Sentences with phrase «early figure in»

April 11 - May 18, 2013 Opening: Thurs., April 11th 6 pm to 8 pm Since the 1970's Mary Grigoriadis, an early figure in the Pattern and Decoration Movement, has created secular icons that are luscious in both color and texture.

Arshile Gorky was one of the last great Surrealist painters and a major influence on (and early figure in) Abstract Expressionism.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

Not exact matches

The company began moving production abroad in the early 1990s, around the same time that brutal conditions in overseas sweatshops started making headlines (Levi's figured in some of them, due to a scandal in Saipan).

While Nintendo hasn't released its sales figures, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils - Aime told The New York Times earlier this month that in its first two days of availability, the console registered higher sales than any previous Nintendo console.

Canada's tech ecosystem is in rare form, with companies regularly raising nine - figure amounts from investors, and lots of young firms overcoming early challenges to rapidly grow revenue and head count.

Early in his life, Tarkenton raised money for a business, often before figuring out how the business was going to generate revenue.

Six months earlier, that figure was one in five.

«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

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.

In the early 1980s, Hasbro shrank Joe to 3 3/4 inches, the same size as figures made popular by «Star Wars.»

But after she went to bed, Snyder figured it out: «I woke up in the middle of the night thinking what that error was... I came in, made a special trip on the early train that morning to look at a certain wire.»

«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).»

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

But underlying weakness in the department store's sales figures — a symptom that's already reared its head in early releases from competitors J.C. Penney and Kohl's — signaled that despite predictions of a consumer rebound this Christmas, things still aren't easy for department stores.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

The figure comes from a proxy statement that the company filed in early 1996.

When Vancouver civil engineer James Dean started his greentech company, dPoint Technologies, in the early 2000s, he figured he could hitch his wagon to the promise of the hydrogen fuel cell sector.

It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

Statistics Canada released figures earlier Wednesday suggesting the country's merchandise trade deficit narrowed in January, though economists noted it was driven by a plunge in imports.

Polish inflation figures which often predict trends in the rest of the region, showed a pick - up in the annual rate to 1.6 percent in April from 1.3 percent a month earlier, largely in line with expectations.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

An earlier version had an incorrect figure for the total value of mergers and acquisitions in Canada so far in 2013.

Van Susteren and Rivera, along with other high - profile figures at Fox News such as Bill O'Reilly and Neil Cavuto, publicly threw their support behind Ailes soon after Carlson filed her sexual harassment lawsuit in early - July.

Papa John's early history reads like many pizza franchises: A young John Schnatter figures he can make a better pizza and begins delivering pies from a glorified broom closet in his father's Jeffersonville, Ind., bar.

While Chinese banks tend to front - load loans early in the year to get higher - quality customers and win market share, the lofty figure was even higher than the most bullish forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus deflating actual sales figures.

Sometimes you do have to do everything, especially early on, but when you have the knowledge and are totally immersed in your field... you figure out what you can delegate, and learn to oversee those areas.

In the early days of Late Night With David Letterman, the host and his then - girlfriend Merrill Markoe would sit through meetings with NBC executives, trying to figure out what sort of sketches they could run in their new 12:30 a.m. sloIn the early days of Late Night With David Letterman, the host and his then - girlfriend Merrill Markoe would sit through meetings with NBC executives, trying to figure out what sort of sketches they could run in their new 12:30 a.m. sloin their new 12:30 a.m. slot.

When the Bulls drafted Pippen in the early first round, many figured they had severely reached for him.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

Bannon's departure a week earlier was seen as a significant blow to other nationalist, far - right figures in the White House, and Gorka implied as much in his letter, saying it was clear to him that «forces that do not support the MAGA promise are — for now — ascendant within the White House.»

The figure was up 15 percent from a year earlier, compared to growth of 18 percent in the previous quarter.

Early on in my career as an entrepreneur, I couldn't figure out why everything stalled.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

(It is worth taking a moment to properly digest the figures: the average modern employed 40 - something American male weighed fully 32 pounds more than in the early 1960s.)

But this is still very early days, which allows Davies and his team to figure out what audiences want in a virtual reality boxing experience.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

In the early days of BuzzFeed, I had several VCs say they were interested in investing if we could figure out a way to fire all the editors and still run the sitIn the early days of BuzzFeed, I had several VCs say they were interested in investing if we could figure out a way to fire all the editors and still run the sitin investing if we could figure out a way to fire all the editors and still run the site.

Earlier production surpluses in May 2005 and January 2012 were higher than today but were short - lived and related to specific non-systemic factors (Figure 9).

That figure — the amount by which Canada expects to miss its fourth international emissions commitment in a row — has grown by half since Ottawa's last report to the UN only 18 months earlier.

The bank is said to be in the early stages of setup, which means hiring and figuring out the logistics, including how the bank will hold the assets and keep them secure.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

While these figures are undoubtedly good news for the private sector battered by high unemployment and anemic growth, it's far too early to celebrate, says Russell Investments» chief economist Mike Dueker, who adds that recent unemployment figures are in part the result of people no longer looking for work.

As you see in the next figure, excepting a few months in early 2012, it's undershot the Fed's 2 percent target for eight years!

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

Three centuries later, in 1850 — 9, energy consumption had risen to 1,833 petajoules, a total more than 28 times as large as the earlier figure.

The figures and analysis in this post update the earlier blog, based on the most recent OECD data -LSB-...]

Startups are constantly tackling problems, big and small — determining product - market fit, developing traction and early adopters, hiring the right talent, raising money (and figuring out how to spend that money)-- but the key is figuring out which ones matter most to the company's leaders at any given point in time.