Sentences with phrase «for granted years»

Credit is something that we all took for granted years ago and now it seems that many of us are suffering because of it.

The foundation is making $ 1.41 million in Opportunity for All grants this year ranging from $ 10,000 to $ 100,000.

Not exact matches

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Competition for the money is fierce but the federal government allocates $ 2B a year in grants for early stage ideas few investors will touch.

Giving 25 % of the market rate for a position each year, rather than a lump sum grant that covers the next four years, will smooth out the vesting process so the employee never reaches a cliff.

In 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four years.

I've been following Wharton's top - rated professor Adam Grant as well as Dan Pink, one of the 10 most - influential management thinkers in the world, for years now.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Evergreen: These grants, which are appropriate for all employees, start at an employee's 2 1/2 - year anniversary and continue every year thereafter.

Over the past year, the Beedie Schoolhas added the abilityto grant CMA andCGA accreditationsjointly with its MBA, making it cheaperand faster for studentsto add eithercredential to their CVs.

The Hive has been open in Manhattan for nearly a year, since receiving a $ 100,000 grant from the Bloomberg administration as part of the mayor's MediaNYC 2020 program.

Because a patent grants the inventor a monopoly on his or her invention for relatively long period of time (between 14 and 20 years depending upon the invention), patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Government grants are a major source of funding for small businesses, estimated to be worth over $ 90.7 billion per year.

His father, Stanley Ho, has been nicknamed «The King of Gambling,» referring to the government - granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 40 years.

The next frontier As such, drones have quietly been making inroads in the Arctic for the past several years, mostly under clearances granted to research institutions like the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

The disadvantage is that landlords are less likely to grant concessions to tenants that won't promise to stay for, say, five years.

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

Assange has been holed up for more than five years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he was granted asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.

Later that month, the administration deported 23 - year - old Juan Manuel Montes, who was granted protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that was created under Barack Obama.

The state government has invested $ 2 million to support Western Australian agriculture by granting free entry to the IGA Perth Royal Show and local Royal Agriculture Society - affiliated shows for children aged 12 years and younger.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

Ulysses S. Grant instructed William Sherman to seize Savannah; Nolan Bushnell hired Allan Alcorn to design Pong; Woodstock served as Snoopy's sidekick for years, faithfully performing any task that was asked.

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

If the employee stays on at The Farmer's Daughter Country Market for five years, and everyone still likes each other after that time working together, then the land is granted to the employee.

Once the deal is complete, his target annual bonus is $ 20 million and he will be eligible for $ 25 million in stock grants a year., the filing said.

That program, instituted under President Obama, makes certain undocumented people who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 low - level priorities for deportation while also granting them legal, three - year work permits.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

The number of shares Coke will grant as a percentage of total outstanding stock will be no more than 0.8 percent in 2015 and an average of 0.4 percent for the remainder of the 10 - year plan.

It was Apple's no - free - music policy that persuaded Taylor Swift — no slouch as a businesswoman — to grant Apple exclusives for both her 1989 album (named for the year she was born), and the new documentary.

Take, for example, the Peter Thiel Fellowship, which grants recipients $ 100,000 and two years out of college to pursue a compelling entrepreneurial idea.

Fox News, for example, granted a four - year contract extension to the anchor Bill O'Reilly soon after he paid $ 32 million to settle a sexual harassment claim against him.

The $ 199 million grant would have made Pichai the top - paid U.S. CEO in 2015, according to the Financial Times, which reports that the highest pay for a U.S. CEO last year was the $ 156 million paid to David Zaslav of Discovery Communications (disca).

Davis» career has spanned almost 50 years and he has discovered some of the biggest names in music, but he doesn't attribute it to talent and has never taken it for granted.

To qualify for that sweet tax deal, they can't dispose of the stock within two years after the time the option was granted — and they also can't sell stock within one year of the time they exercise the option.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

For 20 years, Bob Grant was a top sales rep for Thomas Publishing, the century - old company behind the famous product guide known as the Thomas RegistFor 20 years, Bob Grant was a top sales rep for Thomas Publishing, the century - old company behind the famous product guide known as the Thomas Registfor Thomas Publishing, the century - old company behind the famous product guide known as the Thomas Register.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

Furthermore, Angola's government granted Americans almost no tourist visas for years because of American support for Angolan rebels in a 27 - year civil war that began in 1975 and killed more than half a million people.

Stock options allow employees to purchase shares in their company at a price fixed when the optionis granted (the grant price) for a defined number of years into the future.

The grant announcement comes weeks after the Canada Industrial Relations Board issued an interim order for the airline to stop recruiting pilots through two - year leaves of absence to fly for its new ultra-low cost carrier Swoop.

Twenty years after the Civil War, the demand for Grant's book was clearly going to be greater in the North than in the South.

Taxpayers are granted automatic six - month extensions provided they file income taxes on time for the year in which the change is requested.

-- Twain's publishing firm filed for bankruptcy just a few years after Grant's memoir was published.)

She is pursuing grants for $ 56,000 in the hope of increasing production this year to 5,000 bottles per month.

By now you've probably heard of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Trusted Traveler programs: TSA PreCheck ($ 85 for five years), which grants you access to a faster line and allows you to keep your shoes on, and Global Entry ($ 100 for five years), which offers similar perks and speedy entry into the U.S. from abroad.

Over the years, administrators of the Pell Grant system have come to expect that each year thousands of otherwise eligible applicants will be denied the benefit because of failure to register for the draft.

It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for - granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet with each passing year.

Monthly software services, for example, often grant 20 percent off to those who pay a year in advance.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.