Sentences with phrase «better this year by»

Commissioning one of his flagship Community Day Schools in Frafraha in the Greater Accra Region Friday, the president said education standards are getting better year by year.

Cinema was bested this year by the small screen.

Help us do even better this year by coming by our tables to see what items you just can't live without.

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To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

«It's been going gangbusters all year long,» said Crabill by phone, noting that Mohu recently won shelf - space at Best Buy, and is expanding its presence at Wal - Mart (WMT) and on Amazon (AMZN)

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 markets.

The PQ has laid out plans to reduce that pesky deficit as well, stating the government would balance the budget by the 2015 - 2016 fiscal year.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

This reward offer is good for one year from the date it is first offered, unless extended by Razer.

This year, that's best personified by the world premier of Pee - wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens» return to his most famous character after more than two decades.

This article is part of Fortune's Best in Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Fortune.

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

«When we discover that our experiments have stopped being productive, let us pivot to a new, fundamental strategy that can allow us to do better experiments,» Ries told a rapt audience at South by Southwest a few years back.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

And last year, the Sentry Small / Mid Cap Income Fund was selected as the best of its kind in Canada by Morningstar.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

In a report released today by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, I give my assessment of whether Canada is better positioned to «compete to win» six years after the Red Wilson Panel.

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

These effects help explain the recent announcement by Starbucks and several major American corporations of a program to offer full - time positions as well as apprenticeships and internships to 100,000 disconnected youth over the next three years.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

That means rebalancing your portfolio at least once a year, by selling some of the assets that have done best — and exceeded their model allocation — and buying more of your laggards.

«The injury rate at our Fremont factory is half what it was in the final years of the UAW plant operated by GM / Toyota immediately before us, and we care deeply about the safety and well - being of our people and strive to do better every day.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Each year, there are lots of parades, as well as equestrian drills done by the Canadian Mounted Police for the public.

Darn Good Yarn won last year's Community Excellence Award presented by the US Chamber of Commerce, so Snow is definitely doing something right.

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).

Singapore's Changi Airport has been named «world's best airport» for the sixth consecutive year by Skytrax.

Frends products hit Apple stores and Best Buy in October 2012; by the end of the year, the Encinitas, Calif. - based company had revenue of $ 1.6 million.

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.

The Apple Watch is alive and well thanks to a price reduction and solid craftsmanship, and rumors are swirling that an Apple Watch 2 with GPS and improved processing power would hit the market by the end of this year.

This belief is held by other companies, as well: The Container Store is known for giving its new employees 300 hours of paid training in their first year at the company.

A refugee shelter designed by the Swedish furniture giant Ikea, Better Shelter, and the United Nations is the 2017 winner of the Beazley Design of the Year award.

Next year may well be the first year of multi-factor by default,» Digital Shadows, a cyber threat intelligence company, told CNBC.

For example, Ride - On Carry - On, a kid's chair that turns a rolling suitcase into a travel stroller, was invented by a flight attendant who needed a better solution for traveling with her two - year - old son.

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines how well the system is working by surveying Americans and asking a simple but powerful question: Did you have problems paying medical bills in the last 12 months?

Kerr likes to deflect the attention and credit by saying he simply inherited a good team, but according to SI's Chris Ballard, Kerr's coaching philosophies have been two years in the making.

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.

According to U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Jobs data, the best - paying jobs in this field will carry the highest salary this year, followed by careers in engineering and businBest Jobs data, the best - paying jobs in this field will carry the highest salary this year, followed by careers in engineering and businbest - paying jobs in this field will carry the highest salary this year, followed by careers in engineering and business.

By first outsourcing technology, and then building its own systems, Gravity offered lower prices and better service, and grew rapidly for four years — until the Great Recession nearly wiped it out.

Google is not the only tech company nominated for an Oscar this year — Amazon became the first streaming service in history to be nominated for the most prestigious category, «best picture,» for Manchester by the Sea, which was also nominated in five other categories.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for 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.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.