Not exact matches
Though the Harper government has been maligned
for paring the CTC's budget to $ 58 million a
year — less than that
of New York City — it
did negotiate Approved Destination Status with China prior to the 2010 Olympics.
To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank
of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five -
year payment terms (the latter a reward
for years of solid financial management).
This is an enormous need
for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after
years of effort and investment,
did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW
of solar - generating capacity.
I've
done documentaries, commercials, I was the voice
of MSNBC
for a
year.
Members
of the Trump administration walked out
of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior
of the president, who
did not attend the event
for the second
year in a row.
«Brainjolt was built on the work I
did for five
years every day between the hours
of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..
For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds
of precipitous declines seen in past
years.
And don't say you can't afford it - you can grab your URL
for under $ 20 a
year from a variety
of providers.
Mahan has ideas
for other things employers can
do over the course
of the
year to develop a culture
of civic engagement in the office:
Earlier this
year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot
of work to
do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge
for 2018.
Yet that didn't make the job
of picking the 2015 Company
of the
Year any easier
for Inc. editors.
Don't cut corners, but look
for one new way to cut your costs at the beginning
of the
year.
Whereas I imagine most
of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to
doing the same simple exercise,
year in and
year out,
for the rest
of my career.
«While we
do not believe that either
of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting
for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because
of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this
year from Coke and Pepsi.
«We really
do feel that the [TaskUs] team is part
of our extended family,» says Kirsty Traill, vice president
of customer support at Hootsuite, which has used the company to handle customers» email queries
for about a
year.
Every dollar counts
for business owners, so if you don't know where you stand on a monthly basis, you may not be around at the end
of the
year.
Despite Hefner winning a nearly two -
year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges
for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters
of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to
do with the project.
The government
did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10
years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance
for manufactures — a tax relief program
for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two
years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage
of this spending and savings.
There is always a long list
of to -
dos for a business owner, however, it's essential to check off these three resolutions
for a strong start to the New
Year.
I personally identify with Macy after the loss
of her dad after losing my own Dad two
years ago, but I also identify with Macy's moment
of realization that she needs to
do things
for herself.
The stock
did rally more than 40 percent last
year, but Cramer thinks that only left Starbucks ripe
for profit - taking in the wake
of this most recent quarterly report.
«
For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang sa
For most
of the last 80
years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult
for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang sa
for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part
of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.
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.
Twitter received only 2 % more government requests
for user information during the six months ending in June
of this
year than it
did in the second half
of 2015, the company said on Wednesday.
I typically note down all my ideas, and maybe
do a bit
of research, and then I let them sit
for years on end.
I
do not apologize
for my 30 +
years of expertise.
What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location
of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved
of his duties as head
of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China
for the next 10
years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.
And some
of the players to watch out
for are the same big guys from 10 or 20
years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's
doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs
of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.
Fourteen months after the Chengdu launch, that market was already 100 times bigger
for Uber than San Francisco was after a
year of doing business there.
When I look back over my 30
years of experience, people don't work out
for a couple
of different reasons.
If you're looking
for book suggestions to fill your reading list this
year, you could
do a lot worse that follow the blog
of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.
Only 45 percent
of those surveyed said they trusted their leadership, while a little more than half said they were not happy at work, and one in every two employees
did not expect to be with their organization
for more than a
year more.
«Gary Morse didn't want retirement living to be where people wait
for the rest
of their
years to go by, but rather a place where you could celebrate every day,» says Steve Rhys, executive vice-president
of Forrec, who oversaw the project.
The economists who
did the research
for the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York concluded that average workers see most
of their earnings grow during the first 10
years of their career and begin to stagnate after age 35.
At the beginning
of last
year,
for example, Facebook officials revealed a useful fact: Users spend, on average, seven seconds watching the videos on their Facebook feeds, and two - thirds don't bother turning on the sound.
Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five -
year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage
of qualified candidates (and opportunity
for you); or sort by five -
year growth in the number
of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).
The North Korean malware program WannaCry
did serious damage to computers around the world last
year, but it would have been much worse if not
for the rapid discovery
of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.
Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth
of a
year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category
for the company is already struggling.
«
For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations
doing things you would not normally
do in terms
of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds
of inversions we saw a few
years ago, etc..»
You can find the same types
of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about
years ago in an essay
for the New York Times, entitled «
Do Clinical Trials Work?»
While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance
for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing
of support
for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this
year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to
do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.
-- David Kalt, founder and CEO
of Reverb, a marketplace
for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to
do $ 130 million in transactions this
year, up from $ 40 million last
year.
I was at a conference
for technology CEOs a couple
of years ago, and a former head
of Canada's civil service said the government has
done all
of the policies right, and now it's time
for the business community to step up.
Each
year, there are lots
of parades, as well as equestrian drills
done by the Canadian Mounted Police
for the public.
It made an impression on me, and since then,
for the past 33
years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day
of my life, would I want to
do what I am about to
do today?»
So Biderman, — the self - described «King
of Infidelity» — who just last
year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention
for our business» —
did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.
«But really, what you need to
do for the first six months or even a
year is to observe the behaviour
of the group, to see how happiness ebbs and flows across time.»
This
year's budget may contain the further elimination
of a variety
of tax credits that are costly, narrowly - targeted, and don't have a meaningful impact on the taxpayers
for whom they were designed.
New regulations on bail in England and Wales came into effect in April last
year, which means police can only bail someone
for a limit
of 28 days, and if it is deemed «necessary and appropriate» to
do so.
But: a) This doesn't mean the regulator will definitely nix the takeover; and b) This
does,
of course, come in the context
of a U.S. - China trade spat, and the U.S.'s decision earlier this week to ban China's ZTE from buying U.S. tech
for seven
years.