Sentences with phrase «past year i cut»

This past year I cut back from blogging 5 days a week to 3, and that has helped me.

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Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

No agency has had its operating budget shredded as mercilessly as the SBA's (most agencies have gotten more money), and the cuts of the past six years have struck at all aspects of the agency.

Over the past 12 months, five - year - old Stripe has moved from the cutting edge in financial software development to mainstream awareness for businesses.

Noble is pursuing a $ 3.4 billion debt restructuring - crucial for the survival of the company - which has sold billions of dollars of assets, taken hefty writedowns and cut hundreds of jobs over the past three years to cut debt.

Embattled Noble has been negotiating a $ 3.4 billion debt - for - equity swap — crucial to its survival — after selling billions of dollars of assets, taking hefty writedowns and cutting hundreds of jobs over the past three years.

Second, that Saudi Arabia, the driving force within OPEC and the shock absorber in oil markets for the past 40 years, would cut production if necessary to keep prices from falling too low.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

«As the stream transverses the United States, you try to make sure that every place it stops is as short as possible,» said Gerttula, regarding the work CBS has done over the past year to cut back on video delays.

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

Toys have been a trouble spot for retailers over the past few years, as extreme price competition, the lack of a must - have toy and the popularity of mobile gaming have cut into profits.

The private valuation of super-secretive startup Palantir may have been cut in half to under $ 10 billion in the past two years, but CEO Alex Karp tells CNBC the company's data analysis services are in high demand.

T - Mobile (tmus) has been the fastest - growing U.S. wireless carrier for the past few years thanks to Legere's populist bent and a bevy of price cuts and new features.

T - Mobile accounted for nearly all of the subscriber growth in wireless over the past few years, and the other carriers are cutting prices and adding promotional offers to catch up.

It has raised its target for the overnight rate three times in the past year after cutting it in response to a drop in oil prices.

Unlike in years past, you don't need to ask a friend or family member to recommend a lawyer to help you cut through all the red tape to form an LLC.

The company has sold billions of dollars of assets, taken hefty writedowns and cut hundreds of jobs over the past three years to slash debt.

In years past, Premier Ed Stelmach has said that by 2050, Alberta's emissions will be cut in half.

During the past year, Rosen did consider enrolling himself in a new sales - training program, because, as he says, «running a $ 3 - million company wasn't cutting it for me.»

The search giant and its partners, NASA and the non-profit Universities Space Research Association, have been experimenting with the cutting edge technology for the past two years.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

The state's largest employer, Boeing, has cut more than 8,400 jobs in Washington in the past year.

For years, every season we have seen earnings get cut right after they report, but in the past two quarters they have been rising.»

Official short - term interest rates - the instrument of choice for central banks - were cut aggressively but soon hit the zero lower bound, where most of them have remained for the past five years (Chart 1).

Unless, of course, you are talking about the families of the wealthy and privileged who have received about 70 per cent of federal personal tax cuts over the past 10 years.

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

The single most logical explanation for the rapid run - up in the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past year is, quite simply, the Trump promise of a massive corporate tax cut enacted by Congress.

The Aramco investment comes as a relief for Petronas which has cut expenditures in the past year as oil prices have slumped from over $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

Commodity - linked businesses reported the need to invest following often significant cuts over the past two years.

(Reuters)- Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) said on Thursday it would lay off about 8 percent of its employees as the drugmaker, which has suffered setbacks over the past year in the development of two potential blockbuster drugs, works to cut costs.

Even if we do observe economic weakness, it's not likely in my view that the Fed will have much leeway to cut rates, due to persistent inflation pressures (which have historically been associated with profligate government spending of precisely the sort that has been revived in the past few years).

The company couldn't pay a dime more during many years and end - ed up cutting its payment twice in the past 12 months to ensure its survival.

Huge cost savings are waning for U.S. shale oil companies, marking an end to the drastic price cuts on equipment and services over the past 16 months that helped them survive the worst industry downturn in six years.

City residents who for the past two years endured cuts to services didn't have a lot to complain about Thursday.

Competition in the provision of housing finance has increased over the past year, with banks announcing two rounds of cuts in housing interest rates (in June 1996 and February 1997) independent of any easings in monetary policy.

Mr. Swarovski has spear - headed the company's expansion over the past thirty years to become the largest manufacturer of cut crystal in the world, supplying the fashion jewelry industry, the fashion industry, the chandelier and art object industries, as well as manufacturing diverse consumer products sold under the company's own brand.

From past few years, Facebook has been trying to cut off the organic reach of Facebook pages.The introduction of Facebook Zero acted as the final blow.

While companies throughout various industries cut costs and managed to boost their margins during the past seven years, technology companies in particular, with their inherently high profit margins, were a significant contributor to overall margin growth.

The major tax cuts of the past 25 years, the Reagan cuts in the 1980's and the recent Bush cuts, were both heavily tilted toward the very well off.

My biggest regret is that my crazy schedule, the one Richard chided me about, cut the opportunities to see him and to spend time with him over the past few years.

Trying to extrapolate observed phenomenon from the past several thousand years out past millions of years is just plain bad science anyway you cut it.

The collapse of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Global Crossing and Arthur Andersen, and the huge pay cuts to top officers, have dominated the headlines over the past two years.

For just one example, the number of persons in mental hospitals — over a quarter - million, seven years ago — has been cut in half over the past six years.

I think it's because I cut down my diary consumption drastically these past 2 years my body is also rejecting the stuff I once loved.

During the past six years, pork use has grown on a per pound basis by more than double chicken, largely due to foodservice operators seeking higher quality cuts and cooking them to 145 degrees Fahrenheit (with a three - minute rest).

In the past year smaller Australian winemakers have been battered on domestic and international fronts — as the high Australian dollar cut into overseas sales revenue and an oversupply of wine kept prices depressed within Australia.

Over the past year Jackson Family Wines have been testing a prototype of the BlueMorph, a cutting edge technology especially designed to use ultraviolet light for tank sanitation, reducing or eliminating the use of water, power, and chemicals.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

The club has beeen risking death from a thousand cuts for years past now, by cheating and short changing us fans (the blood).