Sentences with phrase «liked at all last year»

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«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City 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.»

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Last year Kurt Melcher, executive director of e-sports at Robert Morris University, told Fortune that e-sports are just like all other sports in every way but physical exertion.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

I look at it like: What did we do last year?

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Last year, AG Hair took another gamble and launched a collection of texturizing products aimed at people who prefer the effortless «I woke up like this» look.

At some point, he said last year, we will all «have AR experiences every day, almost like eating three meals a day.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

Having been at Augusta last year for the Masters, I have a much better sense of what it's like, and that will make watching it on TV a lot more fun.

J.C. Penney (jcp) will open stores at 2 p.m., an hour earlier than last year, and three earlier than many of its mall - based department store rivals like Macy's.

For example, the «Fight Poverty Like a New Yorker» campaign run by the poverty alleviation group, The Robin Hood Foundation, was conceived at The Feast last year, says Chou.

The single telecast, which begins at 3 p.m., raked in 2.5 million viewers last year — it's then repeated more or less on loop for the next twelve hours like a gently drooling screensaver.

Watch Dogs stole the show at the last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was unveiled, not just because it's an entirely new property, but mainly because it looks like it's going to capture the zeitgeist of the super-connected era in which we live.

Accenture's survey doesn't hint at any big increase in sales of wearable devices, an emerging category that includes devices like Internet connected fitness gadgets and smartwatches, The survey said that only 14 % of polled respondents said they would buy a wearable device in 2017, which was «virtually unchanged from last year.»

Inflation peaked at 3.8 % last year and has declined significantly as the Czechs, like the rest of Europe, dealt with declining wages and rising prices for goods like gas, imported clothing and pharmaceuticals.

Or your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.»

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

Dozens of malls have closed in the last 10 years, and many more are at risk of shutting down as retailers like Macy's, JCPenney, and Sears — also known as anchor stores — shutter hundreds of stores to staunch the bleeding from falling sales.

«If you look at our holdings, you would assume that we like them in the order in which they rank by dollar value of holdings, but if you look at them in terms of recent purchases over the last year we've bought more Apple than anything else,» he said in a wide - ranging interview Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»

You can check out our review of last year's BlackBerry DTEK50, which was also made by TCL, for a look at what the skin is like.

Not only are realtors facing new competition from people like Arora within their own ranks, but also deep - pocketed companies including Power Corp. are moving in on the for - sale - by - owner (FSBO) space, at long last creating a nationwide alternative to the MLS, which for years has been a near - monopoly marketplace.

Last year, The New York Times documented the explosion of young coffee up - starts, noting «more than 40 new cafes and coffee bars have joined a small, dedicated group of establishments where coffee making is treated like an art, or at least a high form of craft.»

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences can walk alongside the rangers protecting elephants in Africa, see what it's like to be a tree, ride in an automated taxi transporting passengers, or follow a Holocaust survivor's steps as he visits the concentration camp he was held in for the last time.

That may seem like a bold prediction, but consider that Gemvara, which is just more than a year old, had a $ 10 million run rate at the end of last year and, as of this spring, is venture capital funded to the tune of more than $ 25 million.

He also doesn't like Hewlett - Packard, a company he called «the ultimate value trap» at last year's Delivering Alpha.

Still, we found even more ways to save last year, like riding our bikes to limit money spent on gas, switching phone plans and limiting junk food at the grocery store.

At GE (GE), Beth Comstock's «clean tech» Ecomagination initiative looks like feel - good marketing; under the hood, though, there's a real business that last year generated $ 18 billion in revenue.

We got a taste of smart - home technology at last year's CES and it looks like 2015 will have even more.

Analysts predicted last year that the tech - savvy watch, which launched in April at a starting price of $ 349, would crush watch sales for companies like Michael Kors that sell timepieces in the price range of $ 300 to $ 500.

When asked which companies scored the highest by seven different criteria, Canadians ranked Tim Hortons at No. 10 this year (up from 29th last year), behind international heavyweights such as Walt Disney, Lego and Google, but ahead of big names like Honda, Apple and Amazon.

Last year, some of the absolute best deals on back - to - school items were not found at the usual suspects like Wal - Mart, Target, and Kmart.

And then the second question for Sabrina, on the line of credit, and your appetite for buying the stock back here, is there a minimum cash balance or just kind of viewpoint as we look into next year, what your appetite could look like to be buying back stock at the pace you have the last couple of years?

As I said last year, Uber has at times seemed like a company run by irresponsible frat boys.

«A year later,» Arstechnica writes, «Musk himself was touting Tesla's advanced robotics expertise, declaring in a conference call last November, «we are pushing robots to the limit in terms of the speed that they can operate at, and asking our suppliers to make robots go way faster... It's like if you can see the robot move, it's too slow.»

Its $ 6.8 billion in revenue last year pales in comparison to the $ 28 billion or so at media giants like Time Warner and 21st Century Fox.

Hundreds of thousands of other products were shipped, too, like 56,000 Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy sets; 47,000 TVs (up 1,300 percent year - over-year); 51,000 Bose headphones (vs. 8 last Wednesday); 28,000 Rubbermaid container sets (a deal that was actually made fun of via Twitter users at times); 24,000 pressure cookers; 14,000 iRobot Roomba 595 vacuum robots; 12,000 Fifty Shades of Grey Blu - rays; and 10,000 of Meguiar's X2020 Supreme Shine microfiber towels.

She does like YouTube, though: In a speech at Google's developer conference last year, Wojcicki said she had been a strong proponent of Google's decision to buy YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in 2006, after seeing a user - uploaded video of kids lip - syncing to the Backstreet Boys get far more traffic on Google Video than the premium studio content for which she had helped cut deals.

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

Hiu Ng, the daughter of Qi An» an and Wu Long, and her husband Daniel Foa, 35, last year were listed as speakers at a networking symposium in the Maldives on sustainable tourism with the likes of the U.K. billionaire Richard Branson and the actress Daryl Hannah.

Brands using emojis at this point is like politicians dancing to «Nae Nae» — It's so last year.»

Some insiders like Bhappu and Dolan last year sold shares for $ 293 million on exactly the same day (just like the rest of the insiders) at $ 51 a share.

«I personally wish they had done more to directly link corporate rate reductions and pass - throughs, for that matter, to real and tangible benefits for employees, things like IRA matching or employee profit sharing or employee ownership,» Dean Zerbe, managing director at the tax consultancy Alliantgroup and former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, told me last year.

Ending last year at $ 1000 and gathering the support of brand names like Overstock, the market was enthralled with where bitcoin was going.

And the Archbishop looked at him, like, he's an idiot and said, Mr Peeler, he says, last year, I had some very serious surgery and I did not look around for the leading Catholic surgeon.