Sentences with phrase «much of the first year»

Some of Trump's allies say it would be a «lethal» mistake for the president to oust Kelly, who many feel is a stabilizing force within the White House and helped quell some of the backbiting that plagued the administration for much of its first year.

He added: «Hoping for the best, with their personal futures as well as the country's future depending on it, my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all — 100 % — came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.»

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, is in hot water for spending much of his first year in Washington, D.C. living in a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a major energy lobbyist.

De Blasio, who spent much of his first year in office blaming his predecessor for various ills plaguing the city, was all smiles and compliments at an event with the former mayor in South Bronx marking the planting of one million trees over the past eight years in New York City — a Bloomberg administration initiative that was completed two years ahead of schedule.

I attribute much of my first year success to the formal structure of working at a large agency.

As the first in your position, we'd assume much of your first year was «learn as you go.»

He spent much of that first year researching ways in which he might narrow the achievement gap he saw.

Many envisioned themselves in a «coaching» position, but much of the first year revolved around building a common vision, providing leadership at meetings to build program support, and establishing relationships.

Much of the first year's output never went farther than the factory gates, but the safety was certainly there.

You'll spend much of the first year «happy timing» with your puppy, as Delmar Smith calls it.

For much of the first year, the hospital's kennels have been full.

And although much of his first year of life is a mystery, you do know that he came to the orphanage severely malnourished.

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In June, shortly after Ethereum first hit $ 400, Novogratz had sold much of the cryptocurrency he owned, saying «I think we may have put the highs in for the year in Ethereum, and you're going to slowly consolidate.»

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

First National — Canada's largest non-bank mortgage lender, originating $ 22 billion in loans each year — reacted swiftly, announcing Tuesday that Morneau's moves will impact about 41 % of its insured residential mortgages and that it anticipates a drop of as much as 10 % in originations of this kind, because its loans will no longer qualify for insurance.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

In addition, «for the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient,» Dr. Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire, told the BBC.

GDP was so strong to start the year that the Bank of Canada likely will have to raise its growth estimates for the first quarter from the current 1 % to as much as 3 %.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

President Donald Trump gets his first physical since taking office on Friday, but Americans may not find out much about the health of the 71 - year - old chief executive with a taste for McDonald's and an aversion to exercise beyond golf.

Perry, who also ran for president in the 2012, making much of his five years in the U.S. Air Force, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat 1984, but he switched party affiliations in 1990.

By the end of the first three working days of the year, the U.K.'s top bosses will each have earned on average as much as a typical worker will take home in all of 2018, according to a report.

But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10 years of Facebook's existence blinded the company to much of the abuse it was enabling as well as to emergent effects of social media like hyper - polarization.

Microsoft was first and the company pretty much answered the questions about motion gaming, with a whole bunch of Kinect and Kinect - enabled games coming this year.

The first Amazon Go store opened one month ago to much fanfare, after more than 12 months of hype that only crescendoed as the company delayed the public opening by about a year.

Still, much of the brisk business overall reflected the abundance of deals, showing that shoppers are as bargain - hungry now as they were during in the first years after the Great Recession, if not more.

Dark matter was first proposed more than 70 years ago to explain why the force of gravity in galaxy clusters is so much stronger than expected.

A company like Box — founded in 2005, a year before AWS launched its first cloud service — didn't have much of a choice but to provision its own data centers.

The first quarter of the year is probably the best time to negotiate a favorable contact rate or take advantage of special programs designed to bring much - needed business into radio stations (after business owners have just finished blowing their budgets on the holidays).

Yellen's questioner hadn't asked about whether there is too much emphasis put on the timing of the first increase in more than eight years.

Revenue forecasting can be especially difficult in your first few years of business because you don't have past sales figures or as much experience to draw from.

IBM's Watson first appeared on «Jeopardy» five years ago, and since then, Watson has become the «silver thread» tied into much of IBM's success.

It's easy to spend a bit too much during your first few years of retirement — particularly on vacations, Plessl and Houser note, as people want to travel while they're still healthy.

How you conduct yourself offstage carries just as much weight, according to Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founder of Evanston, Ill. - based NuMat Technologies, a clean - energy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.

Agrawal officially launched Tushy in 2015, and claims that in the first year of business, it saw around one and a half times as much in revenue as Thinx.

Years ago, when you bought your first PC or first notebook, you could probably tell me the size of the processor, how much memory you had, how big the hard drive was, how much it weighed.

It has a much higher annual fee than the Preferred — $ 450 — but in exchange for that, you'll get a $ 300 statement credit each cardmember year to cover your first $ 300 of travel charges, and a higher earning rate of 3x points on travel and dining purchases.

«Any job where you get the majority of your training in school and the first few years of your career is not going to see much pay growth after that,» says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

When I interviewed for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if issuing challenge, «That's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary is $ 15,500, though at least she was candid.

Shares of Italian - American automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (NYSE: FCAU) opened 2018 with a bang: The stock is up almost 20 % so far this year, with much of that appreciation coming in the first three trading days of 2018.

I just think it's a much greater opportunity to make $ 5.000 selling junk and deploy all of it into Facebook, wait nine years and have $ 27,000 to start your first business.

If the PLAAF follows now the usual procedures, a first unit equipped with these LRIP J - 20As of the current interim standard will enter service within the PLAAF at around the year's end or early 2017; much earlier than expected.

First, you're one of my heroes, and not just because of how much I've learned from your economic analysis over the years, but also because my daughters are growing up in a world where the world's chief economist is the same gender they are.

July was the biggest month for coin offerings, with 34 projects raising $ 665 million, Tokendata.io data shows — or twice as much money as was raised in the first five months of the year combined.

Much of the shortfall through the first year of President Obama's second term dates back to the deep hole he inherited from George W. Bush as the economy plunged into the Great Recession at the end of 2007.

If the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.

Surrender charges can be extraordinary — sometimes as much as seven percent of plan assets in the first year of an annuity contract!