Sentences with phrase «was for some years on»

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Apple ships its current, top - of - the - line MacBook Pro with 16 GB, but you can match that on a computer that's six - years - old for under $ 100.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that an average Brent price of around $ 60 was a reasonable forecast for this year, Interfax news agency reported.

Delinquent payments stick around on your credit score for 7 years, so while making a late payment isn't a lifetime offense, it will impact you for a long time coming.

DAKAR, April 24 - Congo's state miner Gecamines is starting legal proceedings to dissolve its Kamoto copper and cobalt joint venture with a subsidiary of Glencore, blaming the commodities giant for high debts that have weighed on the mine for more than 10 years.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

Paradoxically, the city's latent racism hasn't affected mayor Aboutaleb's popularity among supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV)- the Dutch nationalist rightwing party led by Wilders, who, on 9 December last year, was convicted of inciting discrimination.

«That was the first thing that crossed my mind — I was like, «Oh s — ,»» Rosie, a 30 - year - old DACA recipient who has lived in the US for 26 years, told Business Insider on Tuesday.

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Many market players believe that a 3 percent level on the 10 - year U.S. paper is a massive problem for equities, but above all, for the global economy.

Just ask the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has been fighting a rearguard attack on its independence for eight years because many Americans were angered to learn that technocrats could wield such awesome power.

I was working on creating an indoor, year - round space for a farmer's market, and through that I heard about the challenges wholesale buyers face in sourcing local food.

More than 16 million digital packets were sent on the eve of Chinese New Year in 2014, but that grew to 14.2 billion for the same day last yYear in 2014, but that grew to 14.2 billion for the same day last yearyear.

«Brainjolt was built on the work I did for five years every day between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

I watched this man who has been incarcerated for 20 - or - so years get down on his knees and re-propose to his wife and promised her to be a better man and stay true to the Defy mission upon graduation.

Entrepreneurs have been fueled by an explosive enthusiasm for Uber - of - X on - demand services in recent years.

NEW plans have surfaced for a «floating» hotel on the Swan River, 13 years after the original idea was proposed.

Despite the exodus, sales have ticked up during the past few years; Target is on track for $ 73 billion in 2014.

The company has also been working on voice recognition, natural langauge processing, and translation for years, so the Google Home is better at understanding accents and natural language than the Echo.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.

Summit at Sea, for example, is bringing together AOL co-founder Steve Case, National Geographic Society explorer in residence Sylvia Earle and Univision host Jorge Ramos on this year's voyage.

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

But putting yourself on the hook for 30 years is a big deal and should be treated as such.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Four years on from a period of scathing reviews and business upheaval, C Restaurant is gearing up for one of its busiest days of the year.

It's a big win for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., whose officials spent years pushing to scrap a ban on weighted - voting rights, which give founders and executives control even with minority ownership.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

He also touches on return on investment — he earned on artwork he purchased years ago for $ 1 million that is now worth $ 8 million — and underlines the importance of a buy - and - hold strategy.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Despite the upbeat statements, which on Friday included Modi inviting Xi to India for a similar informal summit next year, the nations» differences are significant.

BEIJING, May 3 - Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in almost four years.

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

I want to speak truth to power today and share with you what has been grating on me for years: On the grand holiday table, so - called «real» cranberry sauce is forcefully, and recklessly, displacing the canned cranberry sauce that I lovon me for years: On the grand holiday table, so - called «real» cranberry sauce is forcefully, and recklessly, displacing the canned cranberry sauce that I lovOn the grand holiday table, so - called «real» cranberry sauce is forcefully, and recklessly, displacing the canned cranberry sauce that I love.

I point to the fact that I've been on this journey with Starbucks for nearly eight years now on the board — be eight years in March of 2017.

Despite maintaining stable, above - average scores, Canada's relative ranking on the OECD's prestigious Programme for International Student Assessment, which is administered to 15 - year - olds around the world, is slipping.

If there is any good news, most accountants will provide this service affordably and efficiently for you during the month of January so you can stay focused on your New Year's Resolutions and making money rather than filling out paperwork.

Where I have been working on ReKixx cool sneakers 100 % recyclable (www.rekixx.com) for over 3 years now, only hitting my go - to - market strategy this month (November / December), I would consider my path to be a bit above the average wild ride.

These drives have been on the market for a few years and have fallen in price since I bought mine, so there's never been a better time to pick one up.

If a Desjardins customer's driving data shows they are a less risky driver than most (driving less than 15,000 km per year, for example, or driving primarily between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.) they can qualify for a discount on their insurance policy of up to 25 %.

As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

For years, Facebook users have publicly speculated the the app might be spying on them through their smartphone's microphone, using their conversations to target unbelievably specific ads.

Five years, a dropped syllable and one Y Combinator stint later, Tilt has morphed into a Venmo - for - college - groups, a payments company that's growing 41 percent every month on university campuses.

«My oldest son is 19, and he's been on the waiting list for 19 years.»

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

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For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

To finish their first year, they're taken on a one - week international trip for a global strategy project.

Dan Eisenhardt: The overall theme this year for TEDx Vancouver is around the perceptions and realities of personal identification — who we are, where we're going — and within that theme my talk is honing in on the role of vanity in technology adoption, specifically wearables.

«We're coming off an extraordinary holiday, for which we prepared for all year,» Schultz, the coffee giant's chairman and CEO, told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» on Friday.