Sentences with phrase «past few years beasley»

But the impact of a stronger dollar on trade terms has not followed a set pattern in the past few years, Citi said.

Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung is holding out until March, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

While interest rates have been historically low for the past few years, a consequence has been that banks became stingy when it came to making loans.

And revenue has tripled in the past few years to north of $ 10 million.

Anyone who has spent a day in Mountain View, Calif., in the past few years has probably spotted a Lexus SUV driving around town that is equipped with Google self - driving tech spinning on its roof.

The U.S. economy has been stronger over the past few years than that of most other nations.

But it has lost ground the past few years in terms of smartphone sales.

Microsoft has come out with a number of great computers over the past few years, and the Microsoft Surface 3 has been hailed for its top - quality performance and its slim and portable design.

We've tested several mattresses from direct - to - consumer, bed - in - a-box mattress startups over the past few years to see how they stack up in comparison with big - name mattress brands.

Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Most Netflix employees also receive stock options, which have been producing huge windfalls in the past few years as the company's shares have soared.

In the past few years, advertisers have started releasing versions of their TV ads in the weeks ahead of the Super Bowl to build up hype before the big game.

Although the southern European country has been growing above 1 percent in the past few years, unemployment levels are still over 11 percent and an inflow of immigrants has deepened social tensions.

And the program has evolved over the past few years.

As the economy has muddled along the past few years, banks have been criticized for making it hard for small businesses to get loans.

It's really been over the past few years, though, that the vision is coming to fruition in the expansive ways he envisioned.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

At any point over the past few years, I could have decided to grow my company into a multimillion - dollar public - relations agency.

Only in the past few years has new database technology allowed big companies to cull huge amounts of digital information for real - time decision - making.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

The plans themselves have been adapting to the low - return environment over the past few years by hiking contribution rates from both employees and employers.

Still, if we look at the average size of a seed - stage deal, we see that it has changed dramatically over the past few years.

Over the past few years, the idea of brands producing content has been a hot topic in marketing.

But for the past few years, the value of these bales has fallen dramatically — between 2013 and 2014, the price of recycled corrugated cardboard dropped by almost 24 %.

Because of my high profile over the past few years, the government officials, the rich people, have not liked to interact with me.

Numerous drug companies have been criticized for the increased prices of some medications in the past few years.

Service companies throughout history have fared just fine while owning some physical infrastructure; it's only in the past few years that that arrangement has come to seem like a weakness.

Over the past few years the cost of photovoltaic solar panels has dropped some 70 %.

Still, Woodman makes clear, the past few years have left scars.

That discretionary part of the budget has been squeezed over the past few years, while Republicans controlling Congress have largely ignored the ever - growing tide of automatic - pilot spending on benefit programs like food stamps, student loans, and Medicare.

The New York company, formerly known as Liz Claiborne, has been selling off parts of its business over the past few years.

Allan Small, a senior investment adviser at DMW Securities, has avoided government bonds for the past few years because they pay so little.

That building is the home of Omaha Steaks, the mega red - meat company (which sells its products through direct mail, catalogs, retail, the Internet, and telemarketing) that has exploded to become a nationally recognizable brand name in the past few years.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

Uber has faced fierce competition across the globe, contributing to its loss of billions of dollars over the past few years.

Over the past few years Hyundai and Kia have expanded beyond their lot as «the affordable option» — they now compete with preferred Japanese brands such as Toyota and Honda when it comes to quality, reliability and design.

The current batch of RFRA laws, such as the one about to be signed in Arkansas, are thought to circumvent successes that same sex marriage has had in the past few years.

During the past few years, a handful of games have been released between January and April — but generally as a result of production snafus.

Analysts say antitrust regulators may decide to block the combination, which would reduce the number of national carriers from four to three, as they have with similar deals in the past few years.

With the company riding out iterative improvements in iPhones, iPads and Macs over the past few years, it's overdue for something new.

In an issue that many Americans care about, given the many mass shootings that have occurred in the past few years, Clinton was able to appeal to voters who want to see more serious gun control legislation.

It's also a testament to how fast progress has come in the past few years of chip designs, especially for graphics processors, which used to be relegated to the domain of video game junkies.

EDM as a popular trend has subsided from its early - 2000s peak, and while electronic will never go away, the pop charts have drifted toward more traditional, less garish genres in the past few years.

In the past few years, software that assesses your supply chain risk have proliferated from numerous companies.

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

That's grown rapidly in the past few years, faster than mortgages or other lending categories.

During the past few years, the company has been a close - knit family, whose daily life in the home could be easily influenced.

Capital outflows lead to a weaker currency, which concerns the hordes of Chinese companies that borrowed debt in foreign currencies over the past few years and now have to pay it back with a weaker yuan.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.