Sentences with phrase «of the roughest years of»

which of course, her being a little old late 80 - something with white hair, resulted in my adopting her as a surrogate grandmother... this community got me through two of the roughest years of my life, when I was trying like hell to get SSDI.

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Indeed, overlooked in the excitement about the Lesedi La Rona was Lucara's discovery of another large rough stone last year.

WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the year, he signaled what many Republicans are already thinking: Midterm elections will be rough for the GOP if it wants to keep its majority.

The browser has been losing its base to Chrome and has had a rough couple of years, but up until now the decline had been slow - going.

So while it can be a complex topic to tackle, carefully considering your lifestyle, assets and debts will allow you to calculate a rough estimate of how long your money will last beyond your income - generating years.

Not only did they begin their careers in a rough market and are thus several years behind, but their experience of job insecurity continues to inform their choices, he said.

We already had some signs in the middle of 2016 that it was going to be a rough year for Apple: In the second and third quarters of the year, shipments of Apple's Macs were declining way faster than industry average, as people waited impatiently for the company to release a new MacBook Pro.

For all of Musk's talk of master plans and Mars trips, it doesn't hide the fact that his companies hit quite a few rough spots this year.

After a year of empty fulmination, Rosen writes, Trump's China threats have grown «real teeth... Many in China think this is a rough patch and will blow over.

Depending on your dorm, there's a good chance you might not have air conditioning, making the beginning and the end of your school year pretty rough.

The logic: It's been a rough year for the Seminoles, but the team was able to keep its streak of bowl appearances alive thanks to a late run of wins and a bit of slightly questionable math.

One of the nation's biggest insurance providers, Prudential Financial faced a rough year at its core unit.

More than 320 employees in 20 quarries and six plants across Canada and the U.S. produce its materials, using 1.5 million cubic feet of rough blocks each year.

It's a rough time of year for wall flowers.

Why it's hot: Chipotle has had a rough couple of years as it continues to regain the customers it lost following its 2015 E. coli scandal.

After a rough start to the year, some traders are banking on a turnaround for shares of Goldman Sachs.

After a rough start to the year, economic data have firmed lately, with strength in housing, spending and retail sales pushing some Fed officials to believe that their inflation target of 2 percent is within reach.

Though the Sands had a rough 2015 — the stock tumbled 25 % during the year — his fortune has recovered from the dark days of 2008.

To get a rough idea of how much you'll be spending each year in retirement, you can start by calculating what percentage of your working income you'll need to replace.

To start with, you need a rough idea of how much you'll spend each year in retirement.

As a rough way to adjust for early retirement, add your annual spending requirement for every year you retire early on top of the amount you would need for retiring at age 65.

When employee - engagement firm TinyPulse combed through staffer - happiness surveys, it found that roughly 70 percent of startups hit a rough patch around year three or four — and companies with higher revenue - growth rates had deeper problems.

Though the Sands had a rough 2015 — the stock tumbled 25 % during the year — his fortune has recovered from the dark days of 2008 and now sits at $ 23 billion.

Just as a rough example assuming no 401K and no company match and just an individual IRA with an assumed inflation adjusted equivalent of $ 6K per year for 18 years at say 5 % yielding about $ 170K at age 40 then it sits at 5 % for twenty more years would give you about $ 450K at age 60.

If you invested in bitcoin last year, as many people did, the start of 2018 has been rough as the prices continued to drop.

The year 2016 got off to a rough start, with plenty of financial market volatility.

The fourth - quarter 2010 earnings season took off to the races on Friday as JPMorgan Chase reported a 47 % boost in earnings over Q4 2009, thus confirming analysts» expectations for a positive shift in the finance sector's fortunes after a rough couple of years.

The deal is a notable drop from the $ 70 billion valuation Uber once commanded, and is a humbling coda on a rough year for the company, which has been rocked by a series of scandals.

The company's revenue jumped a whopping 174 % in the first quarter of the year thanks to strong demand for its rough rocks and the sale of a 910 - carat diamond, the fifth - largest ever found.

The discussions come as Birchbox has been working to steady its business this year following a rough 2016 that included two rounds of layoffs and a mad dash to reach profitability after the company was unable to secure a large new investment.

During the Obama administration, F.B.I. background checks on prospective firearms buyers — a rough proxy for sales — surged nearly 50 percent in the month of the Sandy Hook attack in 2012, compared with the same month a year earlier, as calls rang out for tighter legislation.

In this way, if I die five years past retirement and have exhausted 20 % of my assets using the (again, very rough) 4 % rule, the remaining 80 % automatically gets distributed to my beneficiaries.

The Ruble declined in value, and it looked like a couple of rough years ahead for Russia.

If these investors are correct, and the mainstream consensus of another banner year for both stock and bond markets isn't, Doug Casey's words may prove to be an omen of rough times ahead.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Although the capex share of sales has finally begun to edge upward, some of these companies could find themselves in the lurch if the economy hits a rough patch or the cost of capital moves substantially higher in the months and years ahead.

The space has suffered a rough couple of years as the so - called Commodity Supercycle broke down.

That means an estimation of all the tutoring, baby - sitting and piano lessons I was giving in high school, which as a rough guess were about $ 6,000 a year for four years, then the $ 1,000 - something I was making flipping burgers, working a cash register or waitressing during the first three years of college, and the $ 2,000 - odd I got during the last two years of business school.

Wall Street is forecasting the strongest growth in seven years for S&P 500 companies, and the hope has been that healthy profit reports will steady the market following a rough couple of months.

As a rough guide to how prospective returns will change over the completion of the current market cycle, we presently estimate that in order to establish expected 10 - year S&P 500 total returns of 5 % annually, the S&P 500 would have to decline to the mid-1500's.

«As a rough guess, I would say that we aim to produce 100 to 200,000 Model 3's in the second half of next year,» said Musk when quizzed in 2016 on the number of models the company looked to manufacture.

«But that's only a rough guideline, and assumes continuous savings for 40 years of work and an age - appropriate asset mix.»

What so many of us have been suffering for so many years may just seem like a rough patch.

Like CAT, EMR had a rough 2015 which is presenting us with a great buying opportunity as it's yield is sitting at a nice 4.26 % and with a current PE of 11.1 is selling at much better value relative to years past.

Rougher waters ahead in 2015 «We expect 2015 to be a challenging year in light of lower oil prices but we have built our business and our balance sheet to capitalize on this type of market environment.

Another indication of rough seas aheadBullishness among retail investors jumped to its highest level in seven years, and bearishness dropped to its lowest level in three years, according to the latest American Association of Individual Investors sentiment survey.

With shares of lululemon athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) down 42 % since this time last May, it seems an understatement to say the yoga apparel specialist has had a rough year.

The rough ride that emerging markets have had over the last couple of years has driven most investors away.

But it could make adolescence a rougher time for everyone: children confronted with two equally legitimate images of adult sexual roles would be rudderless for many years, and no one knows what personal or social toll would result from this prolonged period of sexual confusion.

Those of us who are Catholics have had a rough few years.