Sentences with phrase «of these problems for years»

Having observed and written about many of these problems for years, I knew I had to get in on the action.

Holding out the promise of no problems for a year alone, much less a decade, should sway more lawyers over to the Mac platform.

The legal profession in Quebec has been conscious of these problems for years and now the legislature has responded by significantly amending the Code of Civil Procedure to reflect the professional orders» concerns.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration for years has been wrestling with the problem of widespread Medicaid and Medicare fraud, which drains the government coffers of billions of dollars annually.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The investigation is the latest problem for a six - year - old company, known until last year as Trump University, that already faces a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

The Pratt & Whitney unit, which has faced a series of setbacks with its geared turbofan engine, halted deliveries for the Airbus A320neo for almost a month earlier this year after discovering a new problem.

The lack of data surrounding Canada's housing market has been a problem for years, and it's only grown more pressing as real estate markets in B.C. and Ontario have turned red hot.

Problems with one of the 2013 models led BRP, in February of this year, to issue recall notices for 5,165 units due to excessive heat and a potential fire hazard when rolling at low speeds in high heat.

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments in confirmation hearings in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of future problems, such as an economic bubble.

A few years ago, when one of their own was running for president, a number of private equity executives seemed worried that the industry might have a Mitt Romney problem.

In its early years Taobao also became a market for counterfeits of foreign brands — a problem that persists today, though Alibaba has taken steps to curb it.

Suddenly a problem that has harassed restaurant owners for years has found its way to the desks of hospital CEOs around the country.

Speaking of the spread of submarines, their aggression, buildup, and capabilities, Admiral Mark Ferguson warned that the situation could pose serious problems for NATO in the coming years.

I know it sounds corny, but it's how you stay out of problems,» says Waugh, who last year was named an officer of the Order of Canada for helping to strengthen the banking industry.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

The summer traveling season is upon us, and this year has brought a whole host of problems for the travel and tourism industry.

One of the common problems McFarland sees is the tendency for company CEOs to do a strategic planning session once a year, write up a report, and then, essentially, forget about it.

For instance, some short - term plans ask if someone weighs more than a certain amount, has ever been pregnant, or experienced symptoms related to a slew of health problems over the five previous years.

Getting lots of money from Spotify may be great for music labels and owners, but it's not doing much for Spotify: The company lost $ 200 million last year, and the massive payments it makes to record companies (which amount to more than 85 % of its revenues) are a big part of the problem.

The high - tech home monitoring device company, which was acquired this year by Google Inc. for $ 3.2 billion, halted all new sales of the alarms in April after recognizing the problem.

In Pittsburgh, for example, the city council just assembled a housing task force this year to investigate the housing problem and issued a slate of recommendations in May, one that includes many of the strategies listed in the Furman Center report.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

When I think of the example of Fred, a mailman who for thirty years pushed the boundaries of putting mail in a box, I am constantly reminded to reframe problems even when it seems there are no more possible solutions.

In a report responding to the OECD's findings, TD's economics branch has declared that Canada has an «essential skills problem,» noting that another survey (the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA) measuring the math performance of 15 - year - olds worldwide also found a decline in Canadian teenagers» numeracy skills.

This is a problem that has been plaguing the company for years, continually driving high - profile users off of the site.

To be fair, many of Avon's problems can be traced back to Jung's mistakes: there was a federal bribery probe that cost Avon $ 500 million and distracted management for years, stemming from overseas expansion efforts and deprived Avon of any viable China business.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

Notwithstanding those testimonials, there's a problem with calculating the impact of these big one - off events, according to economists parsing predictions for the Republican convention this year.

Sales dived by 9 % in first quarter of its financial year, largely due to one big problem: A crackdown on corruption in China, which has led to plummeting sales in China for luxury brands and premium spirit makers.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

Since launching in Pakistan earlier this year, the high costs of car ownership and low cost of wages have thrown up unexpected problems for the company, offering captivating insights into the prevailing political economy and the role of capital owners in a sharing economy.

«But these policies have now been deployed for some years - in the case of Japan, for more than two decades - and at least so far, they have not convincingly shown an ability to decisively overcome the problems posed by the zero bound.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Responsible investors have for years talked about the risks of regulatory intervention where companies fail to address serious social or environmental problems that arise in their operations.

«Unless Goldman Sachs has no problem losing money for the next three to five years, they have a long road ahead of them.»

However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating out - of - this world technology for the sake of grabbing headlines.

This stubborn problem has remained for years despite more women joining the ranks of investors and increased awareness of the blatant sexism and sexual harassment female founders sometimes face when raising money.

The scale of the problems means that «government involvement» is needed, according to Bailey, who has put consumer credit at the top of the regulator's agenda for the year ahead, according to the Guardian.

The latest FBI raid of Subway's celebrity spokesperson Jared Fogle's home poses a PR problem for Subway, as the investigation is linked to a former Jared Foundation employee, who was arrested in a child pornography case earlier this year.

The truth is that I've been talking about the problem for a couple of years now and, more specifically, the risks it poses to new businesses trying to introduce new products and services.

«Their problem is that they have generally failed on consoles for the last 20 years, with a huge exception being the Wii,» Pachter says of Nintendo.

The Y2K computer bug will be just the start of problems for business in Year 2000 with the real day of reckoning to come on July 1.

And last year, a Stanford case study ascribed to Day a good deal of the responsibility for the company's fabric quality problems.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.