Sentences with phrase «time time last year»

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LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

Manafort's ties to Russia came under scrutiny in August of last year, when The New York Times discovered that a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine designated him $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments.

This is the only time of year The Tie Bar puts its already affordable products on sale, so you'll want to take advantage while supplies last.

At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

For example, most magazines usually do their Christmas gift list segments at the same time each year, so find out when they did it last year.

It's five times as many people as watched the Super Bowl last year, and twice as many as Twitter has on its entire platform.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

Compare that to the statistics for beer: Down 4 percent over the last five years, with Budweiser's domestic sales down 28 percent in the same time period, Marketwatch reports.

But four years ago, the last time the two major parties debated on the national stage, video was not a major component of social media.

Last year, the founders of Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly learned a few real - world lessons when they traveled to CES in hopes of gaining big - time exposure.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

Just last year, China's OnePlus was able to become one of the most sought after smartphones on the global market in an incredibly short period of time.

Last year, Apple (aapl) reportedly considered acquiring Time Warner and possibly Netflix (nflx).

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

A Gallup poll last year found that 73 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 checked their devices a few times an hour — including 22 percent every few minutes.

WeWork does not disclose revenue, but documents obtained by The Information and cited by The New York Times peg the figure at $ 75 million last year, with $ 4.2 million in profits.

The last time time there was a one - year drop was in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Dozens of times over the last 25 years,» Laszewski writes.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

Crypt been a hit with viewers — a handful of episodes have been viewed more than 5 million times, while most generate numbers in the hundreds of thousands — and produced revenue in the seven figures last year, says Davis, who declined to get specific.

Compared to counterparts who take all their vacation time, they are less likely to have been promoted within the last year (23 % to 27 %), and to have received a raise or bonus in the last three years (78 % to 84 %).

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

Singapore - headquartered bank DBS declined to reveal total digital red packet numbers, but said that there were five times more e-hongbaos sent last year compared with 2016.

Perhaps equally surprising is Amazon's placement near the top, considering last year's reporting by the New York Times that characterized it as having a hostile work environment.

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

The decreases are largely the result of the oil glut and all - time lows for crude prices — last year, mining, oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.

«In connection with our transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks last year, we reaffirmed this resolve, stating that we expected to hire 20,000 new employees at Charter, many in customer service,» the company said in a statement on March 24.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Last year, he started Ryderz Van Service with his girlfriend's car; the business now has three cars, two full - time drivers (Buari and his girlfriend, Chi), and two freelance drivers.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, preparing for his talk with the founder of Frontback — an app that lets you take pictures with both of your iPhone cameras at the same time — Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, is reflecting on the six - year history of this start - up launch conference.

Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

But there are skeptics that these announcements would ever see fruition, with the Financial Times noting on Thursday that President Donald Trump's deals with the country last year have yet to fully materialize.

Late last year GoldieBlox again earned notice across the social sphere, this time with a video featuring three girls playing with its toys while singing alternative lyrics to the Beastie Boys song «Girls.»

At this time last year, there were 986 rigs in U.S. fields.

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

«When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,» Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon told MSNBC last year.

Recently, Ivanka Trump came to Partners & Spade for help with her five - year - old fashion brand, which brought in an estimated $ 250 million in sales in 2013, according to projections last year from The New York Times.

Last year, James» «Uninterrupted» aired «The Shop,» where the three - time NBA champion, Golden State forward Draymond Green and others talk in a barber shop.

Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.

«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

A Pew survey released last week found that 85 % of U.S. adults now get their news on a mobile device at least some of the time, up from 72 % last year and 54 % in 2013.

Last year, new patients in large metro areas had an average wait time of 24 days to get an appointment.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.