Sentences with phrase «few years either way»

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«In the last few years, Meituan's business model shifted in a way that makes it unique.

Like if you go to a 4th place team and recommend changes and people say, «That ain't the way we do it...» Well, maybe the way you do it is why you've been in 4th place for the last few years.

Candidates can complete the program in a few different ways: full - time on campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia over one year; part - time classes on alternate weekends over two years in Toronto, Kingston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, or Whitehorse; or a one - month residency on campus in Sydney each July for three years.

Every few years, some interests on the left or right become frustrated that most Americans care deeply about the small - business community — and that concern gets in the way of those interests» policy objectives.

«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.

Put another way, if the government gives Canada Post the tools it needs to clean up its balance sheet and make a serious run at new markets, this Crown corporation may turn out to be an attractive buy a few years hence.

Indeed, even if your top line revenues were to stay flat for the next few years, there are ways to make significant advances to your bottom line growth with some simple, if not occasionally controversial, concrete steps.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

This update provides new ways for brands to boost engagement and could counter the decline in organic reach Facebook Page owners have been experiencing for the past few years.

«The individual marketplace is one where it would take few years before the exact level of medical risk and pricing needs can be determined,» Schlosser says, by way of explanation.

If they want to survive these next few years, Twitter needs to find some way to supercharge growth, both in terms of active users and revenue.

The beauty of bots in 2016 is that, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphone screens, consumers aren't fazed by chatting with a robot when picking out their Christmas shopping or asking about a product return the way they would have been even a few years ago.

Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.

Musk and Buffett see the energy and transportation sectors changing in similar ways, and, over the past few years, their companies have increasingly competed with each other over both solar energy and electric cars.

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.

After years of iPhone users getting let down by Siri, the first truly mainstream voice agent, Amazon billed the Echo as a speaker that, by the way, has a few smart voice commands built in.

Jurrien Timmer: Yeah, the way that I look at the world, you know, the market cycle has different phases and where we have been for the last few years has really been the Goldilocks, sort of mid-cycle phase.

It seems the micro-floral patterns that have been popular in menswear the last few years have given way almost completely to the larger ones usually seen on your dad's vacation shirt.

While San Jose and Boston are well - known startup hubs, a few southern and midwestern cities made their way onto this year's list.

Maybe it's because the industry itself has changed a bit over the past few years, with some larger firms even proposing long - dated funds that, in many ways, are modeled on Berkshire Hathaway.

A few small changes can really go a long way when it comes to happiness and productivity in the year ahead.

I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way — Mark Wilson over at gaming site Kotaku lamented on this a few years back, as did Games Are Fun ages ago.

Even if few doubt Musk's vision, there's a long way to go in commercializing the Model S. Tesla first began shipping the car in June and expects to deliver about 3,200 this year, well short of its target of 5,000 cars.

He then advised that I make a short - term goal (whether a few months, a year, or more) to give me focus and a structured way to continually re-evaluate where I was.

It was only a few years old and, in some ways, mirrored the state of Lavalin's Weather Now when Morrissette bought it: The basic weather - reporting infrastructure was in place, but the company wasn't generating much advertising revenue.

Now that the barrier of editing genes in the hospital setting has been broken, these companies and more have pipelines of gene - editing innovation coming to a hospital near you in the next few years, as clinical trials are approved and new ways to cure formerly incurable diseases go mainstream in our lifetimes.

Just a few weeks after the market finally had come around to the Fed's way of thinking that three quarter - point rate hikes would be appropriate this year, the day's trading changed sentiment.

AOL and Time Warner famously parted ways a few years later, effectively admitting the deal was a big mistake.

It's really been over the past few years, though, that the vision is coming to fruition in the expansive ways he envisioned.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

Tax time only comes once a year, but it can feel like it lasts for months — here are a few of my favorite ways to reduce the stress and time spent on tax, and financial documentation in general.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

They found a huge area stretching for thousands of light years from the Milky Way's core that had very few Cepheids.

Time Inc. has been looking for ways to better compete with digital startups, such as BuzzFeed, that have emerged in the past few years and are grabbing a larger portion of online ad dollars.

This year the hero image has changed in a few remarkable ways.

Along the way, Reed Hastings, its 56 - year - old co-founder and CEO, has learned a few tricks of the management trade, which he has shared at different forums through the years.

Facebook Groups have evolved tremendously over the past few years, and are now seen as one of the best ways to keep in touch with people within a specific niche.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

But a few years later the New York World's exposure of the racket behind the Klan had had its effect, the Coolidge boom had given the paraders something else to think about, Henry Ford had apologized and retracted, and the Protocols were on their way to the judicial examination which eventually stripped them to the fraudulent skin.

In our case, we were blessed by a lot of people who stuck by us through the moments when, frankly, we had lost our way a few years ago.

Fitness trackers have been a huge hit the last few years and Fitbit has led the way.

Thinking beyond a blog and taking a close look at all key performance indicators are just a few ways you can maximize content marketing in the New Year.

If you're anything like me, you and your team make your way to quite a few industry events and conferences throughout the year to speak to, connect with, and learn from others in your space.

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $ 100 billion).

If — as many tech companies hope — augmented reality is one of the big developments of the next few years, we're going to need some way of providing input for our face - mounted see - through computers.

The full acceptance and adoption of VR and AR in the workplace may be a few years off, but we get closer and closer every day to creating an amazing technology that will help better connect and inspire us, and will improve the overall way in which we conduct business.

Boy Scout membership dropped about 13 percent in just five years according to the AP (from 2.6 million to 2.3 million)-- and it's way down from a height of 4 million a few years back.

Either way, our evolving digital language is sure to be a fascinating shift to observe over the next few years, and even as early as the next few months.

Using 3 - D printers, Bitcoin and the Internet of Things are just a few ways to stay ahead of the digital game this year.

Americans no longer perceive that their schools and universities are training them to become entrepreneurs the way they did only a few years ago.