Sentences with phrase «was a great year on»

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Thanking your team for their contributions during the year is a great way to end on a high note and gear up for 2012.

A great deal of spending on infrastructure, the One Belt One Road for example, which is a massive infrastructure project — trillions of dollars a year for the next ten years, and they are building roads, essentially think of Marco Polo on a bullet train, and that's what we're seeing.

It's not a great three - year return on capital, but it's not the money - losing house of horrors it's made out to be, either.

Just think about this for a second: 69 percent of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they experienced great on - boarding.

A very successful and experienced businessperson once told me that when he looks back on the handful of really great partnerships that he has had over the years, he realizes that it wasn't the little things that mattered.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

For 20 straight years, Whole Foods has been counted as one of America's «Great Places to Work,» an annual list that is based primarily on employee surveys and published by Fortune.

«As hackers devise more advanced and less recognizable threats, organizations that continue to settle for cybersecurity strategies that rely on a «feeling» of security are taking even greater risks in the coming year.»

Lee notes that while the company has a YouTube icon on its home page, the account hasn't been updated in a year, and while Vimeo is a great video site with high standards of quality, YouTube is a better fit for the fitness market with more than 1 billion unique visitors a month compared to Vimeo's 70 million, and a huge selection of fitness videos with millions of views.

«Latest estimates show that average weekly earnings for employees in Great Britain in real terms (that is, adjusted for price inflation) fell by 0.7 % including bonuses, and fell by 0.5 % excluding bonuses, compared with a year earlier,» the ONS said.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

Responsible for some of the greatest visual effects pulled off on screen in the last 40 years, he's done everything from James Bond movies like «Moonraker» and «GoldenEye,» to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and «Inception» (which he won an Oscar for).

For the fifth year, Great American Cookies will also be offering a free birthday cake cookie on April 18 for tax filers those who stop by participating stores.

«Get through the shorter - term period that's focusing on Europe, and the next five years looks great for equities.»

No matter how great your qualifications are, if somebody else in your field graduates a year earlier, they will have a jump on you in the job market.

Twelve years, two companies, 100 employees, and three times on the Inc. 500 list of fastest - growing companies later, I've learned that the only way to build a company with great success and scale is to build a great team.

At best, you might get some broad geopolitical analysis that borders on xenophobia: «The most important fact about the rise of China to great power status is that almost all their neighbors hate them, and have for thousands of years.

While emerging market indexes have been on a wild ride over the past few years, she thinks a number of developing nations are on the cusp of great things.

He was ranked 40th on our list last year, but after another Super Bowl victory that included the greatest comeback in NFL history, Tom Brady is well deserving a spot in the top five.

«Right now there are many other great titles on the marketplace [but] «GTA Online» just had its best years ever.

We have been friends for many years and when she wanted to start ZingBox, she saw a great partnership to capitalize on my business strengths, while she could also capitalize on her tremendous smarts in IoT.»

After surveying thousands of organizational leaders, interviewing those that stand out on the «Follow My Lead» Podcast and being a true student of leadership for many years, it's evident great leaders are hard to come by.

It's a great story, especially for people just starting out, since Eric focuses on his formative years.

And when you watch stylized music... So I was like great, in fact the music in American Sniper is an old Ennio Morricone piece that Sergio Leone played for me on the planes of Spain 50 years ago.

I first wrote about the company back in 2011 for New Scientist, but just happened to find myself sitting next to some of the principals on the flight down to Vegas this year, which was a great opportunity to catch up on what they've been doing.

Cuban may be more comfortable investing on the East coast, where $ 1.9 billion in VC deals took place last year, though I suspect he finds plenty of great deals right there in Dallas.

The great debate — both from consumer and employee perspectives — of the past five years has been hyper - focused on Millennials.

The fifth round of NAFTA renegotiation talks will begin on Friday in Mexico City, but things aren't looking great for the nearly 25 - year - old trade agreement.

«The investigation has been going on for a year and during that course of time I have been focused on running Barclays, I think we've made great progress and I look forward to running Barclays for a number of years to come,» Staley told CNBC Thursday morning.

I started college as a journalism major until one morning in my sophomore year I realized that I wanted my work to be news that scales for the greater good instead of reporting on it.

In addition to providing a welcome opportunity to eat and drink with wild abandon, the holidays are a great time to reflect on our year.

The dollar store was one of the fastest growing retailers in the years after the Great Recession as low - income shoppers looked for lower prices and closer stores to spend less on gas.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

And while the number of shoppers hitting the stores has fallen 7.4 percent nationally in recent weeks, according to ShopperTrak, the slowdown is greater on the West Coast, where the number of shoppers is down 11.2 percent from the same time last year.

Gadgets and devices are great but this year's focus is going to be more on the why rather than the what.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

Based on years of coaching entrepreneurs, some who had a great start and those who had a rocky beginning, I've put together this list of «must haves» for those who are considering leaving their day job or investing hard - earned savings into their business concept.

China's President Xi Jinping waves to delegates as he is elected to a second five - year term during the fifth plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 17, 2018.

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the company's performance, talk about challenges and accomplishments and plan for the year ahead.

While Microsoft has made many of its best Office apps and services available on Google's Android and Apple iOS over the past few years, Myerson says, Windows 10 S represents a renewed focus on what makes Windows itself great.

It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for - granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet with each passing year.

He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.

Some 70 years after the Great Depression delivered a mighty blow to this once wealthy industrial boom - town, Buffalo is finally on the upswing.

Coca - Cola was so impressed by the sales numbers generated by the Great Gobbler Giveaway that last year it piggybacked on the rewards program with a special promotion of its own.

Of the now seven fast - casual chains Renaissance Capital tracked, only Chipotle has been on the stock market for greater than two years.

That means that there are some great tech deals to be had this year on Nov. 27.

Now Pfizer CEO Ian Read has to eat crow and prove to the market that his company can be great on its own, after pretty much spending the past two years saying it was a big deal or bust.

Amazon Prime customers tend to be wealthier, younger, and spend approximately $ 2,500 on the site per year, a level approximately 4.5 times greater than non-members, according to Morgan Stanley (ms).

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

RIM marketing honcho Frank Boulben certainly wasn't spilling any secrets, instead rolling out some standard issue boilerplate in a statement, «A Super Bowl commercial is a great opportunity to show the re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry to tens of millions of consumers on the largest advertising stage of the year.»