Sentences with phrase «others i bought years»

Pairs I purchased this past summer are already filled with holes, but others I bought years ago are still fine.

Not exact matches

Fifteen - year mortgages flip the script, lowering costs and shortening loan terms but tying up more cash and restricting investors» ability to buy stocks and other interest - paying vehicles.

Some just buy something cheap and forget about you, while others buy from you for a longer time and might bring you thousands during one year.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).

Do you remember what happened to the [hamster goldfish turtle insert other deceased pet] we bought you last year?»

It forced AT&T to scrap a plan to buy T - Mobile USA in 2011 and last year successfully battled in court to stop two insurance industry mergers, among others.

The former finds inspiration from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight years of sales declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.

In recent years, Salesforce has been on acquisition binge, buying up companies across the country from Halifax - based GoInstant to Toronto's Rypple to B.C. - based Sitemasher, among others.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

He had already been buying individual stocks for himself and others for five years before he started at Goldman, even setting up answering machines messages recommending various stocks to buy.

Assuming they and insurance companies buy as much as JP Morgan and others estimate, long - term yields may not rise at all this year and yield curves will remain flat.

Reviewed by local regulators for almost a year, that local marriage was only step one for the Brahma boys, who saw an industry ripe for consolidation and initiated a strategy to improve margins by buying up brewers, eliminating duplicative operations, cutting excess suppliers, and other steps that formed today's beer market, which is fragmented by brand but consolidated in terms of ownership.

IBM's decision to build out public and private clouds for infrastructure and application development won plaudits, but the researchers found that SoftLayer, which IBM (IBM) bought for $ 2 billion two years ago, has little to distinguish itself from competitors other than its mix of virtualized and non-virtualized bare - metal capabilities and broad geographic coverage.

It's like a whole other world opens up,» said Moser, who bought her first Instant Pot last year as part of Amazon's Prime Day.

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

«Many people invested the money they use to buy food,» said one 50 - year - old Chinese woman who herself was arrested for encouraging others to invest.

But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.

When Salesforce (CRM) plunked down $ 212 million to buy Heroku five years ago, it got a very popular software development site beloved by startups who programmed in Ruby (and later other languages).

It bought more than 20 last year and scooped up three others since January.

Some people believe it is a result of year - end tax considerations, while others say it's because all the market pessimists are away on holidays or because people are buying stock in anticipation of the January effect.

Teva, for its part, is headquartered in Israel, though of the three companies, it stands to gain the biggest tax benefit if its proposed acquisition is successful: The company said that buying Mylan would allow it to reap $ 2 billion per year in tax savings and other «cost synergies.»

These deals are the latest in a series of investments by Microsoft and other tech giants; last year it bought fiber capacity from Seaborn Networks to build better links to South America.

However, others such as Best Buy and Toys «R Us said they would hire fewer workers than they did last year.

Alabbar has also made other investments in new technology and e-commerce — buying a stake in regional logistics firm Aramex last year and is in the process of setting up a high - end Middle East online fashion retailer with Yoox Net - a-Porter after buying a 4 % stake in the Italian - based online retailer for 100 million euros last April.

Last year, General Electric acquired ServiceMax, which monitors devices for maintenance and other services, for $ 915 million, while Roper Technologies bought software maker Deltek for $ 2.8 billion last year.

I don't think any IPO is at all relevant until three, five years after, other than the people who sell at the beginning, or buy at the beginning and hold.

Altogether, more than half of all consumers plan to celebrate by buying something, spending an average of $ 143.56 on flowers, jewelry, candy, clothes and other gifts, up from $ 136.57 last year, according to the National Retail Federation's Valentine's Day consumer spending survey.

On paper, it's easy to make a case for a three - or four - year time horizon - long enough for appreciation to offset the real estate agent's commission and other costs of buying and selling.

Versions of the skateboard - like contraption are now being produced in China — by, among others, Ninebot, the company that bought Segway this year (and is backed by smartphone giant Xiaomi).

Others believe it has turned into one of the best buying opportunities in years.

Software from Emotient (which Apple bought last year), Affectiva, and other companies can discern your emotions by analyzing your face, and it can tell whether your emotion is real of fake.

Seven years later, Def Jam bought the other half of Roc - A-Fella for $ 10 million.

Over the past five years, rich men have bought The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Diego Union - Tribune, and the Orange County Register, among others.

These companies are rapidly buying startups specializing in software, robotics, AI, mapping, cameras, and a host of other fields to forge entirely new alliances that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago.

Others will shop for sales more often (49.0 %), comparison shop online more often (34.4 %), use coupons more often (37 %), buy more practical gifts (28.4 %) and use last year's decorations (24.8 %).

But long - term rates on mortgages and some other loans have jumped since May, when Bernanke first said the Fed might slow its bond buys later this year.

After years of buying up companies then raising the prices of their drugs — a strategy that rapidly amplified Valeant's revenue and stock price — Valeant is now struggling to grow by other means, while dealing with the consequences of its previous actions.

Durant was a great promoter and visionary, and by 1909 he had turned Buick into the best - selling car in the U.S. Searching for a business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors.

They included the publicly traded arms of Fosun International, which in recent years bought the Club Med chain of resorts and other properties; Dalian Wanda, which owns the AMC Theaters chain in the United States and has long sought deals in Hollywood; and the HNA Group, an acquisitive conglomerate with murky ownership.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from our forward - looking statements include risks relating to: failure of DBRS to rate the Notes at the anticipated ratings levels, which is a closing condition, or at all; changes in the financial markets, including changes in credit markets, interest rates, securitization markets generally and our proposed securitization in particular; the willingness of investors to buy the Notes; adverse developments regarding OnDeck, its business or the online or broader marketplace lending industry generally, any of which could impact what credit ratings, if any, are issued with respect to the Notes; the extended settlement cycle for the scheduled closing on April 17, 2018, which may exacerbate the foregoing risks; and other risks, including those described in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and in other documents that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time which are or will be available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

In other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5 M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the street.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying and selling drugs and other illegal items on the dark net.

KTVA's Scott Gross is reporting family bought the 21 - to 22 - year - old man a one - way ticket to Vietnam to live with other family members.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the E.C.B. set eurozone precedent by buying government bonds and other assets.

However, jet fuel bought in the cash market has outpaced other refined products in the last year.

Because they were smart enough to buy into Bitcoin and other blockchain assets several years before it hit the mainstream.

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