Sentences with phrase «few great years»

We have had a few great years in which diversified portfolios earned double - digit returns and it is hard to find an asset class that lost any money.

Most critiques of Francis Ford Coppola's career interweave film criticism with biography and produce an account of a wasted genius, a failed wunderkind, a director who had a few great years, produced some magnificent movies, but slid further and further downhill as time passed.

Here's what I want you to think: you spent a few great years with someone you loved and it turned out that you changed and wanted different things.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

«We've really had a great last four to five years in terms of a few trends that have worked really well for us,» Moddelmog said.

I»M not sure if you've noticed, but the Great Southern has been producing some blindingly good cabernets over the last few years.

Having had the sublime pleasure of riding in a robot car a few years ago (and writing about it again recently), it was with great interest that I read the cover story in the latest issue of Wired.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

After a company has been in business for a few months or years, company leaders may realize their original, brilliant idea wasn't as great as they initially believed.

But an even bigger concern, and a much greater exposure for our entire economy, relates to the efforts we're making to upskill our existing workforce — especially the folks in their 40s and 50s — who basically lack the digital smarts needed to be valued contributors to their businesses in the next few years.

When great games come out and they're well reviewed... if you look at our Metacritic scores over the past few years have been great and positive.

But within a few months, I had a great job, doing pretty amazing stuff and that all led to me writing books, traveling the planet and have a great life - for the past 20 years.

Being older can help a great deal with the first item, as the years between 20 - and 30 - something probably netted you a few salary increases.

You've invested in a great hire and perhaps they've been with you for a few years.

In the last few years he's had great success and he's letting us take advantage of his success.

Having said that, this year will present opportunities to buy a few great companies at very attractive prices.

While emerging market indexes have been on a wild ride over the past few years, she thinks a number of developing nations are on the cusp of great things.

Beyond voting, the greatest opportunity is helping people stay engaged with the issues that matter to them every day, not just every few years at the ballot box.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

I think if you can spend a few years at a fast grower with a great «promote from within» culture that's a good risk - reward balance.

«Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,» Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago.

I mean the great recession that we had here a few years ago was nothing compared to this.

China has already allowed some state - owned enterprises to default in the last few years, as the central government seeks to instill greater budget and market discipline.

«This year, you've had quite a striking disconnect between troubles of the few and progress of the great majority.»

Microsoft has come out with a number of great computers over the past few years, and the Microsoft Surface 3 has been hailed for its top - quality performance and its slim and portable design.

«I'm a Boomer, and Millennials have shown me over the past few years how important it is to have great social media skills.

For a few companies and investors, though, it was a great year.

In fact, when I think about last year, what stands out the most isn't that we made a few sacrifices — it's that we had a great time.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

While Microsoft has made many of its best Office apps and services available on Google's Android and Apple iOS over the past few years, Myerson says, Windows 10 S represents a renewed focus on what makes Windows itself great.

Still, the ASPCA is celebrating 2016 as a great year for animal rights and the past few years as good for farm animals in particular.

While such instances may be few and far between at the moment, expect them to occur with greater frequency in coming years.

«Normally, one of the great disadvantages of investment - oriented life insurance is that front - end commissions are so high that it takes a few years to start building up any type of cash value.

The European debt crisis threatened to pull apart the euro zone only a few years after the world endured the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression.

Great SEO is really no different than it was a few years ago.

After a great deal of volatility a few years ago, now Bitcoin seems to be on a mostly - constant upward trajectory.

Cliff Asness wrote a great piece for the Financial Analysts Journal a few years ago detailing his top ten pet peeves about the investment industry.

Low volatility had been replaced by high volatility — Q1 had 23 days of daily moves greater than 1 % in the S&P versus seven such days for all of last year, and the first few weeks of the second quarter have seen similar swings.

Consider a few high - profile examples: Banco Espírito Santo was rescued by the Portuguese government last year following the resignation of its CEO, the great - grandson of the bank's founder, amid allegations of financial improprieties.

If this is true, by the way, it means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.

And it is this abatement of the great distortions that have caused growth to slow so rapidly, and although we haven't seen much evidence of significant rebalancing yet, it should take a few years for the effects fully to be worked out.

For a few years during the heyday of the 1920s bubble, Germany was able to do just this, borrowing more than half of its reparation payments from the US markets, but much of this borrowing occurred because the great hyperinflation of the early 1920s had wiped out the country's debt burden.

DISH is expected to launch an Internet of Things network — for bringing small, data - sipping devices online — in the next few years, but a deal with Sprint would instantly make DISH a key player in the mobile market, and give it even greater opportunities to utilize its wireless spectrum.

As we often do, we led or co-sponsored a few resolutions on matters important to Greater Vancouver — this year including ports, YVR, and the Fraser River — that are articulated in the following news release.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated randomly to over the last few years.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated to randomly over the last few years.

Not sure what happened, but a great product has gone downhill over the past few years.

That's changed a great deal in the past few years or so but some directories are still important and have been consistent in their quality guidelines and ability to offer link / traffic benefit.

On top of that, with stock prices already so high (even after this sell - off, they're still high by historical standards), returns going forward might not be as great as what we've experienced the past few years.

However, your post reminded me of a great piece of software I purchased from Reel Logix a few years ago which may be worth dusting off.