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That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Ongoing ticket - price inflation has kept box office revenues climbing the past couple of years, but the fact remains that the number of people actually going to the movies each year has not shown the same growth.

«We are losing count of the number of intraquarter guidedowns that the company has had in the past year plus, which is not what we, or anyone else, wants to see in what is ostensibly a growth stock.»

While these tips won't make you live forever, they can help with your «health span» — the number of years a person lives happily, and disease - free.

Using this as a normal business practice will give you the vendor's mailing information, Tax ID number, and also require the vendor indicate if it is a corporation or not (saving you the headache of sending them a 1099 next year).

That's according to Goldman Sachs, which also notes that the options market isn't adequately priced for the stock fluctuations that are likely to come, despite the huge number of earnings preannouncements made during the first month of the year.

Given the sheer number of anomalies and last year's data recall, I can not put much stock in the Labour Force Survey.

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 35 - year - old online marketing expert is one of a growing number of entrepreneurs in the pressure - cooker tech world to admit that, no, they're not killing it and, no, they can't fake it until they make it.

Two years later, those numbers haven't improved much: Facebook, for instance, is 55 percent white and 36 percent Asian, with all other minorities accounting for just 9 percent of the work force.

Last year, Poloz was guided by the numbers in front of him, not theoretical concerns about the potential damage of lower interest rates.

China and the U.S. are not in the alliance, although it is hoped that the number of members will reach «50 or more» by this time next year.

One technology company that I worked with for a number of years couldn't catch on to this.

«The legal tsunami Valeant has created could loom for years to come considering the number of serious federal probes investigating virtually all of Valeant's business practices, not to mention civil lawsuits quickly piling up,» she wrote in a report.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

Furthermore, in the first half of this year the ratio of male members who paid to communicate with women on our service versus the number of female members who actively used their account (female members are not required to pay to communicate with men on Ashley Madison) was 1.2 to 1.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

The key message conveyed by these numbers is this: Japan's loose monetary policies of the last 15 years could not produce a growth rate strong enough to lift the economy out of deflation.

Streaming numbers for «Game of Thrones» don't really begin to appear in the reported Nielsen numbers until the «Game of Thrones» season five premiere in 2015, which was the same year that HBO launched its streaming service, HBO Now.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

«I bet the numbers show a 20 percent increase over last year's Prime Day, which I expect to cause a boatload of retail analysts to come out of the woodwork and downgrade any retailer that is still standing that they haven't downgraded yet,» Cramer said, adding that only then might the market find a bottom for some of the hardest hit brick - and - mortar names.

However, that doesn't mean you can't look to others for ideas — a number of business people have inspired me over the past few years.

In fact, the number of new divorces before Alberta courts doubled in recent years, suggesting the low divorce rate trend isn't nationwide.

Unlike electric vehicles, there won't be much institutional resistance to robot cars, given the astronomical number of car deaths every year.

Tesla, which is not yet profitable, currently sells a limited number of electric roadsters at a cost of more than US$ 100,000 each, though it plans to introduce a lower - priced $ 50,0000 Model S electric car next year.

Studies indicate that the US now has its lowest number of unintended pregnancies in 30 years, not to mention the lowest teen pregnancy on record.

Headquarters: San Francisco CEO: Travis Kalanick Year Founded: 2009 Number of Employees: N / A Funding: $ 37 million (latest round) Key Investors: Benchmark Capital, Jeff Bezos, Menlo Ventures and Goldman Sachs

Screening isn't completely effective in preventing genetic diseases in children, though a 2008 report showed that the state of Massachusetts was able to reduce the number of babies born with CF by 50 % over four years, compared to the previous four - year period.

The leagues provided information for a majority of teams in each season, but not all — three OHL teams did not provide the numbers in 2012, two in 2013 and» 14, three in 2015 and six last year.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

And despite the increasing number of companies choosing to reveal their diversity numbers via annual reports, there hasn't been much — if any — improvement in recent years.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

He then downloaded years» worth of private Facebook messages, records of friends he'd deleted, events he'd attended, photos of his children that he'd forgotten even existed, and even a list of contacts from his phone — including phone numbers of contacts that he is not Facebook friends with or do not have Facebook accounts.

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

Nasty Gal, which started out auctioning vintage items on eBay, now sells unselfconsciously sexy clothing to 18 to 24 - year - old women and reportedly racked up sales of over $ 100 million last year (the number has been widely reported, but Amoruso would not confirm it).

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

Prince, who won a bronze medal in the 400 in London and finished sixth in the 200 metres in Rio, said the biggest difference that he has seen between the 2012 Paralympics and this year has not been a new piece of technology, but rather the number of competitors who are using the best equipment available.

This year, however, a substantial number of schools couldn't provide the salary data we requested, so we've eliminated it as a factor.

Set policy throughout the year that if a recipient does not engage a certain number of times a year you will stop emailing them.

The simultaneous release of two new phones — Apple has not released separate numbers for the 5S and 5C models --- has contributed to the increase of sales from last year.

The number of genuine companies joining the TSX (you know, businesses that actually make things or sell their services — not the sprawling detritus of exchange - traded funds and other investment vehicles that regularly flood the exchange) is, so far this year, down from what it was in previous years.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

Perhaps the fear of Web 2.0 isn't that surprising when you consider that a similar survey from IT security company Sophos earlier this year found that the number of firms suffering attacks through social media jumped 70 percent between 2008 and 2009.

The DGSE hiring target is 500 - 600 recruits a year to bring its numbers up to 7,100 by 2019, but the skills required are not those of amphibious frogmen or secret agents of the kind incarnated by the fictional British character James Bond.

Thiel has had a steady boyfriend for a number of years now, he says, but he preferred not to have additional details published.

In fact, we could already be in a recession (as numbers get revised downward in later periods this would become apparent) or, if not now, than most certainly by Q1 of next year.

Add to that tidy sum the opportunity costs of quitting a job at Google that paid about $ 75,000 a year, and your all - in cost for the Master of the Universe degree comes to a formidable, if not mind - numbing, number: nearly $ 390,000.

Finally, don't put this issue down without reading «Making It Work,» Jeff Chu's moving profile of five businesses leading the fight against a quiet social crisis — the growing number of people on the autism spectrum who come of working age every year.