This has been a great way to unwind and let
go of the past year's baggage.
Not exact matches
Ongoing ticket - price inflation has kept box office revenues climbing the
past couple
of years, but the fact remains that the number
of people actually
going to the movies each
year has not shown the same growth.
This will be the company's significant challenge
going forward, with its new slate
of C - suite executives, and as it grows
past 100 employees this next
year.
When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are
going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I
go through my files
of people I have run across over the course
of the
past couple
of years.
Although it sounds like this story is still far from over, here are some
of the key moments in the rise, fall, and pivot Theranos has
gone through in the
past year.
Last
year's prize in the category
went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the
past several decades
of awards in the category have largely
gone to instrumental LPs.
While the share
of sales
going to women - owned businesses rose over the
past five
years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.
As we look back over the
past 33
years, Andrea and I are proud
of each step we've taken and believe in the importance
of always staying true to your brand, but we also believe it is important to adapt, and in some places let
go when others can take you to new heights.
Other large startups in need to big chunks
of money, like Uber and DraftKings, have also
gone the way
of convertible debt over the
past year.
Usage
of public transportation has
gone up by 20 % in the
past four
years.
The watch must be used with one
of the iPhone models released in the
past two
years — the 5, 5S, 5C or the latest versions scheduled to
go on sale Sept. 19 in the U.S. and nine other countries.
McDonald's (mcd) has
gone through an amazing regeneration over the
past couple
of years, now managing 33,000 locations.
She's more concerned about the skyrocketing cost
of rents in the city, which have risen 200 percent in the
past three
years, and where a modest storefront like hers can
go for as much as $ 17,000 per month.
The
past couple
of years has seen a spate
of Chinese companies
going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.
«If you look at what's happened to the migrant worker pool over the
past two
years, the trend
of people
going to cities has slowed significantly.»
Over the
past two
years, Groupon's stock price has
gone from $ 26 a share on its first day
of trading in November 2011 to less than $ 3 a share a
year later.
«With Pokémon
Go, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot
of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the
past few
years,» said Christophe Jammet, director
of social media and mobile at consultancy DDG in New York.
A recent working paper from the University
of Oxford reports that every Olympics in the
past 50
years has
gone over budget, with an average increase
of 179 %.
«Over the
past several
years, NASA has been funding a group
of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space -
goers.
While other designed - for - women firearms have come and
gone in the
past 22
years, a version
of that first LadySmith is still around today, and it relies on quality design, not a pink - toned grip, for its staying — and stopping — power.
A recent working paper from the University
of Oxford says that every Olympic Games from the
past 50
years has
gone over budget — and not by slim margins.
In the
past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55
years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002
went out
of production decades ago.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that deductibles had
gone up 63 % in the
past five
years, 10 times the rate
of inflation.
For the
past year we've established a vision about where we want to
go, and we want to be famous for marketing in the age
of the empowered consumer.
The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects
of carbon emissions, said at the end
of September that climate change is unequivocal and that
going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the
past 40
years.
Another issue is that we've
gone from one to four offices in the
past year, so how do we make the folks in Columbus, Reno, and London feel like they're part
of the team?
... There's a lot more that's
going to change in that space over the next two
years and we're
going to try and continue to leverage our strengths
of the
past but also respond to some
of those new emerging trends.
From the first magazine published in 1741, to the first billboards in the late 1800s, the art
of getting the public's attention and turning it into sales has
gone through a dramatic evolution over the
past few hundred
years.
From the integration
of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes
of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all
of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the
past few
years has suggested that it wants to be the
go - to entry point
of the Internet.
Founded in 2004, the company has grown its number
of units over the
past few
years,
going from 52 franchises in 2014 to 115 in 2018.
The huge growth in wealth generated by China's explosive progress also presents a risk that the country will
go the way
of Japan, which has suffered from a 40 -
year recession in which the economy has failed to grow even 1 % over the
past 20
years, Ramasamy tells boot camp participants.
Habit Restaurants has expanded rapidly in the
past five
years,
going from 26 restaurants at the end
of 2009 to 99 as
of October.
Over the
past two or three
years a bloody shakeout has occurred, with many solar manufacturers
going bankrupt, including some in the U.S. (like Solyndra, which received $ 535 million in Department
of Energy loan guarantees).
Private money
going to startups more than four
years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor
of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last
year by the California Institute
of Technology and Cornerstone Research.
Over the
past three
years, Verizon's smartphone customers have
gone from using an average
of 1 GB per month to 2.7 GB now.
Instead, her costs have
gone up nearly 30 percent in the
past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less
of her health care needs than in prior
years, Olsen says.
The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value
of its stake in Rogers Communications
go up more than 15 % in the
past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company
going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.
«We have some catching up to do if we're
going to match the variety
of mortgage products that have been available in other countries over the
past few
years,» says Holt.
Still, Fitbit's stock has been mired in a range
of $ 5 to $ 7 a share for the
past year, after
going public in 2015 at $ 20.
«One
of the reasons Bain are good partners is that they said, «You guys have grown 2,000 % over the
past 10
years — we're not
going to mess with that.»
The company explained that the feature
went down as part
of an upgrade to its Yahoo Mail platform this
past year, which aimed to include things like support for multiple accounts and improved search.
Waiting to launch a product until its «magical» moment
goes against the concept
of MVP, or minimum viable product, which has become so trendy in business over the
past few
years.
Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decade
Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per
year, a number that's only
gone up over the
past couple
of decade
of decades.
I've noticed a lot
of non-profits saying their end
of year fundraising has
gone well, which was not the case in the
past few
years when it was a real struggle,» she said.
Ralf Reichert, CEO at ESL says over the
past year they've talked to many potential suitors, including large media companies, but they opted to
go with MTG because
of the company's understanding
of eSports, production background, and distribution network.
A number
of other popular drugs
went off patent during the
past few
years, including the multi-billion-dollar blood thinner Plavix, and Valtrex, a blockbuster herpes and cold - sore drug.
It's
going to really touch every aspect
of technology in the way that mobile did over the
past five, ten
years,» Wilson said.
According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the
past three
years back in March
of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes
of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure
go up over the
past year or so, but the amount
of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March
of this
year.
If Amazon wants to recruit and retain the best talent, Denver is the optimal place for them because
of the growth
of our young, motivated, and educated workforce that has been drawn to the city over the
past few
years... [I] f Amazon decides to make Denver their home for HQ2, it will be challenging to
go head to head with them from a recruiting perspective.
Pick up a piece
of confetti from the street and you'll likely find a note on there written by someone wishing for good things for the next
year, or letting
go of something from the
past one.