Sentences with phrase «in years like»

Turnout in local elections is traditionally low, especially in years like this when there are no national races.

It's a fairly small number of people who are really upset and really angry who bother to go to the polls, and they do make a difference in years like this.

In years like 2008, ExxonMobil brought in $ 35 billion while only allocating $ 20 billion towards stock repurchases and dividend payments to shareholders.

And any capital allocated to cash was capital that was not potentially allocated to equities, and in a year like 2011, that was a good thing.

In a year like 2008, you're less likely to panic and sell.

He said other parts of government, like the environment or transportation departments, «would all graciously welcome 3 percent, especially in a year like this.»

I think unfortunately apathy is the more common thing that you see in a year like this, voters that are just frustrated and angry or frustrated and angry, but angry in a way that doesn't translate into action.

Giffords has never had to run in a year like 2010 though and she will have to find ways to distance herself from national figures like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) who is something short of popular in the district.

That's a break even, R +1, R +2 district that in a year like this should come our way.

Not exact matches

The first couple years outside the office make some retirees feel like the proverbial kid in the candy store.

It would be a big move for Nintendo, which hasn't attempted to bring its major gaming properties like Mario to the big screen in nearly 25 years.

The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

In the two years since Watson Health launched, it has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

The company has built on the lead with an avalanche of new hardware released in the last year: The tablet - like Echo Show, which has a screen; the Echo Look fashion camera; the Echo Plus home hub; the Echo Spot alarm clock; the redesigned Echo.

In fact, throughout the year, every year, it is professional teams like Barça that command the giant money and audiences — and both are soaring.

«That was the first thing that crossed my mind — I was like, «Oh s — ,»» Rosie, a 30 - year - old DACA recipient who has lived in the US for 26 years, told Business Insider on Tuesday.

Digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are soaring in value, increasing tenfold in a little over a year.

And Bogle did tell CNBC that in 66 years he has never seen volatility like this.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

«The big prize is, it feels like social commerce is going to be big in two years from now and lets figure it out how to be ready.»

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Upstate has become a hub for manufacturing and engineering in recent years, since state tax breaks lured employers like BMW, Michelin and GE.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Right now, it feels like the innovations that will get started in the next 10 years will have a huge impact on the world.

Gilmour served for 13 years as creative director of Clif Bar, where he was in charge of product packaging and coming up with new brands, like the Luna bars.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

Someone asked me personally what would I like to see in venture capital over the next five to 10 years.

They took what amounted to a year abroad, during which they traveled the world (while working remotely) to see what their expenses would be like and to test whether they would be happy living the vagabond life in retirement.

Thurston: I did, and in the first three years I did not like the answer.

I think only in the past year or so, I've been like, no, everyone has their own journey, and they're doing their own thing.

What we have created here in the last two years is a significant immersive experience that not only takes coffee to a new level, but there's no retail experience like this.

The commercial drone market is nascent today — roughly a billion dollars in sales globally — but it's growing like mad, with many companies, Aeryon included, increasing sales by 100 % each year.

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.

But in doing so, they tried to impose conditions that are designed to help streaming services like SlingTV — which Dish Network launched last year — and Netflix (NFLX).

Two years ago, Foley began focusing on deliveries for shoppers at stores like Costco in Southern California and Austin, Texas.

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

Shahidi is an 18 - year - old actress and activist who uses her platform to advocate for important issues like diversity in Hollywood, girls» education and voter turnout.

Hartford Funds, an asset management firm, notes that many millennials «are investing like 75 - year - olds» — in other words, very conservatively.

Fourth - quarter profits in Exxon's downstream sector, which is focused on refining crude oil into fuels like gasoline, also rose $ 323 million from a year earlier.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

«Five or six years ago,» says Pat Perkins, VP of Marketing for HMS, «we really started putting a stake in the ground in terms of Hendrick - generated original content, in terms of utilizing social and digital platforms... and in the process we defined what success would look like, and developed a series of checklist and filters that would guide us in evaluating projects.

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

How many times have you said this about a business that blended in like a wall flower but had been around for years?

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.