Sentences with phrase «just such a year»

2018 is just such a year.

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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.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

As such, the chairman's proposal represents an about - face from his stance just a year ago.

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

Gerdes's success in building such sought - after services in just three years is a sure sign that in today's breakneck economy, strategic partnerships are becoming an increasingly critical part of growing a company.

Two such companies, San Francisco - based fundraising site Rally.org and Los Angeles - based campaign organizer NationBuilder, have raised $ 14 million collectively in investment capital just this year, Bloomberg reports.

More than just toys, this year's drones will likely offer capabilities such as the ability to avoid crash landings and perhaps specialized features for using them in different types of environments.

The region currently accounts for just 10 % of KingFisher's annual sales, but Bolton predicts that a strategic focus on key markets such as Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota will enable it to «easily double» the size of its operation in the next five years.

Campaigns on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are largely more sophisticated than their counterparts from just a few years ago.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

SimStar, the smallest and youngest entrant at just five years old, was clearly lucky to be in such company.

And besides, the pair is hardly willing to sell the business they've spent years building to just anyone — even if such a deal could be financed, an uncertain proposition in today's tough market.

Phil Libin, the co-founder of Inc.'s 2011 Company of the Year, Evernote, and a key source in Leigh's story, had just such an internal heart - to - heart — and made the hugely grownup decision to replace himself as CEO.

The House version limits the maneuver to just 90 percent * of the losses in each year; the Senate contains no such limitation.

The online takeaway business has been booming in recent years, prompting listings of firms such as Britain's Just Eat and the Netherlands» Takeaway.com, as well as the more recent entry of Amazon and Uber.

The 36 - year - old founder of I Love Rewards, a Toronto - based developer of employee recognition programs for corporations, experienced just such a head - shake upon receiving backing from John Albright, managing director of JLA Ventures, in 2007.

Members who put down at least $ 100,000 a year have priority booking access (along with perks such as in - flight catering), making the experience just as convenient as owning your own jet, says chief executive Bradley Stewart.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

Just over two years old, this ISP has reinvested most of its profits in building an infrastructure that could easily handle twice as much sales volume; with little local competition, it's also branched into profitable service enhancements, such as designing and hosting Web pages for specialized industries.

For example, Collado said, New York would be quick to challenge a change in domicile if retirees are just spending half the year in Florida and everything that is near and dear to them, such as doctors and charities, is back in the Empire State.

Case Farms, which produces nearly a billion annual pounds of chicken for both mega-chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and for federal lunch programs, hired Guatemalan asylum - seeker Osiel López Pérez when he was just 17 years old.

Still, Sears has been on closing binge of its namesake and Kmart stores, announcing its latest round last week with 63 stores getting the axe, just one of several such announcements this year.

«It's been such a crazy year with him that we had to have just one heart - to - heart, if you will, over what has happened.

Readers of these pages would obviously know that AngelList is the 800 - pound gorilla and the most reputable but the truth is that many new crowd - funding platforms are appearing globally and funding through such platforms has skyrocketed in just the past two years from $ 400 million to a whopping $ 2.6 billion.

«I just think it's so important in this time because we really have such a big and important stage to have our voices heard,» said Aidan Murphy, a 16 - year - old junior who's organizing the walkout at Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts.

(Incidentally, the UK's data protection watchdog is conducting just such an audit of Cambridge Analytica right now, after obtaining a warrant to enter its London offices last month — as part of an ongoing, year - long investigation into social media data being used for political ad targeting.)

On the other hand, if you'll need the money in just a few years — or if the prospect of losing money makes you too nervous — consider a higher allocation to generally less volatile investments such as bonds and short - term investments.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

The pitch was that if you just keep your money in the market when the going gets rough, such as in bear markets, the substantial upside in the good years will more than compensate for the down years, thereby leaving you with a solid annualized gain over long - term.

The eye - popping figures helped convince investors to pour more than $ 50 billion into emerging - market stock funds during 2017, just two years after they pulled more money out of such funds than they put in, according to Morningstar.

Kevin Irwin, President & CIO of Knollwood Investments, stated, «Based on their prior investment track records and successful investments such as Imperva and Athena Health, I sought out Aspect even before they raised their Fund I. I was pleased to be an investor in Fund I, and it is terrific that just a few years in an Aspect portfolio company in the cybersecurity arena has already done a successful IPO.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

Just last year, Vancity Credit Union — the biggest such union in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its employees.

In my view, such a return would have been both satisfactory and reasonable, given the very low volatility and risk profile of the Fund during the year just ended.

Just last month, it was reported that Credit Suisse strategist Andrew Garthwaite lamented dismal yields for the past couple years in a client report, writing that «his team has come across almost no one who seems to have outperformed or made decent returns this year» and «we have never had so many client meetings starting with statements such as «we are totally lost».»

Even though the Yakezie Network is not a big money maker, I'm happy to run it forever because just several years ago no such network in the personal finance blogosphere existed.

«I just can't imagine that Nikolas Cruz can commit such a heinous crime and then potentially we tell a 20 - year - old woman living alone that she can not buy a firearm to defend herself,» said Rep. Jay Fant, R - Jacksonville, a candidate for attorney general.

Perhaps he just means to advise the Liberals that such a tone — so negative and accusatory — has not served them well over the last few years.

Freddie Mac's economic team made just such a prediction earlier this month, forecasting that 30 - year mortgage rates would climb to 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

As such, it's not hard to imagine that Google's future prospects, five years from now, would continue to justify just such a multiple.

«It is high time the US pull back from such provocations of Russia and find a way to work with Russia as a friend and partner, just as Russia has wanted for many years.»

«I just can't imagine that Nikolas Cruz can commit such a heinous crime and then, as a result, we tell potentially a 20 - year - old single mother living alone that she can not purchase a firearm to protect herself,» Representative Jay Fant of Jacksonville, a Republican running for attorney general, said on the House floor.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

«This emphasizes the fact that if the B.C. Liberals had just implemented those changes years ago, the mess wouldn't have grown to such catastrophic proportions,» said Kahlon.

I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

After all, it was just two years ago when a «taper tantrum» — or the talk of an end to the Fed's bond - buying program hit emerging markets such as India and South Africa with a wave of currency depreciation and capital flight.

In just the past year or so, top companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Philips, Nielsen, Dell, and Cigna have all announced they are expanding their remote work programs and hiring more people to work from home.