The earlier years of that time period had a high number of tropical cyclone landfall events, while the latter years experienced relatively few.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Bob Ezrin, the Canadian music producer known for his work with Pink Floyd, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper among others, (and, to a different demographic, for sparking a Twitter war
earlier this
year with rapper Kanye West), says Gould was way ahead
of his
time.
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.
Smartphone prices may be cratering anyway; Peter Nowak suggested it's only a matter
of time earlier this
year:
«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.
«It's
time to sleep our way to the top,» Arianna Huffington charged readers
of The Huffington Post
earlier this
year as part
of the online newspaper's Sleep Challenge 2010.
Earlier this
year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions
of items to its online assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S. sales are six
times greater than Walmart.com's.
Japan's short - term yields,
of less than three
years, turned negative last
year, and
earlier this month, the five -
year JGB slipped close to zero several
times.
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).
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.
The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares
of Sprouts, which
earlier this
year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the
time.
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.
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.
Earlier this
year, President Donald Trump scuppered Broadcom's attempt to buy mobile chip maker Qualcomm, and the Department
of Justice is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition
of Time Warner.
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.
Some 11 %
of Wharton's graduating full -
time MBA class
of 2013 spent the summer between their first and second
year either at an
early - stage venture or working on their own.
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.»
For more, check out
Time senior editor Matt Vella's Apple Watch impressions, and keep an eye out for Fortune's full reviews
of the iPhone 6 later this September and Apple Watch
early next
year.
Survey results also indicate that Gen Z teens aim to own their first home by age 28 — three
years earlier than the median age
of first -
time homeowners, according to the National Association
of Realtors.
In 2015, New York - based competitor Bounce Exchange filed a suit against Yieldify in a New York federal court, accusing it
of copying its code and infringing its patents, in a case that first came to light
earlier this
year in a report from The Financial
Times.
Coincidentally,
earlier this
year the three -
time Inc. 5000 company made its first sale
of the DDM4 to law enforcement agencies, selling to the Missouri State Police and North Dakota Highway Patrol.
So
earlier this
year, we created an introduction video to help clients understand the platform better and address many
of the questions we had answered
time and
time again.
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.
There were, among others, the debt ceiling standoff - cum - rating downgrade
of 2011 and the fiscal cliff scare
of late 2012, followed by awfully -
timed tax hikes and spending cuts
earlier this
year.
Consider the case
of Amazon, which got what seemed to be a black eye
earlier this
year when its draconian working conditions were exposed by the New York
Times.
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
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.
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.
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.
Con artists are motivated both by a desire to be the center
of attention and the power that comes with that ability to manipulate others, psychologist Maria Konnikova, author
of «The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every
Time,» explained to me
earlier this
year.
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.
The Liberals
earlier this
year rejected the option
of going to the Supreme Court, fearing both the
time such a step would take and the suggestion
of doubt about jurisdiction when Ottawa firmly believes there is none.
Wearables are the tech world's current darlings, with feverish speculation around the
timing of Apple's iWatch drop and several new devices being debuted
earlier this
year at the Consumer Electronics Show.