Sentences with phrase «down a year later»

When her restaurant burned down a year later, Toshack went back to law school.

The company shut down a year later.

That strategy, which he calls «cigar - butt investing,» is what led him to buy Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), the company he now runs, in the first place — only to watch its then - core business (textile manufacturing) die slowly until he shut it down years later.

Only one time since 1957 was the stock market down a year later following a recession, which occurred during the 2000 - 2002 bear market.

Though Izak was able to form a relationship with his birth mother, his life was turned upside down years later when he located not only his birth certificate, but also proof that he had a brother he never knew existed.

Another accuser, Christina Moore, says she experienced a disturbing incident that allegedly went down years later in 2014 — this time, at Art Basel Miami Beach.

I watched these artists, who'd ascended the heights in my infancy, tower mightily above, only to be knocked back down years later, but in my eyes they were never anything less than Great.

That way, you can create a file of recommendations from people you may not necessarily be able to track down years later.

Not exact matches

In June, The International House of Pancakes unveiled its first new logo in 20 years, proving that it's never too late to turn a frown upside - down.

Worldwide demand for gold totaled 973.5 tons in the first quarter of the year, according to the Council's latest report, down 7 percent year - on - year.

One morning late last year in sunny Los Angeles, Laurent Potdevin turned off his alarm clock, got out of bed and padded down the hardwood stairs to his kitchen.

Half an hour later, he put a down payment on a couple of condos that won't be built for two to three years.

Late last year, a group of hackers took down a power grid in a region of western Ukraine to cause the first blackout from a cyber attack.

Apple now has more stores in China than any other region outside of the U.S. Despite that, China revenue fell to $ 45 billion in the latest fiscal year, down from a record $ 59 billion in 2015 amid greater competition from local phone makers like Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.

We revised our estimate for volume this year down further primarily because of later - than - expected launches of mobile wallets from major tech players.

The number of Canadian homes sold in March plunged 23 per cent and the national average price was down 10 per cent from the same month last year amid double - digit plunges in most housing markets across the country, according to the latest monthly sales data released Friday.

The pharmaceutical firm Novartis reported Wednesday morning a core operating income that was down by 2 percent in its latest fiscal year due to «generic erosion and growth investments.»

That turned out to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing to do with the process of selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»

Less than a year later, walking down Church Street in downtown Burlington, he ran into Bob Johnson, his old friend and former warehouse manager.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

Waugh's first in - depth interview as CEO was with Canadian Business; 10 years later he sat down with the magazine again in October, first in Washington, and then at his home, to reflect on his career.

Four years later, the app is valued at $ 16 billion, despite an investor marking down its stake in the company.

(There was also speculation last year that Disney may try to acquire Vice outright, but those rumors have died down of late.)

Roughly six years later — after Miller tinkered with the company's recipes, drastically pulled distribution, and the Celis family had departed the business — the brewery was shut down in early 2001.

It was the second straight year of falling sales for the vacation sales sector, which is now down 36 percent from its latest peak in 2014.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late last year started clamping down on some digital token sales.

I am going to stand by it even though it has been hideous of late and [is] down 10 percent for the year.»

William Dudley, who plans to step down later this year, said regulators should encourage banks to overhaul their corporate cultures to reduce risk and bad behavior.

They're either shutting down, as Rdio did late last year, or they're diversifying into other businesses, as Pandora is doing.

«We've done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year.

The latest example came on Thursday, as Facebook shared how it worked with the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox teams over the last two years to tackle a problem that was slowing down the whole process of loading many common web pages, Facebook included.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

Christopher Reeve, who played the superhero four times, was paralyzed from the neck down in a 1995 horseback riding accident and died of cardiac arrest nine years later.

When Salesforce (CRM) plunked down $ 212 million to buy Heroku five years ago, it got a very popular software development site beloved by startups who programmed in Ruby (and later other languages).

The division flopped and shut down two years later.

Since late last year, Beijing has been cracking down on overseas investment as wads of cash flew out of the country, adding downward pressure to an already depreciating yuan.

And the improved job market will continue to push the jobless rate down to 5.4 percent by the end of next year, according to the latest forecast from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).

Years later, in 2010, Amazon launched a full - throttle push to market baby products to moms at the precise moment it was negotiating to purchase the parent of Diapers.com, an act that could only drive down an acquisition price by striking terror in the hearts of other buyers.

Valeant was pummeled late last year when questions about its business and accounting practices spooked investors, with the stock ending 2015 down about 70 % from a high hit in August.

Labour MP Pat McFadden asked Davis whether there would be any circumstances where the government would go back to Brussels to negotiate a revised Brexit deal if Parliament decides to vote it down later this year.

EPA first tried to ban the use of asbestos in 1989, but its decision was struck down two years later by a federal appeals court that ruled the agency had exceeded its authority.

I was opening a gym later in the year and before I was locked down for an indeterminate amount of time, I wanted to complete market research in an environment I knew nothing about.

But by 1991, British Caledonian and Pan Am had shut down, and TWA followed 10 years later.

The latest monthly figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association showed that sales volume was down 16.9 per cent in February compared with a year ago, and down 6.5 per cent compared with January.

That valuable source of income can buoy you in later years, as you spend down other savings.

-- The Jean Coutu Group (TSX: PJC.A) says it earned $ 51.5 million in its latest quarter, down from $ 55.2 million in the same quarter last year.

The GM IPO of two years ago is cited as a recent example of seeing a stock price initially go up $ 6 or $ 7 higher than the IPO the first day, and then settle back down a day or two later.

The federal government further opened the doors in 2006 by allowing the CMHC to insure 40 - year - long, zero - down mortgages, though it reversed the decision two years later.

The Montreal - based grocery company said it earned $ 106.9 million in its latest quarter, down 19.3 per cent from $ 132.4 million a year ago.

Almost 30 years later, the practice of timing the arrival of inputs from suppliers to cut down or eliminate excess inventory has become the norm.