Sentences with phrase «close to a year working»

But the near - unanimous vote by the conference committee in favor of the deal belied growing anxiety on the left, with civil rights advocates and education reformers becoming increasingly nervous they had spent close to a year working on an education bill that will ultimately harm poor and minority children.

Not exact matches

For years, the generally accepted rule for working - age Canadians was to put 60 % nof assets in equities and 40 % in bonds, and then move the allocationnto bonds and away from equities the closer you got to retirement.

This forest is home to some 400 - year old trees, and is close enough to campus for field trips and project work.

The traditional model of clients only needing tax work at the end of the year is coming to a close.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

The partners at Hulse & Durrell had worked together as part of the in - house design team for the Vancouver 2010 Games but, soon after the closing ceremonies, the brand they'd spent years developing effectively ceased to exist.

He continues, «And to really make the situation really bad, I stayed around for another year, working at the company, closing out some deals and finishing up some stuff, which was incredibly unpleasant.»

This year, we are on track to receive close to $ 15,000 in dividend income for doing absolutely nothing while our money works hard for us.

The breach wasn't disclosed to the investing public until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon's acquisition of its operating business in 2016, the SEC said.

With a year as impactful and chaotic as 2017 finally coming to a close, it's time to look back on all of the people whose work and art have made a mark on us over the past months.

The breach wasn't disclosed to the investing public until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon's...

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

Since then, Trend Hunter has logged close to 40 million page views per month, and 32 - year - old Gutsche's Toronto - based team now includes 18 employees working in editorial and programming.

The second method is to have the equipment purchased and installed at the beginning of the business year or quarter closest to the time when you'll actually need the equipment, allowing time for training and working out bugs before the equipment is placed into full production.

«We closed out the year with our business advancing at a great pace,» according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who spoke with Fortune recently at the Great Place to Work annual conference in Dallas, Texas.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

Forget the 60/40 rule For years, the generally accepted rule for working - age Canadians was to put 60 % of assets in equities and 40 % of assets in bonds, and then move the allocation to bonds and away from equities the closer you got to retirement.

Jim Manley, who worked for years as a close aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, says it's up to the re-elected president.

Any person close to us will say we have had no shortage of miracles and most startups that really make it far have similar stories; years where founders did contract work, or full teams were let go.

Fushman's transition has actually been under way for some time, and he has been working closely with the new product lead, Rob Baesman, for the past year, another source close to the company told us.

Few Canadians earn the maximum CPP amount (basically, only those who work close to 40 years at an average wage or better and don't start drawing before age 65).

In closing, as we enter the fourth quarter, we'll continue to push forward the turnaround efforts at Gap and Banana and work to maintain the solid year - to - date performance at Old Navy.

We are lucky to make close to 400k / year, but that level of income is quite common in bay area, esp double income households working in hi tech.

Tiffany has been with the SSE for three years, and worked on the launch of its campaign to «close the gap on ESG reporting» within which the SSE asked all stock exchanges to commit to providing written guidance to listed companies on reporting ESG information.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

«The kind of departments are very similar to our members, the average age is 30 to 35 years old, everyone wants to create life's work... We're saying we're keeping a close eye on it, there's definitely a cap — no question there's a cap.»

«As we scale over the next few years, our focus will be on working in close proximity to strategic partners and hiring brilliant senior talent,» the CEO, Keller Rinaudo, said in a farewell letter.

For years, I've been working with my Republican and Democratic colleagues on a plan to give community banks and credit unions the freedom to focus on their customers, and we're close to passing our bill out of the U.S. Senate.

Even with the tax subsidy, which you might qualify for if you both aren't working, is closer to $ 300 a month for a silver plan for a single person, and the deductible is $ 1500 per year on top of that.

Displaced workers are defined as persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.

Last year, to help close this gap, the New York City Department of Education announced signing and retention bonuses for Pre-K For All teachers working outside public schools.

Looking at the gold price chart since year 2000 gives us a clear picture as to how well gold actually works in protecting your buying power against inflation, which today's interest rates are not even close to being able to.

«I worked with one specific client who had annual profits of roughly $ 60,000 per year; however, he had inventory values of close to $ 200,000 at cost.»

Gilead and Verily will work together for three years to study the immunological nature of rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome and diseases related to lupus, the companies said after trading closed Monday.

I don't know about Combs, but Hempton is wrong on Weschler I think, who is known for owning very concentrated positions in very few stocks and holding them for years (he compounded money at around 25 % annually for 12 years in his fund before closing it to go work for Buffett, and the majority of his returns came from just a few positions that he held the entire life of the fund).

Fonstad, who spent close to 17 years at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, adds that there is still a lot of work to be done.

«I have the experience to work remotely since I had been doing so for many years before, but then the company I was working for closed the door to me.

Close to home the business is performing well and more work will come from a flood of infrastructure projects on the east coast of Australia over the next few years.

«I had been working from home for about a year and I was scarily close to going crazy.

Best unusual benefit ever: working for NYU, the benefit I loved most was that the University closed down from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.

InvestoCopy had temporarily closed their trading platform last year saying they needed to work on a new brand vehicle for their services which is to be launched in early 2016 after a period of testing.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

With 2017 coming to a close, it is time to look at what worked for the year, and what didn't.

My wife is younger and wants to work ~ 6 - 10 years after I retire and makes close to 70 % of what I'll be getting those years.

You're talking about the type of «evolution» that we always knew existed and to make matters worse you're bragging about the advancements made by INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS which still don't even come close to the complication of macro evolution but still required thousands of years of scientific advancement and knowledge and a team of researchers with high iq's working aroudn the clock with microscopes.

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

Nov. 22 is only six months away and since none of you over the past 40 years have even remotely come close to finding legitiment support for your whacko theories, you'll have a lot of work to do till then.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

My companions in living, working and visioning; the claims of justice; and the urgings of the spirit are pushing me closer to the roots of the idealism and enthusiasm I embraced ten years ago.

«I'd been working in the church for seven or eight years, and I was very stressed, anxious and close to burnout,» Shaun explains when I speak to him.