Sentences with phrase «in years this summer»

Labour staged its second leadership contest in a year this summer and elected the same leader.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, it was a stomach - churning roller coaster ride for stock holders who watched their investment cut in half from the start of the year to the summer, before rebounding in the fall.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Knowing what people are watching and when could help NBCUniversal determine what Olympic programming to broadcast at what specific times during the Summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro next year.

Students with less than two years of professional work experience are required to complete an internship over 16 weeks during the summer in order to graduate.

A second jolt in toy sales can occur later in the year, when summer blockbusters are released through digital platforms and DVDs.

Amazon's house - brand batteries now outsell Duracell online, and the company will now get upwards of $ 16 billion a year in annual revenue from a grocery store — Whole Foods, which it acquired over the summer.

(Years ago, Godin actually did run a summer camp in Canada.)

Most teachers spend time over the summer attending various professional development seminars on their own dime in order to develop the most effective strategies possible for the upcoming year.

Its impressive earnings and revenue trajectory — following its major acquisition of Softgate Systems this summer, it's on track to exceed $ 100 million in revenue this year — could have something to do with the fact Tio is a classic 20 - year «overnight» success story.

This summer, Gilbert and James met in person to hash out their differences; Gilbert apologized for the letter, the two men embraced, and days later James signed a two - year agreement to return to the Cavaliers as a free agent.

The 26 - year - old model wrote that she threw out her scales, measuring tape, and too - small clothes last summer in an attempt to «make peace» with her body image.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

The actress and the journalist confirmed their split in January after two years of marriage, but a source told People magazine that they had actually been broken up since summer 2016.

Priced at $ 9.99 per month or $ 99.99 per year, Beats Music has reportedly struggled to poach subscribers from rivals Spotify and Rdio, but that didn't stop Apple from gobbling up Beats this summer in a cash and stock deal valued at $ 3 billion, vaulting Dre's personal fortune to $ 800 million and making him the richest figure in hip - hop history.

More locally, students of this program participate in mandatory summer policy internships between their first and second year.

This has worked, to a large degree, with a seven - year runup in stocks that lasted until just this summer.

His plan was to step away, again, this summer, when he was scheduled to hand the CEO reins to longtime lieutenant Keith Creel and start a three - year tenure as a consultant (or, in his own words, a «hired hand») to the railway.

It is also a year in which, in the three biggest men's sports, women have made strides: the NFL added its first female ref and its first female coach (Jen Welter, whose internship with the Arizona Cardinals has since ended), and the NBA added its second female assistant coach (Nancy Lieberman) and its first female Summer League coach (Becky Hammon).

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Sorahan from Ryanair said: «Our biggest concern is that we have no certainty as we roll into this time next year and we are in a position where we're in 12 months we have to start loading our summer schedule for 2019.»

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

The Jaws ride was spawned 22 years ago at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., sired by an upstart theme park and the original summer blockbuster.

The decision, which the justices will likely make this summer, could also overturn hard fought for anti-discrimination laws that have been in place for employees for 50 years.

It's also one of KitKat's biggest markets, creating enough demand that Nestle last summer built its first KitKat factory in 26 years.

The average non-mortgage debt reached $ 26,221 in the summer, the most in eight years, according to TransUnion.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

«It is weathering the current global slump remarkably well: with GDP growth expected to be around 3 % this year and 4 % in 2010,» noted ING Investment Management in a summer report.

«According to the most recent assessment, the steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities has led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deep water,» OPEC said.

For the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics, by comparison, there were a few dozen torches in the relay, according to O'Neil, who says one sold for approximately $ 742,000 two years ago.

This past summer they were working on an additional $ 1.7 million round, which Bhattacharya believes will leave Zipmark sufficiently funded for managed growth in the coming years.

From summer intern to CEO, Burns became the first black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2009, after 29 years at Xerox.

Alexander noted that tighter mortgage rules (i.e. the new 25 - year mortgage regulation implemented by Flaherty in the summer of 2012), and increasing mortgage rates have both played a role in «dampening» buying activity in the real estate market.

Reitmans, purveyor of moderately priced officewear in malls nationwide, scored the endorsement coup of the year when the brand ambassador it hired early in 2016, moderately famous Suits actress Meghan Markle, started dating Prince Harry (you know, of Wales) in the summer.

Majestic Princess will debut in Australia in September next year, and home port in Sydney over the 2018 - 19 summer season.

While Google has been doing this for years with programs like Google Summer Code and Google Code - in, the new site brings all the initiatives together.

Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

We got a whole year of learning in a single summer!

During the summer, Mom would have us do all the reading and learning in preparation for the next year's grade.

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins will take home $ 23.9 million this year, yet he still lives in his parent's basement with his wife during the summer.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

«We're not seeing a summer swoon as we have in the past few years.»

Continually refining its curriculum, JMSB has added eight new courses in the past year alone, including a summer finance course based in New York and the timely Global Climate Change: Business Opportunities and Threats course.

Over the course of the summer, air - traffic controllers in the U.K. will likely manage 770,000 flights, which is 40,000 more than last year.

Founded in 1985, Big Rock got its foot in the door a year later when a strike at Molson and Labatt meant that it was the only beer available in Alberta that summer.

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