Sentences with phrase «few years contributed»

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«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

A recent forecast by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that indebted households will restrain spending over the next few years, contributing to slow economic growth.

What started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

Uber has faced fierce competition across the globe, contributing to its loss of billions of dollars over the past few years.

Panasonic plans to contribute $ 1.6 billion to Tesla's (tsla) $ 5 billion «Gigafactory» in Nevada in phases over the next few years.

Over the last few years, we have observed that when participants in The Regis Company simulations become aware of some the contributing factors to breaker moments, they do better at filtering incoming data, helping them when they need to make tough calls.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

Unlike IRAs and employer sponsored plans, there are few to no eligibility requirements to open a taxable account (besides being at least 18 years old), no limits to how much an individual contribute to a taxable account and no restrictions on when an individual can withdraw money.

Asset values and levels of borrowing can not indefinitely grow faster than gross domestic product, even though their ability to do so for a time has contributed to economic success over the past few years.

I am most likely going to continue to DRIP for another few years, and possibly longer, especially in IRAs where I don't necessarily contribute fresh capital regularly.

Improvements in technology have only been marginal in the last few years, and have contributed very little to the reduction in again so - called «breakeven» prices.

Association and HOA fees can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars each year, depending on the scope of services provided to residents.If your condo has plans for big projects — such as a new roof job or repaving a parking lot — you could be asked to contribute to its expense.

In addition, by contributing throughout the year, you can benefit from dollar - cost averaging by buying more units of mutual funds when markets are down and fewer when markets are up.

The chart below shows a few different scenarios: A portfolio that contributes $ 5,000 every year that earns 4 % and a portfolio that contributes $ 5,000 a year that earns 6 %.

«We are convinced that «quant» funds», which have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years and a significant portion of which use leverage, and whose models and various strategies are largely based on price action and correlations extracted from the reasonably - recent past when volatility has been low (largely of their own making), have contributed mightily to the illusion that market risk is low.

It might take a year or a few years to vest, but the money your employer contributes is yours to keep.

In addition, max out all deductible savings plan - for example if you started a job mid-year you can withhold nearly all of your paycheck to a company retirement plan the last few checks of the year to get the maximum amount in for the year - and make sure you contribute to HSAs - or any other deductible plans you are eligible for.

Now I must say at once that I have mountainous doubts in my own mind as to whether or not the Christian enterprise has the imaginative potency and creative vitality to contribute effectively to the transformation of values that is required in the next few years.

Within a few years he created U.S. Steel Corporation, General Electric and International Harvester, all of which produced many jobs and contributed to the commonwealth.

Asked why more people are sleeping rough, Mr Quagliozzi answered: «We've a perfect storm over the last few years where rising rents - particularly in the private rental sector, wages not going up as fast of those rents and welfare reform are contributing to a very bleak picture...»

I used to try and cook everything myself, and then realized after a few years that friends not only don't mind bringing food to contribute — they usually WANT to!

Apparently it was quite a hit a few years ago in the weight loss circles because the beans contributed to the overall fiber count per serving, thus lower «points.»

People blasted White for underperforming and Glennon is this week's goat, but if you watch the games Whitehair has had drive wrecking penalties, there have been lots of drops, 5 sacks, few and far between run lanes, tons of penalties on the defense to extend drives, last year's draft picks are MIA and a ton of other things to contribute.

In that case, the Heat should just try to find someone who can play for a few minutes if someone gets hurt and then be ready to contribute in a couple years.

An awful defender for Arsenal, Pascal Cygan did not contribute a great deal to the Gunners» Premier League title win in 2003/04, and one feels if he had played a few more games the club may well not have managed to go unbeaten that year!

Absolutely and we've never really been carried by 1 player, we always have different people performing and scoring goals, were one of the few teams in Europe that keeps getting consistent results when we were selling our best players and every year it's a different player contributing

I believe he still has a good few years of football ahead of him and can still contribute so much to the team, so Wenger has definitely made the right call in giving him an extension.

Isco and Kovacic have both proven to be valuable members of Los Blancos» squad these past few years, with the pair both contributing to the Spanish giants» back - to - back Champions League wins these past two campaigns.

We need to raise our voice, in order that in a few years time, each and every one of us could say - i have contributed my part for getting our arsenal back.

The second item is that nearly all of the major prospects the Dodgers refused to trade over the last few years during deadline season are now on the big - league roster and contributing.

While conferences organize themselves somewhat geographically, many other factors contribute to flashes of realignment every few years.

Given that Alli and Payet contributed to fewer strikes overall (through goals and assists), Ozil was involved in far more scores than all his competitors bar Mahrez, yet was excluded from the team of the year selection.

-- or young enough that they can't be relied on to contribute for a few years.

Its been more than a year that we have got the site out and we have quite a few readers and we thank each and every one who has contributed and also the ones who had patience to go through all these articles and also sharing feedback.

A slew of films about presidents over the past few years has likely contributed to the popularity of using presidents» names as baby names.

As just mentioned, your child will probably produce roughly 6000 diapers in the first few years of its life, and every single one of them will end up in the landfill, contributing to the 4.2 million pounds of landfill waste caused every year by diapers.

Over the last few years Ilya has led and contributed to a number of projects in the spheres of life and environmental sciences, sustainable development, science outreach and education.

That leaves state legislative and gubernatorial races as the few battlegrounds where donors could contribute and see an immediate reward after 2018 — an important opportunity for victory for a group of men and women who saw little payoff for their spending last year.

51 % feel this factor will contribute to skill shortages worsening over the next few years.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

Yet few would dispute that the NPA has contributed to the progress that's been made in recent years.

Over the past few years, different studies have shown that the inflammatory response that develops after an injury contributes to the degeneration of these pathways, thus increasing the functional deficits brought by the injury.

A few years ago Isaacs, like Kremen, decided to find out how much wild bees contribute to blueberry pollination.

In the past few years, important advances have been made in understanding the so - called «susceptibility» genes, which contribute to different autoimmune diseases.

According to the WHO study, fewer women aged 50 years and older in these countries are dying from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these health improvements contributed most to increasing women's life expectancy at the age of 50.

The modelling shows the last time this occurred, 14,000 years ago, the Antarctic alone contributed 3 - 4 metres to global sea levels in just a few centuries.

A few years later, Mayor contributed to designing and building another state - of - the - art spectrograph, called HARPS, that is now allowing astronomers to probe the universe further.

Other scientists are exploring the origin of economic strategies, such as fishing, hunting and gathering, in modern humans over the last few thousand years, and how the development of these strategies may have contributed significantly to human survival at the onset of huge climatic changes at the beginning of the Holocene period.

This is the first of two salad recipes that I came up with a few years ago, after I'd been asked by the fam to contribute a couple of salads that would fit well on our Christmas table.