Sentences with phrase «of year involve»

Six of the deals completed in the last two full months of the year involved companies based there, compared to three deals for firms located in other US cities.

One of my favourite days of this year involved hopping on a quick train to Crystal Palace Park to see the hilarious misshapen dinosaur statues.

«As with inbound deals, we see a healthy spread of sectors represented in the top 10 deals of the year involving an offshore acquirer, including energy, transport, data processing and software publishing,» said Adderley.

Not exact matches

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

In March of this year Energinet, along with TSOs from the Netherlands and Germany, signed a trilateral agreement relating to the development of a vast renewable electricity system, involving artificial islands, in the middle of the North Sea.

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

I've been intimately involved with the management team and coauthoring the strategy for the company here over the last two years and operating in every part of the business.

Gawker began a court - ordered auction of its business on Monday after losing a $ 140 - million court case earlier this year involving former wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published a clip from a sex tape he made with a friend's wife.

David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada governor, told me earlier this year in an interview about housing policy that he would nationalize the mortgage insurance industry; not because he is a Communist, but because it always will be taxpayers who clean up the messes of bankers, especially when it involves houses.

While IBM has been selling Watson data crunching for several years, Kenny said that many of those deals have involved IBM's consulting teams helping businesses use the company's machine learning services.

Getting promoted to management involves several years of experience in a technical profession — ideally in a supervisory role.

After a year of Game of Thrones - style intrigue involving 93 - year - old billionaire Sumner Redstone, his daughter Shari, and former CEO Philippe Dauman, it looks as though the ultimate fate of Viacom could be settled relatively soon — and with it the fate of sister company CBS.

Dauman's reversal of fortune occurred not long after Shari Redstone became more involved in her father's life following years of being estranged from the aging billionaire.

Since this is a role that involves handling sensitive materials, employers should look for candidates with at least a few years of related experience and no fewer than two references.

The owner of the trucking company involved in the crash, Sukhmander Singh, has said the 30 - year - old driver had been working for him for about a month.

Spangenberg — who over the years has been on the receiving end of «troll» criticism for his patent fortune — recently pursued a more interesting path involving use of his patent knowledge to target what many of the populist - minded would judge to be an unfair stranglehold over pricing.

That involved providing teams and racers with sets of Rev - x wheels, as well as sponsoring a team, to the tune of about $ 750,000 a year.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

As the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five years.

While it is somewhat arbitrary, I use a rule of thumb that anything that involves a timeline of less than a year should be considered a tactic; anything longer than a year becomes a strategy.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.

The most substantive results are eight deals done over the last 5 years that I have been involved with coming out of the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Venture Labs.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

This year, the H3N2 strain is particularly nasty and prevalent — more than 80 % of all cases this season involve this type of flu virus, according to CDC data.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

The financing process ultimately involved a full year of sleepless nights and confidential meetings with banks.

For the last three years, Lady Spencer has also been involved with Centrepoint, a charity that aims to raise awareness and funds for thousands of homeless youth.

The office, which is based in Wheeling, a sleepy and picturesque town just south of the Ohio border, had for years been aggressive in going after the bad actors involved in the region's opioid crisis.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

Of the thousands of career and business opportunities I've been involved with over the past 30 years, every single one involved a real relationshiOf the thousands of career and business opportunities I've been involved with over the past 30 years, every single one involved a real relationshiof career and business opportunities I've been involved with over the past 30 years, every single one involved a real relationship.

A survey by investment and research group RBC Capital last year found that American surgeons think that within five years, 35 % of operations will involve robots in some form, compared with 15 % today.

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.

But while the raw economic benefits are clear — 74 % of Indian households earn less than US$ 2,000 per year, while the average outsourcing worker makes double that figure — Nadeem questions the deeper impact of the «emotional labour» that service work involves.

And in San Francisco, approximately 50 percent of all robberies last year involved some type of mobile communications device, a statement announcing the initiative says.

(Remarkably, the consent decree was put in place as a result of other events Roger Stone was involved in 35 years ago.

In Colorado, anyone directly involved in the production or distribution of weed must have lived in the state for the past two years, at a minimum.

At least $ 25 billion of the $ 199 billion in China's outgoing deals this year has involved hotel or property acquisitions, according to the newspaper.

Just this year, there have been numerous scandals with Bay Area VC funds involving sexual harassment of female founders.

«The new cabin products are the culmination of four years of work, involving extensive customer research and close partnerships with our designers and suppliers.»

Deutsche Bank was fined earlier this year as part of a Russian money - laundering scheme that involved its Moscow, New York, and London branches.

She has more than 30 years of experience in business, program and engineering leadership and is actively involved in many community activities, with a passion for STEM education.

With family members involved, Eggen expects to exit in five years, by which time he will have passed on most of what he has learned over his decades - long career in the industry.

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

Indeed, much of what Whitman has accomplished over the last five years involved reversing what her predecessors did — or unlocking value, as so many financial analysts call it.