And their prowess transcends hockey: Vegas has executed the most impressive
first year of any expansion team in American sports.
Not exact matches
When T.J. Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX (tax) reported the chains»
first quarterly comparable sales drop in memory in November, many observers wondered whether the off - price juggernaut was running its course after
years of aggressive store
expansion.
(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 -
year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the
first time in more than four
years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability
of the U.S. economic
expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.
And the market may just need an external catalyst, with the S&P 500 expected to grow earnings 5 % this quarter, down from the double - digit
expansion seen in the
first two quarters
of the
year.
At
first glance, the planned $ 600 million
expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march
of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent
of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10
years.
CVS Health (cvs) is just about to undertake its biggest
expansion in
years: the drugstore operator has opened the
first of the pharmacies it is taking over from Target (tgt).
The Oscar Mayer facility isn't just any old plant; it's the site
of the 132 -
year - old meat company's
first expansion and, for the past 58
years, its headquarters — not to mention the home
of the Wienermobile.
So is this company, thanks to the completion
of a two -
year highway -
expansion project:
first - quarter sales for 1997 were up by more than 40 %, compared with the same period last
year.
And yet, that's what greets customers at the
first Ontario location
of Miniso, a Japanese - style value retailer that's planning a 500 - store
expansion into Canada over the next few
years.
In the
first three
years of expansion, the federal government picked up 100 percent
of the bill.
Third, Medicaid
expansion could cost Louisiana taxpayers up to $ 1.7 billion over the
first 10
years of implementation, and the cost will keep rising.
«The closing
of our
first deal in the U.S. energy market represents a major milestone for our team who has been working relentlessly from the beginning
of the
year on strategic geographic
expansion,» said Toni Volpe, chief executive officer
of Falck Renewables.
According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a
year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the
first four months
of the
year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the
first time in six months that there has been an
expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is,
of course, preliminary and may be revised.
Since the current
expansion began in the summer
of 2009, we have had 2 negative quarters, and both occurred during the
first quarter
of the
year (2011 and 2014).
The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic
expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the
first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form
of a powerful breadth thrust off
of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.
More
first - time customers tried ordering food through Grubhub in the
first quarter
of this
year than ever before as the Chicago - based company continues its
expansion to new cities.
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) has said «significant progress» is being made in its plan to develop its Southport Marine Terminal Complex, the
first major
expansion of the Port
of Philadelphia in over 50
years.
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Expansion
Eurostat figures also showed that economic
expansion across the eurozone slowed in the
first quarter
of the
year.
The latest moves coincide with signs that China's annual economic growth may dip below 7 % in the third quarter for the
first time since the global financial crisis, marking a slowdown in one
of the world's main engines
of economic
expansion in recent
years.
An estimated three - per - cent
expansion overall in 2017 — driven by an out - sized
first - half growth spurt
of more than four per cent — will likely be followed by slower output
of 2.1 per cent next
year.
The IMF expects all
of the G20 countries to grow this
year, the
first such synchronized
expansion since 2010.
Indonesia's economy posted its lowest growth rate during the
first quarter
of 2013 in over the past two
years despite having topped FDI records, exhibiting a mostly declining
expansion trend since the last quarter
of 2010.
The
first stage, that
of expansion, began shortly after the death
of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem in the reign
of Tiberius, and went on without interruption for about thirty
years.
As The Washington Post explains, the discovery
of the new location
first began 15
years ago when a team at the Tower
of David Museum began an
expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»
Gravitational waves result from «inflation»
of the early universe, an exponential
expansion of space in the
first fraction
of a second
of the Big Bang, 14 billion
years ago.
Expansion began 10
years after opening Platz's with the
first P.J. Whelihan's — named after Platzer's grandfather — in Allentown, Pa. «This would be the start
of our wings and beer concept,» Platzer notes.
Vinexpo's successful
expansion strategy is marked this
year by the 20th anniversary celebration
of its pioneering establishment in Hong Kong, in 1998,
of the
first ever wine and spirits exhibition in the region.
The rationale behind the big milk push is that EU milk quotas are coming to an end in 2015, opening the market to the possibility
of significant
expansion for the
first time in
years.
Mr Jakupec is highly - regarded within the Aldi business after overseeing the
expansion of the Queensland operations from its
first store in 2004 to 75 stores and will re-locate to SA in the
first half
of next
year.
The UK's
first dedicated gluten - free micro brewery, has launched a funding drive to raise # 500,000 to support its rapid
expansion, following a successful
first year of trading.
For the
first three seasons after the 1967
expansion, the NHL intentionally put all six new teams in the same division specifically so they would get shots at the Cup... and still took seven
years for one
of them to pull it off.
Selected in 1993 with the
expansion Ducks»
first entry - draft pick — fourth pick overall that
year — he is the foundation
of what they hope their hockey team will become.
Really, Vegas has been better than any
first -
year expansion squad in the history
of the major North American professional sports leagues, period.
The AAP notes that the
expansion of the recommendation to include a baby's entire
first year comes because
of rates
of childhood obesity and dental issues.
East Side Access is the nation's largest public transportation project and the
first expansion of the LIRR in more than 100
years.
This June, officials added $ 43 million in funding for New York City's three public library systems to the fiscal
year 2016 budget, allowing for
expansion of branch operating hours and a return to six - day service for the
first time in nearly a decade.
In their
first legislative collaboration, Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito are set to announce a significant
expansion of legislation passed last
year to provide workers with...
The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's
first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master
of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this
year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten
expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State
of the City address.
The reforms were
first proposed by a panel convened last
year by Cuomo also include changes to arrest procedures, removing youth from prisons that include adults and an
expansion of services that would provide assistance to juveniles after their release.
ALBANY — Education commissioner John King said Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature should use the
first year of New York's pre-kindergarten
expansion to inform changes that might make the program more accessible to school districts in future
years.
The de Blasio administration funded the
first phase
of the service
expansion with $ 505,000 in fiscal
year 2014.
The move by Cameron came as he prepared to tell a meeting
of the
first Tory - only cabinet in 18
years that he leads Britain's «real party for working people» which will make job creation and the
expansion of childcare its main priorities.
It was
first widely invoked by cosmologists in 1998 to explain why the
expansion of the universe seems to be speeding up, a finding that won the Nobel Prize in Physics last
year.
The
first hominid
expansion from Africa came about 2 million
years ago, as revealed by stone tools and an outstanding collection
of hominid fossils at the site
of Dmanisi in Georgia.
In the
first global analysis
of extinctions during the Pleistocene geological epoch, Sandom et al. found that the
expansion of humans out
of Africa most likely caused the extinctions over the past 100,000
years.
Boyden and colleagues
first described the underlying technique, known as
expansion microscopy (ExM), last
year, when they used it to image proteins inside large samples
of brain tissue.
It is the
first study to be published from a five -
year federal grant to study the impacts
of the
expansion of Medicaid in Oregon on the health
of women
of reproductive age and their children up to age 2.
Also, due to the availability
of data, the researchers were only able to examine the experiences
of low - income adults during the
first year of the ACA Medicaid
expansions.
Homo habilis, the
first of our genus Homo who appeared 1.9 million
years ago, saw a modest hop in brain size, including an
expansion of a language - connected part
of the frontal lobe called Broca's area.