Sentences with phrase «such years ago»

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A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

Comedians such as Louis CK, Jim Gaffigan, Aziz Ansari, and Amy Schumer now regularly perform in arenas — virtually unheard of 10 years ago.

As such, the chairman's proposal represents an about - face from his stance just a year ago.

It was, in fact, his last such call before retiring as CEO of Home Capital Group, the company he had co-founded 30 years ago.

A bit more than hundred years ago, before the plane was invented, there was simply no such job as pilot, flight attendant or ground crew.

Speaking with friends in the industry, it feels like a few years ago there was such a move by indie developers to build apps and put them up in the smart device stores.

On an adjusted basis to remove one - time items such as the tax charge, Canada's biggest lenders earned roughly $ 11.3 billion, up approximately 12.59 per cent from a year ago

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

That's been true for the thrill - seeking fans of movies like «Raiders of the Lost Ark» and audiences that prefer more thoughtful releases such as «Lincoln» almost six years ago.

Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

Campaigns on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are largely more sophisticated than their counterparts from just a few years ago.

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

The simple dynamics of supply and demand manifested themselves, and over time lending standards have loosened, and some of the troublesome practices of years ago, such as PIK toggles, have made a comeback.

Spun out of Tarmac nearly 20 years ago and including construction names such as Wimpey and Alfred McAlpine, Carillion operates in Britain and Ireland, Canada, the Middle East and North Africa.

Another such service is H&R Block's More Zero, which was also introduced over a year ago.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

I wrote about the benefits of such machines, which are essentially robots, a few years ago.

A year ago, I would have said confidently that the Trudeau government would be keen on a such a strategy.

Social networking sites and services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have followed the same path to the business world that blogs did only a couple years ago: They're all online hangouts that evolved into sophisticated branding, lead generation and sales tools for business.

It sells billions of dollars in food and beverages that years ago would have been considered gourmet but are now mainstays of the U.S. diet, such as craft beers and white - cheese popcorn.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

Three years ago, the Saratoga, California - based company started selling remote - controlled devices that can stream online media content, such as Netflix movies and Pandora radio, to TV sets.

But a few years ago author, entrepreneur, and Inc.com columnist Dave Kerpen received such a note in the mail.

The only difference is that the Feds have begun to refine their talking points in such a way as not to cause a stir, as happened almost a year ago at a New America Foundation conference on cybersecurity, in which Alex Stamos, Facebook's security chief (then Yahoo's chief information security officer), went toe to toe with the admiral.

Three things seem to drive the outflow, which was a net inflow two years ago and has only recently surged to such astonishingly levels.

Thirty years ago, index funds were less than one percent of assets under management, and today they (along with other passive vehicles such as exchange - traded funds) are about one - third.

Hilton's «Stop Clicking Around» campaign heralded such efforts two years ago.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

By contrast, 20 years ago, companies spent four times as much on such investments as they did on buybacks.

Such a wholesale change would have been unheard - of a few years ago, when Ford and other carmakers were under intense pressure to cut costs and save money.

Such big winners stopped showing up a few years ago, leaving the large drug companies watching the calendar for the day when earnings would be hurt by the loss of key patent protections.

«Unfortunately these events are happening with such frequency investors have become numb and don't respond as they did several years ago,» David Nelson, chief strategist of Belpointe Asset Management, said in an email.

If you had to «break the news» to your wife that a $ 6k investment you made four years ago (and forgotten about) had grown into $ 1.8 million, sure, she might be pissed for a few minutes — but I'm sure she'd quickly forgive you for making such a smart move while you had the chance.

Such a move didn't seem possible a mere five years ago, when, in the context of another reorganization, former - CEO Steve Ballmer wrote a memo insisting that Windows was the future (emphasis mine):

Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

Even though the Yakezie Network is not a big money maker, I'm happy to run it forever because just several years ago no such network in the personal finance blogosphere existed.

Some years ago, Washington Mutual was known for online banking products such as a savings account that offered a high yield for linking with a -LSB-...]

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

The average price of houses that sold over the Multiple Listing Service in September was $ 385,906 nationally, up 8.8 per cent from a year ago, in large part because pricey cities, such as Toronto and Vancouver, are rebounding from steep sales declines a year ago.

And as Staiger, Stock and Watson demonstrated years ago, the NAIRU, assuming such a thing exists, can only be estimated with extreme imprecision.

It is important to note, however, that other things have not been equal: the Australian dollar has depreciated such that in $ A terms, commodity prices are actually higher than a year ago.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

It looks particularly at the elements that have evolved differently to what was expected two years ago, such as the terms of trade, the exchange rate, growth, labour markets, inflation and consequentially monetary policy settings.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Despite the growth plan's preference for multi-family housing, such projects can now take more than three years to complete, double what it was 15 years ago, because of a surge in required documentation, out - of - date municipal zoning bylaws and residents» opposition to high - rise projects, according to development lobby BILD.