Sentences with phrase «last year hand»

Cuomo, a Democrat who last year hand - picked Miner to co-chair the state's Democratic Party, has said the plan would provide much - needed financial help that Miner and other Upstate leaders have been asking for.

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Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

Coinbase customers wondering if they'll ever get their hands on their Bitcoin Cash may take some comfort in what happened following a similar digital currency fork — involving a currency called Ethereum — last year.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

Tesla had $ 2.67 billion in cash on hand at the end of Q1, down from $ 3.37 billion at the end of last year.

While wage growth has been solid over the last five years, the salary gap between new workers and experienced rig hands tends to be relatively small.

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

In September, Bloomberg reported Russia's main intelligence agency told the company «it is obliged under Russian law passed last year to hand over keys allowing the government to decrypt any communications transmitted over it.»

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

Last year, Activision was quick to announced that «Ghosts» had Day One sales shipments of $ 1 billion (which, admittedly, was a bit of corporate slight of hand, since sales shipments to retailers do not mean consumers have bought that many copies).

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

Last September, palladium gained the upper hand over platinum for the first time in 16 years.

This hands - on experimenting led Bouchard — who urges anyone considering UC to take advantage of these trials — to a cloud - based UC platform from California vendor Zendesk, which QuickContractors adopted late last year.

Tesla had $ 2.67 billion in cash on hand at the end of the first quarter, down from the $ 3.37 billion at the end of last year.

Last year, Google launched voice typing in Docs, but now lets you customize content with commands for changing text color, deleting words, inserting links and comments, plus a number of other ways to do hands - free formatting.

While the moves, if successful, would keep the Pentagon running at last year's levels, they are far from Republican hopes of handing Trump about $ 634 billion in fiscal 2018 funding for the military's regular operations, $ 85 billion above last year.

But the Vegas hotel fell into the hands of Onex, which separated the Strip property from its parent last year after strategically acquiring more than US$ 200 million of its debt — at discount prices.

Legere has generally held the upper hand in the competition between the two companies performance in the market, as T - Mobile has added by far the most new subscribers over the past few years and surpassed Sprint last year to become the third - largest U.S. carrier.

Last year, Giustra's friend and fellow philanthropist Amed Khan convinced him to visit Greece to see first - hand the plight of Syrians crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece to reach the island of Lesbos.

Last year, the defence complained that the assortment of PDFs, spreadsheets, graphical and text documents the prosecution handed over was nearly impossible to navigate.

Last year, the program handed out $ 1.5 billion of subsidies to 12.3 million households.

Under the rules handed down by the Fed last year, the cap for debit - card fees was set at 21 cents per transaction, plus 0.05 percent of the value of the purchase and a 1 - cent fraud - prevention fee for the big banks.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

Shortly before taking office last year, Trump Sr. said he would hand off control of his business empire, which includes luxury homes and hotels across the world, to his sons Donald and Eric, and move his assets into a trust to help ensure that he would not consciously take actions as president that would benefit him personally.

Late last year someone stopped Jim Amos in the hall and stuffed a bunch of papers into his hands.

After handing the reins of JMC Steel, North America's largest independent steel - pipe maker, to a non-family member in 2010 and becoming executive chairman, Barry Zekelman took back the CEO title last year.

It has not yet decided whether to buy second - hand watches for cash, added the firm, saying its sales had come close to the 1 billion Swiss franc mark last year.

Southeast Asia, on the other hand, saw the worst geographic performance from last year, though it still contributed $ 937 million to the bank's income.

Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Jon Cox said he estimated the size of the second - hand market at around $ 5 billion a year in revenue, including watches sold at auction, and that it had outperformed the market for new pieces in the last couple of years.

On one hand, Apple has made it abundantly clear over the last few years that it's keenly interested in health.

Last month, the World Drone Prix — organized by the World Organization of Racing Drones and Sheikh Hamdan, crown prince of Dubai — handed out roughly $ 1 million in prizes, including a $ 250,000 grand prize to a 15 - year - old British pilot who bested 100 other competitors at a two - day event in Dubai.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, so I sit down twice a year with last year's calendar in hand.

If the care package is the same as last year, you'll get a water bottle, tissues, hand sanitizer, totebag, and lollipop.

Strong employment growth, consumer confidence and more workers moving to B.C. are credited for the booming housing market over the last four years, including 2016, when a record 112,209 homes changed hands.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

The Eureka Park Tech Zone — the area that showcases startup companies — is expected to grow by about 50 percent over last year, with 300 startups on hand exhibiting their wares.

The industry is waiting on the SEC to hand down rules for Title 3 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, signed into law in April last year.

Early last year, during an all - hands meeting, she looked out at the crowd of 230 employees and realized many had tuned out her updates on financial stats.

Guidant clients paid an average price of $ 100,000 to purchase a business last year — a sum that most don't have on hand in cash or available credit.

Over the last couple of years I saw first hand how visual methods like the Business Model Canvas can end blah blah blah and enable clear and tangible strategic conversations.

On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good, as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the hopes of getting them to sign a lease with WeWork.

The officer, Shawn Wilson, claims in the lawsuit filed last week in San Patricio County, that Hitt»... seemed to be trying to cover - up...» an investigation into alleged assault against a 15 - year - old boy at the hands of a Taft official, last year.

And in the last two years, Mr. Steel has been co-chairman of one commission that claimed heavy - handed regulation was stanching financial innovation and another that argued that hedge funds could police themselves.

But after the product's introduction last year, at least two Juicero investors were taken aback after finding the packs could be squeezed by hand.

Indeed, the company has a pretty impressive amount of cash on hand, and after its failed attempt to buy AstraZenca (AZN) last year, there is still talk on the Street that the company will be active on the acquisition trail in 2015.

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

We made a series of incremental adaptations to raise the priority of market internals over those syndromes, but it was only late last year that we finally threw up our hands and prioritized market internals over those syndromes with no exceptions.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.