Sentences with phrase «not done in recent years»

It also included residences, something the company had not done in recent years.

To even meet the 2059 goal, the city must annually contribute the full amount the actuaries say it needs (which the city has not done in recent years).

$ 40,000 was way too much spend to put on this card just to get the 10,000 EQM (which is why I haven't done it in recent years) and most of the other worthwhile benefits I either get with my airline status or with other, cheaper, credit cards that I hold.

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The report's recommendations are not binding, but it does help to illuminate the path ahead for the entrepreneurs who have entered the fledgling marijuana market in recent years.

He did it in his recent Tesla master plan, referring to the low chance of success he knew he had when starting Tesla by citing the fact that Ford is the only U.S. car company to have avoided bankruptcy — knowledge he didn't have when he launched Tesla in 2003, six years before GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Forte Oil did not give a reason for the change in direction but said the downstream sector in Nigeria had gone through changes in recent years and was expected to evolve further.

The traditional list of desirable vocations has expanded in recent years, as parents begin to recognize that it's possible to make good money doing jobs today that didn't exist when they were growing up.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

«Years ago when I was very young,» recalls Taffer, the host of TV show «Bar Rescue» and a former business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»»

Companies generally prefer that their board members don't speak to the media and it has only been in recent years that publications have named board members in their stories.

While some evidence has suggested a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's in recent years, there's still a lot we don't know about what causes Alzheimer's, let alone how the two conditions are connected.

Mexican - made beers have been strong sellers in recent years because they are easy to drink, much like many U.S. - made light lagers, but don't stir the same scorn that some beer drinkers have for domestic beer brands like Bud Light and Miller Lite.

While the researchers didn't dig to find out why some states have wider pay gaps than others, they noted that in recent years, California and New York have banned employers from asking job applicants about their previous salaries.

At public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.&raquin recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.&raquIn most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.&raquin the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.»

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

Even so, in recent months, some in the A.I. world have expressed surprise that Watson isn't further along in its capabilities, given what it did six years ago.

While conventional wisdom suggests recent turbulence in these stocks could have benefited short - sellers like Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Inc, Einhorn said the shorts did not perform as he hoped this year.

«Department stores do not create the same draw as anchors that they did 10 to 15 years ago,» Paltz wrote in a recent note.

The Philadelphia - headquartered retailer is known hawking clothing to a younger audience (you usually don't have to look far from a college campus to find one), picking up more of a «hipster» reputation in recent years with plenty of rather high - priced flannel shirts, ripped jeans, and even shabby chic furniture pieces on the show floor.

Seriously, just try to name a popular science - fiction movie, book, or television series released in recent years that doesn't portray the future as a stomach - dropping, throat - lumping nightmare.

For that reason, in recent years, some brands have taken a «show, don't tell» approach to their marketing, choosing to give potential customers the chance to experience what they offer for themselves to decide whether they like it.

Biden, a longtime politician who is now 74 years old, spurred speculation in recent months that he would run for president in 2020, though he has not officially announced any intention to do so.

But what we have learned in recent years is that you don't need a lucky hit or an expanding market to create a growing company.

A recent survey by the National Small Business Association found that most don't have a new ad or marketing campaign in the works, and one in five has absolutely no growth strategy in place for the coming year.

But several touted breakthroughs, which manufacturers expected would lure consumers in recent years (such as 3 - D sets), haven't successfully done so.

Those alternatives don't contain as many calories as soda, and also don't include ingredients like the sweetener aspartame, which has fallen out of favor in recent years.

A number of wealthy individuals have been trading up their U.S. passports for our friendlier northern tax climate in recent years, however, fleeing unpleasant U.S. obligations such as inheritance and gift taxes, which Canada does not collect.

A few recent examples include Cornell, who came in from Sam's Club to run the American food business and left less than two years later for Target; John Compton, the former president, who left in 2012 for a short stint running Pilot Flying J but didn't return when it didn't work out; and Zein Abdalla, his replacement, who retired abruptly in December.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

Also, Apple and RIM's other smartphone competitors won't be sitting still: as they've demonstrated in recent years, they're quite capable of competing with RIM, and if RIM does build a BlackBerry that represents a «quantum leap,» Apple and the Android manufacturers won't be far behind.

He believes many of the cities building big airports do not need them, thanks to a rapid expansion of the country's high - speed rail network in recent years (see map).

The Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, to a lesser degree George Soros (since his political giving does not approach the scale of these men and has declined in recent years) are massively influential players in our political process.

(Granted, a significant portion of this growth in recent years has been in the form of after - market bulk portfolio insurance purchased by the big banks to insure mortgages that do not by law require it, but the end result is the same.)

Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.

The U.S. rate hike that the market is 100 percent certain will be delivered this week did not stop Dividend Equity Funds from recording their biggest inflow since the record setting $ 9.4 billion they took in exactly three years ago, with investors translating recent earnings per share growth and expected repatriation of foreign cash piles into bigger dividend payouts.

My secondary goal is to provide the necessary oversight to financial markets so they don't blow up the primary goal, as has been their pattern in recent years.

Sinaloa didn't merely survive the recession — it has thrived in recent years.

This is a lesson that the perpetual bulls on Wall Street don't understand - even though valuations did not matter much in recent years, they have the potential to matter with a vengeance now.

He added that betting has grown in popularity in recent years, and he does not think the Brexit miss «really changes anything,» though people may be more cautious.

That doesn't mean public debt isn't important, although low interest rates have rendered it more manageable than expected in recent years.

Despite the home sharing boom led by Airbnb in the overseas market, the trend didn't catch up in China until recent years thanks to the popularity of sharing economy concept in China.

In light of recent developments, too bad Harper didn't stick to his 2011 commitment — to balance the budget over the medium term, without specifying a specific year.

The notion that central banks might have to adopt increasingly unorthodox measures has been mooted in recent weeks, but on the whole, survey respondents did not expect them to resort to using «helicopter money» this year.

3) The Hussman Strategic Growth Fund has gradually shifted from smaller to larger capitalization holdings in recent years, not out of any necessity due to Fund size (at the Fund's current asset level, we could easily populate the Fund with mid-caps if it was optimal to do so), but precisely because large stocks generally carry the best relative valuations.

What particular to Wendy's do you feel that is somewhat that you can control that in the second half of the year, those share losses or those share drops that you've had in this most recent quarter won't persist.

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

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The failure to make the charges stick first time around, did not surprise many young Koreans; to them, this was another frustrating sign that they live in a culture of «elites but no leaders,» explained 28 - year - old recent law graduate, Kim Hae - il *, in an interview with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

The 4 % rule, nor any other rule of thumb for that matter, is not a substitute for doing an in - depth analysis based on where you stand each year, recent gains and losses in your accounts and your changing circumstances in retirement.