Sentences with phrase «run this year at»

The Kentucky Derby is North America's oldest continuously - held sporting event, having been run every year at Churchill Downs since 1875.

This fetish for winning magazine tests has led to a few anomalies, particularly Mercedes - Benz abandoning what it did best — solid, beautifully engineered cars that would run all year at 150 mph on the autobahn — to produce more stylish automobiles that drive like BMWs but aren't quite as good and feel cheaper.

Not exact matches

No amount of spin will make Trump's dozen years at the helm of a Trump Hotels, the only public company Trump has ever run, look like anything but a flop that damaged thousands of shareholders, bondholders, and workers.

Jonathan Crandall, who runs J.C. Landscaping in Danvers, Mass., is a big believer in holding out for financing deals that pop up at the end of a model year.

George Reilly, an advisor and owner at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors based outside of Washington, D.C., developed a series of tests that he runs for his clients a few years prior to their retirement.

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

Sales from Walmart International, which runs about 6,300 stores globally, stood at $ 118 billion in the fiscal year ended 2018, down nearly 14 percent from 2014.

Having founded a video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

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

He built his career in various executive posts over 18 years at AT&T, and then at computer - maker Dell, where he ran sales in Asia and Europe.

«They see a world that doesn't exist yet today,» observes Mike Kirkup, a 10 - year BlackBerry veteran who runs Velocity, an accelerator at the University of Waterloo.

Whitley Stimpson, one of the country's top accountancy firms, has been shortlisted for the Established Business Award at the Cherwell Business Awards 2018 for the second year running.

Five years ago, if you had told Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy that they'd be running a company valued at $ 20 billion today, they wouldn't think you were crazy.

Yet earlier this year, Mark Karpelès landed a big new job: chief technology officer at London Trust Media, a Denver - based corporation that runs the largest virtual private network (VPN) service in the world.

He ended up spending 18 years at AT&T, rising through the ranks of its accountancy program and running installation and maintenance in the Mountain States aged just 28.

The climate change denial machine has been up and running since at least 1988, 20 years longer than the story suggests.

So, ensure that you have enough balance in your account to run smoothly for at least a year.

For years we ran a «Startup Idol» competition at Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colo..

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

The square was declared off limits to demonstrations for a third year running and police blocked points of entry, allowing only small groups of labor union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

At the same event, I ran into Bob Schwartz, Nordstrom.com's former President and someone I've known for several years.

The man now plucked to run the Bank of Japan and revive the long stagnant economy was a career Ministry of Finance bureaucrat at the time exasperated that the central bank had - as he saw it - shirked its duty to end what was then already six years of deflation.

David Golden, who ran investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist during the bubble years, recalls one particular idiom that encapsulated the mayhem, «If you could fog a mirror, you could go public.»

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

These gestures often vary in scale and cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.

«I spent several mornings my freshman year running the stadium stairs at 4 a.m.,» he says, «because I'd forgotten an appointment or showed up late.»

He's the number one professor six years running at Wharton, one of the leading business schools in the country; a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over; and a frequent keynote speaker, researcher and consultant.

Put another way, if the government gives Canada Post the tools it needs to clean up its balance sheet and make a serious run at new markets, this Crown corporation may turn out to be an attractive buy a few years hence.

He was featured in Crain's «40 under 40»; awarded Irish America's Business 100 profile four years running; and was honored to be guest speaker at The Wharton School of Business on entrepreneurship and leadership as well as Cornell and DePaul Universities.

Jeet Banerjee, a 19 - year - old serial entrepreneur and college studentbased in Orange County, Calif., says he tries to run through each speech under «real - world» conditions at least four or five times before the main event.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

It's been 38 years since then, and I'm running the London Marathon at age 60.

That was some 30 years ago and I always remember people at the time saying how impressive it was that this young man had somehow gotten a loan, bought a business, and was running it successfully.

On the other hand, Lucas and Lee Brown, 22 - year - old twin brothers and students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, made the decision to close down a fashion business they'd been running from February to October 2005 when it became clear that their inventory wasn't selling.

At the time, oil supplies for OECD nations had surged to near 400 million barrels above their five - year average, and were still running at about 300 million barrels above the average at the end of 201At the time, oil supplies for OECD nations had surged to near 400 million barrels above their five - year average, and were still running at about 300 million barrels above the average at the end of 201at about 300 million barrels above the average at the end of 201at the end of 2016.

«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually think out multiple years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»

Tacchi spent a total of four years at NeXT and Apple, and he learned a lot about how to run a business (and how not to).

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

After years of «running at full sprint,» the dad of a 20 - month - old daughter recently decided to slow down to a trot.

A year after that, at the end of 2014, Zenefits was at just over $ 20 million in run - rate revenue, and the goal for this year is $ 100 million.

Confidence in Wasson began to wane, but as late as Nov. 24, 2014, Walgreens» proxy stated that he would run the company when the deal was consummated at year's end.

A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.

That didn't include at least 13 deaths last year in seven crashes involving commercial charter flights in the U.S., and ignored the fact that the FAA was being run by an Obama - era holdover.

Hoffman — who spent six years working at Hasbro — mulled over the name and his imagination started to run wild.

It's been a remarkable run for the company — in just four years it has quadruped its top - line sales, while shares are trading at a record high of about $ 53.

«PM Modi engaged in social media heavily in the run - up to last year's election,» says Richard Rossow, chair in U.S. India policy studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after birth.

Among the jobs on offer when he graduated was bank teller at the Bank of Nova Scotia's Windsor Park branch — starting salary, $ 7,400 a year — marking the start of a 43 - year run at the bank.