Sentences with phrase «last year part»

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The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

The first part of the double dip started in January 1980 and lasted through July of that year.

However, that's due in part to a high comparative base from the second quarter last year, when the U.K.'s unexpected decision to leave the EU caused a huge surge in trading in the last week of June.

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

Fox last month parted ways with its most popular anchor, Bill O'Reilly, amid a number of harassment claims that he has denied, and network chief Roger Ailes resigned last year after he was sued by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

I've been intimately involved with the management team and coauthoring the strategy for the company here over the last two years and operating in every part of the business.

Over the last few years, youth marketing has become an integral part of every top company's strategy.

And 2.9 gigawatts of new renewable energy projects were initiated last year, while 12.5 gigawatts worth of coal plants are set to shut down in 2018 — also part of an accelerating trend.

Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

One of them, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan, pleaded guilty late last year to charges related to helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach.

Dan has spent the better part of the last 20 years as a proprietary equity & options trader at hedge funds (SAC, Exis & Cheyne Capital) and within the equity derivatives group of Merrill Lynch.

Since then, however, Lau thinks financing prospects in Canada have improved, in part thanks to OMERS Ventures, a venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System that was set up late last year.

The grocery store chain was required to sell 23 stores as part of an agreement with the Competition Bureau in connection with its purchase of Canada Safeway last year.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

Sales of approximately $ 128.5 million represented a 36.3 % drop from last year, but surpassed the company's prediction of $ 112.2 million thanks in part to sales of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Total sales topped $ 50 million last year, thanks in large part to experiences like the one provided to me by Laura.

As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).

While Walmart has been offering in - store pick up for several years now, this is first year the retailer is pushing the service this hard, in a move aimed in part at preventing stores from being overwhelmed by panicked last - minute shoppers.

Such a shift would bring the central bank a step closer to making the purchase of longer - dated bonds a central part of policy and partly echoes Japan's five - year quantitative easing campaign that lasted until 2006, under which it aggressively pumped cash into the economy.

The funding, which has come in over the last year, has been used in part to get Opentrons» new robot, the OT - 2, developed, along with now launching the product.

Some $ 118 billion worth of vehicles and parts flowed north and south across the border tariff - free last year, according to U.S. Commerce Department data.

Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn't afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services.

Revenue declined nearly 6 % last year, in large part because of the sale of its pharmacy business to CVS.

For me,» he says, «the last five or six years have been the most exciting part of my life.»

Part of the problem is the copany's films disappointed at the box office last year.

«She then finished her last year and a half as a part - time student,» says Kayne.

However, job creation for men was split nearly evenly between part - time jobs and full - time jobs, whereas women shed 57,100 full time positions over the last year while adding 89,000 part - time ones.

By comparison, last year the company lost $ 11.2 million due in part to lagging sales.

«O'Leary Funds and Stanton combined had over the last nine years many part - time and full - time team members,» O'Brien and Poirier wrote to Maclean's, while declining to comment on the case specifically.

Ryanair last month agreed to buy a majority stake in a new Austrian leisure airline founded by Formula One former champion Niki Lauda, while easyJet bought a parts of failed airline Air Berlin last year.

Kislyak reportedly orchestrated the meeting between Kushner and Gorkov, who was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2016 as part of a restructuring of the bank's management team, Bloomberg reported last year.

Empire Co., parent of Sobeys, rationalized its $ 5.8 - billion acquisition of Canada Safeway last year in part for making it the No. 1 grocer in Alberta.

One of them, Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, said the incomes of the richest Americans surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.

Mark Zuckerberg publicly got through 23 titles as part of his book club last year.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

4 %: Increase in sales last quarter, in large part because of the company's limited - edition «Girl of the Year» doll.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

Venture capitalists have done their part to fuel the madness, plunging $ 3.8 billion into 332 security deals last year, up from $ 2.8 billion and 299 transactions in 2014, according to CB Insights.

Revenue at NBCUniversal rose by 12 % to $ 7.5 billion, and theme park revenue climbed by 38 % to $ 1 billion, in part because of the addition of Universal Japan, which Comcast acquired a stake in last year.

Startups are finding innovative ways to bring food, shelter, and transportation to victims of the hurricanes, wildfires, and tornados that ravaged parts of the U.S. last year, as well as improve safety for those caught in other types of disasters and emergency situations.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

These requests are a standard part of the process and ask the applicant for more information, but between January and November of last year, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services department issued about 40 percent more requests than in all of 2016, according to data from the department.

Last year, they sold about $ 2.5 billion in parts.

I'm a firm believer that there's always a better way and that's a part of the culture we're trying to federate through the organization so we can celebrate where we break something down that perhaps we were really proud of last year.

Last year, Steam said it would accept bitcoin, helped in part by the BitPay payment service.

Trump and congressional Republicans opened another controversial area, Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling as part of last year's tax bill.

The deal is part of the B.C. government's natural gas strategy launched last year that would see three plants built on the coast to develop liquefied natural gas for export to Asia.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Young's case and ultimately rule on what accommodations employers must make under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a decision that could touchthe lives of the 68 million working women in the U.S. and the 62 % of new moms in the last year who were part of the workforce.