Sentences with phrase «few hard years»

Then I can do it again using different assumptions about whether Elrond might not hit his savings goals in a few hard years, or if returns are different.

Not exact matches

Few industries have been hit harder in recent years than energy, and the oilfield service provider Schlumberger (slb) epitomizes both the sector's struggles and its opportunities.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Gonzaga is the only private school among the Final Four teams this year, and that status makes it harder to track the details of coach Mark Few's compensation package.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

«We're working hard to have a full prototype system in the next few years,» says Delage.

The past few years have been hard on the company, and shares are worth nearly half what they were in April 2005.

In my four years of startup life, I've had the opportunity to experience a few hard - learned lessons that many entrepreneurs would do well to avoid.

He also cautions that a few big mistakes can undo years of hard work.

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

«Over the next few years, it will be increasingly hard to buy a set that doesn't have an Ethernet connection,» writes Peter Kafka.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

Printing chromosomes today isn't much harder than 3 - D printing was a few years ago.

Apple is always good for a surprise or two, but other than the expected incorporation of fitness trackers, a larger screen and / or some sort of mobile payment technology, it's hard to imagine the company doing anything that will generate the same buzz as its first few iPhone models did just a few years ago.

As the economy has muddled along the past few years, banks have been criticized for making it hard for small businesses to get loans.

It's actually hard to overstate how much things will change over the next few years as these printers become commonplace.

The ability to command higher prices is a hard fought win for Coach, which only a few years ago fell into the same retail discount trap that has plagued countless brands and stores.

«Most informed investors believe that when interest rates go higher, as they are expected to within the next few years, condo prices will be hit very hard,» says MacKenzie.

A few years ago those BBM spots worked pretty hard at pushing the brand beyond its traditional suit - and - tie demographic, but ultimately weren't able to significantly move the dial.

For the past few years, the industry has been working hard to break into China — the biggest lobster market in the world — to offset declining sales in the United States.

Meanwhile, luxury real estate in Manhattan has taken an especially hard hit over the past few years.

That combination seems hard to justify, even under the nearly perfect backdrop of the past few years.

Over the next few years, they worked hard to build a successful company.

Many bond investors have learned the hard way over the past few years that predicting the direction of interest rates can be extremely difficult.

After a 9 year bull market, it is hard to imagine share prices declining and staying low for more than a few months.

Adds Fadell, who was confronted by thermostats» shortcomings while designing his home in Lake Tahoe a few years ago: «They're hard to use.

It's hard to believe it's just a few years since countries like Ireland and Spain had to go cap - in - hand to international lenders — at least if you look at their bond yields.

Although it may be hard to see it in the economic ratios, or in any real restraint in credit expansion, in fact Beijing has already taken serious steps towards rebalancing, although it may take a few more years to see this in the consumption share of GDP.

Between the trend away from pensions, some hard losses in the past few years (Dot Com and Housing crashes and resulting fear of stocks) and the emphasis recently on «give your kids everything» (private education, expensive colleges, etc etc etc), it does not seem like a stretch that retirement savings are put on the back burner.

It's hard to ignore the sweeping popularity that cryptocurrency has enjoyed over the past few years.

It's hard to believe that only a few years ago people worried about «peak oil.»

It's not hard to imagine that after a few years of owning your home, crushing it at work, and paying off other outstanding debts, that your credit could shoot for the sky.

They stayed and kept working so hard that, a few years later, Archana's company — Hubbl, which provides internet advertising solutions — sold for $ 14 million.

Traction was harder to come by in larger enterprises, though, and in fact over the last few years Office 365 has well out - paced G Suite, not only growing faster but winning back customers.

I've picked up quite a bit just by being around our CEO, Kyle, for the past few years — he's been in and out and up and down in startups, and has shared some of the hard lessons he learned along the way.

Whether you need to send or receive documents electronically or in hard copy, our expert staff, over sixty years of experience and state - of - the - art equipment and facilities are just a few of the reasons why Trukmann's Reprographics is the best choice as your turn - key document provider.

That's a far cry from the triple - digit figures that prevailed only a few short years ago, but Chevron has worked hard to make it through the tough period for the energy sector.

On balance, Stephen Harper has been a successful prime minister, but it is hard not to feel that the last four years contained more than a few missed opportunities.

If you need a proof just refer my revenue and bottom - line prediction from last few years for Suven Drug discovery is a long, hard and uncertain process and putting your odds is as good as throwing a dice.

The bulk of those are from HSBC, which continues to indicate it may move 1,000 investment jobs despite comments by the head of its investment bank last year that he expected fewer jobs to leave because the chances of a hard Brexit were receding.

General Mills looks like it's been hit pretty hard this year, Seems fairly cheap from a P / E perspective, back in the mid teens where it was a few years ago, and reasonable yield and earnings growth.

It is hard to imagine the Arnhem Bitcoincity initiative has been around for nearly two full years already, especially when considering very few people thought this project had any chance of success in the long run.

For a few years now, industry experts have expressed their doubts and concerns regarding WeWork, in particular worrying that the coworking giant was creating a bubble that would be hard, if not impossible, to sustain.

It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and border taxes start soaring.

«Today's acquisition is an incredible milestone for BTCC that validates all of our hard work over the past few years.

It is hard to believe that just a few years ago a national bipartisan fiscal commission was working on a plan to bring our growing and historic national debt back down to sustainable levels.

Furthermore, he notes that while earnings are decent, there is the hard truth that returns over the last few years have come as much from higher equity valuations as they have from fundamental growth.

The same God who apparently thinks it's fun to torture his own creations for eternity in heII for their few years of bad behavior on earth or just for not believing in him hard enough.