Sentences with phrase «hitting target every year»

States need to hit those targets every year or else their debt piles will grow even more.

I won't hit my target this year, but the firm has explained that as long as I fill my time with other activities — writing, doing research for partners, participating in business events or pro bono — this shouldn't be an issue.»

Not exact matches

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

However, as that happens, small businesses continue to be a top target for hackers, with the number of organizations hit by cybercrime rising each year.

Kuroda said the size and type of assets the BOJ now buys is not enough to achieve its 2 percent inflation target, which he said the central bank would strive to hit within two years.

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

Consumer price inflation hit 2.3 percent last month, shooting past the Bank of England's 2 percent target and its strongest in nearly three - and - a-half years.

Investors will be looking to see if the company will hit its $ 8 billion sales target for the second half of the year.

Lockheed hit its 2017 target to deliver 66 F - 35 fighter jets to the United States and its allies last year.

China's economy expanded at a steady 6.7 % in the third quarter and looks set to hit Beijing's full - year target, fueled by stronger government spending, record bank lending and a red - hot property market that are adding to its growing pile of debt.

However, it hit 3 % in September and the Bank expects it to edge higher in October before falling back towards target over the next year or so.

His own country, he reported, has more than doubled its spending over two years to 1.8 percent of national output, and will hit the target next.

Germany's Munich Re warned it could miss its profit target this year, the first major reinsurer to flag a hit to earnings from damage caused by the storms.

Ford is now aiming to hit a pretax profit margin target of 8 percent by 2020, two years earlier than it previously planned, by slashing $ 25.5 billion in costs and $ 5 billion in capital spending.

But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.

Greece is set to hit lower - than - expected proceeds under a privatization program this year, after it failed to reach its 2017 target.

HONG KONG / LONDON, May 2 - Standard Chartered Plc beat expectations with a 20 percent rise in first quarter pre-tax profit on Wednesday, but disappointing income showed the long road ahead for its returns to hit targets after years of restructuring.

Five years later, and Hirai's managed to hit two out of three targets, with Sony's most recent financial reports vindicating his plan.

If China manages to hit its economic growth targets this year, it will do so at a huge long - term cost.

Our target is to double the number of gallons sold through our closed - loop initiative in 2018 as compared with the prior year, and we are on track to hit that goal.

Intel hit its earnings target but cut its full - year revenue forecast amid slumping PC sales and a shift toward tablets and smartphones.

His comments suggest the ECB remains confident that inflation is finally on an upward trend, supporting market expectations for the bank to finally end its bond purchase programme this year, satisfied that inflation will eventually hit its nearly 2 percent target.

Others are convinced that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hit its 2 percent inflation target this year as low U.S. inflation is set to continue.

The House and Senate GOP hope to pass the sweeping measure by the middle of next week, hitting a year - end target.

The Hamas rockets are useless — even before the Iron Dome, the rockets barely hit targets inside Israel and killed fewer than 20 people over the span of about 8 years.

After a rocky 2014, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty came up with plan to get IBM on track after abandoning Roadmap 2015, a plan formed by her predecessor in which the company was supposed to hit specific revenue targets each year.

Being Inbound, however, means that it's far more important that you hit your three - year or five - year target than that you hit your one - year target.

Average annual inflation — one yardstick of economic growth — hasn't hit the Fed's 2 % target in years.

Inflation picks up and by the end of this year, hits the Fed's 2 % target, then hits 2.2 % by the end of 2018.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

First Solar is targeting 1 GW of EPC services per year, and management expressed they expect to hit that number soon, for the first time.

It's very objective and I like that you have automatic targets to hit until the end of the year.

However, attempting to hit a single year deficit / surplus target is extremely difficult, as it is influenced by many factors outside the control of the government, most notably by economic developments.

But the printer and copier maker's EPS target of $ 1.12 was unchanged from the prior year, and managers hit it exactly after $ 1.1 billion in share repurchases.

Gorman got a $ 9.75 million pay package a year earlier, including a $ 3.75 million long - term incentive dependent on the bank hitting performance targets.

I mean we missed our initial targets for the year fairly significantly and that's reflected in incentives from the top all the way down through the restaurants as we reset to normalized levels with an expectation that we will hit our plan and pay out at normalized levels as you said — as Brad said, that's worth about $ 0.15 a share.

A sustained turn in inflation above this 2 % target, or even a sustained period of inflation hitting this target, could change the Fed's policy outlook in the coming years.

Assuming they are hitting their deleveraging targets, I would expect a small increase (like CVX a few years ago) to keep the streak intact.

Its managers administer this non-diversified fund in a concentrated and targeted manner, which has seen them hit gains of 35.52 % year - to - date.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

Looking ahead, if the yield curve maintains its current slope and the federal funds rate hits the Fed's long - term target, the 10 - year treasury yield will exceed 3 % in a few years.

PREPA executive director Ricardo Ramos meanwhile was optimistic that Puerto Rico could hit Rosselló's target of getting electricity back to 95 percent of utility customers before the end of the year.

The Fed's preferred Personal Consumption Expenditures price index hit the two - percent target in March for the first time in nearly a year, while «core» inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was 1.9 percent.

For far from it being the case that the Fed's new operating system has proven its worth as a means of overall monetary control, it is largely owing to that system that the Fed has failed for the better part of six years now to hit its two - percent inflation target.

Two years later, Nest still could not hit that target alone — it did it only after adding sales from Dropcam, which Nest acquired for $ 555 million six months after joining Google.

The hospital is targeting a 70 per cent recycling rate for the end of this year (2017/18), having hit 66 per cent last year.

Wenger always seems to hit his targets and get his nice pay of over # 8mil a year, Silent Stan seems very happy with how we generate our income and increase our brand name... even if it is just by storing money in the bank.

It is the only game left for a man to play,» his former teammate Frederic Remington said to him years later, sounding like a fan in 2017 whose team has just been hit with a targeting call.

Fund raising picks - up and we hit our financial targets halfway through the year 2.

TRAPSHOOTING — HERMAN WELCH, a 46 - year - old General Motors factory foreman from Downers Grove, Ill., competing in his first Grand American Championship, hit a perfect 100 straight targets from the 20 - yard line to win first - place money of $ 12,000 for the handicap division in Vandalia, Ohio, beating Sam Knotts of Kansas City by one point.