Sentences with phrase «during the past year for»

«I thank the many partners we've worked with during the past year for their belief in what Erie County can be and for their willingness to roll up their sleeves and work with us to better our region.»

Let's look at what happened during the past year for each of the positions (in order of size in my personal portfolio):

Not exact matches

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.

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

Despite the exodus, sales have ticked up during the past few years; Target is on track for $ 73 billion in 2014.

The employment rate for 25 - 54 year old men fell during the recession, recovered somewhat, but has been flat over the past few years.

«During the past year, management and the Board have been focused on launching the BlackBerry 10 platform and BES 10, establishing a strong financial position, and evaluating the best approach to delivering long - term value for customers and shareholders,» Dattel said.

Beyond that, United has struggled to stave bad press for a number of other incidents during the past year.

It's hard to decipher when, during the span of these past seven years, the love and joy I felt for my iPhone turned into a crippling dependency.

Apprentice commencements in the construction industry decreased by 22 per cent during the past financial year - a situation Mr Dawson said did not bode well for increasing activity.

Zuckerberg said during a press briefing on Wednesday that he takes responsibility for a series of crises plaguing his service over the past year.

«The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950 - 1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration,» according to the bulletin.

Avocados from Mexico, an organization founded to promote avocados in the U.S., is advertising during the Super Bowl for the third year in a row after making a splash in past years with humorous spots featuring aliens and football legends.

And listen to an important piece of advice from Tracy Wald, who has counted Microsoft as a client for the past 15 years, the last 10 during his tenure as chief financial officer with Leonhardt Fitch.

During the past 25 years, there has been a tendency for correlations to be higher when Fed policy is tighter.

During the past year, Rosen did consider enrolling himself in a new sales - training program, because, as he says, «running a $ 3 - million company wasn't cutting it for me.»

For the past few years, Soho has been hosting «pop - up clubs» during the Toronto International Film Festival — the 2009 event transformed the ghostly, abandoned Lower Bay subway station into a sort of mod oasis with the help of Persian rugs, Grey Goose vodka and actor Michael Caine.

Ackman, who has been betting against Herbalife stock for the past four years, made the allegations during a presentation to his investors Wednesday about why he was still shorting the nutrition products company even after Herbalife's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission last week.

Cook went on to say that, in China, «growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks.»

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

The forward P / E multiple for the S&P 500 has increased by 70 % during the past five years (10x to 17x).

My conclusion is that developments in the global economy during the past 50 years have greatly reduced the economic disadvantages of small nations enumerated for his time by Hamilton.

Prices for metals like copper, of which China is a major buyer, fell to six - year lows during the past two days.

Wei said that during the past year the company has strived to meet «demand for high - end and healthy products of the middle class,» with its premium soup series containing less additives to cater to health - conscious consumers.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Over the past five years the price of west Texas crude, the primary American benchmark for oil, has yo - yoed from US$ 60 a barrel to US$ 145 in 2008, all the way back down to US$ 30 during the recession, then up again to US$ 114, before settling this year around US$ 100.

The strength of the Canadian loonie, which recently hit three - year highs, and continues to climb, has been a drag for many investors who bought into U.S. and international equities during the past few years.

Not for one second during the past year did I regret starting DivHut.

Work performed by the APC during the past three years has netted over $ 55.6 Million in contracts and over 750 jobs for its 135 members in 28 states.

Work performed by the APC during the past two years has netted over $ 40.5 Million in contracts and over 500 jobs for its 121 members in 26 states.

«Gifted, determined, ambitious professionals have come into investment management in such large numbers during the past 30 years that it may no longer be feasible for any of them to profit from the errors of all the other sufficiently often and by sufficient magnitude to beat market averages.»

Pötsch thanked Blessing for his service: «Dr. Blessing has been instrumental in realigning the Group during the past two years.

The document also contains the names and contact information for those franchisees who have departed during the past year.

- 00:33:50 How more COI / SOI prospects are using home valuation tool after receiving market reports - 00:34:38 Lisa shares how she works her past clients - 00:34:44 Lisa shares postcard farming - 00:39:00 Lisa shares how she streamlines her follow - up process by using one CRM - 00:39:28 Lisa and Jeff share how to keep a positive mindset - 00:43:37 Lisa shares the importance of role - playing - 00:45:10 Lisa shares the positive affirmations that work well for her and her team - 00:46:04 Jeff defines a positive affirmation and what that means for an agent - 00:48:21 Lisa shares how she became confident during her first year of business and how the business became scalable - 00:50:37 Lisa shares an example of the type of postcards she sends out - 00:52:51 Lisa talks about how the market reports are created - 00:55:35 Lisa shares her tips on hiring ISAs - 00:58:10 Lisa talks about how many agents she has now and when she knows to add another agent

As is probably the case for you as well, almost every stock I own has gone up substantially during the market rally of the past year or two.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

Surging prices for corn, used mostly as livestock feed, have contributed to the rally in wholesale beef and pork costs during the past year, as livestock producers limited herd expansion to limit expenses on feed.

A real - world illustration: In 2014, the insurance industry began approaching a period during which the bonds bought many years, even decades, in the past were coming up for maturity.

«During the past year, management and the Board have been focused on launching the BlackBerry 10 platform and BES 10, establishing a strong financial position, and evaluating the best approach to delivering long - term value for customers and shareholders,» said Timothy Dattels, Chairman of BlackBerry's Special Committee of the Board.

The most recent response provided by the Board of Directors in 2013 updated for certain changes in Berkshire's energy - generating holdings during the past year follows.

The document, which was obtained by The Washington Post, underscores the growing chasm between congressional Republican leaders, who have maintained for months that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should be allowed to proceed, and rank - and - file GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly battled the Justice Department during the past year.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

EZTrader has received some (pretty well - deserved) criticism in the past for having an old - fashioned platform, but during recent years the platform has been updated with a lot of modern and highly useful features that can be used to enhance the trading experience.

For the past couple of years, underlying inflation has been held down by the lagged effects of the exchange rate appreciation that took place during 2002 and 2003, but the maximum impact from that source has now passed.

The Oakmark Fund declined 8 % during the past quarter, bringing the decline to 5 % for the fiscal year ended September 30.

I looked back at the historical interest rates for 5 year treasuries, 10 year treasuries and 20 + year treasuries to see how they have performed during past rising rate environments.

We've been in the sales lead management and lead generation business for the past 22 years, and during that time we've seen a lot of continuous «rebranding» and confusion about what the definitions of «sales leads» and «business leads» really are.

Jeff Sutton, for one, has purchased $ 2.96 billion worth of prime Manhattan retail properties in 18 deals over the past five years, according to RCA, which found that he was the most active investor in the sector during that time period.

Peter Sachse, chief innovation and business development officer for Macy's, said in a statement his company has had «initial success in partnering over the past year with Alibaba on various projects, including accepting Alipay on macys.com and conducting a special promotion during Black Friday 2014.»

During the past five years, entrepreneurship rates among veterans have dipped below the rate for nonveterans as older veterans from the Korean and Vietnam conflicts have retired.