Sentences with phrase «leaf growth in»

Trees have new leaf growth in the spring, then during the summer leaves stay active but are no longer increasing in number.

For discovering the molecular mechanisms by which plants extract information from light and shade to modify their programs of shoot and leaf growth in the photosynthetic harvest of light.

More gains by the dollar — abetted by expectations of rate rises — could leave growth in the United States «significantly debilitated,» according to the IMF.

If history is any guide, it's set to leave growth in the dust.

Not exact matches

The plight of the middle class was a major theme of his launch speech and the subject of his first position statement, published as a column in the Toronto Star entitled: «Canadian middle class left out of the growth equation.»

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Business growth in this region appears to be especially robust, which also means that many other parts of the country are being left out.

After three years, the company has seen some pretty impressive growth, but there's a lot left to prove in order to call this a success story.

But rising labor costs and slow growth in overseas demand left Pan with no choice but to sell the business to a bigger textile manufacturer with a domestic focus, in the hope that new capital can keep it afloat.

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Despite the upgrade in near - term growth expectations, policy makers left the number of hikes projected for 2018 effectively unchanged.

In a slow - growth world, everyone is left fighting to protect their slice of a smaller pie.

But as jet engines replaced turboprops, the island airport's runway was simply too short to handle the aircraft, leaving Pearson International Airport, located a 40 - minute drive from downtown, to capture the growth in air travel.

The limits of tax cuts as a way of stimulating the economy are also obvious; as I reported in Why Growth May Still Leave 95 % of Americans Behind, rising income disparity means that tax cuts benefit the top 5 % and make relatively little difference to the bottom 95 %.

This past summer they were working on an additional $ 1.7 million round, which Bhattacharya believes will leave Zipmark sufficiently funded for managed growth in the coming years.

The former Vice President of Growth for Mobile & International at Facebook, Palihapitiya was an angel investor even before leaving, with money in companies such as Palantir and the Disney - acquired Playdom.

After the report, Outcome's management put some employees on paid leave, and Shah and Agarwal told the Journal in an email: «Of course, we have had growing pains as we scaled from 4,000 to 40,000 doctors» offices — every high - growth company does.

Based on the IAB's numbers and public financial numbers from Google and Facebook, the two digital giants accounted for about 99 % of the $ 2.9 billion in advertising growth in the third quarter — with Google making up about 54 % of the total and Facebook about 45 %, leaving just 1 % for everyone else.

Whatever you come up with determines how much equity you'll relinquish to the funding group and how much stock you'll have left for subsequent rounds of growth capital in the future.

BRUSSELS — Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

Yet, while Scotiabank says it voluntarily curtailed its mortgage business, leading to flat growth in the most recent quarter, it's unlikely to pull back on the reins too hard for fear of losing market share to competitors and leaving money on the table.

He claims that President Donald Trump, harkening back to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, will restore 3 % growth with an agenda designed for «those who left for work this morning in the dark and came home after their kids were asleep.»

«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a public offering that would leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.

Many employees feel that their company is failing when it comes to equipping them with the learning and training opportunities needed to ensure their career growth, and this consequently leaves them feeling stifled in their jobs.

Growth in that range would leave economic expansion for all of 2016 at around 1.7 or 1.8 percent — «a moderate pace,» for sure.

«Following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, the exchange rate has fallen and the outlook for growth in the short to medium term has weakened markedly,» the central bank said in its quarterly Inflation Report.

«There's very little growth left in the traditional parts of the wireless industry, and as such revenue growth has to come from increased revenue per user,» says Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

The BoE left its forecast for growth this year steady at 2 %, as the economy expanded faster in the first half of 2016 than it had expected in May.

«While overall price growth slowed, gains in core price measures remained firm, leaving the Bank of Canada on track to lift interest rates two more times this year,» Alicia Macdonald, the Conference Board of Canada's principal economist, said in a statement.

Yet some fund managers and analysts say that Amazon.com's (amzn) lofty upward trend is leaving the stock primed for a significant tumble should it not exceed high expectations for growth in its Prime subscription service, which jumped 50 % last year.

PPR SA (the world's third - largest luxury group behind LVMH and Richemont), for example, recently acquired skate - and snowboarding clothier Volcom Inc. for US$ 607.5 million and CEO Francois - Henri Pinault says he believes there still a lot of growth left in the company.

If they are otherwise good employees, firing all of them is just going to cost you a lot of money, slow down sales growth, and cause a big drop in morale (and maybe leave you vulnerable to lawsuits).

Actually, we have found that companies from emerging markets achieve superior revenue growth pretty much everywhere, leaving established multinationals struggling to both capture emerging - market growth and defend against new competitors in traditional markets.

All the best, I realized that I left the growth factor a bit lacking in that message, but I also think you will find that in most investment senerios the compounding of the dividend / income is what drives portfolio performance rather than capital gains.

The crisis has uncovered some of the fallacies inherent in existing growth models, and left us with legacies that continue to weigh on global prospects.

«The most compelling growth story in the market is also the world's most heavily shorted stock,» Andrew Left's Citron Research says about Alibaba.

So even if a tumor is surgically removed, it is difficult to extract every cancerous cell; any left behind will result in the growth of a new tumor.

CAP assumes annual wage growth matches the mean effect of experience and nonexperience on real wages measured in the NLSY data assuming full - time, full - year employment, and reports the cumulative difference between the no - leave earnings profile and the leave earnings profile over time.

The story is similar elsewhere, leaving less room for the upside growth surprises that powered global risk assets in 2017.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

Many of the challenges standing in the way of growth were exposed when Britain voted last month to leave the European Union (EU), which I've been writing about for the past few weeks.

These included overly optimistic economic growth and oil price assumptions; cutting the contingency reserve by two - thirds; selling shares in GM at fire sale prices; raiding EI revenues; and even booking «savings» from unilateral changes to federal employees» sick leave benefits.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Soon after she joined JC Penney in 2015 as executive VP - chief customer and marketing officer, West selected McGarryBowen as its agency of record; in 2017, she left to join Hershey as its chief growth officer.

In other words, Canada's growth spurt over the past year has left people behind.

True, earnings growth has plateaued in the last two quarters, but that still leaves a large gap.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

IMF estimates of annual growth rate of world real GDP (in red, right scale) and year - over-year percent change in commodity prices as measured by the quarterly average CRB / BLS raw industrials price index (in green, left scale).