Sentences with phrase «past years paid»

Thank you to each of the bloggers below, who during the past year paid me the great compliment of a link and recommendation (sometimes more than once):

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In the past five years, she's paid off approximately $ 60,000 of it.

Apple has invested in new Apple Music video content over the past year, added peer - to - peer Apple Pay options, and has revamped its stores to deliver better customer care.

The money paid back to Americans in tax refunds so far this year is now roughly equal to cumulative outlays at this time in the past few years, and just slightly below last year's year - to - date total, alleviating any worrying economic signals coming from the data.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

But in the past generation, average pay for CEOs at American's largest companies has leaped nearly sixfold, from $ 2.8 million a year in 1989 to $ 16.3 million today, according the Economic Policy Institute.

The logic: The past two years Middle Tennessee has played bowl games in Hawaii and the Bahamas — no doubt fun destinations for the players to take an expenses paid trip, but difficult for the MTSU faithful to get to and show their support.

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

The money is small, as the company has paid out about $ 1 million in bounties over the past two years.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

They worry that the retrenchments of the past five years have disproportionately hurt rural and minority businesses and that all borrowers are paying more for services.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

The company has grown 10 times its size in just the past two years, largely due to demand and engagement from its loyal customers, who Salzberg said pay between $ 900 - $ 1,000 on average over a three - year period.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

In the past year, Stripe has struck blockbuster deals to support Apple Pay, the Cupertino, California, tech giant's digital wallet, as well as Google's Android Pay and payment capabilities for other Silicon Valley luminaries including Facebook, Twitter, Lyft, Pinterest, and Salesforce.

Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion over the past few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back stock and pay dividends.

The past couple of years have been marked by investor revolts against the level of salaries paid to top executives at some London - listed companies including Sky Plc and Pearson Plc (pearson - plc).

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

Goldman's «burn rate» - the proportion of outstanding stock used to pay staff - averaged 3 % over the past three years.

Facebook has already signaled at past F8 developer conferences that it will expand its payments business conservatively, to include bill payment and investing options, which those WeChat Pay and Alipay have offered for years.

Over the past few years, what used to be motivators for employees — pay, benefits, perks — have simply become satisfiers.

Commercial and industrial lending is increasing for larger companies, but according to the Thompson Reuters / Pay Net Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past year.

We have spent the past two years experimenting with different ads — sometimes running a dozen campaigns simultaneously — until we refined our approach to where we now have two campaigns that are highly effective at attracting new prospects that we can convert into paying customers.

And it's paying off: National's membership and revenue have increased steadily over the past four years, and the company has won widespread industry praise and top honors for customer experience.

In the past year, companies have paid more attention to improving their employee experience, paying attention to the ongoing interactions with their office environment, customers, supervisors, and peers that influence employees» behaviors and satisfaction at work.

In the past we've covered Demand Media, «the content farm» that brings in $ 200 million a year by paying writers low rates for search - engine - friendly stories.

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.

The number of users of Apple Pay have tripled over the past year, Cook said on the conference call, with transaction volume up 500 percent, year over year.

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

These include: itinerary details; the name of the person or organization paying for the trip; the names of every country the applicant has visited in the past 10 years (99 for me); the applicant's current and two previous places of work; every educational institution the applicant has attended; all the professional, civil, and charity organizations of which the applicant is a member or with which he has «cooperated»; the names of all the applicant's relatives in Russia; the details of any training in firearms, explosives, nuclear weapons, and «biological and chemical substances» (which arguably would include everything from acidophilus yogurt to Drano); and details of the applicant's military service, including rank and occupation.

In the past year alone, nearly all of Buffett's stocks are up, particularly Apple (aapl), which now happens to be the world's top - paying dividend stock in terms of dollars paid out.

Because of years of losses in the past, through what's called deferred tax assets, Delta and some other airlines don't pay taxes.

Skeptics see a company whose earnings - per - share growth, which has averaged 30 % annually over the past five years, is bound to slow down, which makes it tough to justify paying 23 times estimated 2017 earnings for the stock.

What's worse, investors who pulled «profits» out of their Madoff accounts within the past six years may be forced by the bankruptcy court to give it back — even though they may have used it to buy a house or pay for their kids» college tuition.

A recent survey conducted by Right Management, a Philadelphia - based management consulting firm found that of 667 employees polled, 66 percent had not used all of their allotted paid vacation days this past year.

The shop has attracted a following, and her sales have grown substantially in the past year, but she was finding it harder and harder to pay her bills.

Over the past two years, a growing number of U.S. banks has capped their directors» earnings, but the ceilings are so high that they primarily serve to fend off potential shareholder litigation rather than control the pace of pay increases.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

While 2004 was an exceptional year for mortgage insurance, over the past 10 years CMHC has paid out at an average rate of 45 %, far lower than most other forms of insurance.

When prying into an interviewee's possible criminal past, take note: While a criminal conviction can be reported indefinitely, arrest records, paid tax liens, accounts placed for collection, civil suits and judgments can't be included on an employment background check after seven years.

Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decades.

While millions are still out of work, U.S. CEOs received a 28 % pay raise this past year.

According to a survey of 250 information technology professionals working in small and medium - sized businesses (SMBs) conducted by Bitdefender and Spiceworks, one in five SMBs was infected with ransomware within the past year; of those, 38 % paid the ransom (an average of $ 2,423).

Few construction companies pay serious attention to social media, which makes the approach something of a novelty, and it's brought in plenty of new business in the past year.

Vergara has been the world's highest - paid television actress for the past six years in a row.

The most radical proposal, Proposal C, would take workers» pension savings accumulated over the past 35 years and pay the money to current retirees.

Google's paid clicks have experience a sharp deceleration over the past few years.

Apple recently unveiled some news that may be surprising to some: in the past quarter, revenue of its services division (including Apple Music, Apple Pay, AppleCare, the App Store, iTunes Store, iCloud, licensing, among other services) jumped 34 percent year over year.

Over the past 20 years, Canadian households have more than doubled their ratio of debt to disposable income (a key measure of leverage relative to their ability to pay).