Sentences with phrase «of a slow week of»

In the midst of a slow week of news in the Miles and travel world a welcomed surprise arrived at my office yesterday:

In the midst of a slow week of news in the Miles and travel world a welcomed surprise arrived at my office yesterday: I had almost forgotten that I finished last year strong, and reached my goal of -LSB-...]

We arrived at the resort a few hours before the usual check - in time of 4 pm to find that our villa was already ready for us — not particularly surprising as the first couple of weeks in January are often some of the slowest weeks of the year, but it was still nice not to have to wait.

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After three weeks of slow sales, I began thinking we might have to close the new place.

With the excitement of earnings season slowing down, Walmart will be one of the few remaining market - moving companies to report its latest quarterly results this week, along with a handful of other big retailers.

The slow and steady drumbeat of candidates has been rolling along this spring, and Graham and Perry join Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett - Packard, who announced her presidential bid just a few weeks ago.

Sales of the DODOcase were slow in the first several weeks with only a 100 or so orders coming in from the original coupons.

Vodafone, the world's second - biggest mobile operator, said on Thursday that the rate of growth in its international business division had slowed, echoing a similar warning given by British rival BT last week.

I started out taking one week of vacation per year and gradually worked up to four, timing my breaks to coincide with the periods when business was slow.

Another study asked a group of physically fit sailors to engage in interval running (you go fast, then slower to rest, then fast again, etc.) for a period of seven weeks.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

The National Chicken Council has started to push back against criticisms, releasing a study this week that called out the increased environmental impact of slower - growth chickens.

Although sales of Apple's new iPhone 8 models appear to be slower than anticipated, Verizon is expecting a big pick up in sales for the more expensive iPhone X, which will be available for preorder starting next week.

The campaign, which launched back in the spring, has been gathering steam over the summer, and a couple of weeks ago McDonald's added TV ads to back up what had been a slow - build digital effort.

If business is slow and you are just going to hang out in front of your computer next week AND your service leans toward the necessity side, then you may still want to meet with this person.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

This week's big news is that Michael Kors, one of the largest luxury fashion brands, is closing up to 15 % of its retail stores over the next two years, after slow sales and fewer people shopping in - store.

Earlier this week, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz also said the federal government's steps to add to the public debt in recent years has helped slow the rise in debt accumulated by Canadians.

Given competing sales from two of the world's biggest retailers, other businesses may be bound for slow traffic this week.

A series of government reports to be released this week will give the latest snapshot showing whether activity is slowing down.

One piece of good news: Business travel tends to slow down in the days before Christmas, and some travelers flying for work are likely to have called off trips booked for early in the week because of the chaos in Atlanta, said Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

The government said last week it will postpone plans to cut the number of permits available and slow traffic growth, responding to the outcry over soaring prices.

That in turn helped euro zone stocks rise 4.4 percent in April, outperforming Wall Street for the second straight month, and shrug off slower earnings growth and weeks of disappointing data that signaled slowing economic growth.

I did some media commentary last week on what impact the recent slowing of the economy might have on President Obama's re-election.

The bond market's second week of the year was another setback, aided by reports of diminished interest from Japan (trimming the size of quantitative easing) and reports that Chinese officials are recommending to slow or halt its buying of Treasurys.

LONDON Sainsbury's and Asda, the two British supermarkets planning to merge, had the slowest sales of the «big four» chains in the 12 weeks to April 22, market data showed on Tuesday.

His Twitter hash tag of the past few weeks is replete with warnings of a slowing global economy.

Last week, new government data showed the economy ground to a near halt in the first half of the year, and on Monday, a factory activity survey showed U.S. manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in two years in July.

That said, redemptions were moderate during the first two weeks of June and even slowed for the week ending June 19 — the day that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference and announced that the Fed would likely begin backing away from its bond - buying program by the end of the year.

Apologies for the slow rate of updates this week.

Weekly withdrawals slowed sharply this past week to $ 6 billion, or roughly one - fifth of bond fund outflows the week before.

Dunkin's slower traffic numbers during the third quarter, and harsh reaction to them by Wall Street, could be a sign of things to come when franchisee - led fast - food restaurants such as McDonald's (MCD), Wendy's (WEN), Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) and Restaurant Brands Group (QSR) owned Burger King report earnings in the weeks ahead.

Other data last week showed that while U.S. economic growth slowed to an annualized rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, wages and salaries shot up 0.9 percent during the same period.

If you're planning for retirement and make the mistake of scrolling through any finance section in a slow news week, you have to ask yourself: what kind of questions are they asking to produce breathless headlines like these?Half of Canadians don't think they'll be...

The 12 x 3 x 3 weekly slow stochastic reading is projected to end this week at 85.45 versus 85.48 on Dec. 22, so both readings are above the overbought threshold of 80.00.

Walmart's online sales grew just 10 percent in the third quarter, slower than the 15 percent industry average, while Target's grew 20 percent, well below the company's stated goal of 30 percent, the companies announced last week.

Portuguese 10 yr yield falls 100 bps and 2 yr down 188 bps on the week 2) June Euro region mfr» g and services composite index unchanged at 46, well below 50 and points to clear slowing but was a touch better than expected 3) Lack of a negative rather than a positive but Syriza loses in Greece 4) NAHB home builder survey hangs at 5 yr high at 29 but remains still well below breakeven of 50 5 From construction standpoint, housing permits rise to most since Sept» 08.

Stocks tumbled again last week, as investors digested further evidence of slowing growth in China and numerous, somewhat conflicting statements from various Federal Reserve (Fed) officials.

The data comes amid other evidence of slowing consumer spending in the U.K. with surprisingly poor retail sales released last week and expectations that resurgent levels of inflation will persist.

US Shale Oil Production: Last week saw a spate of stories talking about emerging bottlenecks that could slow or even stop increasing production from the Permian Basin.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- In last week's acceptance speech, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held out this challenge: «President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.

The last two weeks of the month of August is typically a slow one in North America with most people on holidays trying to squeeze in the last days of what is an exceedingly short summer, especially north of the 49th Parallel, where the sight of a turned leaf in August can bring on depression.

The report saw investors slash expectations for a rate hike from the Bank of England at its upcoming meeting next week after overall economic growth slowed to near stagnation in the first quarter.

After a week of enthusiastic support in many circles for the Palestinian application for United Nations membership, the Obama White House has succeeded, at least temporarily, in slowing down the bandwagon.

This is one of several reports we've seen in recent weeks that suggest the Bay Area housing market could be slowing.

they are slow to change... and very careful in changes of doctrine because it's not a great idea to jump in on the flavor of the week... until it is fully vetted.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

So, if Justin Timberlake is your thing and — let's be honest — he is a lot of people's thing right now, then you can stream his decidedly slower, more intricate, somewhat Frank Ocean - y new album all you like until it releases next week...

Eleven weeks of loneliness had set his whole person, physiologically and psychologically into a new slow rhythm.

I am a big advocate of making big meals, like a bean chilli I do in the slow cooker, and then freezing a load of portions for the next few weeks.