Sentences with phrase «has this year just»

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Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

But in the span of just a few years, physical papers have become borderline obsolete, replaced by tablets and computer screens.

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva graduated from the University of Southern California last year having earned not just a degree, but perhaps a more important credential: their own business.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

Here are just five ways brands have jumped on the mobile icon bandwagon this year:

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

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.

Just ask the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has been fighting a rearguard attack on its independence for eight years because many Americans were angered to learn that technocrats could wield such awesome power.

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

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

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

Pivoting doesn't look quite so sweet when you've just sunk $ 500,000 into a machine for a tool and die shop or hired 30 new employees to staff your restaurant or signed a five - year lease on a warehouse.

«Those two things moved him from being just another sheriff in the Midwest to someone who has to be reckoned with nationally,» said Daniel Bice, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel who has spent years covering Clarke.

Mast Brothers, the chocolatier, has just opened up a 65,000 - square - foot manufacturing facility there, and one of New York's beloved delicatessens, the 100 - year - old Russ & Daughters, plans to open a facility of equal size to fulfill orders from around the nation.

Attracting small donors through digital channels resembles the presidential campaign fundraising strategy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (D), but Harris insists she's just focusing on this year's midterm elections.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Global stocks have been a hot trade for investors with the iShares MSCI emerging markets ETF (EEM) surging more than 15 percent in the past year, outperforming the S&P 500, which is up just 10 percent in that time.

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

For instance, if a 22 - year - old is just entering the workforce, she has more than 40 years before she retires.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

Even though I've been an iPhone disciple for, like, 10 years, I feel like that's just because it's been a force of habit and not really because I felt like iPhones were the best phones.

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

In just one year, we have significantly exceeded our two - year sales goal, so I see continued success in the growth of the business.

For many years, consumers had to live with the inflexible, waste - prone process of brewing a whole pot of coffee just to make a single cup.

It's just the latest sign of confidence in the short volatility trade, which has been one of the year's most popular and, by extension, crowded wagers.

We've been hearing a lot about start ups that became wildly popular in just a small amount of time.WhatsApp was sold for $ 16B after 5 years.

The Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trump just crushed, has been 11 years in the making.

The happy faced emoji spewing tears of joy isn't just the «word of the year,» it's a certifiable craze — and one that brands have quickly moved to capitalize on.

So far this year, not a single bond from an emerging nation has defaulted, while 2015 saw just one, an issue from Ukraine, go bust, according to Moody's Investors Service.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

It's true: Despite a year marked by a major disappointment — merger talks with rival Sprint broke down in November, with no deal — the numbers T - Mobile has just announced are formidable.

But being truly customer - centric is more than just a press release, says Justyn Howard, CEO of Sprout Social, a company that provides social media management software (that Firebrand Group has been using for years).

For example, I just added up the total word count for the articles I've written this year.

For example, you might note to a new acquaintance that you just marked your fifteenth year in marketing, having progressed into a role that lets you work with some of the smartest people in the business.

The virtual currency has risen more than 1,500 % this year, and about 85 % just in the past two weeks, driven largely by demand from individual investors.

Meanwhile, the typical small retailer holds onto its terminal for six years, Aite says, so depending on where you are in the cycle, you could have to replace a terminal you just bought.

If you've just attended a four - year institution, your own laptop might be on its last legs.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

There's been consistent growth, and the U.S. has not fallen back into a recession — both positives in Bosworth's estimation — but in many ways the economy is stagnant, only growing the necessary amount each year just to stand still, as Bosworth put it.

In just four years, Warby Parker's chic glasses and affordable prices have helped establish the company as one of the go - to places for eyesight - challenged.

A decision not to impose tariffs would have capped an incredible turnaround for Cohn, who just last year was in Trump's doghouse for criticizing the president's divisive comments blaming people on «both sides» for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Tillerson's departure just over a year into the Trump administration puts him on a short list of high - level government officials whose tenure have been incredibly brief.

It's rare for families to successfully navigate even one generational transition in the boardroom — a Canadian Business Insights study from last year found that just 17 % of family - run businesses have a firm succession plan in place.

(We give more weight to the 12 - month results to identify who's on top today, but also include the 36 - month figures to weed out those who may have just had a lucky year.)

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

Just before the NBA All - Star Game is played in Los Angeles on February 18, Adidas will be hosting a two - day festival that King said has been a year in the making.

While the HYG has fallen nearly 2 percent this year, the S&P 500 is down just 0.3 percent.

We only just marked the 10th anniversary of Apple's iPhone, but the future waits for no one: Designer Mike Rundle has put together an essay laying out what the iPhone unveiled in 2027 will look like, drawing on visible technology trends today, as well as patents that Apple has filed in recent years.

IBM said that its fiscal year profit would be $ 13.80 per share, just shy of Wall Street's expectations of $ 13.83.

Since the new models went on sale, Apple has sold 129.5 million, just a 0.4 % gain from the same six months a year earlier.