Sentences with phrase «major events of this year»

«Next Generation»: agenda and goals of the next generation The organic industry's first major event of the year will be focusing on the theme «Next Generation» this time round.

The third PGA Tour major event of the year tees off Thursday when the world's best golfers try to tame the Royal Birkdale golf course at the 2017 British Open.

Not exact matches

Berger spoke yesterday at the first in a series of interactive and educational events happening this year at Major League Baseball's New York City event space the MLB Fan Cave.

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

«The large majority of individual major events — ranging from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 100 years ago through to 9/11 and recent events in Iraq and Ukraine — impact major stock markets by around 10 % or less, with the effect being fully reversed within a month or so,» he wrote in a note to clients.

Reviewing data on major geopolitical events in the past 100 - plus years, Credit Suisse's former head of research and deputy global CIO Giles Keating and his team previously found that stocks generally bounced back after such shocks.

Last year, Giles Keating, the former head of research and deputy global CIO at Credit Suisse, and his team reviewed data on major geopolitical events in the previous 100 - plus years and found that stocks generally bounced back up after these shocks.

Additional live streams of major events this year such as the Presidential debates and Olympics already appear to be driving engagement.

A year ago Sony suffered a major hack that prompted a string of events that seemed worthy of a tragic - comic blockbuster, in response to the studio's comedy about North Korea, «The Interview.»

Business and sports both have them — the moments where months or even years of hard work culminate in some major event.

So at least once a year, or in the event of a major change in your life — such as the birth of a child, divorce, inheritance, retirement, or job change — you should sit down and revisit your investment plan.

More than 600 industry professionals, recognized thought leaders, and blockchain enthusiasts from 35 different countries attended one of the major industry events of the year - The Blockchain Cruise Asia, organized by CoinsBank.

With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.

B) Generate no revenue and have no model for doing so besides â $ œadvertisingâ $ C) Due to (B) the only viable liquidity event is a sale to a major internet player (Yahoo, Google, eBay, MSN) which is very, very unlikely D) Target the same 20 — 30 year old male, tech savvy demographic and will likely never be able to even capture 1 / 100th of the TechCrunch readership after everyone realizes how it just wastes time and solves on real problem

The company Qwiki, maker of an iPhone video sharing app, was hatched at a Summit event and acquired last year by Yahoo for $ 50 million; Basis, a company that makes wristwatch health trackers, secured its first major investment at Summit and was sold to Intel last year for over $ 100 million.

This event should not be overlooked as it is one of the most important policy measures from a major global central bank in the last ten years.

Interestingly, it only took seven years for Tesla to match Ford's value — here are the major events during this stretch of time that made this incredible feat possible.

Though the shopping festival was only launched a few years ago by Alibaba, the event has quickly surpassed the combines sales of the major U.S. shopping holidays, Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 30:30 Vision event brings together 30 challenger businesses and six major brands across media and entertainment, food, fashion and beauty, social enterprise, retail and healthcare to thrash out inspiring visions of the next 30 years in business.

For 40 years, Salgado has been photographing humankind, witnessing major events of our recent history: conflict, starvation and exodus.

Our Sun is more active than ever recorded and every major catastrophe on this planet in the past couple of years can be directly related to events in our solar system.

One of Stiefel's major concerted contributions in the last three years was the Reason Rally, an event held on the National Mall in Washington, which was billed as a watershed moment in the atheism movement.

Ms. Price will be promoting the book all over the globe until the end of the year, including events in Austin, Kansas City, New York City, London, Dublin, Toronto, and other major cities.

With 22 years of successful shows, Propak China is a major international event in China, attracting exclusive support from the world's leading packaging and processing organisations.

Several years ago, as a service to the chilehead nation, I started listing most of the major national and regional fiery foods trade shows, conventions, hot sauce events and chile pepper festivals in North America.

With one set of major trade shows in the form of ISM and ProSweets already done for the start of the year, we are now looking to the next key event in Cologne, Anuga FoodTec.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

Great Chefs and Wineries is Lifehouse's major fundraising event of the year, with last year's event raising over half a million dollars for the organization.

Founded in 1992, the Alliance keeps the neighborhood clean and safe, promotes local businesses, manages area improvements and produces major annual events including New Year's Eve, Solstice in Times Square and Taste of Times Square.

SKIING — BILLY KIDD of Stowe, Vt. scored the first U.S. win in a major Alpine race in Europe in two years, winning one of two giant slalom events in Meg √ ® ve, France.

WWE is a company that creates memories through moments, and Patterson is a major source of multiple memorable moments, including the Survivor Series elimination concept and the creation of the Royal Rumble match, which remains a must - see event every year.

In terms of sporting drama, pulsating excitement and betting activity, the Grand National stands head and shoulder above other major sports events and this year's renewal looks a belter — just make sure you grab some free cash to spend!

While the other three majors are carried by networks who cover a variety of golf events throughout the year, this is TNT's only real golf property.

After dominating the game from 1997 to 2008 with 14 major championships and a level of golf the sport has never seen, the 35 - year - old Woods has not won a major in three years or any PGA Tour event in nearly two.

Emily: Could be his year, after a T11 at the Masters and a T5 at the U.S. Open, though the winner of four PGA Tour events may be destined to remain one of the best golfers never to win a major.

Despite not starting a Grand Slam event since he missed the cut at the 2015 PGA Championship (with MCs at that year's British and U.S. Opens after a T17 at the Masters), one bookmaker has Woods at 5 - 1 to break his majors drought on the 10th anniversary (if not before) of his last major victory: the 2008 U.S. Open.

At least one PGA Tour player wondered if the choice to abort the opening round cheapened the status of the LPGA's fifth major, which got off to a rough start in 2013 when inclement weather forced that year's event to be similarly condensed to 54 holes:

Furyk has been in it repeatedly at several majors and your regular PGA Tour events, but a combination of his own poor play and some hot rounds from the opposition (like last year's Barclays title) have kept the Sunday shortcomings narrative alive.

The program was the first this year of a series of major promotional events in which, more than ever before, leading department stores across the country will be joining with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED to prove that «selling with sport» plays an exciting and effective part in contemporary retailing.

The 26 - year - old won the third PGA event of his career, and his first major.

There are majors and The Players coming later in the year, but this Florida swing, and now Texas two - step, are some of the more critical pre-Masters events.

But some of these early year events are major chances for them to make hay and solidify their status for the rest of the year, or at least before the priority rankings reshuffle.

It is primarily judged on achievement — top performances in BUCS or other major events, dramatic improvements over the course of a year, or a fantastic run of victories.

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Should Ko win in South Korea this week, she would wrest the crown away from Park, who surpassed her 18 - year - old rival in June when she prevailed in the first of two major events this season.

Palmer, whose role at his own PGA Tour event this week at Bay Hill will be dramatically reduced from what it has been, will be at the first major of the year at Augusta and expects to attend the Champions Dinner.

At the other end of the spectrum, both football and class, we find the stereotypical ideal of the officer and the gentleman — a cross between Bertie Mee, Alf Ramsey and «the can't think of his name England» supporter who always dressed in St. George colours and a stupid big hat, and could be found at all major international sporting events 40 years ago, symbolising the Corinthian spirit of the true football supporter.

«We're especially delighted to be hosting two top international sporting competitions this year, further cementing Lee Valley venues as highly regarded world class arenas for major events, as well as valued community assets with a comprehensive programme of activities for all ages and abilities.»