Sentences with phrase «weathers another year in»

Can it weather a year in the red and return to profitability?

On a table lay typewriter, notes, and a tiny, German - made tape recorder which has weathered a year in Auca jungles.

Not exact matches

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.

Monitoring how walloped employees are feeling by weather or cyclical events is one of the functions of measuring workplace mood so closely: by taking the pulse of a workplace and offering feedback, employers can develop happiness - boosting policies and practices (flexible hours in September, for instance, could help parents deal with the start of the school year).

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

But after several years of experiencing tropical weather all year long, with a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle, healthy living, and business opportunities that far exceed the coastal opportunities in the U.S., I'd never go back.»

«It is weathering the current global slump remarkably well: with GDP growth expected to be around 3 % this year and 4 % in 2010,» noted ING Investment Management in a summer report.

Monadelphous Group says it will be looking to reduce costs to weather the current market conditions, with the company announcing a 23.6 per cent slide in net profit for the 2015 financial year, to $ 105.8 million.

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

While massive blizzards and extreme weather in places like New York can leave hotels and airlines scrambling to alternate staff and schedules, the tourism industry in Bali has a somewhat similar challenge every year: Day of Silence.

«The main reasons for the disappointing start of the year in Germany are one - offs, like the harsh winter weather, vacation and high levels of sick leave due to the flu, combined with some sentiment normalization.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

The Teranet — National Bank release comes just days after a somewhat more upbeat report from Royal LePage, which posited that lousy weather has kept buyers inside in the first quarter of the year.

Sure, living in the City of Angels is expensive, but it comes with the opportunity to be surrounded by like - minded people — and of course, excellent weather year - round.

Bad weather in South America and an increased demand for coffee worldwide has driven the price of coffee to a 13 - year high.

«Our sales of cold - weather merchandise, such as coats, sweaters, boots, et cetera, were significantly below last year in the quarter.»

It was only a few years old and, in some ways, mirrored the state of Lavalin's Weather Now when Morrissette bought it: The basic weather - reporting infrastructure was in place, but the company wasn't generating much advertising revenue.

Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.

The Algarve also offers great weather with 3,300 hours of sunshine per year; meaning more sunny days than almost anywhere else in Europe.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Haldane had previously said that economic forecasting could be improved by using more data, just as weather forecasting has improved in the 30 years since the 1987 storm.

Last year, consumers were hit with one of the biggest price increases for traditional Thanksgiving trimmings in years, after poor weather shrank the size of U.S. crops.

The waterproof membrane is backed by a one year limited warranty, so you can play in any weather without having wet feet.

The fast casual Mexican chain certainly has its loyal fans, but it had to overhaul its health and safety practices after it weathered an E. coli outbreak that affected 60 people in more than 10 states earlier this year.

Despite weathering the storm, CEO and founder Gal Haber is stepping aside to take the role of managing director in April, to be replaced by 35 - year - old Asaf Elimelech.

Marc Scott, a portfolio manager at American Century Investments, says that the warm weather in 2012 caused demand to fall by 12 % from the same period the year before.

Ontario tops the list in terms of residential square footage per year, followed by other cold - weather locales such as Minnesota, Quebec, Iowa and New York.

To focus on dividend payers that are better positioned to weather a downturn, go with SPDR S&P Dividend (sdy): It's an exchange - traded fund that invests only in large companies healthy enough to have boosted payouts for at least 20 consecutive years, including warhorses like AT&T (t) and Chevron (cvx).

Slow economic growth, increasing extreme weather events and volatility in capital markets made the insurance business tumultuous in recent years, with employees facing upheaval in their day - to - day roles as well as layoffs.

«For wedding locations that are popular wedding destinations — think Hawaii or Southern California — or locations where the weather is nice all year round, slow seasons as far as weddings are concerned are basically nonexistent,» said Christina Farrow, president and co-founder of planning site AislePlanner.com, who previously ran a wedding planning firm in Hawaii.

In previous decades, the magazine could easily weather a few years of turmoil.

It's not hard to create New Year's resolutions or annual goals for a company but the challenge lies in sticking to them day in and day out, on the good days and bad days, in nice weather and bad weather.

CLIMATE: The climate in Aspen offers mild weather with low humidity and year - round sunshine.

Severe weather due to climate change is already costing Canadians billions of dollars a year in insurance costs.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is embarking on its biggest cost - cutting push in years as it tries to weather a slump in trading and dealmaking, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

The harsh winter weather and port delays that damped growth at the start of the year have given way to increases in consumer spending and housing, bolstering Federal Reserve projections that the setback was temporary.

I use a 55 % equities / 45 % bonds investment mix in addition to carrying 3 years spending in cash (to weather any potential market downturns).

The Middle East has faced numerous economic and political challenges in the last few years, but to its credit, it has weathered them reasonably well.

With the forecast calling for a teeth - chattering cold winter in many parts of the United States, the end of the year is important for business owners to reflect on their plan to «weather the storm.»

Ford reclaimed control of its blue oval logo last year after using it and other assets as collateral to borrow $ 23.4 billion in 2006 which allowed the company to weather the global financial crisis.

Small business loan applications have increased 60 percent in the past six weeks when compared to last year, at least half of which are weather - related.

If the weather does indeed become unstable during the next several years, consumers could be facing a dramatic surge in food prices (very similar to the late 1970s and early 1980s).

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

In 2017, the U.S. endured its costliest year for weather and climate disasters on record because of a trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season.

An article in the American Meteorological Society Journal said that they saw weather variations costing $ 630 billion a year for the US alone

SMCP brands also took market share in France — their biggest source of revenue — in the first three months of the year against an unfavourable backdrop, with unseasonably cold weather in February and March, Lalonde said.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

As we begin the first quarter of 2017, we are mindful of the comparison we face against first quarter 2016 results, which benefited from leap year, favourable weather and continued momentum from All - Day Breakfast in the U.S.»

«We had anticipated a rebound in activity from earlier this year when the harsher than normal winter weather took hold, but the biggest drop in fixed mortgage rates in almost four years and resulting improvement in affordability also gave the Canadian housing market a boost of extra energy.»