Sentences with phrase «by a few months ha»

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Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

The latest release saw sales volume decline by 1.0 % between April and May, though there has been a great deal of volatility in this measure over the past few months, so it would not be surprising to see a reversal next month.

By the end of his two hours in the store, Cornell had some germs of what only a few months later, as we'll see, are significant changes he is planning.

¦ Work a little longer If neither of those scenarios sounds appetizing, the good news is you would only need to delay your retirement by a few months if you worked full - time, give or take, depending on your salary.

Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.

When she told her boss, a senior partner, the news, she received perfunctory congratulations, followed by some off - the - record advice: «If you want to make partner someday, you'd better not take more than a few months of maternity leave.»

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The website that Williams unveiled at TED, an audio directory and a few simple tools for recording one's own podcasts, wasn't ready for the public until a few months later, and by then it had been overshadowed by Apple's release of podcasting features for iTunes.

By the last few months, I realized I had been engaging — like most addicts — in a form of denial.

«A lot of people have these totally unsustainable lifestyles they're only able to pull off because, by doing nothing but sit on their ass, their net worth goes up by a few grand every month,» says Toronto resident Phillip Mendonça - Vieira.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

After we've met a few times and they've done some homework that I've given them, I ask them to come up with projections of sales and expenses by month for the first year.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

This has yet to happen in any meaningful way, as both OPEC and non-OPEC countries have seen their production increase by a million barrels a day since then (to 33.9 and 46.8 million barrels per day respectively), with much of the OPEC increase coming in the last few months.

In the last few months, we have already helped our community double the number of connections between people and our representatives by making it easier to connect with all our representatives in one click.

Over the past 18 months, increasingly in the past few weeks, we've seen small businesses, Fortune 500 organizations and everyone in between buck conventional wisdom by using social media to oppose President Donald Trump's controversial executive orders and policies.

Although shareholders have yet to approve the deal, the banks would «re-pay shares at a pre-defined value in next few months, avoiding the risk of uncertain evolution of huge claims by shareholders and clients,» Maria Paola Toschi, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, told CNBC on Tuesday via email.

«The Japan virtual currency act has likely had a major impact, as there has been a lot of buzz in Japanese media over the ruling over the last few months,» Aurélien Menant, founder and CEO of Gatecoin, told CNBC by email.

Kalanick went on to commission an «urgent» investigation into the allegations, to be headed by former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and including, among others, Uber board member Arianna Huffington and the company's chief HR officer Liane Hornsey (who has only been on the job for a few months).

«By the time we got together again a few months later, we realized none of us had been able to get the idea out of our heads.»

Fox News, for its part, appears to have tried to repair its relationship with Trump, although the Republican candidate has said that he won't appear for a Fox debate hosted by Megyn Kelly, the anchor he has had a very public battle with for the past few months.

Over the past few months, behind the scenes, tens of thousands of people have been writing to mutual fund company Vanguard telling the investment manager that it's time it supported transparency by corporations about their political donations.

The past few months have made clear that sports retailers need to figure out how to thrive in a space now dominated by Amazon.com.

«My suspicion is that in a few months» time all these anxieties will prove to have been overblown,» he wrote in a commentary published August 13 by the Business Standard.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

In the last few months, a number of the industry's leading companies have been acquired by or have made acquisitions of smaller companies.

Few people were surprised by last month's announcement that HMV would be shuttering all 102 of its Canadian stores.

Over the course of a few months, you'll have a pretty solid list of online destinations frequented by your target prospects.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

Glen Clark replaced him, and a scant few months before the election was hit by an alleged BC Hydro scandal where a company set up by Hydro for a deal in Pakistan had a shareholders list that looked like an NDP party rally.

The ECB will have to respond to catastrophic eurozone unemployment and growing social unrest by stepping up asset purchases this year, after a hiatus in the past few months...

Over the last few months, merchant lobbying groups have stormed Capitol Hill requesting two things: that lawmakers sink federal tax reform by opposing border adjustability and that they support federal price controls on debit interchange fees.

Yesterday, I was contacted by a Toronto radio station wanting to discuss wireless pricing increases that have occurred over the past few months (including increases over the weekend at both Rogers and Bell).

Sales have been dropping as a result of the tight supply, and prices usually lag sales by a few months.

I started out freelancing over web - based, with the help of some basic tasks which actually wanted a desktop as well as access to broadband and I am delightful than ever... few months have passed by since i begun this and i received cash gain total of 36,000 bucks... Basically I earn eighty bucks every single hour and work for 3 to four hrs most of the days.And awesome thing about this is that you could keep control of valuable time when you work and for how long as you like but you still earn a paycheck every week.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

However, to make consistent gains from taking advantage of momentum in the market, swing trading is best accomplished by limiting your selection to stocks that have the ability to run 20 - 30 % higher in a few weeks, rather than a few months.

While rates remain extraordinarily low by historical standards, in the last few months we have witnessed a modest change in the environment.

A few months later we made a dramatic change by eliminating late fees, which had always been a major customer irritant.

He's just a regular, average Joe who'd heard about people doubling their money in just a few months by investing in Bitcoin.

More than a few of the projects could have been completed months, possibly years, sooner but for financing delays caused by wrangling all the other municipalities into the same pool.

As with $ YCS above, $ PALL was volatile and marked by wide swings in the first few months it attempted to build a base of consolidation, but the price action of this palladium ETF has been contracting since July:

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

A few months ago, I wrote about the intriguing trend toward «re-launching» biotech startups that had been recently acquired by Big Pharma or Big Biotech — minus, of course, whatever promising drug candidates had prompted the acquisition in the first place.

By adding features and announcing new policies over the last few months, Twitter has signaled in no uncertain terms that they see video as the next big thing for the platform.

A few months later, it emerged that a crack pipe vending machine had been operating at a harm reduction facility run by the Portland Hotel Society, a Downtown Eastside non-profit since roiled by spending scandals.

NEWSMAKERS: US By Udayan Gupta For Michael Dell, the University of Texas dropout who created one of the most successful PC businesses in the world, the past few months have brought high drama.