Sentences with phrase «tough year on»

NREI: In hindsight, 2015 was a pretty tough year on Wall Street for REITs.

2015 was a tough year on many levels.

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Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down.

For many years while I worked for Exxon Mobil their slogan was, «Taking on the World's Toughest Energy Challenges».

Another developer, Sean McCracken, won $ 10,000 in a contest last year for creating an aliens - themed video game for Glass, Psyclops, but Google never put it on the official hub for Glass apps, making it tougher to find.

After all, the average car on American highways and byways is now more than 9 years old after a tough downturn that has driven home the virtue of making do, says John Paul, a spokesman for AAA of Southern New England and host of the «Car Doctor,» a weekly radio program.

In London, it has fended off attempts by drivers of the city's famous black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app.

But the past few years have been tough on casual restaurants — a vast category that occupies everything between fast food and fine dining — as chains have surrendered market share to a growing wave of upscale fast - food brands like Five Guys and Freshii.

CB: How should the government talk about the tougher issues touched on in this budget, such as cost cutting, in the coming years?

Additionally, the first quarter of 2016 was a tough for Goldman, with volatile markets, regulatory burdens and fewer deals in the first half of the year pressing on its compensation pool.

Macmahon Holdings has reported a net loss of $ 217.9 million for the financial year, on the back of impairments to its assets during what has been a tough time for contractors and mining services firms.

Chris Rock, 52, inspired many when he emerged from a tough divorce and some rocky career moves in order to go back on tour this year.

However, in a speech to the CBI on Monday night, Hammond said that «after seven long and tough years, the high - wage, high - growth economy for which we strive is tantalisingly close to being within our grasp.

In an election year, the Wells scandal is a Wall Street scandal that the average American is directly connected with (almost everyone has a bank account), and it can help the members of Congress look tough on the financial industry.

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

Last year, Medicare imposed tougher scrutiny on urine testing and cut its reimbursement levels to providers, say Schulte and Lucas.

On its current path, there's good reason to doubt if Snap will ever be profitable and you can expect it to have a tough first year.

Last year I went to a huge multi-day event featuring more than 50 main speakers, dozens of seminar speakers, a wide variety of breakout sessions and workshops... fitting everything into a schedule was almost as tough as getting all the schwag into my carry - on.

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.

Over the years (after moving on from pizza), I built a reputation for taking on tough assignments.

And small businesses have the toughest time: Only 3.1 percent of small - business projects out of 20,000 reached their goal on Indiegogo last year, according to reports.

RBC Capital Markets trimmed its year - end target on the S&P 500 to 2,890 from 3,000, as it sees a tougher road for the market to post gains.

We found some good stocks, and we stuck through them through some tough times and figured out which ones were going to carry the water for us over the years,» the fund's portfolio manager, Steven Wymer, said in an interview with «Power Lunch» on Wednesday.

That year, the toughest year the company had faced, was the first time they landed on the Best Managed Companies list.

It's been a tough year for hedge funds with most seeing gains erased for the year, after August's wild market rout on China concerns.

But short - sellers may have regained an edge after a burst of market volatility earlier this year fueled by fears of rising U.S. interest rates and the Trump administration's tough talk on trade.

Despite some tough comparisons to a year ago, Time Warner reported it beat analyst expectations on cable network gains on Thursday.

It was a tough decision to drop Harvard — she'd spent three years working on the sky - high GMAT score that got her in — but the opportunity to take part in a new program with an Aboriginal focus was irresistible.

Dixons Carphone remained at the bottom of the European benchmark, down more than 23 percent, after lowering its full - year profit on tougher market conditions.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

I always reflect on the life of this strong woman who was tough as nails, who for two years lived in a hole in the ground that could very well have been her grave.

The tariffs are Trump's first strike at China's economy after a year of procrastinating on campaign promises to get tough on US trade with China.

«It's tough to look at a full year of losses on Amazon (+56 %), athenahealth (+26 %), Netflix (+55 %) and Tesla (+46 %) when we believe all those stocks appeared priced with little margin for error entering the year, and none executed well or met fundamental expectations in 2017,» he wrote.

Now that the connection between gift cards and the opioid crisis is known, regulators and law enforcement plan to get tougher on store return fraud next year.

Setting his sights on hacking the toughest challenge of all — cancer — the co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook, and president of the Parker Foundation has already accomplished something miraculous in a few years» time: getting the nation's top cancer immunology experts to work together toward a common goal.

He'd spent the past few years on the «tough experiences» team that handles fake accounts, violent content, sexual exploitation, self - harm and counter-terrorism.

JANUARY 2013: Formidable reporting duo Jackie Wong and David P. Ball embark on a year - long project looking at the tough search for affordable housing in B.C.'s Lower Mainland.

Deciding to spend money on a convention centre that depends so heavily on the revival of the automotive industry was obviously a tough call, given that two of the US car companies that used to be known as the Big Three filed for - then emerged from - bankruptcy last year.

Years after a national task force recommended enacting anti-spam legislation, the Canadian bill finally established strict rules for electronic marketing and safeguards against the installation of unwanted software programs on personal computers, all backed by tough multi-million dollar penalties.

Holding on to a position because it did well for you during tough years, or outperformed years ago, is not reason enough to hold something.

With Weatherford having a lot of debt on its balance sheet, the moves are critical steps toward helping the company make a full recovery from tough times in recent years.

The Congressional Black Caucus may also be tough on Zuckerberg, given the racist nature of some of the content that has survived on Facebook over the years.

It's easy to leverage on cheap money in a growing economy but it is harder to grow and increase payouts during tough years.

He went on to predict that 2011 was going to be a tough year for equities.

There is no doubt we will find the going tough on the export side, and we will not be able to repeat in the short term the sort of figures we have become used to over the past five years.

The regulation, which could bring around 400 million euros ($ 546 million) to the state coffers based on total deposits worth 1.4 trillion euros, had been tipped as a possible sweetener for the regions days after tough deficit limits for this year and next were set by the central government.

After years of tough restrictions on American companies trying to operate in China, including coercing the transfer of proprietary technology, the White House is looking to subject China to similar investment hurdles in the United States.

Merkel, who enjoyed record high popularity ratings early last year, has grown increasingly isolated in recent months as members of her conservative bloc have pressed her to take a tougher line on asylum seekers and European allies have dragged their feet on the issue.

Ottawa has been trying to get tougher on companies involved in corruption after being rebuked for years on the international stage for its perceived failure to take the matter seriously.