Sentences with phrase «second year did»

Twenty - five hospitals that participated in an earlier quality collaborative and were in their second year did even better with a 28 percent reduction, illustrating that quality improvement is a continuous process.

His second year he did the same thing, only adding defense and actually getting a few minutes a game.

This is her second year doing Camp Kesem.

This week I wanted to share a little glimpse into life lately... I just spent a beautiful week in New York with my Dad... every second year we do wonderful «father - daughter trips», my sister and I take turns...

So coincidentally, this will be my second year doing so... I am... Read More

So coincidentally, this will be my second year doing so...

It's a great event and my second year doing it.

For some children this was their second year doing the project, so that will be interesting to see whether [the program] has made a difference.

This is Gulcher's second year doing the challenge.

Not exact matches

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

Twitter received only 2 % more government requests for user information during the six months ending in June of this year than it did in the second half of 2015, the company said on Wednesday.

But Dwyer, whose S&P 500 year - end target of 3,100 is the second highest on the Street, doesn't see a positive period between May and September blowing the socks off investors.

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

At the beginning of last year, for example, Facebook officials revealed a useful fact: Users spend, on average, seven seconds watching the videos on their Facebook feeds, and two - thirds don't bother turning on the sound.

When she didn't find that company, she applied to Harvard Business School and started working on the idea for Stitch Fix during her second year there.

She does often win (she is second in WTA earnings this year, though a far - off second) and she has been praised for her careful management of her businesses and her brand image.

Snapchat will regret not taking that $ 4 billion: Snapchat, an app that lets you take pictures on your phone that disappear after a few seconds, doesn't make any money, but it sure as hell turned down a lot last year.

It was only the second such permit DOE has given out so far and the first in nearly two years, but it does pose a serious challenge to B.C., especially if more approvals will follow.

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

My view on that, having been in sales for many years, is that if you have a client who will take their business elsewhere simply because you aren't accessible every second of the day, either you are doing something seriously wrong or you need to find new clients in a hurry.

Research suggests many New Year's resolutions don't make it past the second week of February, and only a measly 9.2 percent of people who make resolutions actually achieve their goals by the time the next new year rolls aroYear's resolutions don't make it past the second week of February, and only a measly 9.2 percent of people who make resolutions actually achieve their goals by the time the next new year rolls aroyear rolls around.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

The hospital adopted an unlimited time off policy three years ago and management doesn't regret it for a second.

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

It presented two findings: First, the German public didn't like the reforms passed by Merkel's government in its first year; second, when the public was presented with arguments and data justifying the reforms, it liked them even less.

This person doesn't receive the options immediately, but rather on a vesting schedule — they receive a little bit the first year, more the second year and so on.

UK - based Bushveld Minerals has launched its second takeover bid for local coal explorer Lemur Resources in two years, this time proposing to acquire all the shares it doesn't own in the business for about $ 10.9 million.

Investors didn't respond well to Southern Cross Electrical Engineering advising the market that it did not expect to report a profitable second half of the financial year.

Even fans of wage hikes acknowledge that they must be done in steps — say, an $ 1.00 per hour jump the first year, and 75 cents the second.

In the exclusive interview, Goldner said that while Hasbro doesn't «have perfect clarity» on what will happen with Toys R Us» non-U.S. business, the pain from its bankruptcy would not extend past the second quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.

It's increasingly looking like consumers are learning to skip the «S» versions of the iPhone, or the ones that come every second year that supposedly don't have big new improvements.

Although Hannover is home to the second largest Oktoberfest in the world, the party doesn't go year - round.

«This year, however, (OPEC's) production curbs will increasingly have to make do with playing second fiddle to a Texas - sized wave of U.S. shale growth,» Stephen Brennock, oil analyst at PVM Oil Associates, said in a research note Wednesday.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.

Bruce Philp: Tim Hortons has been named the Top Canadian Brand for the second year in a row in our brand survey — but what does the brand actually mean to Canadians?

This is the second year Lady O has chosen to do her big reveal in the magazine format — a move that came after Oprah bowed out of her 25 - year - old daytime talk show in 2011.

«We're really excited about the second half of the year, when our AI starts doing a lot of this for us.»

If Fed Chair Janet Yellen wants to prove that policymakers are not being pulled along by investors who for years have second - guessed them, this week may offer a rare moment of calm to do so.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

According to business and life coach Tony Robbins, 80 percent of people give up on their New Year's resolutions by the second week of February because they don't have a solid plan in place.

While the period form May to October under - performs in the second half in the year, it doesn't pay to go away

Entrepreneurs listened, at least to the second part: U.S. - based companies raised more venture capital in the fourth quarter of 2014 than they did in any other quarter over the prior 13 years, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

My second biggest issue with it has more to do with the time in which it was written — it's now about 40 years old — and the fact that it seemed to be reflective of attitudes and assumptions that I no longer carry in today's world.

Goldman did see a stellar quarter in its investment banking operations, which saw $ 2.14 billion in net revenues for the quarter and $ 7.37 billion for a year, its second best ever.

Bought my second house at 27 years old for $ 222,000 with 20 % down and my 3rd house 29 at $ 260,000 k at 20 % down and I have been aggressively paying them dos.

The USTR has put Alibaba's (BABA.N) Taobao on its blacklist for the second year in a row over suspected counterfeits sold on the shopping platform, a move the Chinese e-commerce giant said did not reflect its IP - protection efforts.

It doesn't matter if you cancel the card and wait two years to re-apply, you won't get a second bonus under current American Express policy.