Not exact matches
He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the
global employment rate: «
Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.&ra
Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the
global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the
over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.&ra
over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing
number of new entrants in the labor market.»
Having put off the building of the hotel complex for a
number of years after the
global financial crisis, construction of the 307 - room DreamMore, which will be is next door to Dollywood, started
over two years ago.
Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a
number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in
global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products
over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.
Since the inception of computers and more specifically, our
global reliance upon them, the
number, severity, complexity, and source of security threats have all increased exponentially many times
over.
SWIFT, the
global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, has warned its customers it has seen «a
number of recent cyber incidents» where attackers had sent fraudulent messages
over its system.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain
global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the
number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products
over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
According to the Direct Sellers Association of Canada, the
number of direct sellers is up 17.8 %
over the past few years, while
global direct sales have increased 20.8 %.
We expect the
number of
global coworking members to increase from about 976,000 in 2016 to just
over 3.8 million in 2020.
This shared public ledger enables people to make transactions with each other
over the network, opening up new
global marketplaces for small businesses as well as a
number of transactions all together.
In contrast, export volumes decreased
over this period, despite strong
global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a
number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).
In contrast, the total
number of worldwide smartphone subscribers is 1.1 billion, and while this is an impressive
number, it's still just 17 percent of the
global cellphone market, which is
over five billion.
The speech looks at a
number of important developments in the
global and domestic economies
over the past two years.
The
global pick - up in demand and activity has generated strong upward pressure on a range of commodity prices
over recent months, notably for oil, gold, base metals and a
number of rural commodities.
A capsule of his findings would include the following facts:
Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «
global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the
numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.
One undeniable pattern within the current
global dairy market
over the last 13 months has been the emergence of a
number of similar investigations into allegations of dairy price fixing occurring from the US to the Mediterranean region.
«Mindful choices» is the
number one trend all
over the world, and clean label is a subset of this
global trend.»
Over the last 3 years the
number of people employed has doubled and a new management structure is fast emerging to reflect our
global business status.
«The team has a good variety of games
over the summer, playing in great stadiums and allowing a large
number of our
global family of fans to see live games across the world,» said United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward in a press release.
Thanks to a
number of significant
global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen
over the last few decades.
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global movement of academics, governments, UN agencies, foundations, health care associations and nongovernmental organizations formed in 2005 to track progress in reducing maternal and child deaths in the 68 countries where
over 95 % of these deaths occur.
In the
global economy, products are assembled
over a
number of different countries.
Over his term the UK hosted a
number of international technical committee meetings along with a workshop on
global issues related to security of the transport network.
This is because
over the last 20 years a
number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive
global economy.
In the growing debate
over whether the United States is losing its technological edge in a
global economy (ScienceNOW 15 December),
numbers matter.
Yet the parasitic arthropods have recently undergone what scientists are calling a «rapid
global expansion,» taking
over new territories and growing in
number and range.
We came up with
numbers that business as usual would give you: losses, averaged
over space,
over time and uncertain outcomes, of around 5 percent of
global gross domestic product and upwards, probably substantially more than 5 percent of GDP.
«There's a perception that jellyfish
numbers are exploding in the world's oceans,» says marine scientist Rob Condon of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, «but there's no real evidence for a
global increase in jellyfish
over the past two centuries.»
There are some caveats with their study: The
global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited
number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value
over the 90 - degree sectors.
From that
number, they have calculated Greenland's contribution to sea level rise
over that time, which they estimate to be about 10 to 17 percent of the total
global sea level rise of about 1 foot since 1900.
Over the course of a remarkable career that has so far spanned more than six decades, he has developed innovative yet practical solutions to an exceptionally varied array of scientific and financial problems, while at the same time creating a
number of successful businesses with
global scope and influence.
In a world without
global warming, you'd expect to set a roughly equal
number of high and low records
over time.
Over the next decade, he authored key papers predicting the
number of genetic markers required for GWAS in humans, and pioneered the field of genetics of
global gene expression (eQTL analysis).
A
global study of
over 290 physical conditions ranked low back pain as the
number one cause of disability.
«
Number one [is] uncertainty and volatility linked to currency exchanges... like the rouble and the dollar [and] there are all these Brexit consequences that everyone is still discounting but we have still yet to see
over a 12 - month period,» says López, who has overall responsibility for the areas of retail, franchise management and
global expansion.
With 189 member countries, staff from more 170 countries, and offices in
over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique
global partnership: five Carbon (from Latin: carbo coal) is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic
number 6.
Over time it has gained a
global appreciation and has influenced a
number of prominent filmmakers.
The Tata Motors Group
global wholesales in December 2017, including Jaguar Land Rover, were at 116,677
numbers,
over December 2016.
Mobile devices and tablet computers accounted for
over 5 % of all browsing on the internet and
over 8.2 % in the United States in June 2011 according to the latest
global internet browsing
numbers from NetMarketShare.
The
global publishing industry as a whole is valued at about $ 100 billion, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, and e-books account for about $ 14.5 billion of that, with the
number expected to reach
over $ 22 billion by 2017.
Additionally, notwithstanding the post-election bounce in equities, both
global stock and bond markets, especially
over the near term, may face headwinds in a
number of forms, any one of which has the potential to be the catalyst for a major retracement.
Editorially, Kiplinger's magazine has championed
over the decades a
number of personal finance strategies and investment products that later became popular «conventional wisdom»: the superiority of systematic investing (dollar cost averaging)
over market timing; growth stocks that paid little or no dividends but invested in new technologies; mutual funds, especially no - load funds; stock index funds; term life insurance, rather than whole - life; and
global investing.
There are a
number of
global dividend growth funds that have low expense ratios and have increased dividends
over the past few years.
Lisbon (April 28, 2018)-- The
number of veterinary professionals viewing the 24 - hour educational live - stream of Hill's
Global Symposium 2018 has exceeded five thousand three hundred unique viewers worldwide, in addition to some 200 veterinarians who travelled from
over 35 countries to attend the symposium in person.
The tenth - annual
Global Pet Expo featured 5,597 buyers in attendance, a five percent increase
over last year, more than 3,000 new pet product launches, 985 exhibitors and 2,896 booths sold — the highest post-show
numbers to date.
While doing research for an article that I am writing for the
Global Pet Expo Show Daily magazines that Pet Business publishes live at the show every year, I came across some
numbers that show the pet specialty channel is gaining market share
over mass and grocery retailers.
Day one saw a 13 - percent increase in attendance
over day one of the 2009 edition of
Global Pet Expo [UPDATE: the final
numbers revealed that attendance at the show was up by 10 percent overall], a fair indicator that pet product retailers are feeling bullish about pet owner spending
over the coming months and are being proactive in stocking their stores with the latest and greatest products to hit the market.
According to a presentation given by Packaged Facts at last month's
Global Pet Expo, the term «natural» was the
number - one marketing claim made by new pet products introduced
over the past year; and while a great many of these products do deliver on this promise, there is also a lot of «green - washing» going on.
Dear Amy, There has certainly been a
number of concerns from various credit cardholders
over the past few years in the area of
global customer support.
«We have big intentions for our brand
over the next 12 - 18 months, looking to grow the
number of rooms under management by
over 250 per cent by 2018 and I am confident that by working closely with our experienced partners and investors, we will enter new markets and continue to cater to the modern, tech - savvy
global traveller of today.»
Peter O'Neill, prime minister of Papua New Guinea, has unveiled plans to invest as much as US$ 5 million each year
over the next five years into
global tourism campaigns designed to boost the destination's international visitor arrival
numbers.