Sentences with phrase «raised for years»

Concerns about whether students have to take too many standardized tests have been raised for years.

His points are valid, but the same points have been raised for years in education only to fall upon the deaf ears of bureaucrats.

«We've been fund - raising for a year now and it's just amazing.

I've been raising both for years and have kept chickens, too.

And, who will become his primary caregiver and raise him for years to come?

The contract gave educators retroactive raises for each year in that period, and arranges for the city to disburse the back pay periodically — the math of which was unclear and apparently disconcerting to the state senator.

And she pointed out that county workers who belong to CSEA, who have been working without a contract since 2012, will eventually get retroactive raises for those years.

Then, on 1 June 2011, the whole prevailing NRSA pay scale, which includes step raises for each year of experience and, except in very bad budget years, an annual across - the - board hike, becomes the minimum standard for all subsequent hires.

-- In one of the central disagreements of Emanuel's proposed reforms, the union says it preserved so - called «step and lane» pay increases for teachers, in which teachers receive raises for each year of service.

He told him he had no raise for years.

He told his boss he had no a raise for years.

ICO fundraising topped $ 1.2 billion in February, bringing the total amount raised for the year to $ 2.7 billion.

That's roughly 10 % of the total amount raised for the year.

That brings the total capital raised for the year to $ 3.25 billion.

Are you a superstar performer with no raise for a year or more?

When we talked money he offered me what I had gauged to be a great entry level salary, and he mentioned a potential (huge) raise for year number two.

The Fed has had its first of an expected three raises for this year and two more are expected in 2019.

Not exact matches

The U.S. is about to raise interest rates for the first time in eight years.

For years I thought the reason hands were raised was simply an economic one.

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

April 24 (Reuters)- United Technologies Corp reported quarterly results that topped analysts» estimates on Tuesday and raised its full - year forecasts, citing higher demand for spare parts and services from airlines dealing with booming passenger travel.

Earlier, Freeport reduced its copper production forecast for this year to 3.8 billion pounds from 3.9 billion and raised its copper cash cost forecast to $ 1.01 a pound from a previous 97 cents.

This new form of equity crowdfunding — which is the result of the new Title III of the JOBS Act — allows companies to raise up to $ 1,000,000 each year, from investors for their businesses, using crowdfunding platforms.

«Spotify is not raising capital, and our shareholders and employees have been free to buy and sell our stock for years,» CEO Daniel Ek wrote in a blog post Monday.

Merck edged 1.1 percent higher after it reported a profit that beat estimates and the company raised earnings forecast for the year.

The higher margins prompted Bunge to raise its full - year earnings outlook for its agribusiness unit, which includes soybean crushing, to a range of $ 800 million to $ 1 billion from $ 550 million to...

Rick Santorum, for instance, suggested raising workers» hourly pay just 50 cents over the next three years.

The Fed maintained its forecast for two more rate hikes this year, following speculation on whether budding inflation would push it toward raising its outlook to three more increases.

Merck raised its full - year forecast for adjusted earnings to between $ 4.16 and $ 4.28 per share from between $ 4.08 and $ 4.23 per share estimated previously.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

However, Arconic raised its revenue forecast to $ 13.7 billion to $ 14.0 billion for the year, from its previous estimate of $ 13.4 billion to $ 13.7 billion.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

For all we hear about 20 - year - olds dropping out of Stanford to raise trunk loads of venture money, most entrepreneurs need industry knowledge and connections to start a company.

Your upside is always capped: For the vast majority of employees, annual raises come in the 3 to 4 percent per year variety.

But even at that level the shares offer a substantial yield (2.6 %), and the dividend has been raised for 12 years running.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Garmin reported a higher - than - expected profit for the eighth straight quarter, selling more of its GPS - based outdoor activity gadgets such as underwater watches, leading it to raise its full - year revenue forecast.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

This year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails, calls and tweets from members of Global Citizen.

In America, the only developed country that's actually raised rates recently, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is now saying that market forces could keep rates low for years.

Things are going so well that it also raised its profit outlook for the rest of the year.

Equally, when a company that is burning $ 175,000 / month tells me they're raising $ 10 - 15 million it sets off alarm bells because even if I assume you'll double your burn rate it still implies 2.5 - 3.5 years of cash runway, which is too much for a startup.

Some market participants have said they believe it will raise rates once a quarter instead, making it four for the year.

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.

The firm raises more than 20 million chickens a year for McDonald's in the world's second largest economy.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.