Sentences with phrase «off the year as»

The moves have paid off this year as Sprint added 347,000 regular monthly phone customers in the quarter ended Sept. 30 — five times what it added in the same period a year earlier.

The market started off the year as it ended 2017, on a tear higher, then the brief crash in early February, which led to a nice calm recovery during the remainder of the month just to run into what I'm calling «Whipsaw March» with the market jumping higher and lower by more than 1 % nearly every other day.

The Spaniard has spoken before about how the manager's trust has really helped him and it is certainly paying off this year as Cazorla has won the last two PFA Player of the Month awards, but can he keep going and win the annual prize?

He'd broken the goal - scoring deadlock and added another important goal against West Bromwich Albion in December and rounded off the year as part of the team which defeated the Premier League champions 1 - 0.

There won't be a whole lot to send off this year as the boys will only have done about 46 academic paces each.

Trying to finish off this year as strongly as I can so next year will be off to a good start:)

I wanted a new bag to kick off the year as I start transitioning away from winter colors towards lighter, spring colors (although it's still freezing here).

It's paid off this year as I finished the year with a 69 % return as you can see below:

Not exact matches

Originally planned as a five - year competition, the deadline shifted a number of times before being called off in January.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Something as simple as changing the brand of silverware stocked in your break room or moving your conference line to a free service can pay off big time over the course of a year.

As a result, the company plans to try a number of different strategies to convince readers to turn off their ad blockers in the new year, including a message that tells them the publisher relies on ad revenue for its survival.

But nobody in his camp was prepared for the outcome: Turnout in the off - year primary was nearly double what the Grayson campaign anticipated, as Paul piled up an eye - popping 23 - point margin across the state.

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

Walmart, coming off a year of acquisitions like those of Bonobos, Modcloth and Moosejaw, will likely continue to buy hip digital - first brands as it looks to counter Amazon's moves in the fashion world and attract more well - heller shoppers to Jet.com if not its own site.

The introduction in October of around - the - clock Egg McMuffins and hash browns helped the Golden Arches enjoy its best quarter in nearly four years as it comes off two years of declines.

Gaming analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities said in a webcast last year that «console software is going to move off console» as soon as 2019 or 2020.

Originally they'd wanted to sell their shares for a big profit after a few years to the unsuspecting public, but since the idea of bankruptcy had been floated, that options was off the table, as the shares had plunged.

Low prices knocked him off the Rich 100 in 2015, but this year, McEwan Mining soared more than 150 % as prices rose again.

It could be that some businesses are much better off being private, even after years as public companies.

AYR, which stands for All Year Round, originated as a part of Bonobos and spun off in 2015 as an independent company led by Jac Cameron, Maggie Winter, and Max Bonbrest.

But a cure is still a long ways off, and for many, an ALS diagnosis spells a death sentence — often, patients die within five years as they lose the ability to control their muscles, eat, and breathe.

And transportation companies, such as airlines, are likely to benefit this year, as low oil costs shave a significant amount off their operating expenses.

As National Small Business Week kicks off, we gathered some insight from the six finalists in the running to win National Small Business Person of the Year.

CEO Saeed El - Darahali — who himself spent years paying off his $ 50,000 student debt — created an employee debt assistance program as a «pay it forward» gesture, but it's also a canny recruitment strategy.

I credit making wise decisions in marketing as a primary reason I went from selling zero units to several hundred thousand units within two years, operating only off of profits all before the exposure that Shark Tank brought.

So the firm expects earnings - per - share growth to slow in the second half of the year as the positive effect wears off.

Don't forget, a credit card balance of as «little» as $ 6,000 can take more than 40 years to pay off if only the minimum payments are made.)

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

The extra hiring is a nice contrast for Macy's which this year has closed some 68 stores and laid off hundreds of workers as it looks to cull weak stores.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

We can thank Susan J. Fowler, whose blog post kicked off Uber's year of reckoning, and Ellen Pao, whose trial forced the Valley to stop brushing off conversations about its gender problem as unnecessary distractions.

Turtle Beach Corporation, the market leader in console video game headsets, has over the years developed audio technology that enables gamers to hear soft video game sounds such as footsteps around the corner and gun reloads off in the distance.

If the deduction for medical expenses disappears as proposed in the House Republicans tax bill, the ability to write off long - term care premiums would end after this year.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

As to the reason why, all you need to do is look at Sakhalin, a windswept, earthquake - prone island off Russia's Pacific coast where temperatures can fluctuate 110 degrees throughout the year.

The move, which has drawn threats of strike action from the Mail's union, comes a year after the government spun off the 11,780 - branch retail network known as the Post Office.

As you kick off the new year, let go of old habits and focus on becoming more efficient.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

«If your business is structured as a sole proprietorship or an LLC, you are probably better off taking distributions from the company and paying taxes on an estimated basis during the year,» Spark says.

Fresh off recent controversies, such as last year's pumpkin spice controversy or this year's widely criticized RaceTogether campaign, the newest dissension seems to be far less contentious, though no less visible.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

Sales had been sliding for several years before plunging off a precipice as the financial crisis deepened into a global recession in 2009.

If your plan is too costly, you're better off directing any additional contributions this year to the second - best place for your retirement savings: an individual retirement account, such as a Roth IRA.

If 2015 was the year that brands and advertisers embraced online video, then 2016 will see the medium take the next step as live streaming takes off.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

But the «younger» Cho is 40 years old, an age where we can safely own our immaturity, not pawn it off as a consequence of our mishandled upbringing.

Macy's and other department stores, such as JCPenney, are facing off against Amazon — and coming up short, with hundreds of closures in recent years.