Sentences with phrase «bookings a year by»

GCRC has provided almost 1,000 books this year by participating in several school and community events including:

If you only read two or three books a year by the biggest names in publishing, then buy your book wherever the hell you can find the best price.

There are so many more success stories from 2016 — when you publish around 1500 books a year by around 1000 talented writers, success stories occur daily — and you can read about a newly published author every day here.

On average, properties can receive up to one to five bookings a year by signing up to an agency.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

The bank's overall loan book was up by 8 % from a year earlier.

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

Facebook's CEO highlighted 23 books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Rutbooks in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda RutBooks» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.

«Chesapeake Requiem,» a forthcoming book by Earl Swift, paints a timely portrait of the 200 - year - old crabbing community as it faces extinction from rising water levels.

The company reported a 15 percent year - over-year increase in first - quarter bookings, boosted by its HomeAway, Expedia and Hotels.com brands.

The phrase had been popularized earlier that year in a book by Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England.

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.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

There were about 17.2 million cars and trucks sold last year, according to a report by Kelley Blue Book.

Initiated by Keith's and then Mick's books, and followed by suspenseful talk of a tour, the public's seduction has stretched over a year.

The Carnival Triumph fire comes two years after another Carnival ship, the 113,000 - ton Carnival Splendor, was disabled off the Pacific coast of Mexico by a fire during a cruise from California — a similar incident that ultimately affected bookings leaving Texas, Driscoll said.

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.

Last year, she cut those costs by using credit card reward points and frequent flyer miles to book flights, hotels and rental cars.

Co-founded by Jen Cao, ZippyPaws booked $ 5M in sales last year, an increase of 805 % from three years prior.

And in Beijing — where the Games cost an estimated US$ 40 billion — hotel bookings in August 2008 (the month China hosted) dropped by 39 % over the previous year.

Harry's projects booking $ 200 million in revenue by the end of the year.

Griffeth has written four books, «The Stranger in My Genes,» in 2016; «By Faith Alone: One Family's Epic Journey Through 400 Years of American Protestantism,» in 2007; «Bill Griffeth's Ten Steps to Financial Prosperity,» published in 1994; and «The Mutual Fund Masters,» in 1995.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

«The net effect is that the number of new books published each year in the U.S. has exploded by more than 400,000 since 2007, to approximately 700,000 annually,» according to the report.

As important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourself.

Gurley took to Twitter earlier this year to announce an investment in Solv, a mobile appointment - booking health app inspired by the real estate industry.

One of this year's breakout TV shows, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is based on the book of the same name by Margaret Atwood.

From the book: «For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up onto brackets driven into the side of a cliff.

This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

Presented by the Great Game of Business, the Gathering of Games is the largest open - book management conference of the year, in which hundreds attend to learn innovative best practices, introduce OBM to newcomers, invigorate current employees with new ideas, and network with fellow OBM practitioners.

The year - long series, «A Nation Under Our Feet,» will be inspired by Steven Hahn's 2003 book of the same name and «will find the hero dealing with a violent uprising in his country set off by a superhuman terrorist group called the People.»

The company should see earnings per share and book value each grow by 12 % a year, she says.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

There's the classic 1989 interview with Steve Jobs, the story that introduced the world to open book management, and a blow - by - blow of Nike's early years, circa 1981.

Barry Farber is rated as one of the top speakers of the year by Successful Meetings Magazine and is the bestselling author of 11 books on sales, management and personal achievement.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

And it was also several years ago that I suggested you take a look at a book on statistics written by a University of Toronto math professor.

Here's how the estimated average cost of a year broke down for men, according to a copy of the 1950 - 1951 Business School bulletin of information, shared by Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library:

Thomas points out that, not only does this natural ebb and flow sound delightful, it also results in an impressive level of productivity (a book a year is a hefty output by any writer's standards).

He read the World Book by the time he was 9 years old.

By the year he turned 40, Rosen had single - handedly built a book of business worth nearly $ 3 million.

I read a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain a few years ago.

Its stock has shot up by 40 % since last year, and it continues to book significant contracts around the world, including with the Swedish Transportation Authority, the Texas Railroad Commission and the State of California.

The company expects to book an annual recurring revenue, an accounting term used by software companies like Zenefits, of $ 100 million this year, up from $ 20 million last year.

Kjellberg has the most subscribers of any creator on YouTube, he wrote a book that went to number 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and last year, he launched his own network, Revelmode, under the auspices of Maker Studios, the digital production company owned by Disney.

On the day the curbs were lifted by a U.S. judge, bookings from Iran surged, ForwardKeys said, leaving reservations for travel to the United States five times higher on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 than the same two days a year earlier.