Sentences with phrase «into a crisis for»

Kogan, who is co-founder of a start - up called Philometrics, which conducts surveys, was integral to Cambridge Analytica's obtaining at least 30 million Facebook user profiles, an issue that erupted into a crisis for Facebook last week.
Kogan, who is co-founder of a startup called Philometrics, which conducts surveys, was integral to Cambridge Analytica's obtaining at least 30 million Facebook user profiles, an issue that erupted into a crisis for Facebook last week.

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The Sunnyvale, Calif. company's lucrative piece of the Chinese e-commerce company (BABA) has done wonders for its coffers and share price but lately has sent it into an existential crisis as investors seek growth from the beleaguered company.
Heading into January 2016 this issue became a major concern for investors, particularly as it became apparent these loans, taken together, are three times larger than the sub-prime loans that caused the 2008 financial crisis.
For bank shareholders, bad memories of the financial crisis are fading into history.
«Retail clients, who don't fully understand these products should be protected from going into these products, because if there is a retail client affected in the future, the question will be again who was the bank that sold them these products and then banks will be blamed again for what has happened,» Weber said in reference to some banks being criticized for selling complicated financial products prior to the global financial crisis without explaining them in full.
Interest rates have remained at unprecedented lows since the financial crisis in 2008, providing more incentive for Canadians to jump into the housing market.
Sales had been sliding for several years before plunging off a precipice as the financial crisis deepened into a global recession in 2009.
Apart from a few brilliant authors and composers, not much good has ever come out of Russia; and unless there is a sharp improvement in the outlook for that country it could drag the rest of the world, including Australia, into a crisis to rival that of 2008.
«Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy isn't working and a new approach is needed,» says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.
He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing drug to Turing's pyrimethamine (known on the market as Daraprim) for $ 1 per dose.
But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).
You can't really say that all the laffs that comics have extracted from McConaughey's ads have brought on an identity crisis for Lincoln — «What kind of luxury carbuyer wants to get into conversations with a bull?»
«I don't think it had turned into a crisis, but Facebook was probably seeing some internal data that was telling them they needed to do something,» said Greg Sterling, a senior analyst for Opus Research.
«When crises drive people into the arms of God,» Porter notes, «they embrace Him for the insurance as well as the spiritual solace.»
Neither Harper nor Carney can take credit for Canada's strengths going into the crisis, and they can't be blamed for the financial meltdown that caused the crisis.
For example, heightened risk taking by investors and elevated leverage in large financial institutions and in shadow banking activities were among the factors that turned a downturn in the U.S. subprime mortgage market into a global financial crisis.
During the financial crisis, private mortgage insurance lenders went into hibernation, producing just 15 percent of mortgage insurance volume, compared with nearly 70 percent for FHA - insured loans.
EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.
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Worth a read for more insight into how scared McGraw Hill must be that their role in the credit crisis may become more high profile in the near - future.
If I know the market is going down for five years, my interest would be to pull out now, put my money in cash or Treasuries, and buy back into stocks five years from now, or whenever the crisis has passed.
The coal industry also dumped thousands of tons of coal ash in Puerto Rican landfills for years, a common practice that has recently mushroomed into a disaster as local landfills overflow thanks to the territory's financial crisis.
Today, thanks to IOER, ON - RRP, and other Federal Reserve programs and powers put into effect during the crisis, the demand for Fed balances has dramatically increased.
The disclosures forced Facebook into crisis mode as regulators and lawmakers clamored for an explanation and users started a #DeleteFacebook campaign.
The ingredients for a renewed financial crisis are in place, as a possible «surprising» transformation of money debasement into highly visible inflation.
For a time, it seemed as if France's financial problems were over, until the Mississippi Bubble popped and Law's trading company shares and paper bank notes plunged in value and threw France into an even greater economic crisis than it had before the bubble.
For example if there were to be a crisis, such as the recent sovereign debt issues in Europe, money would flow into gold in search of a safe haven, but also into dollars to escape the European issues.
FRA: Given the potential in Europe for being the epicentre of perhaps the next financial crisis as Peter Boockvar mentions, could we see international capital flows come from Europe and elsewhere to the U.S. markets especially as you mentioned there could be pressure on the long end of the yield curve with the movement into equities.
Should Greek voters reject the austerity plan, it could lead to a messy default on the country's debt that would likely cause massive losses for banks that hold Greek bonds - and possibly spark a wider financial crisis that could send Europe into recession.
The Asian crisis that sent the Emerging Countries into a tailspin and collapsing stock markets over the 1997 - 99 period may have been due to a liquidity shortage as the US deficit pushed towards closer balance starting in 1993 and reaching an apex in 1996 with world output (excluding US) for three years between 1994 and 1997 was 3 %, but as the US fiscal stimulus from our trade deficits declined over those years, and without alternatives to replace the extra liquidity, raw material prices growth collapsed and world output slowed dramatically from 3 % to 1 %, and 2 % in the following year.
There are dramatically different views on how the Bush administration has handled, or mishandled, that primacy but — moments of crisis, tomorrow's polls, and this year's election campaigns notwithstanding — American preeminence, with all the problems attending American preeminence, is a fact of life for as far as anyone can see into the future.
For example, if I said JFK lived in the White House, staved off the Cuban Missile crisis, and could levitate and turn water into wine at will — then my proving that the White House really existed and the Cuban Missile crisis really happened is NOT evidence of the claim JFK could levitate or turn water into wine.
Thus, for adopting parents, the joy of receiving a child into the home is a preamble to facing the crises of child development.
This possibility points us toward a greater crisis that stems from a world plunging itself into a secularized darkness, a world that has lost its anchor in transcendent values — a world, in short, that has forgotten how it once longed for heaven.
«But the cheating isn't what caused this to flare up into a Defcon 1 crisis for which the entire church leadership had to be mobilized.
As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.
As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.
Moreover, we took into account statistical analyses of the John Jay findings, including the fact that only 149 priests accounted for more than a quarter of all accusations, that can lead to the conclusion that the sex abuse crisis was significantly exaggerated.
If we can only devise new mechanisms to help us survive this round of terrible crises, we have a chance of moving into a new world of incredible potentialities for all mankind.
1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.
And when there is trouble at home, like Hurricane Sandy or the Sandy Hook shooting, almost everything else gets thrown out or squeezed into the back print pages or the leftover broadcast minutes to make space for information on the crisis at hand.
About Tyler, Palahniuk will only say that «Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into his mind,» saying that he plans on using the story to explore mid-life crises...
Crucial for MacIntyre is the historical fact that one tradition of inquiry can put another tradition into an epistemological crisis.
This seems to bring the Word into our time and make the Bible come alive in our language, but the question is, has the word of promise and of judgment, of gracious offer and of crisis for the world, come through forcefully in this translation, or has the preacher simply been cleverly interesting?
One can not walk into an American bookstore without finding a plethora of books, from every different angle, decrying some national problem or crisis, and advocating changes for the better.
For some persons the entrance into mid-years I and mid-years II produces obvious crises with acute anxiety and floundering behavior.
But for many between these extremes, the movement into mid-years I and mid-years II produces a quiet crisis which is painful though not devastating.
This is important for all of us to remember: people who are quadraplegic or paraplegic, when otherwise healthy, are not in danger of momentarily going into a medical crisis.
But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.
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