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.
Not exact matches
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.