Sentences with phrase «recent years offering»

With that being said, private lenders have stepped up in recent years offering more resources for students to fill in the gap that federal loans, scholarships, and other grants leave open.
Of course, the Credit CARD Act passed last year provides some protection against these practices, but even the fact that the issue has come up in recent years offers a troubling look at the state of financial privacy in our society.

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Although the recent turmoil in world markets might portend otherwise, 2016 is likely to be a strong year for initial public offerings.
Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.
These effects help explain the recent announcement by Starbucks and several major American corporations of a program to offer full - time positions as well as apprenticeships and internships to 100,000 disconnected youth over the next three years.
Once stringent requirements have eased with banks offering 10 - year loans, double the five - year terms they pushed in recent years.
Thanks to his contacts in the business, the report costs him only $ 35,000 a year to produce, and Hoffman says that when he asks recent hires, as well as people who have declined recent offers, «What gave you a favorable impression about us?»
J. Crew has stepped up its suit game in recent years, offering a great lineup of tailored menswear and accessories, including our top pick for the best pocket square.
Premiums typically range from $ 2,500 to $ 6,000 a year, and insurers that provide it have been hiking those premiums in recent years, and in some cases trimming the benefits they offer, in response to unexpectedly high costs.
In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.
A company based in Belgium also offers its employees such implants, and there are isolated cases around the world where tech enthusiasts have tried this out in recent years.
(A 21 - year company veteran, he was behind fan favorites such as Tonight Dough and Dublin Mudslide, along with more recent offerings like Urban Bourbon and Truffle Kerfuffle).
To wit: in recent years, Japanese jails have added safety bars in cells and begun offering low - sodium meals to accommodate a surge of criminal senior citizens, shoplifting to cope with hard times.
Not to mention that according to Time, Lyft and General Motors are looking to offer driverless car services in approximately one year — though the recent fatality in a driverless car made by Tesla Motors probably leaves that one up in the air.
For that reason, in recent years, some brands have taken a «show, don't tell» approach to their marketing, choosing to give potential customers the chance to experience what they offer for themselves to decide whether they like it.
Subprime borrowers have offered the yield sign to investors in recent years.
Yet recent visitors to General Motors dealerships might feel a sense of déjà vu: they are offering 0 % interest loans on some models, and one can finance a $ 28,000 Chevy Malibu for seven years at 1.99 %.
So far, the carriers» deals both on the X and on the 8 models are not nearly as generous as last year, when most offered a free iPhone 7 with the trade in of another recent model iPhone.
In recent years, Fitbit — co-founded by James Park, the company's chief executive, and chief technology officer Eric Friedman in 2007 — has also landed large corporate partnerships with health insurance companies and wellness programs at major corporations to make its product the go - to device for such offerings.
The new offerings will aim to integrate the expertise of companies that IBM has snapped up in recent years, including Truven Health Analytics, Phytel, and Explorys.
In a relatively flat market, Tims must draw diners away from eateries such as McDonald's, the lunch leader, so it has introduced new hot meal offerings, such as lasagna to its menu in recent years.
In a recent Kauffman Founders School video my Inc.com colleague Meg Cadoux Hirschberg (who has been married to an entrepreneur for 30 years) offers an analogy for what the entrepreneurship experience is probably like for your better half.
Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.
On one hand, the streaming service has added billions of new dollars into the television business in recent years, building up its offerings by licensing programs from TV groups.
AB InBev's purchase of several craft beer makers in recent years means that it is in a position to offer a greater variety of products itself.
Companies have been stingy about capital expenditures in recent years, but that trend may be poised to turn around, extending the life of this economic cycle — and offering potential surprise upside in the next.
The company has in recent years been aggressively courting foreign brands to set up Tmall stores to sell to China's vast and growing middle class by offering to smoothen out Chinese sales, payment and shipping processes.
Over recent years, more and more plans are offering a suite of low - cost index funds covering domestic equities, foreign equities, U.S. taxable bonds, and cash.
In recent years, several larger brands have begun offering their own versions of eco-friendly apparel.
You can read the article to learn about Mongolia's recent past but as part of the offering there was a ten year tranche which was priced to yield 5.125 % and there was demand for the paper.
By picking Powell, a soft - spoken centrist and Fed governor since 2012, Trump would get the combination of a leadership change and the continuity offered by somebody who has been a part of the Yellen - run Fed that has kept the economy and markets steady in recent years.
In recent years, the perceived high sugar content of some smoothies and juices has forced the industry to adapt its offering.
In recent years, it's become popular to offer a higher percentage on categories that rotate each quarter.
We not only provide evidence for why we believe Value has struggled in recent years, but we also offer our outlook for Value exposure.
«Best Offer # 1» & «Best Offer # 2» are the recent best signup bonuses on the cards (last ~ 2 years); within these two headers is a «Code» indicating the channel by which the signup bonus was offered (explained in full using a note).
Moreover, tighter inventories and solid demand have enabled retailers to offer fewer price discounts than in recent years.
As the liquid alternatives (or alternative mutual fund) space has expanded significantly in recent years, offerings of alternative mutual funds by hedge fund managers have similarly increased.
As of last week, tax - exempt government bonds hit a four year high, with many investors believing that the recent tax reform and an expected rising interest environment will push bond pricing even higher, offering a very attractive economic option for yield starved investors — many of which in recent years have had to increase risk capital allocations to generate reasonable outcomes.
The recent outcome data reports a median base salary at $ 125,000 — an 8 % increase over the previous year — while 99 % of the class had job offers three months post graduation.
I found this surprising considering that during 2005, the most recent year for which the Center for Disease Control offered statistics, 10 percent of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 were pregnant» about the same percentage of woman in the United States diagnosed with diabetes.
The biggest publishing news of recent years has been Everyday Saints (literally translated, Unholy Holy People), in which Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), head of Sretensky Monastery and reputed spiritual counselor to President Putin, offers a series of vignettes about his journey from Marxist atheism into Orthodox monasticism.
If you missed the recent brew - haha, in a TV commercial pegged to this year's Fourth of July, the Boston - based beer company offered an homage to its namesake:
In recent years I've been offered just that a couple of times.
In recent years they have developed hundreds of need - meeting small groups and now offer some seminary courses, but one wonders where they will find the determination and example needed to move into disciplined encounters with the full word of God.
Jeanne Murray Walker, professor of English at the University of Delaware, offers in her most recent book of poetry, Coming Into History, some of the finest poems I have read in recent years.
In the unsavory ranks of traitors to their country who have been exposed in recent years it seems that, while in most cases some consideration was offered and accepted, there were few for whom gain was the dominant or sufficient motive.
In recent years, Christian scholars such as George Marsden and James Burtchaell have offered a new interpretation of that...
In recent years, however, I have begun to wonder about the practice of tithes and offerings.
In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.
In all this health care discussion, another fact has been forgotten: many Catholic schools have been offering insurance that covered birth control for many years in a number of states, including New York where despite the recent brouhaha, not a peep was heard about this until now.
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