Sentences with phrase «bold moves this year»

Pawlenty made a bold move this year to use Minnesota's somewhat unique «unallotment» process to «balance» the state budget.

Motorola made the bold move this year to resurrect the beloved Razr brand with the new Droid Razr.

Samsung really took a bold move this year with their flagship Galaxy S6 series by bypassing the entire Snapdragon processor line and deciding to use their homegrown 64 - bit Exynos 7420 octa - core processor with four cores clocked at 1.5 GHz and four cores clocked at 2.1 GHz.

Google made some bold moves this year with respect to both their Google Nexus 6 smartphone and their new Google Nexus 9 tablet — they went BIGGER all around.

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The deal is the boldest in a series of smaller steps to move beyond its core soup business, as Morrison heads into her seventh year in the job.

An acquisition of Snyder's would be one of the company's boldest moves, as Campbell CEO Denise Morrison heads into her seventh year in the job.

«Employees who ask their boss directly for a bonus are twice as likely to be successful in that request than last year, so making proactive, bold moves in 2017 could pay off, but one always needs to approach these conversations with care,» said Accounting Principals president, David Alexander.

In Immelt's early years he lacked the courage to make bold moves, and the discipline to achieve consistent execution.

The all - night internet broadcast was the result of a partnership with Twitter, a bold move to cap off a year of formidable change at BuzzFeed, which was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti.

Poloz's bold and unexpected move to cut rates this year — not once, but twice — has been credited for dampening the impact of the sharp drop in global oil prices on the Canadian economy.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy Charities Unveil Bold Year - End Appeals in Storm's Big Shadow Schwab Charitable has moved quickly to encourage and assist donors in making gifts to benefit relief organizations working on recovery efforts after the recent superstorm.

In a bold move, Arab Jordan Investment Bank acquired the local business of HSBC Bank Middle East in Jordan, which raised $ 417 million in bonds for its clients in 2013, in January this year.

Twenty years ago a leading New Testament scholar in the United States, Robert Funk, took the bold step of moving out of the university institutions to establish what he called the Westar Institute.

After many bold and locally unpopular midseason moves by general manager John Hart — 40 % of last season's American League championship team is either gone or injured — the Tribe has shown that it is better equipped for the postseason than a year ago.

Now we've had our first look at the very orange livery two - time F1 champion Alonso will run at the world - famous IndyCar race, following on from McLaren's move to the bold colour in F1 this year.

Their win total has dropped in each of the last fouryears, from a high of 61 in 2001 — 02 to 44 last season, so last summer theMaloofs made their boldest move: replacing Rick Adelman, whom they inheritedwhen they bought the team and who is one of only two coaches to reach theplayoffs in the last eight years, with Eric Musselman, an aggressive leader whois more in line with the owners» straightforward approach.

During last year's address to the legislature, Malloy also mentioned teacher tenure in a statement that surprised some observers as a bold move by a Democrat.

A pair of neighboring Essex County school districts made a bold move when they announced last year that they would share a superintendent.

That was a bold move, since Turkle has warned for 30 years that, despite its pluses, digital culture discourages person - to - person connections.

The leading Mexican grill chain has made some bold and progressive moves in the last year, challenging the existing quality found in typical fast - food.

Inspired by this year's bold move towards more positive images of acceptance, the VAUGHAN girls were inspired to create their own homage to this year's offering with a Queen of Hearts look with our aptly named, «Love Affair» red silk shirt.

Feeling the dregs of his job as a pilot for a lower - end airline, and the rut routine of his family and married life, Rusty makes a «bold» move to spice things up: Instead of dragging his family to the same dilapidated woodland cabin, he's taking them to Walley World in California, just as his father did so many years ago (in the original Vacation).

Snowpiercer, his latest hit, is an even bigger, bolder move than we saw from his countryman Park Chan - wook who went from directing the OG Oldboy to last year's ravishing Stoker.

