Sentences with phrase «kind of a year in»

Alonso Duralde writes: 2015 was just one of those things, just one of those crazy flings: It was the kind of year in which Quentin Tarantino could go through the effort and expense of 70 mm just to make a locked - room mystery, Tom McCarthy could make both the best and worst films of his career, and «Mad Max: Fury Road» and «Creed» could make the long - delayed sequel seem like not such a bad idea.

kind of year in publishing.

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2018, in all likelihood, is the year that kind of transformation happens to the corporate communications field, due to the fact that corporations have finally figured out the best ways to leverage mobile phones and communications platforms in order to get their messaging across to their employees, and to the wider world.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that launched only two years ago, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices.

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

He's a value investor, in other words, someone willing to dig through years of balance sheets to unearth the kind of steady, underpriced stocks he believes in.

A realistic path for the company going forward, he believes, would see it enjoy steady, solid gains, without the kind of exponential growth investors have become used to in recent years.

And last year, the Sentry Small / Mid Cap Income Fund was selected as the best of its kind in Canada by Morningstar.

Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

The first - of - its - kind Amazon Go store opened in Seattle this week after just over a year overcoming glitches in beta mode, when it was only open to Amazon employees.

Nvidia currently owns 70 % of the market for GPUs thanks to Huang, a visionary who foresaw a blossoming market for a new kind of computing early enough to reposition his company years in advance.

First National — Canada's largest non-bank mortgage lender, originating $ 22 billion in loans each year — reacted swiftly, announcing Tuesday that Morneau's moves will impact about 41 % of its insured residential mortgages and that it anticipates a drop of as much as 10 % in originations of this kind, because its loans will no longer qualify for insurance.

The firm also notes that a recent report from the New York Fed, which we wrote about here, discusses the role that electronic and automated trading could be playing in the bond market, particularly how these dynamics may have exacerbated the bond «flash crash,» an event JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said is the kind of thing that happens «once every 3 billion years or so.»

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

«To be honest, it's kind of snuck up on me, it's only just recently I've looked up and gone, «Oh wait, look how close we are to that [$ 1 million benchmark] in just five years.»»

If all that sounds kind of gooey, well, that's truly the broader mission of the digital health wave too — a movement that attracted a record $ 5.8 billion in venture funding last year, according to Rock Health.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

Brimmer: I think the future of agencies is in serious crisis right now, and I think just kind of seeing a little bit of what's happening with WPP and Martin Sorrell recently and the way that that model has changed — is really going to be interesting to watch how things unfold over the coming years.

Anderson expects them to account for 95 % within three to four years, but retailers won't stock a dozen different kinds of step - ins, and that many choices would just confuse consumers anyway.

Ermotti foresees a pick up in volatility, particularly in the second part of the year, but he said the company needs to be wary about the kind of volatility that lies ahead.

Rhea notes that in the past five years «The number of opportunities to participate in this kind of activity has doubled every year.»

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

This might be surprising coming from a company known for Super Bowl advertisements featuring scantily clad women, but GoDaddy hasn't aired those kinds of ads in four years.

A few years later, with the U.S. market in a nose - dive, Flying Colours decided to find new customers in the Asia - Pacific region, which wasn't experiencing the same kind of economic implosion as North America and Europe.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

I had to put a company of mine into the hands of an administrator (kind of like Chapter 11 in the USA) a few years back in the midst of a partnership dispute.

It's the kind of convenience I've become accustomed to after living in New York for over six years.

While it may be true that «minority firm owners are less likely to have bank loans of any kind, they have easy access to transaction loans from nonbanks,» Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in a paper last year.

They are the only company in their space to offer mattresses for different kinds of sleepers, with hundreds of positive mattress reviews and new stores opened and opening this year in Arizona.

The OECD defined a country's adult education level as the percentage of people between the ages of 25 and 64 who have completed some kind of tertiary education in the form of a two - year degree, four - year degree or vocational program.

Whereas in other platforms it's kind of like this is the bouquet that's going to be here all year.

«I have a friend who started living in their car a year before I did, so that kind of made it seem like a possibility.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

Professor Rachel Dutton, along with postdoctoral researchers Ben Wolfe and Julie Button, has spent the past several years mapping, analyzing and otherwise fiddling with the microbial communities in 160 different kinds of cheese rind.

Years ago, Google made overtures in Quebec, but the provincial government and Hydro - Québec were unwilling to provide the kind of electricity discounts afforded other industries.

This kind of violence is unprecedented in YouTube's 13 - year - history, though Aghdam's anger and paranoia aren't unique among the millions of people who create and post videos to the site, according to five former YouTube employees.

He won't go into any kind of detail about what's to come, except to say: «Next year, completing the core things that people need in a bed is definitely our first priority.»

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

According to the OECD, 45.7 percent of American adults between the ages of 25 and 64 have completed some kind of tertiary education in the form of a two - year degree, four - year degree or vocational program.

Next year Oculus will release its own virtual reality head - mounted display called Rift that will be a gaming machine first and foremost, and deliver the kind of in - depth experiences gamers crave.

«If you invest in a four - year degree, you kind of know what your career path is going to be,» he said.

This year's version of Arctic Edge was the first of its kind in more than three decades and covered more than 1.5 million acres on the ground and 65,000 miles of inland air space.

On average, among those who responded to the survey, IT workers in non-management positions in the US and Canada who have a certification of any kind earned $ 79,796 a year.

In recent years, the Sunshine State has become a kind of permanent American freak show, home to zombie face - eaters, and vigilante security guards who shoot black teens for wearing suspicious sweatshirts.

The deal values Kind at more than $ 4 billion, according to people briefed on the transaction, marking a significant valuation for one of the most prominent new food brands to hit store shelves in recent years.

Systems of this kind have been in development for many years, however the rapid technological progress of enemy tank rounds, missiles and RPGs is leading the Army to more rapidly test and develop APS for its fleet of Abrams tanks.

The two companies also hope to use Kind as a «platform» to introduce other healthy food products in a variety of categories over the next several years.