best analysts in each sector.

«The best advice I've ever received was from my father when I was 12 years old and willing to listen.

It's said that youth is wasted on the young, and I think a lot of the bashing millennials get is jealousy from those grown old who are seeing the best years behind them, while looking down the loaded barrels of living in an old folks home and learning to love BINGO.

It has imperiled multibillion - dollar deals and could ravage business relationships for years to come, as well as pummel the earnings of countless U.S. businesses, from oil producers to investment banks.