Sentences with phrase «of doing this for years»

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 saFor 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 safor 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.