Sentences with phrase «kind of the year of»

But it was really kind of a year of learning about each other.

Since 2016 was kind of the year of lips (thank you Kylie Jenner), I included a nice range of lip products that would be useful for everyone.

Not exact matches

(He's also the kind of leader who took the time to reply to a 6 - year - old boy who sent him a letter asking if a Navy SEAL is quieter than a ninja.)

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.

This 88 - year - old structure, which carries no external signage of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165 - year - old inventor of the blue jean, calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.

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.

The advantage of having a small business with a smaller customer base is that you are better able to provide your clients with the attention they deserve — the kind of attention that will keep them satisfied and loyal to you for several 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.

Over the past year, the Silverman brothers focused on more thoughtfully evolving their three - person, New York - based startup and better understanding what types of toilet - paper advertising catches consumers» attention, and what kinds they flush away.

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.

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

He dismisses the unfortunate events of last year as the kind of short - term problems that any business undergoes during a transition.

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.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

Ingram: Henry, I wanted to get your thoughts about the journey you've been on for the past eight years, why you decided to sell now, why to Axel Springer, what your plans are for the future, that kind of thing.

That kind of stasis would turn the good economic news of President Trump's first year into a short story.

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.»

The second runner - up to the 2013 Small Business Owner of the Year Award is Kari Block, the founder and CEO of Bismarck, N.D. - based Earth Kind Inc..

«You are seeing more investors negotiating for [all kinds of] rachets this year than last year or the year before,» he says.

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..»

Although the N.W.T. has other kinds of mining projects currently under development, he suspects the diamond industry's best years have passed.

«The first year,» Sally says, «we researched the kind of bars we wanted to make.»

Turning from high politics to popular views, it's clear that Americans are concerned about these kinds of drone attacks - apparently unilateral, apparently violating the 350 - year - old norm of state sovereignty and conducted without a formal justice process.

«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.

This is the kind of creative thinking that Ottawa has lacked for years when it comes to economic policy.

It was a first - of - its - kind move from the streaming giant, which may have taken its inspiration from the traditional TV networks that have used the post-Super Bowl time slot to promote new TV series or special episodes (such as last night's long - awaited This Is Us installment on NBC) for years.

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.

The U.K. government is to present Thursday a draft bill that will affect all kinds of laws that have governed the country for more than 40 years — the so - called Repeal Bill.

The startup's aggressive four - year time frame may be a ploy, Larson said, to assess «what kind of market might be out there for this.»

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

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.

As Fain points out, «The ability to more fully describe and understand a consumer's behavior is more complete than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even more effective over the next few years.»

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

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.

He's amassed all kinds of trophies and records over the years, including two Olympic gold medals and four NBA All - Star Game MVPs.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was a different kind of «hot» this year.

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.