Summary: After 15 years of developing Killzone, Guerrilla Games made the bold decision to move in a new direction and focus on a brand new genre and IP - Horizon Zero Dawn.

However, the most admirable thing about Netflix's plan this year is the bold move to take on something they've never had a grip on: Hollywood blockbusters.

This bold family crime drama from John Wells Productions centers on 17 - year - old «J» Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of an overdose.

Notoriously secretive and the only major film festival that unveils its line - up the day before it starts — a bold move and seemingly risky for those making the trip all the way to Colorado — for 41 years the tastemaking festival has proven itself to have terrific programming and a boast a few «premiere - y» coups within the fall film festival circuit too.

Microsoft putting their brand new racing sim up against the biggest of the big was a bold move, but In a short four years Forza has established itself as the best racing sim on the market.

Our current superintendent has been making some bold moves and we have seen some significant progress over the past couple of years, so I'm excited about where we can support and what could be possible.

«This year, school choice supporters in both Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin will be making bold moves in creating and expanding opportunities for parents.

The report states that FCA's debt totaled $ 7 billion at the end of the third quarter this year, but could be offset by a barrage of new products and bold moves, including the spin - off of Maserati and Alfa Romeo.

You remained otherwise unchanged that year, a bold - but - courageous move you made again and again throughout your storied life.

On display at auto shows this year is a gorgeous coupe concept from Buick, the Avista, and Hyundai's bold move into luxury with a Genesis coupe.

Personally, my favorite aspect of the new C - Class is the styling, which moves from slightly apologetic to bold and a bit threatening on the Sport, clearly influenced by the tweaks AMG, Mercedes» in - house performance tuner, has made to its own models these past few years.

Review The original BlackBerry Bold 9000 cut quite a dash when it debuted last year, signalling clearly to any doubters that Research in Motion was moving the BlackBerry out of the boardroom and into the pockets and handbags of consumers who had need for its exemplary e-mail service in their day - to - day lives.

Not a bold move or a boon, just a copy of Pubslush and Unbound (uk) who have been doing this for over two years.

Exactly one year ago, Barnes & Noble made an interesting move, one no other company in the tech industry had yet been bold enough to make: it released the Nook Color for just $ 249.99.

Sony opening the conference with The Last Guardian was a bold move and showed that they have been paying attention to the buzz for the past few years.

MK: X follows 20 odd years after MK 9 and in another bold move, introduces a slew of new characters to the game, many of which are the children of classic characters.

Quick to separate himself from his «highest quality pixels» statement of last year and move on to something equally as laughable, Tector made an incredibly bold claim in an interview with Eurogamer.

Over the years works have moved from visually dark collage and drawings using ink and charcoal to bold colorful paintings using chalk pastels and oil sticks.

It's a bold move to follow an internationally recognized exhibition that occurs every other year in New York with one that travels primarily to regional cities.

Moved by an enthusiasm for intense colour and bold expressive gestures, Thomas Olbricht has spent the last 30 years collecting abstract art in a wide variety of styles.

«This move can be seen as a bold step forward in breaking the impasse over whaling that has burdened the IWC for many years,» said Hogarth.

I think it was a bold move of Lenovo's to address the issue and commission these designs, but can't help thinking that there is a disconnect between the life of a desk and that of a computer; Since I worked on that unit 12 years ago we have gone from desktop to laptop to tablet to table.

After 22 years of loving Vermont and having tremendous success with Tom's art career we are making a new bold move - we are now living in Bourdeilles, France.

Earlier in the year, Chambers launched its first ever directory focused on the high net worth market — a move I described at the time as the boldest new product to come out of Chambers since the Chambers Confidential research reports.

In a note, Nomura Securities analyst Rick Sherlund wrote that he expects Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to make «bold moves and organizational changes» and upped his target per share price to $ 50, from $ 45, for the year.

Summary: After 15 years of developing Killzone, Guerrilla Games made the bold decision to move in a new direction and focus on a brand new genre and IP - Horizon Zero Dawn.