Sentences with phrase «of the past half»

Against this improving fundamental backdrop, a geopolitically driven supply disruption will now have a much more outsized influence, and price spikes can no longer be dismissed as things of the past.

They've made money in only five of the past 10 years.

Rather, the Company believes that the presentation of these adjusted measures provide additional information to investors to facilitate the comparison of past and present results, excluding those items that the Company does not believe are indicative of our ongoing operations due to its nature.

With headphone jacks being a thing of the past, Bluetooth headphones are now the way to go.

The shift heading into 2018, then, is that so much of the past's sexual misconduct has been brought out into the open.

Turkey tried to assure its citizens and the outside world on Thursday that there will be no return to the deep repression of the past, even though Erdogan has imposed the first nationwide state of emergency since the 1980s.

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

The company has now beaten earnings per share estimates 20 out of the past 21 quarters, according to CNBC's analysis of StreetAccount numbers.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Tram ridership has decreased for eight of the past ten years as new forms of public transit have increased competition.

This drawing contains 30 hidden clues that represent the names of some of the greatest entrepreneurial ventures of the past three decades.

The gesture is fitting — Bouchard's transformation of Alimentation Couche - Tard from a single convenience store into a $ 35 - billion retail empire is one of the country's more successful business stories of the past 40 years — but 2016 has not been without its trials.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

According to a recent article in Fast Company that probably exists somewhere on the web, ``... when telecommuting, just staring at the New Releases menu is a thing of the past.»

I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.

This generation's politicians believe they can finally turn the page on the narrow nationalist interests of past eras, and tackle their problems together — a task that is as laudable as it is immense.

Tory, a former Rogers Cable CEO and Ontario Tory leader, said it's too soon to tell if desks will be a thing of the past at the Rogers campus in Toronto once Laurence arrives in December, and he may be focused on Rogers» stiff competitive pressures and a federal government insistent on a strong fourth carrier in the wireless market.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.»

From old photos, gifts, and even jewelry, it's not unusual to keep small reminders of the past.

We're also creating a searchable archive of past political ads.

Barrick's production has dropped in each year of the past seven, partly due to sales of mines to reduce debt.

Like we said in one of our previous posts, cash and credit cards won't be things of the past any time soon, but mobile will definitely get a huge chunk of the payments pie in the near future.

Here's a look at the trends that emerged in 2012 and are likely to develop in the year ahead, and the busts of the past year.

«The events of the past few months are a strong reminder that the Internet can be used for the worst reasons imaginable,» Microsoft said in its post.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

Those briefings could soon be a thing of the past, however, according to a number of recent reports by White House watchers.

«We should not make the mistakes of the past that has led to Obamacare's collapse, including in my home state of Arizona where premiums are skyrocketing and health care providers are fleeing the marketplace,» he said.

As a scholar of innovation, Christensen approached the future of higher education through the prism of past industries that have been disrupted.

In fact, the network may now be tempting its millions of fans to dip their toes back into the most dangerous waters of the past crisis: flipping.

As marijuana prohibition ends in states across the U.S., the impact of past laws is being considered in a new light.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

For example, cubicles in rows are a thing of the past.

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

Or will they forget the lessons of the past and jump at whatever bones they are thrown by Trump's handlers, pander to his supporters, and hope for that front - row seat?

The ADP Employment Report shows companies added 176,000 new jobs last month, below the average of the past three months.

If I talk about selling, persuading and negotiating, you may get an image of a past experience or something you were told about salespeople that would take you out of the present conversation.

Venture capitalist Carter Reum says funding your startup may not be so easy, because cheap capital is a thing of the past.

One of his past shorts is NovaStar Financial, a U.S. subprime lender that fell apart amid the 2008 financial crisis, embroiled in lawsuits.

As a veteran of past tax reform initiatives, I wondered how the government had come to generate such anger from small business owners and whether a much needed tax reform scheme could be rescued.

«The hope is that we're graduating a generation of learners who have exceeded the achievements of the past,» he says.

The general MBA is becoming a thing of the past as programs specialize in everything from mining to golf

When it comes to your relationships with your customers, email, phone, and social media are things of the past.

Looking at demographic and economic data, Mandelman and Zlate say that there may be good reason to believe that the sort of mass movement from Mexico to the U.S. that was seen in the years leading up to the Great Recession could be a thing of the past.

Just because something reminds us of the past doesn't mean it will resonate today.

By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

Remember those situations to remind you of past examples of your resilience.

If there's any problem with that in the context of my past employment, then they'll go and see someone else.

Additionally, now there are fantastic apps for handling our bank accounts from our smartphones (via the Internet, of course), so waiting in a long line at the bank just to make a small transfer is pretty much a thing of the past.