Sentences with phrase «by a few months of»

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Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

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.

The idea of buying a home, sprucing it up and selling at a profit a few months later is celebrated by at least a half dozen popular reality TV shows, several of which are either made in Canada or involve Canadians: Love it or List it, Flip this House, Home to Flip, Flip or Flop and the strangely named Masters of Flip.

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.»

«Earlier this month, my good buddy, Mike Karnjanaprakorn, founder / CEO of Skillshare, stopped by our place in the Catskills for a few hours,» VC Steve Schlafman shared on Medium recently, for example.

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

Her advice: Buffer should convert more nonpaying users to paid plans, and increase the costs of those plans by a few dollars per month.

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.

Born «Twttr» as the brainchild of Dorsey, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, the service became publicly available just a few months after Dorsey's first tweet, and the following March, its popularity exploded during the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin.

(The series is based on a character who first appeared in July 1966, predating the formation of the Black Panther party by 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.

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

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.

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.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

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.

The exact share exchange ratio will be determined by looking at the volume - weighted average stock price of the companies over the last few months, one of the sources added.

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.

Hudson's Bay announced this week that they saw $ 176 million in profit in the first few months of this year, driven in part by strong online sales.

That one still mails us a map of the world every few months, which stands out from the wad of shrill appeals in our mailbox only by the girth of its envelope.

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.

«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.»

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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.

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

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.

There's been a lot of turmoil in the online - media world over the past few months, what with Gigaom shutting down (and then apparently being re-born), Re / code being acquired by Vox and The Huffington Post and TechCrunch now owned by Verizon.

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.

After a few months of haggling where the price increased from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1.8 billion (and in which Jos. A. Bank tried to scuttle the deal by acquiring the parent company of Eddie Bauer), the two sides finally reached an agreement in March.

The franchise owners of CMIT Solutions in Western Pennsylvania, a provider of managed services and other computer consulting services, will expand the number of offices by up to five over the next few months.

I like to be very scheduled (so this might not work for everyone), so I typically create a calendar reminder every few months to «check in» with a representative of each of my buyer personas — whether it be via a quick chat or email, or by browsing through community comments and sentiment.

Although estimates vary, Iran might be able to bring 400,000 barrels per day online within a few months, perhaps as much as 700,000 barrels per day by the end of the year, growing to well over 1 million barrels per day sometime in 2016.

Of the few analysts completely worth their salt, both Ashok Kumar and Dan Niles expect Intel to slash prices by about 50 % later this month.

We used the same kind of political preference models used by the Obama and Clinton campaigns; however we started five months out from election day and did it with far fewer resources and less data.

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

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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.