Sentences with phrase «from leap year»

As we begin the first quarter of 2017, we are mindful of the comparison we face against first quarter 2016 results, which benefited from leap year, favourable weather and continued momentum from All - Day Breakfast in the U.S.»

Not exact matches

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

Between 2014 and this year, ransomware leaped from the 22nd most common form of digital malware attack to the fifth most common method, according to a 2017 Verizon Data Breach analysis.

The company's apparel sales leapt 26 % to $ 704.6 million in the third quarter from a year ago, while footwear sales jumped 50 % and accessories sales were up 32 %.

But in the past generation, average pay for CEOs at American's largest companies has leaped nearly sixfold, from $ 2.8 million a year in 1989 to $ 16.3 million today, according the Economic Policy Institute.

Under Armour, which on Wednesday also announced that 2014 sales leapt 32 % from the prior year, will pay $ 475 million to buy MyFitnessPal and $ 85 million for Europe - based Endomondo.

CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?

By the middle of the year, he hoped, a couple of his clients might be ready to make the leap up from a microloan to the 504.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Nike's North America sales leapt 14 % for the six - month period ending November 30 from the prior year's level with the help stronger footwear and apparel sales.

In early December 2008, Clifford Lambert, a retired Los Angeles art dealer, received a call from a New York estate lawyer with news that surely made his 74 - year - old heart leap.

That's a 9.6 percent gain from the $ 89,100 average of a year ago, and a big leap from the $ 73,300 average of five years ago.

Consulting firm Spencer Stuart reports that last year 43 % of new board appointments among Canada's 100 largest companies were women, a leap from 28 % in 2013 and three times the rate in 2009.

On our shores, the year - earlier period benefited from the launch of All Day Breakfast (that quarter also had an extra day of sales due to leap year), so we expected comps here to be negative.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Thailand leapt from # 6 last year to become the third-most enquired investment destination by Chinese buyers on Juwai.com in H1 2017.

2017 was the year that driverless cars made the leap from far - out concept to something closer to reality.

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.

Average daily volume leapt from 911 contracts the first trading day to more than 20,000 the following year.

Dividends out of their personal holding companies were taxed ten years ago at 30 per cent and this year leapt by 12.8 per cent from 40.13 per cent to 45.3 per cent tax rates.

Value added in manufacturing leaped, and at the same time, real GNP grew 4.32 % per year from 1869 to 1898, an unrivaled rate for a period that long, and consumption per consumer jumped 2.33 % per year.

Purchases on mobile phones leapt from 2 billion yuan in 2010 to 53 billion yuan last year, 4 % or so of total e-commerce.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

It's a big leap to go from, «something must have caused the Big Bang,» to, «Thus, the god some guys wrote about in a book thousands of years ago is that thing that caused the Big Bang.»

It's a big leap to go from, «something must have caused the Big Bang,» to, «Thus, the god some guys wrote about in a book thousands of years ago is that something that caused the Big Bang.»

I saw a rabbit, a little brown one with a snow white tail, leaping away from us and oh, I wish I had taken a picture but instead I held on tight to the little mitten hand and three - year - old Joe said into the dim, «You helpin» me, Mumma.

It is amazing to see how your photography skills have improved in quantum leaps from a few years ago.

Over the last few years, I've taken a «leap of food» and dived right into the foods that I used to stay away from.

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After you've been through a few years of canning the season's tomatoes, their aroma is permanently ingrained in your nose brain, and from there it's not a far leap to daydream about recipes and flavor profiles.

The latest news from BluePrint, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in December for a reported price of $ 25 million, comes amid a dramatic leap in awareness and demand for cold - pressed juices, as well as the introduction of a variety of similarly positioned brands over the past year.

The latest news from BluePrint, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in December, comes amid a dramatic leap in awareness and demand for cold - pressed juices, as well as the introduction of a variety of similarly positioned brands over the past year.

barceloma are an elite class team.Its obvious we are not going to beat them.Their players are leaps and bounds heads and shoulders and light years away from ours.Words arent even enough to describe the magnitude of the gap that exists in between.

Team Jones had such a strong Week 1 and it seemed as if they had been able to take «the leap» from last year where they were the # 6 seed into the Elite level.

We'll see some in the Champaign Campus League in the Fall and they will surely be back a year from now in 2018 with more experience and look to make the leap to the elite level!

They along with Team Maione are core pieces to this League and it's a testament to both, that with the significant leap in talent through the years that both find themselves just steps away from the Crown once again..

They may have made the biggest leap from last year to this year by any one Team.

The young Polish star has come on leaps and bounds since being moved from DM to defender, and looks highly likely to make the step up in the coming years, while Chambers appears to be struggling to make the necessary improvements needed.

The good news: After burning its entire planned five - year budget of $ 40 million last year, the league saw expenses fall 28 % and revenues leap 43 % this year, thanks to staff cuts, increased corporate sponsorships (including backing from McDonald's and Coca - Cola) and relocation of the league office from New York to Atlanta.

Look at one of Chancellor's leaps from last year:

It might take two leaps to get Purdue back to respectability, especially with a schedule that features six teams from last year's F / + top 40, but barring land mines, Purdue appears to be on the right course.

Critics should not just come for the sake of it, am one of gooners who has felt its time Wenger packed his memory off the emirates as a Manager some five years ago, but of recent we have seen some tremendous improvements from tactical point of view of the game to player management, in fact I swallowed my words when I saw Moyes leap flogging the biggest team in EPL and yet many Arsenal wanted him at Emirates to replace the Prof.. We can not down play the improvements of most of teams in the EPL ladder, Southampton, West Ham, Swansea, Liverpool, Spurs for the past two years.

After combining what they have learned from last year with new free agents Brent «I just ran a 40k» Linsky and Jeff «JTD» Davis this squad has grown leaps and bounds from where they were in August 2011.

The 2017 regulations should have been the ideal time for Red Bull to leap across the gap to to the front and re-establish itself as a front - running team, but for much of the year there's been a small but significant gap from Red Bull to Mercedes and Ferrari.

While the backcourt duo of Peyton Siva and Russ Smith came to define the 2012 - 13 national champions from Louisville, it was big men Gorgui Dieng and Chane Behanan who toyed briefly with the idea of a leap to the NBA the year before.

Rutherford's 8.32 m leap at the Golden Gala from 2012 was his second best effort of his Olympic title - winning year, and the 29 - year - old will be looking to continue his unbeaten run stretching back to July in his first competition on the continent this year.

This sweet moniker made one huge leap from # 463 in 2016 to # 92 last year.

Just witness the astonishing leap that occurs from a newborn baby to an inquisitive, creative, chatterbox two - year - old!

Of course, due to Jolie bringing this name to the forefront in 2003, it gained rapid popularity and went from being in the top 1000 with an incredible leap into the top 200 in just ten years.