Sentences with phrase «seven years»

The first book to influence my world view was [Heinrich Harrer's] Seven Years in Tibet, which led to a one - way ticket to the Orient after my MBA.

The company's business there generated almost half of operating profit seven years ago.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures in New York were down about 3 %, and fell to as low as $ 35.59 per barrel, the weakest level in seven years.

It may sound obvious now, as many brands doing this now, but seven years ago, not many would have thought it was necessary.

The number of homes sold in February was the lowest for the month in seven years, and the median annual price gain was the smallest in nearly three years.

It took seven years and a lawsuit before the Bush SBA drafted rules that would set aside contracts for women - owned firms — in just four of 140 potential industries.

It's a great way to easily monitor stress, with technology backed by seven years of research from Stanford's Calming Technologies lab.

From a career perspective, the most valuable thing he said he has done is spending about seven years entering and analyzing market data.

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 %.

Staley took charge of the bank in 2015 on a pledge to rebuild the bank's image, and is its fifth CEO in seven years.

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

It was the first decline in nearly seven years.

Having started Chobani just seven years ago after taking control of a small feta cheese company from Kraft Foods Group, Hamdi Ulukaya, a US - based Turk, will take the concept to the UK.

Analysts at CFRA expect corporate earnings to have surged 16.3 percent in the first quarter, the most in seven years.

If you've thought of working in the healthcare field but aren't particularly interested in seven years of medical school, a career in audiology or speech - language pathology might be of interest to you.

I had worked at Google for seven years as a strategist for online operations, but had recently focused my time on being a mother to my three girls.

But he never thought it would take seven years to see his life story come to life on the big screen.

Fearing the worst, the U.S. and Britain focused their resources into the Manhattan Project; from the blackboard to Hiroshima, the development of a fission device took a scant seven years.

Facebook recently announced it plans to invest $ 1 billion in programs for small businesses in 2018 — an amount nearly equal to its investment in similar initiatives over the past seven years combined.

They don't want to keep people in cars six or seven years.»

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

They built the company together, but then seven years in, she was blindsided when he told her that he was leaving — and marrying her secretary.

Adrian Salamunovic, a business owner who lives in Ottawa, said he's been shopping at Saks for about seven years.

He understood the issues, but failed to act in his first seven years — violating Welch's maxim that new CEOs are judged by their decisions in their first ninety days.

After running both businesses simultaneously for seven years, Alyssa sold her fashion agency business in December 2014 in order to focus her full attention on growing mini mioche.

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

In Kozlowski's case, you're talking seven years.

Then, Moglia left Merrill Lynch and became CEO of online broker TD Ameritrade, where he held the position for seven years.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to

The economy is nearly seven years into a recovery, with no immediate signs of slowing down.

In 1948, seven years before his death, Einstein had surgery to prevent the «grapefruit - sized» aneurysm from rupturing.

And over the past seven years, we've nurtured that spirit.»

I then completed the Harvard Banks Management Program before moving to Western Australia in 1997 to head up Bankwest, where I held the role of Managing Director for seven years.

Many of the younger female students are pursuing degrees full - time, such as Jessica Dillon, 29, who worked for seven years after college, at Fannie Mae and Capital One Bank (COF).

I was seven years old, and it was difficult to grasp the evil — the lack of humanity.

In the seven years since Weiner has taken over as C.E.O., LinkedIn has grown membership from 50 million to over 460 million.

Trump had kept his distance from the Senate process, but Monday night's development was a major blow for him, too, as the president failed to rally support for what has been the GOP's trademark issue for seven years, ever since Obama and the Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act.

A demonstration track will be built in two to three years from the signing of the final agreement, while the second phase will aim to complete construction of the full Pune - Mumbai route in five to seven years.

Well, research by the National Endowment for Financial Education estimates that 70 percent of those who come into large sums of money go broke within seven years.

Qantas is planning a significant patch - up job on its over-crowded Perth domestic terminal, spending around $ 50 million in what is considered an interim step which could put off a major redevelopment decision for as much as seven years.

Given how quickly the landscape has evolved in just the past five - to - seven years.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to Fairlie and Miranda.

Why She's One to Watch: Krishnan landed her first government gig — a contract to create a database of images for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms — seven years ago, when she was a senior at Virginia Tech.

That might still sound like a hardship to most folks, but when you've been locked up and living in a 7x7 cell for seven years like he has, it's just an amazing feeling to know you have five days of freedom.

After seven years of stashing more than 70 percent of her income, she built a nest egg of $ 2.25 million, 40 percent of which came from investing and 60 percent from saving.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

In the last seven years, 2,889 companies, including Nissan, International Paper and Volkswagen, have expanded or moved to Tennessee, bringing more than 104,000 jobs and $ 12.8 billion in new business investment to the state.

Seven years on, their collective real debt is the highest recorded since the 1830s — even higher than the peaks reached to finance the first and second World Wars.

After seven years of helping travelers find rental properties in 190 countries around the world, Airbnb is now undergoing its own bout of wanderlust, aimed at its fastest growing market: China.

Last week, Sanofi agreed to buy U.S. hemophilia specialist Bioverativ for $ 11.6 billion, its biggest deal for seven years and a major play to strengthen its presence in treatments for rare diseases.