Sentences with phrase «doing for years in»

This is what the best of us have been doing for years in classrooms and getting results.

Schools, districts and states have been doing this for years in academics.

I knew that my mother - in - law had been doing it for years in Morocco but I never attempted it.

I suspect it will still somehow surprise investors how strongly I am inclined to encourage an aggressive or leveraged stance when market conditions justify it (as I did for years in the early 1990's).

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) co-located is conference at BookExpo America (BEA) in Chicago in May, as it has done for years in New York City.

Not exact matches

There's even a chance the dreamy Prime Minister will provide some free publicity, as Justin Trudeau did for Microsoft Corp. when it opened an office in Vancouver last year, for example.

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

This is an enormous need for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after years of effort and investment, did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW of solar - generating capacity.

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

In last year's presentation, we were really searching for what the right way... how do we pay for this thing?

«In academia, you can end up doing research for years.»

If HR does nothing in this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years.

3Com went on to go public in 1984, and in 1999, its peak year for sales, the networking tech company did $ 5.7 billion in sales.

For example, don't leave your money lying around in a bank, where the interest rate tends to be an insulting 1 percent a year.

Mahan has ideas for other things employers can do over the course of the year to develop a culture of civic engagement in the office:

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.

The report's recommendations are not binding, but it does help to illuminate the path ahead for the entrepreneurs who have entered the fledgling marijuana market in recent years.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewaIn the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewain a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

«While your business likely has major goals to get to in the next six months to two years, don't ignore the little things that make experiences for your customers more awesome in the meantime.

«We've been coming to SXSW for years, but [now are] actually doing something that is meaningful for companies, that actually shows and inspires the entrepreneurial spirit across the country in every market,» he added.

For years, Canadian UAV companies have had an edge over their American rivals because our regulators have been more permissive in allowing drone flights, and don't require operators to have a pilot's licence — an expensive hurdle.

The stock did rally more than 40 percent last year, but Cramer thinks that only left Starbucks ripe for profit - taking in the wake of this most recent quarterly report.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang saFor most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang safor the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

He did it in his recent Tesla master plan, referring to the low chance of success he knew he had when starting Tesla by citing the fact that Ford is the only U.S. car company to have avoided bankruptcy — knowledge he didn't have when he launched Tesla in 2003, six years before GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Twitter received only 2 % more government requests for user information during the six months ending in June of this year than it did in the second half of 2015, the company said on Wednesday.

«They don't care if you've been in business for one week or 25 years.»

Over the past few years, CGI has come in for some unflattering headlines — it built the Obamacare health - care registration website that had an infamously rocky start — but that doesn't seem to have harmed its growth.

Like if you go to a 4th place team and recommend changes and people say, «That ain't the way we do it...» Well, maybe the way you do it is why you've been in 4th place for the last few years.

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

The failed $ 6 - billion bid by China Minmetals (another state - owned enterprise) for Noranda, a Canadian copper and zinc miner, in 2004 had similar consequences: Canada did not see another major Chinese bid until this year.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

In case you are not rewarding them fairly for pushing your company forward every year, for knowing your systems better than any newcomer or for their loyalty, you are doing something wrong.

Only 45 percent of those surveyed said they trusted their leadership, while a little more than half said they were not happy at work, and one in every two employees did not expect to be with their organization for more than a year more.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

Forte Oil did not give a reason for the change in direction but said the downstream sector in Nigeria had gone through changes in recent years and was expected to evolve further.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

«Whereas 87 % say they don't pay for content today, only 76 % say they definitely won't in the next year.

The company did $ 280,000 in sales last year, and Archer projects $ 2 million for 2018.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»