Sentences with phrase «gap years at»

The national spotlight is shining on gap years at what might be a watershed moment for the trend even without the Obamas» help.

Everyone should take a gap year at some point in their life — student or otherwise.

- Jessica, Maine Book Momma Synopsis: Matisse Evans is determined to make her sophomore year of college successful after failing out of a prestigious art school and spending a horribly boring gap year at home.

If you've worked during a gap year at university or have relevant experience from temporary jobs, they should all be included here.

Not exact matches

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

She took a gap year before medical school to volunteer at an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.

Advantagewa, an award - winning program aimed at bridging the gap between university and the business world, has earned its creator, Tracey Hodgkins, the 2005 Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year award.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

At the current rate of progress in closing the gap, states the report, «women will not receive pay equity until the year 2119.»

«The Russians are closing the gap,» Magnus Nordenman, the director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, told Business Insider earlier this year.

Gap said in a statement Thursday that comparable - store sales, or sales at locations open at least one year, fell 6 %, more than the Bloomberg expectation for a 5 % drop.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

«If I'm not mistaken, it's the biggest gap we've seen [between food at home and food away from home] in the last 10 years,» McDonald's USA President Mike Andres said in August.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

Sales at Gap North America, owned by Gap Inc., have declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last year.

David Nierengarten, head of health - care equity research at Wedbush, told CNBC, «Celgene has a big revenue hole to fill over the next few years» and Juno's treatment could potentially «fill that gap.»

Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop - gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

New York has the smallest pay gap at 11 %, with full - time, year - round women over 25 there making a median salary of $ 47,358, while men make $ 53,124.

But the trade association disclosure remains a persistent gap,» says Valentina Judge, associate director at the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which was not involved with the resolution this year.

Despite her resume, at this university her likely aid package and the $ 50,000 tuition would necessitate my wife and I having to borrow more than $ 20,000 a year to bridge the gap.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

With «a decent amount of cash saved up» at the age of 18, he took a gap year before starting university to travel to Southeast Asia with friends.

To bridge the gap, Airbus plans to cut output to six a year beyond 2019, from 12 in 2018 and 8 in 2019, even if it means producing at a loss, Reuters recently reported.

To fill that gap, Rent the Runway launched a major expansion into everyday wear this year, introducing a new Netflix - like subscription business at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.

If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial gap for microbial life on the planet.

«US companies are dropping IPOs and selling themselves at the highest rate in three years, underscoring the gap between volatile financial markets and a booming merger business,» The Journal says.

Malia started at Harvard in the fall, after taking a gap year and interning with Harvey Weinstein

In closing, as we enter the fourth quarter, we'll continue to push forward the turnaround efforts at Gap and Banana and work to maintain the solid year - to - date performance at Old Navy.

Prior to that she was a general partner for 15 years at Accel; she left to co-found Aspect with the goal of bringing collaboration back to Series A companies and bridging the gap between angel investors and larger multi-stage VC firms.

The dollar index against the world's major currencies is at a four month high with the interest rate gap set to widen between the dollar and euro - zone as the US Federal Reserve plans several more rate hikes this year.

By the beginning of next year, the company's five brands — Athleta, Banana Republic, Gap, Intermix and Old Navy — will give employees at least 10 to 14 days» notice of their schedules.

In Germany, ever since the 2003 — 20 05 labor reforms that caused business profits to soar at the expense of wages, German banks have exported the gap between rising savings and declining investment — a figure that rose in less than five years to become among the largest ever recorded.

Looking at the individual pillars of the Index, the report finds that in 2017 that 27 countries have now closed the gender gap in Educational Attainment; three more countries than last year.

At this rate of progress, it will take another century to close the overall global gender gap, compared to 83 years last year.

A shrinking yield gap between U.S. and Canadian two - year notes will also help fuel the loonie's advance, according to Mazen Issa, a senior foreign - exchange strategist at TD in New York.

Hogg, who has been accepted to the University of California at Irvine, also said that he was «90 percent sure» that he would delay enrolling in college until fall 2019 and use the gap year to focus on this year's midterm elections.

The consensus forecast calls for EPS at Urban Outfitters to be the same as in the year - ago period, while EPS at Deere, Dick's Sporting Goods, Gap, Staples and Wal - Mart will be smaller than a year ago, if analysts» expectations are on target.

The gap between the 2 - year and 10 - year Treasury notes, often considered the heart of the yield curve, held at 46.8 basis points on Thursday.

Morningstar found 14 loans on properties where Gap occupies more than 80 percent of the space on a lease that expires within the next two years, which could put landlords and the investors in those loans at risk if the company decides to close more stores.

The current gap between the 10 - year Treasury note and credit card interest rates is huge — around 1,300 basis points (at the time of this article).

Ticket sales for the infield at the Preakness Stakes — the state's biggest single - day event — are down 30 percent compared to this time last year, even as organizers are facing an Under Armour - sized gap in their lineup of corporate partners.

We gave them a gap year for study and reflection either at the Institut Catholique in Paris or at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, USA.

Just look at his life story... oh wait we only have his birth then about a 33 year gap, then a few years of wandering around jobless pandering John the Baptist's version of monotheism, and not helping raise his young «ns.

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 years.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

as to original copies — we do have at least a 50 year time gap, but we do have More than 5686 known Greek (original language) manuscripts, over 10,000 Latin Vulgate, and at least 9300 other early versions (different languages).

For those of you who don't like the timing of the writings, here's a look at the time gap between the original and first surviving copies of some very important books that give us information on important historical figures... Bible: 25 years Homer: 500 Demosthenes: 1400 Herodotus: 1400 Plato: 1200 Tacitus: 1000 Caesar: 1000 Pliny: 750 Now, here's a look at how many of those manuscript copies we have....

Yet «prehension» appears rarely if at all in the intervening books and in the early theory (of PR), a gap of perhaps three years.

The size of the gap between the bullish estimates of managing director Gary Helou and the actual numbers led to Mr Helou resignation, ending his five years at the helm of the co-operative.