Sentences with phrase «earlier in the year this time»

Unlike when I visited Hong Kong and Singapore earlier in the year this time I hadn't bothered to use the Marriott app before I arrived to check to see if the hotel was selling any superior rooms for the duration my stay but, as the signage in the lobby indicated a fair number of conferences were being held in the hotel that week, I was happy to take the front desk's word on this and I didn't push the point any further.

As for release date, the rumor mill is churning awfully early in the year this time around.

Given that we're seeing details of the OnePlus 6 leak already, it's possible we're looking at a launch earlier in the year this time around.

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Earlier in the year, Hilton successfully spun off its real estate assets and time share business, creating three independently traded companies.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

To counter the fall in downloads, Apple plans to bundle the music streaming service it acquired as part of the $ 3 billion Beats Electronics deal earlier this year into its iOS operating system, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Capital spending ballooned to $ 7.3 billion from $ 2.5 billion a year earlier, although that included the one - time, $ 2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building in New York City.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

When the company began introducing Star Toilet Paper in Durham earlier this year, Bryan said small issues sprang up that made the roll - out more time - consuming.

Xiaomi, reporting detailed financials for the first time, posted a net loss of 43.9 billion yuan ($ 6.9 billion) in 2017, reversing from a profit a year earlier.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

Activist investment fund Jana Partners acquired a 5 % stake in Time Inc. earlier this year, and the fund is said to be interested in pushing for either an improvement in the company's financial picture or a sale.

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

Although Snap is going public at a much earlier stage in its development than Twitter or Facebook, the five - year - old company is valuing itself at nearly 60 times revenue, more than double the 27 times revenue mark Facebook fetched in its IPO.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

So, while I'm not making a case for paying more than your mortgage payment for cosmetics in one month, I am saying that if you're gonna do it, early in the year is the best time.

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

But earlier this year, a separate report from Counterpoint Research found that the iPhone was not the top selling smartphone in China in 2016, the first time Apple had been unseated since 2012.

And if that's not enough, he currently drives part - time for Chip Ganassi Racing, has competed in all three of Nascar's national series, and earlier this year won his first Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio.

In a report earlier this year for the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Trent University economist Harry Kitchen argues it's time for governments, particularly at the municipal level, to stop offering price breaks for seniors.

While the auto - parts sector is cyclical — companies make most of their money earlier in the year, while automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow times.

In its financial results earlier this year, the Times reported virtually zero revenue growth, primarily because of the decline of print.

Chesky has always insisted that the company would go public on its own timetable and not for a while; in early 2017, he told Fortune he saw the process of getting ready for an IPO to be a two - year project and that at the time they were «halfway.»

Souki was the highest paid CEO in the U.S. last year, according to a New York Times / Equilar survey published earlier this year.

For the six months ended June 30, 2013 Twitter reported $ 253 million in revenue, about double its revenue compared to the same time period a year earlier.

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Starbucks» stock price reached an all - time high in early November, up more than five times from its 10 - year low in 2008.

Revenue, which dropped for the first time in four quarters, totaled C$ 3.19 billion compared with C$ 3.21 billion a year earlier.

As Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out in an essay earlier this year on the Lawfare site, it is extremely difficult — and perhaps even impossible — to draw a meaningful distinction between what the New York Times does and what WikiLeaks does.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury fell below 2 % for the first time since May 2013 in early trading in Europe, while gold rose to a three - week high of $ 1.213.60 a troy ounce, as investors once again shunned anything that smelled remotely of risk.

After spending a year meeting with Plain Sight's scientists several times and researching its technology, Rennick agreed to the merger in early 2005.

Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five years earlier in the session on account of global oversupply.

The survey showed cash accounted for 47.6 percent of German transactions by volume last year, down from 53.2 percent three years earlier and below the half mark for the first time since polling started in 2008.

In the early years, I had some midnight - of - your - soul type of times.

In hindsight though my dad would have loved to have been an actor because he was kind of a ham, but it was during the depression years when I first grew up in the mid, early - 30s, mid-30s, it was a bad timIn hindsight though my dad would have loved to have been an actor because he was kind of a ham, but it was during the depression years when I first grew up in the mid, early - 30s, mid-30s, it was a bad timin the mid, early - 30s, mid-30s, it was a bad time.

Early in 2014 the rookie hedge fund manager noticed something unusual: The amount of crude oil being stockpiled around the world was building much faster than normal for that time of year.

The major indexes also snapped four - week winning streaks and are now at least 3.5 percent below all - time intraday highs set earlier in the year.

For the full - year ended March 31, 2013, Alibaba reported $ 1.4 billion in profit, an increase of 85 percent over the same time period a year earlier.

After a healthy run earlier this year, shares of Salesforce took a hit in June, falling 8 percent before finding a floor of support at the stock's 50 - day moving average, a technical indicator that smooths out a stock's random price fluctuations over a given time.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

This slump holds true regardless of gender, age, race, work or marital status, although it's most precipitous for American who were married or living with a romantic partner, a group that reported having sex 16 fewer times per year in the early 2010s when compared to the early 2000s.

The central bank bombarded markets in the past week with the message that it could raise interest rates for the second time in nine years as early as June, if the economy continues to improve as expected.

It hasn't grown that fast in normal times since the early 2000's, a period that probably wasn't all that normal, as so much of the wealth generated during those years was from America's debt boom and China's once - in - lifetime rise from poverty.