Sentences with phrase «few subsequent years»

After that, he assigned me to the Washington bureau and I continued to produce for a few subsequent years for science and tech stories while I was doing my Ph.D. at College Park.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

Good luck can certainly lead to a great fund (and the opportunity to raise larger amounts of capital in subsequent investment funds); there clearly are some investors (or dart throwers) who in the past few years invested early in what became decacorns (including Uber and Airbnb) and are managing larger pools of capital as a result.

From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.

We have experienced a few bumps along the way, but our congregation would not have endured some of the subsequent crises or developed a sense of common care over the past couple of years without it.

But subsequent popes had failed to do this — the only councils in the ensuing years were the Council of Basel - Ferrara - Florence in 1431 and the Fifth Lateran Council, which closed a few months before Luther wrote his Ninety - Five Theses.

This scenario repeated itself over the next few years as each subsequent Lucado book connected like wildfire with readers in our university town.

It was a bit daunting, but over the years and subsequent babies, I have picked up a few tips and hints I would like to pass on, all personally tested and also appreciated by our customers.

I have had to change my approach to food and shopping dramatically over the past few years with the arrival of my kids, and subsequent need to make lunches for school.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

With the session in disarray following the arrests of the leaders of both houses of the legislature, and their subsequent resignations, many expect the laws to be simply extended for another few years, without making any changes.

This all would have meant a severe round of cuts for science agencies to rival, and likely exceed, the original sequestration of a few years ago, with very limited possibility of recovery in subsequent years.

The subsequent savings in emissions would grow year by year ever afterward — while the billion - plus fewer people would need less land, forest products, water, fish and other foodstuffs.

But as of May, it had no plan to revisit the work completed a few years ago by scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, despite subsequent advances in climate science.

Retention has been tricky: Fewer than half the fighters who sign up for the study return for a follow - up appointment the next year, and it drops off a bit more in subsequent years.

In terms of global temperatures, he said that previous forecasts had captured the relative flattening of temperature rise for several years and the subsequent sharper uptick seen over the last few years.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

It actually takes few million years to form two black holes, with a possible subsequent delay of billions of years before the black holes merge and form a single, larger black hole.

I underestimated Spike Lee's 25th Hour badly upon its release a few years ago, misunderstanding it, fearing it, seeing it as a mediocre film when, in fact, subsequent viewings have revealed it as possibly Lee's tonal masterpiece.

Further, because we have data from many years, we can compare students in years with many weather - related cancellations to students in the same school in previous or subsequent years with fewer cancellations.

Despite the stunning design and excellent drivetrain, only four official Arnolt - Astons were built, along with three subsequent cars a few years later.

Within the subsequent few years, he managed to produce a model which was able to run a variety of games.

The 12C may not have walked away with every award and group test win but McLaren's subsequent models have shown how the firm has matured over the past few years.

Sorry, but the evidence clearly shows that actively managed funds with superior performance over the previous 5 or 10 years are more likely than not to underperform during the subsequent 5 or 10 years.2 You can always find an expensive mutual fund that has done well over the last few years, and it's in any sales person's interest to sell you something that will make them money, not something that will save you money.

It is anticipated that this rate hike will be the first of a few this year but as we have come to learn, the plan Fed policymakers present in one quarter can be significantly different from the actual changes in the policy rate in subsequent quarters.

Yes, we know, the last few years weren't too kind to this western province — a downturn in oil prices, massive fires near Fort McMurray and subsequent job losses meant tough times for many of Alberta's residents.

In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent collapse of financial stock valuations I made a few key observations that went against the trend of the past few years.

Subsequent cleanings will vary with individual dogs, ranging from every six months to every few years.

In a 1998 study, less than 8 % had developed stones again within a 4 year period (although a few cats developed new stones on multiple subsequent occasions).

Once you have achieved elite status, fewer points are required to retain your status in subsequent years.

We are looking forward to completing subsequent phases of the overall room renovation over the next few years.»

Mitsuda spent much of the subsequent few years expanding his horizons.

Though Sandra Bland's arrest and subsequent suicide made national headlines — as did the shooting of nineteen - year - old Renisha McBride when she sought help at a white family's door after crashing her car — few Americans have heard about the many other black women who have been killed in recent years, including Yvette Smith, Malissa Williams, and Rekia Boyd.

I would have liked to see a few more artists on that list, but perhaps they can balance it out in subsequent years.

Has any subsequent research superseded these figures in the last few years / months, or, in your view, are they still valid?

Unfortunately, several bad years for ringed seal pup survival caused by shallow snow depth in spring means that in subsequent years, fewer seal pups will be produced for polar bears to eat — polar bears end up suffering after a bit of a lag.

If an event mediated strip stabilizes in form then there might be a depression in growth for a few years as a result of injury, but the subsequent growth should be «normal»

Mann retells the story of Cortez's visit to the vast native towns along the Mississippi, accompanied by hundreds of pigs, and a subsequent survey a few years later, which discovered the towns abandoned and the population all dead.

If the temperature rise is lower, the sea level will rise one and a half feet, and if temperatures are driven higher by our inaction over the next few years, sea level rise will be almost five feet by 2100 (and continue rising in subsequent centuries).

Ever year there are a few few fires during harvest or the subsequent stubble cutting operations.

Articling and the subsequent first few years of practice can be stressful; however, with a librarian's assistance those important years can be made more successful.

Healthcare has dominated many news cycles over the last few years, thanks to the 2016 presidential election and Congress» subsequent attempts to undo the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

Graded policies provide limited coverage for the first few years, with each subsequent year providing increased coverage until the policy reaches maturity, at which point it will pay out 100 percent of death benefits upon the policyholder's death.

In January of this year, a subsequent report gave a few more details on what might be coming down the pipe from the social network giant.

As in previous years, the first and second developer previews were the most feature - rich, with only a few notable additions in subsequent previews but a lot more subtractions as Google got a grip on what was possible in the time remaining.

Subsequent devices continued this trend, and though there are still a few duplicate apps on the S8, there are far fewer than what came loaded on Samsung phones just a few years ago.

It began with flash consoles, which first started appearing a few years ago, and has culminated with the release of Nintendo's ultra-successful NES Classic and subsequent SNES Classic.

Some questioning and listening later revealed that she had had some negative feedback from a boss of hers a few years ago about her ability to present that was underlying every subsequent presentation she was asked to give.