Sentences with phrase «spend about a year and»

I spent about a year and half thinking, researching, dreaming, sharing, and planning.

Bush did spend about a year and a half on «vacation» away from the White House, and that doesn't include time spent abroad on official business, but I don't think that's what artfdviuyt is driving at.

«On the consumer side, we spent about a year and a half talking to travelers,» Jeff described.

We recently spent about a year and a half remodeling most of our home.

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

According to an FAQ page on the CAQ website, Quebec spends about $ 4 billion on business tax credits every year, «and the results are not forthcoming: private investment in Quebec is significantly lower than the Canadian average.»

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

The $ 665 billion deficit for fiscal year 2017 will rise to about $ 800 billion this year and jump to $ 1.1 trillion in 2019, a result of the last year's tax deal and an early 2018 spending...

Of the $ 100 billion a year spent on Belt and Road, about 50 % will be used for raw materials like concrete and steel, according to Strategy &, the consulting arm of PwC.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

Vijay Koduri, who spent 7 years at Google and now contributes to the Xoogler investment fund, says that the loves the community because the people are what he misses most about his old job.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

The U.S. government spends about $ 425 billion each year on goods and services.

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).

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

He spent about six years, from roughly 1999 to 2004 and again in 2008, building automated trading software before quitting to help web and mobile startup projects.

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

They are able to spend year after year, sitting around the house, talking about the same boring stuff, watching TV, watching movies, cooking dinner, and it went fine.

Architect and real estate mogul David Azrieli spends his winters overseeing projects in Israel, where the hands - on 91 - year - old has about half a million square feet under construction.

Dave and I spent about six years living in Utah where Costa Vida is based, so we were already familiar with the franchise.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

He says, «Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo [and achieves it]... But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful.»

Although the fees and opening costs have likely changed since I opened ten years ago, I estimate that my spending totaled about $ 60,000.

So we spent about a year trying to course correct and then it became clear that we weren't going to be able to.

The more time you spend swapping complaints about your boss, links to the best video you've seen all year and — oh, right — questions about work, the harder it becomes to recover and produce.

But as Gen Xers start preparing for their golden years, they should also spend time thinking about their own legacies and what they want to leave behind to their children and their communities.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Households that spend $ 50,000 at age 65 tend to see a decline by about 15 percent over the next 15 years and 20 percent by age 85, according to Jonathan Guyton, a certified financial planner and principal at Cornerstone Wealth Advisors, in an article in the Journal of Financial Planning.

Cybersecurity spending is expected to reach $ 71.1 billion this year (a 7.9 percent increase year over year) and estimated to grow about 8 mpercent annually through 2016, according to Gartner Group.

Governments need to boost spending by about $ 37 billion a year to sufficiently maintain and expand roads and bridges, according to the FHWA.

Livingston made a lot of money, but she also used a variety of strategies to save big over the years, such as tracking her spending and automating her savings, but it was one mental trick that made the biggest difference: Think about purchases in terms of cost per hour.

«It's kind of surreal: I spent years in bed dreaming about walking in the woods and walking on the beach and putting a golf ball, never believing it would happen,» Reynolds, now 45, says.

«The price gap is likely to remain substantial in the next two to three years,» the report said, «and assuming it does, Chinese spending on luxury goods will grow about as fast overseas as it will domestically.»

Debt brings with it a discipline about spending and investing that can help your company, especially in its formative and growth years.

There's some good news and bad news in this year's annual assessment about the way the Pentagon spends its hundreds of billions of dollars.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

Sisters Donna, 43, and Robin Barger, 38, of Four Idle Hands have spent several years selling their «devilishly good» jewelry at craft shows in Los Angeles and say the shows give them exposure to customers, fellow crafters, retailers and media personnel who might not know about their online store.

The deal would raise spending caps by about $ 300 billion over two years and bump the limit on military spending by $ 80 billion in the current year and $ 85 billion in the next year.

Then in 1985 Procter & Gamble acquired Richardson - Vicks and decided to spend $ 30 million a year — about double R - V's budget — advertising Vidal Sassoon shampoos and conditioners.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

Federal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to future years.