Sentences with phrase «half years in»

North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

In June, shortly after Ethereum first hit $ 400, Novogratz had sold much of the cryptocurrency he owned, saying «I think we may have put the highs in for the year in Ethereum, and you're going to slowly consolidate.»

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

For 15 years in a row, the number of applicants for H - 1B work visas has far exceeded the program's cap of 85,000 available visas.

The NCAA Tournament is a major source of advertising revenue for television, generating more than $ 1 billion per year in ad sales.

In early 2010, during her second year in architecture school at Columbia University, Anna Stork was having trouble focusing on her thesis.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wrote in a blog post that last year in particular, he and Whitman's relationship deepened when the online - file storage company worked with HPE to build its own data center infrastructure.

U.S. household debt rose to a level not seen in five years in the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

He spent five of those years in Silicon Valley where he became inspired by the fast pace of successful startups.

Brendan Suhr, the assistant head coach of the Detroit Pistons during their championship years in the 1980s, once said to me: «Do you know how many head coaches there are in the NBA?

Despite record years in terms of total gross, the number of actual tickets sold by movie theaters has been plateauing for years.

Wynne also appointed a panel last month to examine those proposals, which included a jump in the HST, a five - cent - a-litre regional gas tax, a $ 350 - million - a-year business parking levy and $ 100 million a year in development charges.

The approval time for products with health claims can be as along as three years in Canada, much slower than the FOSHU regulatory system in Japan or similar setups in Europe.

They also face up to 20 years in prison.

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

The trio launched Alert Labs last year in response.

Even after more than 20 years in business, the world's biggest streaming video service experienced some of its fastest growth ever in the first quarter, helping to give its stock a big lift.

Puj made just over $ 1 million in revenue in its first official year in business (2010) and has seen sales grow 10 to 30 percent per year ever since.

Nonadherence to prescribed regimens is also costly, resulting in nearly $ 300 billion a year in wasted spending, according to some studies.

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

More than 16 million digital packets were sent on the eve of Chinese New Year in 2014, but that grew to 14.2 billion for the same day last year.

He booted Unetich Trading back up for two years in late 2015.

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

After just over a year in operation, CGE has built six enterprises, with another six on the way.

For the second year in a row, total shareholder equity shrank for the Global 500, by 2.6 % to $ 14.7 billion.

The backlash was swift and extreme, but 13 years later, merlot is staging a comeback with savvy connoisseurs, thanks to growers who kept the faith during the grape's years in the commercial wilderness:

Banks may see modest gains next year, but the insurance sector, which is a big beneficiary of rising interest rates, could see solid growth for a second year in a row, he says.

The German Chancellor has held the top spot on the Forbes Most Powerful Women List for seven consecutive years, and 12 years in total.

Potdevin joined Lululemon at the tail end of the worst year in company history.

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Even after 30 years in the business, the musician is still sporting his trademark long, curly locks.

Whether, in retrospect, it'll be considered a breakout year in a positive sense or in a negative one is the somewhat scary question facing Holmes and her company now.

Reflecting on his more than 40 years in the energy sector, Stan Grad thinks today's leaders may be facing something worse than he ever did.

Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

BEIJING, April 22 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at rapprochement gather pace following a testing year in ties between the two giant neighbours.

«The sellouts were infrequent,» Donald Moysey, who worked at the theater for a year in the late 1990s when he was 16, told Business Insider.

I point to the fact that I've been on this journey with Starbucks for nearly eight years now on the board — be eight years in March of 2017.

According to Horizons Exchange Traded Funds, ifrnyou invest $ 100,000 for 15 years in an ETF with a 0.7 % management fee, versus arnmutual fund with a 2.25 % fee, and get a 10 % return on both, you'll make $ 83,801 rnmore with the ETF.

He has more than 30 years in the payments and technology space and has worked with organizations of all sizes from around the world.

At TED each year, he offers his fellow attendees a list of suggested reading, for instance, and he also has an annual tradition of listing his favorite reads of the year in December.

The two groups said Friday that the deal is an extension from a previous partnership last year in which Facebook streamed 20 baseball games.

Women have spent fewer years in the workforce.

Suppose 612 pictures did appear last year in outside magazines and papers, in textbooks and encyclopedias.

While they applaud the Harper Conservatives» shift toward engaging China after the chilly relations of their first two years in office, experts including Dobson wonder whether the government is sufficiently prepared to tackle thorny issues ranging from intellectual property protection to government procurement.

«Our traffic and sales even four and a half years in are still being driven mostly by word of mouth,» Blumenthal said.

At the end of October, Representative John Boehner (R, Ohio) steps down as Speaker of the House, ending 30 years in public office.

And then 2015, last year in December, that was definitely one of the best moments of my life: when the rocket booster came back and landed at Cape Canaveral.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.