Sentences with phrase «point turns for»

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This year marked something of a turning point for Maple Leaf Foods, currently under the stewardship of Wallace McCain's son, Michael.

This could be a turning point for blockchain and potentially a catalyst for widespread adoption.

By contrast, traders (hedge funds) and small investors are expressing historically high levels of bearish sentiment (both groups are known for following trends and being wrong at turning points).

It was a clear and deliberate turning point for a company that's been hunkered down since mid-March.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

The real turning point, though, came in 2016 when Micheli and Gagliese launched their own marketing shop as an extension of the agency, planning ad campaigns for corporations with their influencers, and taking a cut of the transaction.

In turn, the competitive pressures generated by the increased demand for labour will bid up wages, to the point where the extra revenues generated by hiring an additional worker are completely offset by the higher wages that this worker can command.

Producers like the Goldins believe bugs are headed for big - time consumption and point to a United Nations report published in 2013 as a turning point.

While a $ 200,000 cash injection from an angel investor might be a real turning point for your company, allowing you to push your business model to the next level, that sum might pale in significance to funding rounds going to other major players in the industry.

Searches conducted at Lubitz's homes in Duesseldorf and in the town of Montabaur turned up documents pointing to «an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment,» but no suicide note was found, said Ralf Herrenbrueck, a spokesman for the Duesseldorf prosecutors» office.

The industry's hope is that once businesses upgrade from their old magnetic point - of - sale terminals to smart, EMV - compatible ones, the ability for merchants to easily add a pay - by - phone option will turn mobile payments into the new normal.

That day was a turning point for our nation.

After getting to know Ehret's work, Jobs became something of a nutritional extremist, subsisting on carrots for weeks at a time — to the point that his skin reportedly started turning orange.

«There's two points here, there's three there, and pretty soon that 3 % for Under Armour turns into freakin» 30.»

Plus, its status as a classic has only risen since being crowned the winner, marking a turning point for directors Joel and Ethan Coen.

Fortune: Your book describes the success of Netflix's House of Cards as a turning point for the entertainment industry and digital content.

Netflix and other content services threaten to turn the TV into simply one screen among many, and premium picture quality — once Sony's bread and butter — is now a selling point for only a tiny market segment.

He also had a top flight Wall Street reputation: In 2011, he had reportedly been approached by Steve Jobs for the CFO role at Apple but turned it down, according to Bloomberg; he was at one point named as a possible successor to Stephen Schwarzman.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

Aside from the Switch's main gimmick — turning into a portable console — and Nintendo's first - party game lineup, there's no standout sell point for the Switch.

With newspapers and television dominated by pictures and reports of hundreds of migrants who have either died or been turned away by the richest continent in the world, the situation has reached a breaking point for Europe's leaders.

While I credit books like E-Myth by Michael Gerber as true turning points for me, the book doesn't always have to be on a standard business topic.

Even at breakfast they were already looking forward to lunch and dinner, they wanted to talk about what they would eat and drink... and that was a major turning point for me.

The real turning point for her career was her completion of a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact in 2012, which tapped into a long - held belief that helping those around her and contributing to society is important.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

It was a turning point for me.

The decision proved to be a turning point for Cain Express, which, in the years since, has seen a sharp increase in revenue growth, especially exports.

North Korea's state media on Saturday released the joint statement as part of a multi-page spread with more than 60 photos from the visit, lauding Friday's summit as a turning point for the peninsula.

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

North Korea's state news agency said the inter-Korean summit will be a «new milestone» in bringing about joint prosperity and a turning point for the Korean Peninsula.

«That was a turning point for the company,» says Crowe.

If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart - Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel.

For Town, it was a turning point.

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

«That was the turning point for me.

A turning point came in 2005, Moss said, when Cisco sued a speaker for revealing flaws in Cisco routers.

He turns to metaphor to support his point: «A knife can be used for good things — I'm using it to eat my breakfast — but it can be also used for potentially nefarious activities.

«Even though Blue Apron turns a profit on the remaining 30 % of customers, the break - even point is moving farther away with every new cohort due to declining revenue and growing [customer acquisition cost] for newer customers,» writes McCarthy.

Restaurant patrons are turning to their mobile phones much more to search for their next place to eat, and their usage patterns for mobile web browsers or apps on smartphones and tablets all differ to the point that food service brands need separate strategies to accommodate everyone.

«That was a major turning point for our business,» says Carinne.

Gundlach notes commodities are just as cheap relative to stocks as they were at historical turning points, while the macroeconomic backdrop also supports the case for commodities.

This holiday shopping season will mark a turning point for Pinterest.

In time, however, it will be seen as a turning point for Western Australia's resources industry, which can now add a vast offshore potential to an already vast onshore potential.

But the turning point for me was the TRS - 80 (as I am sure it was pivotal for so many others)-- that cemented my life as an engineer and geek.

As Plueger points out, airlines are looking almost exclusively for efficiency and turning a profit on their airplanes and the industry has a long memory of the Concorde.

I met Evan, he sold me the vision for Snap, if you like, and don't forget this is at a point when they just turned down pretty significant offers from Google and Facebook and all of my colleagues and friends and family were telling me I was an idiot to join the small startup in Venice.

A few in - the - know readers pointed out that the question was based on a faulty assumption: It turns out there are Shark Tank — like contests for healthcare startups.

The great expectations among many U.S. residential real estate watchers is that, at some point, growth will turn away from condos and toward single - family housing, the traditional choice of America's families, which accounts for a far larger share of the market.

Having meaningful conversations with those searching for the help you can provide is the turning point in transforming clicks into customers.