Sentences with word «drove»

A recently published academic paper in the Journal of Monetary Economicsfound that a single trader likely drove the price of bitcoin from $ 150 to $ 1,200 during a two - month period in 2013 on the Mt. Gox Exchange.

E-1 wages were not increased between 1952 and 1958, so Korean War and Vietnam War troops made the same amount of money at the lower ranks — except inflation over the years drove the real value of the wages down.

And a rebound in company stockpiling, further gains in housing and more business spending also likely drove faster growth in the first quarter.

Rosenthal met Hefner at Los Angeles International Airport and drove him to a vacant lot at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Alta Loma Road, telling him, «This is where you should be.»

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

An increase in sales on a limited supply of available homes drove the gains.

Even though he no longer had a drywall business, my husband woke up every morning, got into his truck and drove off looking for ways to keep the kids in shoes and food on the table.

Facebook was faced with — and evaded — similar questions about its relationship with Thiel when Forbes revealed the early investor in the social media network and member of its board was bankrolling a lawsuit that ultimately drove Gawker Media into bankruptcy.

A friend of a friend recently drove to an empty lot with a trailer on it.

The company wanted to take a more data - driven approach to pricing, because it needed a better idea of what the market would pay for equipment.

Moving to quantitative: Once you have developed significant hypotheses that can be tested, move to start to test them in a more data - driven manner.

In one of these instances he attempts to drive his point home by pointing to declining advertising revenue.

Ontario - based OTTO — not to be confused with the startup of the same name Uber acquired in 2016 and then rebranded — builds self - driving vehicles specifically to transport materials inside industrial warehouses.

Are personal beliefs driving the claim?

This is not to say that California is a particularly safe place to drive.

A light April snow is falling as he tells me he used to drive commercial trucks up from Texas in the 1990s with packages of cocaine, smuggled from Mexico, hidden inside television sets.

«Accomplishing a goal is a lot less like taking a train across country,» he writes, «and a lot more like driving a bumper car.»

He would have driven onto your field in a stacking machine called a Stinger — built on the chassis of a New York City trash truck — and asked if you'd like help with your bales.

Fritz says in Creating, «In fire building, a log on top of the pile will drive the flames upward.

Critics, though, point out that driving customers to fewer and fewer options across the gamut of health services could prove risky for them in the long run.

Toxic people drive you crazy because their behavior is so irrational.

And not only do you need to know how to deal with things on the road — tricks to get the horse to drink while traveling and help avoid colic, how to treat or bandage a wound if necessary — you also need to know the basics behind driving carefully while towing a live animal.

This increase was driven by the High Performance Materials and Industrial Specialties divisions.

Because older machines came with disk drives, you can also opt to remove that and use OWC's converter bracket to add an additional SSD for even more storage.

This is driven in part by difficult - to - understand policies and low levels of customer trust.

So he started driving for Uber.

Maintenance contracts drive service calls, which drive customer relationships, which drive sales of new systems, since it's a lot easier to sell a $ 300 maintenance contract than it is to sell an $ 8,000 system — and when that time comes he's no longer «selling a new system» to a cold - call customer, he's «replacing outdated and inefficient systems» for a current customer.

To drive home its warmth marketing message in recent months, the company didn't use a YouTube video or TV ad, but started with basic brand design.

Drive to Starbucks in the same car I've had for 18 years, a 1996 Toyota Tacoma.

I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

Some equity analysts lowered ratings on Canadian companies they previously believed might be takeover targets (Talisman Energy, for example), invoking the logic that the Petronas - Progress blockage would drive foreign buyers to shop elsewhere.

The vibrant global marketplace of today, increasingly driven by daily technological advancements, is constantly forcing marketers and advertisers to evolve their strategies for achieving higher sales, and currently the most valuable skill to possess relates to content marketing.

Have you ever been driving along a fairly empty highway only to suddenly find yourself having to slow down for no apparent reason?

Self - driving cars especially make sense in locations with less density in population.

Workhorse said that each truck will be able to drive nearly 100 miles before needing to charge, and will optimize the driver compartment and cargo area in efforts to increase efficiency and reduce vehicle weight.

What mentors do is drive results in your business by giving you seasoned advice.

Chipper employees drive to music festivals and other events in vintage, bright - green vehicles to hawk their wares.

And, while data and technology bring us closer to accurate digital attribution, are the things that drive customers and the paths to ROI really achievable?

While Trump and Fiorina have drive and charisma, without governing or political experience of any kind, they are unable to participate in the conversation.

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

An app is another channel that can drive revenue for your business.

Google Drive makes it easy to create a file.

Against this improving fundamental backdrop, a geopolitically driven supply disruption will now have a much more outsized influence, and price spikes can no longer be dismissed as things of the past.

«Moonlight,» the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief - driven independent drama «Manchester by the Sea» took home original screenplay.

Don't forget that the on - demand economy isn't all about driving or delivery.

For key initiatives you are driving, it's important to determine firm milestones and stick to them.

A positive team will be driven to accomplish goals and work together to move things forward.

The final thing to say is that those «officials» should pay closer attention to what the Bank of Canada actually says, and less to the over-interpretation of those words by the currency traders who have driven the Canadian dollar to 80 U.S. cents in recent days, a 10 - percent increase since May.

Zimmer says that Lyft's view of self - driving vehicles» immediate future contrasts with ideas of a «magical autonomous car [that] drops out of the sky and does everything,» and also of cars with autonomous software that theoretically improve over time in the model of Tesla's Autopilot.

By combining with Foursquare, the credit card companies could finally justify and preserve their transaction fees (in the face of competition from other payment options) but working to drive demand to the local retailers.