Sentences with phrase «early years of doing»

In the early years of doing this work I made numerous friends in the San Francisco area who I still remain close to today.

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Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

(Netflix has before offered logic that can appear perplexing; earlier this year, the company said it doesn't offer downloads of movies because of the «complexity» of such a service.)

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

But: a) This doesn't mean the regulator will definitely nix the takeover; and b) This does, of course, come in the context of a U.S. - China trade spat, and the U.S.'s decision earlier this week to ban China's ZTE from buying U.S. tech for seven years.

You've done a lot of audience engagement when it comes to the Raptors — earlier this year you had fans come and dance in the Hotline Bling Booth, which you shared on Vine.

What does this deal mean in the scope of a massive behemoth like Nike, which earlier this year promised to reach $ 50 billion in sales by 2020?

She is on the board of Stanford University, where she got her MBA, but doesn't sit on any corporate boards since standing down as a director of General Dynamics Corp. earlier this year.

«The reality is that film doesn't matter nearly as much to the stocks of media conglomerates as it previously had,» wrote Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and George Hawkey in a report earlier this year.

WHAT THEY DID: An earlier version of the Senate plan would increase deficits by roughly $ 1 trillion over 10 years, even when taking into account additional economic growth forecast with the tax cuts, the Joint Committee on Taxation said last week.

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).

«Episode VIII» director Rian Johnson has finished shooting, but «Episode IX» doesn't have a start date; both «Force Awakens» and «Episode VIII» began production at the beginning of a year so it is very likely that «Episode IX» will begin shooting in early 2018 for a December 2019 release.

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.

«It's as a result of doing that we've made arrests of two of our offenders for breaching those restriction orders earlier on this year.

Garcea also noted the transaction is the third great deal done by Amaya, following the purchase of slot firm Cadillac Jack in 2012 and of casino gaming and lottery designer and manufacturer Diamond Game Enterprises earlier this year.

(Presumably, this future does not include the risk of serving expired meat — which the company's China subsidiary ran into earlier this year when one of its suppliers was caught repackaging old ground beef.)

However, we do know that the impact of a market decline in the early years of retirement is even worse than in later years.

Last year, Vice took a majority stake in U.K. production studio Pulse Films and the company said earlier this year that Viceland had ordered six episodes of a scripted comedy series from actor James Van Der Beek and musician / DJ Diplo, called What Would Diplo Do?

Images of a much larger test rig «leaked» earlier this year, though Abovitz rushed to assure observers that this did not represent anything like the finished product.

The earliest stages of your company's growth are the most vulnerable to insufficient capital, but that doesn't mean you're out of the woods once you've been around a few years.

If the House and Senate don't manage to get an updated bill on Trump's desk before the end of the year, but do get things done in early 2018, then the bill could be made retroactive.

Glen Hodgson, senior vice-president and chief economist, Conference Board of Canada It's good that the government is still shooting to balance the budget by 2015 and gives itself room to do it at least a year earlier.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney ruffled feathers earlier this year when he blamed the country's «abysmal productivity record» on a lack of investment on the part of risk — averse CEOs, maintaining that while government has done its part, «business, thus far, has disappointed.»

«Virginia has always been an early - warning system for midterm elections — almost always showing us what will happen in the next year if the course of the storm doesn't shift.

Reports earlier this year went so far as to say that Apple would stop producing the iPhone X this summer, months ahead of when it was scheduled to do so.

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

In a similar vein, earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter claiming that the Just Mayo products are «misbranded» because they do not meet the definition and standard of identity for mayonnaise.

Earlier this year Quebec introduced a wood charter, which doesn't force but strongly encourages the use of lumber as the chief material in provincial projects.

She does a lot of public speaking, and earlier this year starred in the Oxygen series Quit Your Day Job, a reality - type program that documented her and three friends as they invested in and mentored young entrepreneurs.

Mind you, I do think the discovery of dark energy is worthy of a Nobel, but over Rubin's discovery of dark matter over 20 years earlier?

With the recent discovery of anatomically modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out of the question that our ancestors did a lot of moving about.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

«If the Fed continues to raise rates according to our forecast and the term premium does not recover, the yield curve would invert by the end of 2019, potentially as early as June of next year,» they write in a note.

The problem is a board and top executive team that don't always appear to have control of its wide - ranging cast of characters, including founders who have attained near - celebrity status (another co-founder, Biz Stone, is a regular on NPR, and earlier this year Dorsey was profiled in Vanity Fair), headstrong and divisive managers, and investors used to getting their way.

Sprint said 90 % of customers did not notice a difference in media quality when it tested the limitations earlier this year.

Dos Santos, 44, is the daughter of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who had ruled the country since independence in 1979 until stepping down earlier this yeDos Santos, 44, is the daughter of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who had ruled the country since independence in 1979 until stepping down earlier this yedos Santos, who had ruled the country since independence in 1979 until stepping down earlier this year.

The ECB doesn't expect anything like that till the end of next year, at the earliest.

American adults had less sex in the early 2010s than they did in the 1990s, to the tune of nine fewer times a year, according to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, told a crowd of developers earlier this year that he had made a decision to kill the motto after learning that speed does not equal success.

Boeing commercial aviation chief Jim Albaugh told a group of Seattle students earlier this year that the company didn't provide the necessary oversight.

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

Smith concedes that her party has plenty of organizational work to do before the next election, which could come as early as next year.

Earlier this year, one of our employees mentioned that while we give folks a lot of autonomy, we don't provide direct access to capital for cross-functional projects when we are figuring out budgets for the upcoming year.

«We didn't try to pursue the lowest - common - denominator concept of «Let's assume everybody's stoned and not paying attention,»» Bruce Linton, the founder and CEO of Canopy Growth, told Business Insider earlier this year.

He joined the social networking site earlier this year, updating followers on his guitar practice and posting a picture of himself doing the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but he also attempted to engage his critics, with mixed success.

However, most people don't realize that the Sisters» platinum - selling success was 10 years in the making: starting in the early 1970s, the band began a har - fought journey that included headlining every club within 100 miles of New York City, from New Jersey bowling alleys to Long Island beach bars.