Wow, is it just me or
has this year flown by?
Has the year flown by so far for you, too?
Not exact matches
You might say, «Josh, she
has a few
years on us and can't
fly.
His parents
flew to Bali and retrieved their son, but at this point, the bold 12 -
year - old
had already spent $ 8,000 on their credit card.
It was an unexpectedly active
year for M&A activity, with Canadian companies acquiring abroad and even repatriating brands that
had once
flown the coop
Dimon may
have previously expressed disagreement with certain White House policies, but he
has largely refrained from criticizing Trump, saying last
year that, as the president, he is «the pilot
flying our airplane.»
That's because Fokker, the Dutch aircraft manufacturer that made the planes KLM first
flew when the airline was formed 97
years ago,
has always
had been a staple of the airline.
The past few
years have flown by for me since I left my job as Head of Marketing at Salesforce Pardot and joined my co-founders to launch Terminus.
But Trump was incorrect about the $ 4 billion price tag to replace the current planes, which
have flown presidents for nearly 25
years.
All of which
flies in the face of a chorus that
has been growing louder over the past three
years, that Canada faces a retirement income crisis.
Since late 2012, the once high -
flying charity — which
has raised some $ 500 million over the
years to help 2.5 million patients, caretakers, and survivors get access to services such as fertility preservation, clinical - trial matching, and insurance assistance —
has lost some of its biggest sponsors, including Nike and RadioShack.
«The
flying that America
has done in the last 20
years is by far the most expensive way to get to space and the most dangerous.
I juxtaposed the two views a few
years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of
flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that
had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.
The three -
year - old startup began as an «Uber for janitors» service and
has largely
flown under the radar.
Matthew Roberts, who
has been diligently
flying a drone over Apple Park for over a
year to photograph it,
has delivered the best look at the campus's finishing touches from the skies.
It wasn't as if I
'd been practising over the last couple of
years, so I
had to figure everything out on the
fly.
For 57
years, NASA and US companies
have met the call to protect high -
flying astronauts who risk their lives in the name of exploration.
Still, these three factors may not reduce travel much overall, with 65 % of the respondents predicting that people in their organization, and other organizations they are familiar with,
would fly about the same amount as last
year.
Before my experiment of a
year without
flying, I
would have seen not
flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on
flying.
If you haven't deliberately tried a
year without
flying, you haven't
had the experience to learn from.
What's more, this change
flies in the face of almost everything we
've been told by so - called experts about raising successful kids — at least for the past 15
years or more.
But if not for a major rebranding five
years ago, the company
would likely still be
flying under the radar.
For Derrick Bolton, who racked up 240,000 miles of
flying last
year as director of admissions, it
has meant an even heavier schedule than usual to drum up interest.
Under the new legislation, the typically small round of capital that
flies under the regulatory radar for most startups
has been expanded to $ 1 million a
year.
SpaceX
has delivered a satellite into orbit using a rocket that
had already
flown before, back in May last
year.
That's the case with this
year's new addition, Vancouver's Aquilini family, which
had consistently
flown under the radar until an acrimonious divorce proceeding revealed massive wealth and diverse holdings, spanning real estate and agriculture.
Since late last
year, Beijing
has been cracking down on overseas investment as wads of cash
flew out of the country, adding downward pressure to an already depreciating yuan.
However, the loonie
has now been near parity for four of the past five
years... [we] are still waiting for the promised benefits of a high -
flying loonie.
Schear explained that he initially bought the seat for his 18 -
year - old son, but decided to
fly him back to California early so that the toddler could
have a seat for himself.
Over the 52
years that I
've been a licensed pilot I
've met numerous people that are afraid of
flying.
Over the last several weeks, rumors
have been
flying that Microsoft and competitor Sony (SNE) are planning to release updated consoles this
year that
would add support for 4K resolution, which is a sizable upgrade in terms of graphical quality.
Kitty Hawk, the mysterious
flying - car startup backed by Alphabet CEO Larry Page,
has finally launched, and it says its first vehicle will be available by the end of this
year.
«A couple
would say, «I
have owned this store for 20
years and I
have never
had a product
fly off the shelves like that,»» says Clary.
During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a
year,
has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.
Not only do you need enough miles to make an upgrade a possibility, you probably
have to be one of the airline's top customers (Bagshawe told Bloomberg she
flies over 100,000 miles each
year), aviation analyst Henry Harteveldt told Business Insider.
Gifting «appreciated assets» — stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares that you
've held for more than one
year and that
have increased in value — to charity often
flies under the radar due to the popularity of cash donations.
The ScanEagle
has flown 800,000 hours since being introduced 10
years ago, much of that time carrying out surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I tried to describe to my brother, who was also a test pilot — we
had the same astronaut training, I just happened to
fly in space about two
years before he did — and I tried to explain to him for a couple
year, «Hey, this is what this is like.
US F - 16s
have led the three -
year air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria,
flying 15 % of the sorties.
But for ordinary people who might
fly only once or twice a
year, they
have to risk getting the dregs and not even sitting with their loved ones.
Never dreaming his life
would be so different from his father's, Hawkins
has logged more than 150,000 miles a
year in his second job, as a consultant,
flying across the United States and to South America, Europe, and Asia.
«When I started
flying for the second time, 10
years ago, I qualified for food stamps,» Madeleine Doyle, a 20 -
year veteran flight attendant who
has served two 10 -
year stints traveling both international and domestic routes, tells Thrillist.
Sinnett, a pilot himself, plans to test the technology in a cockpit simulator this summer and «
fly on an airplane next
year some artificial intelligence that makes decisions that pilots
would make,» he said.
Alaska Airlines acquired Virgin America in a deal that closed late last
year, kicking off a merger that will eventually
have both carriers
flying under the Alaska Airlines brand.
Tilden admits his team is still getting its arms around the Virgin network, and Alaska could change some of the routes Virgin America
has flown for
years.
But Musk suggested that in time, the company
would fly tourists to space once or twice a
year and that the fares for these flights might eventually make up 10 to 20 percent of the company's revenues.
China
has ramped up military exercises around Taiwan in the past
year, including
flying bombers and other military aircraft around the island.
The Royal
Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)
has appointed Rebecca Tomkinson as chief executive, succeeding Grahame Marshall who resigned in September after six
years in the role.
«I came up with a story: My FaceApp
'd perfect self, who's 10
years younger than I am,
flies off to Disneyland for the day and somehow manages to photograph herself all alone in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle,» Stritch said.
However, there are still cheap tickets to be
had — if you're flexible enough to
fly on a less popular day, like Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New
Year's Day.