Sentences with phrase «most of them down years»

Their destructive root systems mean the city cut most of them down years ago.

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According to the most recent federal forecast, about 48 % of the contiguous U.S. is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, down from a high of 60 % at the beginning of the year.

The number of Canadian homes sold in March plunged 23 per cent and the national average price was down 10 per cent from the same month last year amid double - digit plunges in most housing markets across the country, according to the latest monthly sales data released Friday.

The consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.

The CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found that when asked what they were most likely to do with extra money received from a tax cut next year, the No. 1 response from small - business owners was «pay down debt,» chosen by 31 percent of respondents.

With massive consolidation in the semiconductor industry, only a handful of companies can even compete to make the most advanced chips, down from 13 ten years ago.

(Overall sales of PCs, servers, and storage systems were down year over year in the most recent quarter, and Dell's revenue in 2015, pre-merger, was $ 58.1 billion, 6 % lower than in 2012.)

Denise Young Smith, a 20 - year Apple veteran was most recently the company's vice president of diversity and inclusion, is stepping down, Apple confirmed.

And while wages fell slightly for the second month in a row (down a tenth of a percent from April), pay is still up 0.2 percent year - to - date, giving us confidence that it is, for the most part, stable.

But what most people seem to have missed is that this year's Berkshire (brk - a) letter also contained some of the best investment advice the Oracle of Omaha has ever written down.

The ultimate test will come down this year, as some of the most anticipated headsets, including Facebook's Oculus Rift and the HTC (htc) Vive, hit store shelves.

(Poets & Quants)-- You may know that MBA applications at most schools have been down for two years running and that the cost of attending a two - year MBA program is nearly out of reach for many applicants.

«Then he called me once a week for the whole year, the most depressing year of my life when I was down and out.

Yes, the model that most major drug companies are hoping to emulate these days isn't Pfizer (No. 51 on this year's Fortune 500), but rather Bristol - Myers Squibb, No. 176 — which is down from No. 158 in 2013 and a rank of No. 134 the year before.

In 2006 and 2007, which I think most of us would agree was not a down period in terms of speculation, corporations issued $ 700 billion in debt over that two - year period.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

Back in 2006, AMD peaked at 48 % of tests, nearly reaching Intel's 52 % share, before heading down for most of the next 10 years.

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

The move is most likely in preparation to hand over control of his sprawling fortune to his son, but the 87 - year - old doesn't have any plans of slowing down just yet.

Most notably, contract renewal negotiations with Starz broke down last year, and Netflix lost access to that service's movies and TV shows at the end of February 2012.

HERERA: Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN), whose founder and CEO stepped down earlier this year over allegations of sexual misconduct, reported better than expected earnings in the most recent quarter.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

Venezuela, the most hardline socialist country in the American continent, is in a steep crisis in recent years ever since oil prices fell below the $ 100 area in 2014 down to a third of the price in early 2016.

The defeat of Marine Le Pen's National Front in France last year spurred even the most euro - skeptic parties to tone down their euro exit talk.

A sharp increase of 6 percent from the year prior, a 20 percent mortgage down payment on a home of that value would mean saving nearly $ 42,000, a price tag unattainable for most first - time home buyers.

Such capital expenditures will most likely total slightly less than $ 3 billion this year, Tesla said, down from its earlier forecast of more than $ 3.4 billion.

Last week's announcement by GM that is has fully repaid the loans it received from the U.S., Canadian, and Ontario governments (years ahead of schedule, and with interest) was greeted in most circles as another positive sign of the auto industry's modest recovery. Since the dark days of last June (when Chrysler was shut down -LSB-...]

Most of the year - over-year improvement in the deficit was due to higher revenues, up $ 7.5 billion and lower public debt charges (down $ 1.9 billion).

Dealing with ambiguity at a startup is par for the course, but the benefits of solving the problems that matter most eventually become very clear — though it's often years down the road before they do.

When I sat down last week to write out my goals for the year, the most audacious goals I could think of weren't career accomplishments...

The S&P 500 is still up 3.3 % through the first five weeks of the year, which even the most brazen bulls should be cool with, considering that stocks were up 20 % in 2017 and the last time they had a down year, the iPad had yet to be invented.

Although most analysis of Social Security benefits assumes that you'll value the money you receive early in retirement only slightly more than the benefits you'll get years down the line, many people expect to get the most out of retirement in the years from 62 to 70.

BitConnect, one of the most talked about player in the cryptocurrency market last year has shut down its lending operations and will be closing the BitConnect Coin exchange platform in five...

The $ 1.8 trillion in liquid assets — the line item most people are referring to when they talk about «corporate cash» — accounted for 5.4 % of all assets held by nonfinancial corporations in the second quarter, down from 6 % in 2009 and pretty much flat for the past two years.

This can save a ton of money, especially on a 30 - year loan where most of your regular monthly payments go toward paying down your interest during the first several years,» Huettner says.

In the wake of Verizon's newly announced decision to finally scrap subsidized phones and two - year contracts, AT&T follows suit with a new set of Mobile Share Value plans that cuts down the price of most plans while offering more data for some.

Investors in BHP Billiton Ltd. sent the stock down the most in more than three years in London yesterday after the world's biggest mining company chose to retain cash because of weaker commodity prices.

Therefore, they're most likely to hold beaten down dividend payers and high yielding REITs, neither of which necessarily present the opportunity for years upon years of dividend growth.

The month extended the weakness that Buckle has seen on the comps front throughout most of 2017, with comparable - store sales down 7.6 % during the first 11 months of the retailer's fiscal year.

The challenges are to pay down a $ 272,000 mortgage with a 30 - year amortization which costs her $ 1,091 per month, to get more income from her $ 580,609 of financial assets, and to make the most of Canada Pension Plan benefits which could start to flow as early as her age 60 next year.

Among producers, surveys suggest that expectations of selling - price increases moved up a little in the most recent quarters, perhaps in anticipation of firmer demand conditions, but they remain well down from a year ago.

Most traditional lenders will offer conventional loans to candidates with good credit and a steady job history (defined as two years with the same employer), as long as you can offer a down payment of at least ten percent.

Currently all three of the national series show prices rising at a relatively fast pace over the latest year for which data are available, though they also show that the rates of increase have come down from their most recent peaks.

B2C marketers» confidence in the 10 tactics they consider to be most effective has risen this year, with the exception of blogs, which are down two percentage points.

Goldman Sachs» third - quarter profits fell 3 percent from a year earlier, as the trading desks at Wall Street's biggest investment bank were weighed down by a slow summer that also affected most of its competition.

In 2017, the annual MIP for most California borrowers using a 30 - year FHA loan will go down to 60 basis points, or 0.60 % of the loan amount.

Most improved award goes to US cannabis stocks - they were steadily falling for most of the year - down 40 % on the year in late OctoMost improved award goes to US cannabis stocks - they were steadily falling for most of the year - down 40 % on the year in late Octomost of the year - down 40 % on the year in late October.

Cory Renauer (Geron): My biotech stock pick to begin the new year suffered a market beat - down in 2016, and is now one of its industry's most intriguing long - term value plays.

The Wall Street Journal recently noted that new home sales within a five - mile radius of the centers of 10 of the country's priciest and most densely - populated metropolitan areas exceed their year 2000 levels, but new home sales outside of a 10 - mile radius are down 50 % from year 2000 levels.

They have distorted the truth for hundreds and hundreds of years and this is why although most say they believe in God our world continues to spiral down morally.