Sentences with phrase «take families years»

What took her family years to build, a stranger stole in an instant.

It took the family a year and a half to update the century - old fixer - upper.

Not exact matches

After realizing a successful exit selling Destia Communications, Levy took a few years off to get reacquainted with his family and get his financial plan together, and gradually began about what he wanted to do next.

Its stock soared for most of last year, climbing more than 50 % and taking the family fortune to new heights.

You can take advantage of this by enrolling in a high - deductible healthcare plan where you're eligible to use a Health Savings Account — an investment vehicle where you can park thousands of pre-tax dollars every year ($ 3,350 for individuals and $ 6,750 for families).

The year after a baby is born is, also «a unique time,» and a chance to take care of yourself and your family during a period of a mind - bending life changes.

The Mickey Mouse corporation became the biggest brand in family entertainment by taking years to develop new characters and properties, then stoking demand by limiting DVD releases and other access to «the Disney vault.»

The Murdoch family have never wavered in their ambition to take full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt five years ago when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone - hacking scandal.

It took three years, but I paid off all the debt, lost 170 pounds, and moved our family from Wisconsin to Maui, Hawaii.

So, while you get ready to reconnect with family, and even set your New Year's resolutions, try to first take a moment to see what's already worth appreciating in your life.

Dene Rogers, who held the top job at Sears since 2006, had told his board two years ago that he would be decamping with his family back to the United States once Sears weathered the recession and hired a management team that could take the business forward.

Jack Reed can see the recovery taking hold at his family's 109 - year - old clothing store in Tupelo, Mississippi, with sales buoyed in part by the paychecks tied to a Toyota plant up the road and rising confidence that the jobs are here to stay.

The company that returned to family control is hardly the same one the Phelans took public 35 years ago, when sales amounted to just $ 33 million.

While such communications are less common today, those of us who do write «holiday letters» continue to fill them with highlights from the year: the addition of new family members (including adored pets), that annual vacation we took and notable milestones.

Mr. Meister, who took a 7 a.m. flight to Washington every Monday for three years, said he was leaving to spend more time with his family in New York.

AFTER 33 years in the steel industry and having grown the family business into one of the state's biggest names in steel retailing, former Midalia Steel managing director Geoff Midalia has taken a completely different tack with his newest business venture.

The Nordstrom family has been working to take the company private since last year.

«When we look at our budget on a yearly basis, we're much more mindful of «Oh yeah, I pay my life insurance premiums yearly» or «We take a family vacation every year and it's X amount of dollars.»»

The stock has fallen 21 % in the past year, after a failed attempt by the founding family to take the chain private.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

The ravages of older age take more of a toll on us all each year, with previously good friends now finding all of their time taken up by kids and family, a never - ending crush of career - related busy - ness, or just plain, simple laziness.

Vaynerchuk first found success when he took his family wine business from $ 3 million to $ 60 million in just five years after graduating from college.

I have taken my family on three free vacations in the past year, and I travel in business class for free on 85 percent of my flights.

Each year, we take a family trip to the Dominican Republic to visit a public school to donate books and toys.

In February of this year, Facebook (fb) expanded its employee benefits to include 20 days of paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and up to six weeks of paid time to take care of sick relatives.

This everyday trauma affected millions of American families each year; then, in 2015, a bit of smartphone technology took away some of the worry.

Dauman was also removed earlier this year as a director of the Redstone family trust, which will take control of the billionaire's holdings in Viacom and CBS upon his death.

The family successfully took its KP Tissue division — makers of Cashmere toilet paper — public in an IPO late last year.

(The Carlisle family of Memphis would later take a controlling stake in LYFE Kitchen, which now has 14 locations in the U.S. and plans to open up to 10 more this year.)

«This underscores the fact that it takes time, especially because expenses grow faster than many Americans can save during the homebuying, family - raising years,» McBride said.

For the next two years, calls to the family's representative in Pakistan, which took place three to four times a month and sometimes daily, followed a bizarre pattern.

Moreover, the expanded $ 10,000 contribution room per year may not have large take - up compared to $ 5,000 because many families might find it hard to save more than $ 5,000 per year anyway.

The 2014 law required states to take certain steps to help families get and retain child care assistance — and many have taken steps like allowing families to stay eligible for assistance for a full year without having to continuously recertify their income level, giving them a semblance of certainty about their finances for at least the coming year.

In short, though, after that bankruptcy — which followed a fascinating 75 - year history of libertarian ownership by the Hoiles family — entrepreneur Aaron Kushner led a new group, taking over the paper.

«After 26 years of nonstop work since MBA school, I am going to step back and spend some time with my family and let someone else take this amazing company to the next level as CFO,» Callinicos said.

While Stoneman Douglas students can wait until next year to take the tests, some families worry it will be hard to pass them after all the class time they've missed.

After selling Double Line Partners to a private equity company, Young took a year off to spend more time with her kids and family.

Pierre Peugeot, scion of the founding family, head - hunted Folz from foods group Eridania Beghin - Say in 1995, giving him a couple of years to learn the business before taking the driver's seat.

She launched her family website in 2005 and over the next nine years we helped her grow her business at her own pace as it took shape and evolved.

«Their New Year's MSP increase will have families paying 80 per cent more than they did before the Liberals took office.»

Her family took extensive trips throughout the United States, and as a young woman she lived for two years in a Bavarian village a stone's throw from the East German border.

Last year, demand was so strong it took just 2.6 months to rent the available stock of single - family rentals available last summer, down from 3.2 months of supply last year and over 5 months in 2007.

I might not want to start a family until I have all of my debt paid off and that could take years,» Asadullah said.

Down payment advantage: It would take years for many families to save 3 percent down or more.

From the year 2009 to 2016 the Mills family took their portfolio from $ 450,000 to $ 1,000,000 just by spending less than they earn and investing the rest.

On Wednesday morning, the suspect was staying with a friend's family, which had taken him in after Cruz's mother died last year.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

It would take him years to master it, but the machine he shied away from at first, slowly became his link to his family and the world.

Major Val Mylechreest for The Salvation Army, which commissioned the study, said: «Taking a step back from buys and wrapping gifts means we can really appreciate the time we have with family and friends at this time of year.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.