Sentences with phrase «made it to the year in»

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Oscar is New York's first new insurance company in 15 years, and it's on a mission to make health insurance truly consumer - friendly.

Now, eight years into an economic expansion, Home Depot is looking to make similar moves in anticipation of an eventual slowdown sometime down the line.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

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I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

These decisions — about how to reorganize supply chains, logistics and technology — need to be made quickly, unless they want to join the spate of retailers that have shuttered their operations in Canada this year.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

When we brought in Mexico to make it NAFTA, it took another four years.

Puj made just over $ 1 million in revenue in its first official year in business (2010) and has seen sales grow 10 to 30 percent per year ever since.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

It's a major investment, planned to last 30 years, making it the biggest oil project ever undertaken in the country.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

Many believe an engagement is forthcoming, which would make Markle the first American to marry into the royal family in over 80 years.

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

«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.

«With nationwide cannabis legalization in Canada a year away and recently approved medicinal use underway in Germany, many foreign entrepreneurs made it to Oakland.»

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

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Piotrowski and two friends had formed their company a few years earlier, in 2003, with a plan to make cellphone games.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

Of all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last year.

The bottom line is that when Trump blames the filibuster as his primary obstacle to achieving more legislative wins, he is often ignoring underlying factors, mainly that in most cases Republicans can not agree enough to make good on years of promises.

(Legere made $ 20 million in 2016 and $ 24 million the year before, according to T - Mobile's latest annual proxy filing.)

In the three years since, though, it's had some struggles, including having to make tweaks to its delivery model and some executive turnover.

A whopping one in three workers listed getting a raise as a top priority this year, making it the most popular resolution, according to rate - your - company startup Glassdoor's Employment Confidence Survey.

«Arkema has made a very strong start to the year, with a 33 % year on year increase in adjusted net income despite a high basis of comparison in first quarter 2017 and the very strong appreciation of the euro.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

As earnings season comes to a close — and as the S&P 500 looks to rebound from its worst month in two years — investors are hungry for the types of large single - stock moves that create money - making opportunities.

If you build fewer than 100,000 vehicles a year, it doesn't make sense to manufacture in China, says Steve Man, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in Hong Kong.

«Instead of making a bunch of stuff months and years in advance and trying to sell it, we're able to see what's selling and make accordingly.»

This week, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to build three plants in the U.S. in the coming years, but Cupertino has not made any announcements.

According to one study, 82 percent of shoppers made at least one purchase from an international merchant in a calendar year — despite the fact that only 1 percent of small businesses in the U.S. export goods overseas.

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

Global sales were projected to top $ 24 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow another 3.2 % this year, making the magnates who run the sector's largest companies even wealthier.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

«While your business likely has major goals to get to in the next six months to two years, don't ignore the little things that make experiences for your customers more awesome in the meantime.

In 1966, Studebaker stopped making cars entirely, and the following year it merged with another company to form the diversified manufacturer Studebaker - Worthington.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

In 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

In a statement, he said, «2017 was a strong year for McDonald's, as customers responded to the many ways we are making their experience more convenient and enjoyable.

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

Social media ranks third in technology investments small businesses plan to make in the next two years.

I also personally know several teachers who work a second job during the school year in order to make ends meet.