Pessimism over the Chinese economy and a spate of bad news, including the collapse of China's stock market bubble and the weakening of the renminbi, made projecting confidence even
more important this year.
There may be no film
more important this year, no performances more moving, no film more beautifully and poetically directed than Loving.
The process of selecting charter operators became even
more important this year when the RSD became the first all - charter - school district in the country, though traditional schools still operate in the city under the Orleans Parish School Board.
Not exact matches
Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva graduated from the University of Southern California last
year having earned not just a degree, but perhaps a
more important credential: their own business.
Nowhere is the climate fight
more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last
year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000,
more than three times the U.S. figure.
Recently, Toronto - based health care startup Figure 1 reached an
important milestone:
more than 500,000 medical professionals are now using its app, up from 150,000 users a
year ago.
The benchmark 10 -
year yield hit a high of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much
more important than Dow 20,000.»
While it's certainly
important today, five to 10
years from now categories will become
more blurred regarding whether or not a customer is making a purchase on a mobile device, internationally or within the U.S., or from a PC using a web browser.
But it's
important to see why Nasdaq 5,000 much makes
more sense today than it did 15
years ago.
It will become an even
more important revenue generator in the
years ahead.
Few technology trends last
more than a few
years, let alone several decades, so it is
important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.
But
more important was the previous decade's economic boom, including four consecutive
years of 4.4 % or better real GDP growth.
This is especially
important for female entrepreneurs, as women live on average five
years longer than men and can have many
more years in retirement to fund.
The metric is an
important measure of longevity because it includes only sales from stores that have been open for
more than a
year.
Picturing where you'll be a
year or two out may be
more important to your success than being able to picture where you'll be in five
years or ten.
«I think this order was extremely
important to secure the life of the program for another 10
years, at least — and probably much
more.
Fixed - income investors should be realistic in expecting this to be a
year of relatively low returns across asset classes in general — a
year in which small ball becomes much
more important than swinging for the fences.
A critical R&D tool But as traffic in the Arctic increases in the
years ahead, UAS will serve a
more important function in helping researchers, engineers and commercial interests of all stripes fully characterize the environment there.
That's why, after such a tumultuous
year, Giustra argues that, yes, it's
more important than ever for the wealthy to write cheques, but it's also essential for them to refine their giving to reflect changing needs.
Over the last few
years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is
more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all -
important commodity of attention.
Eighty - five percent of small - business owners say that the holiday shopping period is just as — or
more important than — last
year, according to a survey by Manta, an online small - business community.
This is
more important than anything any candidate has done in
years.»
After a heady few
years in which
important new gizmos appeared just about every week, 2013 was
more of an iterative time bereft of that One Big Thing.
«We worked together very closely for a number of
years — it's hard to say who [influenced who]
more but it was a very
important part of my life.»
In recent
years, it's become all the
more important for the U.S. defense industry to tap into America's commercial tech sector.
To make sure you're still able to pay yourself first over the
more expensive holiday season, it's
important to prepare for these expenses throughout the
year.
The TV segment, which first aired in June on Oliver's HBO show «Last Week Tonight,» hit
more than 4 million views on YouTube, putting a mass - media spotlight on a very
important issue with which the financial services industry has been grappling for
years.
More important to Ingrassio, margins increased 15 % in 2000 — even though sales growth, at 12 %, was CQC's lowest in
years.
Just 90 days into a job it's hard to talk about legacy, but what's
more important to me is that when you grade AMD, whether it's three
years from now or five
years from now, you grade it on that this was a fantastic set of assets that she turned into something special.
Getting consumers to think differently about the 106 -
year - old brand has never been
more important.
More than one - third of those 55 to 59
years old cite poor health as being very
important in their decision to retire, but it is less of a consideration among those 60 and older.
He added, «We are just getting started with a service footprint outside the U.S. mainland designed to offer the
more than 100 million People who fly with us every
year international opportunities to connect with what's
important to them.»
An even
more important goal, one that Trapani and Shindler aim to achieve within the next five
years or so, is to hire a chief financial officer who will be capable of, among other things, maximizing the income potential from the company's various financial accounts and perhaps restructuring its real - estate holdings.
That makes this new Rangey only the fourth in 43
years — and
more important, the first to emerge from the new era of South Asian ownership of the Tata Group.
If you're not earning
more this
year than last, if your job isn't bigger,
more responsible,
more important — well, then you're failing,» he writes.
Though just 3 percent of those work
more than 15 hours a week as an independent cited the likes of Freelancer.com as their primary source of work, «they are relatively
important for young and inexperienced independent workers, with 18 percent of Gen Y independents» listing them as a source of gigs and «21 percent of those who have been independent for less than one
year» relying on these marketplaces as well.
Managing yourself well through your
year is
more important than ever.
This is expected to be an
important year in the growth of IoT, as
more products emerge.
Coffee plays an
important role; the company's employees gulped
more than 60,000 cups from the office coffee maker one
year.
The yield on 10 -
year U.S. notes continued to rise on Monday, inching closer to the psychologically
important 3 % as strengthening inflation prospects added to expectations of a
more hawkish approach from the Federal Reserve.
The yield on 10 -
year U.S. notes took a stab at the psychologically
important 3 % level before pulling back on Monday as strengthening inflation prospects added to expectations of a
more hawkish approach from the Federal Reserve.
Furthermore, 45 percent of U.S. Millennials said that environmental stewardship is
more important to them as a value now than it was two
years ago.
This inward focus can be seen today in the values they expressed: 35 percent said that they believe that beauty is
more important to them than it was two
years ago, while 37 percent cited wealth and 45 percent, professional success.
Being Inbound, however, means that it's far
more important that you hit your three -
year or five -
year target than that you hit your one -
year target.
Another reason analysts consider the January effect less
important as of 2016 is that
more people are using tax - sheltered retirement plans and therefore have no reason to sell at the end of the
year for a tax loss.
Some have said that productivity growth is slow today because most of the truly
important inventions happened
years ago, and today's technological progress is
more incremental.
Matt Yglesias raises an
important point here about conservatives who can't abide any increase in tax rates but will entertain raising
more tax revenues through reductions of tax expenditures — that cool trillion or so we forgo in tax revenue each
year through various favored activities in the tax code, like the mortgage interest deduction or the... Read
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Lengthening the budget window simply to allow for
more years of deficit - financed spending increases or tax cuts would be an unfortunate gimmick that would undermine many of the
important benefits of long - term scoring.
Its staunch advocacy of free speech around the world - nothing other than direct personal threats are barred from Twitter - has helped it become an
important avenue through which news and viewpoints are shared, from the first inklings of the U.S. military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound to Obama's tweeting «Four
more years» when he won re-election.
Of course, in Australia the flow of credit via intermediaries is
more important than in the US (though not quite as
important as it was in
years past).