Sentences with phrase «weeks ago»

Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said on Friday the company would send more battery installers to Puerto Rico to help restore power after Hurricane Maria knocked out all power on the island over two weeks ago.

The value of a single bitcoin is now about $ 420, an all - time high that would have been inconceivable a few weeks ago.

While plenty of good buys abound on this retail holiday, some aren't as good as they seem, with items costing more than they did just a few weeks ago or stores listing products at the full retail price, but slapping the label «Black Friday deal» onto the flyer to entice shoppers.

Several weeks ago, Arizona State University hosted a solar energy summit that used Morrison's approach.

A few weeks ago, Qualcomm escalated the fight, filing a new patent infringement lawsuit and seeking to have imports of some iPhones and iPads banned from the U.S.

Sexual harassment incidents continue to plague the company, such as the arrest of a driver in Calcutta three weeks ago for allegedly masturbating in front of a female passenger.

You may have caught a report this week by the news website Axios describing the president throwing a mild tantrum about trade policy while chatting with advisers in the Oval Office a few weeks ago.

Some on board immediately thought back to just two weeks ago when a jet engine blew apart and broke a window, leading to a woman being partially sucked out and killed aboard...

«After considering the other options that I have been presented with for post-gubernatorial employment, I declined their request to do additional shows,» Christie said in a statement, adding, «I made that clear to them prior to leaving for my family vacation two weeks ago.»

Just two weeks ago, Trump complained that his former top aide, Rob Porter, was unfairly forced to resign his White House position after both of his ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse, claims he suggested amounted to «a mere allegation.»

And while these levels remain well below what was seen during the financial crisis, there's been an abrupt move, and these banks are now regarded as significantly riskier than they were just a few weeks ago.

That's because he's the most aggressive dove, and the person most eager to see the Fed follow a rule in which they allow inflation to grow more than normal until employment is improved, a notion that's not that different from what Bernanke announced a couple of weeks ago.

Two weeks ago, we wrote about how Airbnb was partnering up with IKEA to offer three «unique» rental opportunities — at an IKEA store in Australia.

«The owners of the [Swedish Elite League] decided some weeks ago that they would not allow short - term contracts if there would be any lockout in the NHL,» said Jörgen Lindgren, the league's CEO, in a conversation with Canadian Business.

A few weeks ago, rumors of Twitter purportedly considering buying SoundCloud surfaced, too.

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned research showing that men feel less committed when assigned to teams that contain more women than men.

«A couple of weeks ago, the generator went down.

Two weeks ago, adultery website Ashley Madison was hacked, exposing account information for more than 30 million users.

A few weeks ago I gave a talk to the ice skating industry about reaching, attracting and retaining Millennials.

Indeed, consumer awareness of Small Business Saturday jumped to 67 percent from 34 percent just two weeks ago, according to NFIB and Amex.

I saw one of these a few weeks ago pull up to an Apple shuttle stop - sit there for a few then drove off.

The tariffs were first suggested by China two weeks ago.

But if you'd talked to me three weeks ago, I would have been quite pessimistic, and I was sort of quite down in the dumps.»

I received a thoughtful, heartfelt email from a 24 - year - old gentleman a few weeks ago.

A few weeks ago I attended an event as a guest expert with my radio co-host Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks from Shark Tank.

The dispute began three weeks ago, when B.C. Premier John Horgan's government announced it would not take additional levels of crude from Alberta until it could be sure there are measures in place to handle spill safety.

Said weeks ago, but now is time: Cut Trump loose.

Then two weeks ago, the shares soared to almost $ 21 as revenue and user growth seemed to pick up again in the fourth quarter.

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

Two weeks ago, the teams sat down at their first collective board meeting in Denver.

Weeks ago, Chase's customer service team said via Twitter that «if it has the Chase logo on or around the ATM, then it is a Chase ATM.»

Since Bill Ackman joined the board of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) almost three weeks ago, the hedge fund manager has largely been focused on finding a new CEO to replace Mike Pearson, the current chief whom he reportedly helped push out.

A few weeks ago, McQuaile launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary, «Straight / Curve,» to blur the line between size zeros and size twenties.

Ever since Netflix and Comcast announced their joint interconnection deal a few weeks ago, there has been no shortage of analysis on what it all means for the future of the Internet.

Two weeks ago, it topped page one on reddit and it's been bouncing around social media sites ever since.

To drive home that point, the combined company renamed itself Allergan in June — just six weeks ago — then bought Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH) for $ 2.1 billion.

At a quick glance, it appears the market hasn't made any progress since it began struggling some nine weeks ago.

Just two weeks ago, 13,000 tourists were stranded at the foot of the Matterhorn by heavy snow and rain.

An old college t - shirt and flannel bottoms are the unofficial uniform for countless people when they sleep, myself included — at least until a few weeks ago.

At present, the North has yet to formally acknowledge the proposed meeting, which was announced two weeks ago and is slated to occur by the end of May.

«We had lunch six weeks ago and it didn't come up.»

Well, now, that was a quick turn of events from just a few weeks ago when the pair were going at it on social media.

A few weeks ago, tech giants Apple and Facebook announced they will cover the costs when female employees freeze their eggs to postpone their pregnancy.

A similar Republican initiative in the Senate died a late - night death couple weeks ago.

A few weeks ago, I went on my first sales call to see if I could actually get an order.

A few weeks ago, I was at the opening of the new wing to Sherway Gardens, a mall in the west end of Toronto.

The campaign, which launched back in the spring, has been gathering steam over the summer, and a couple of weeks ago McDonald's added TV ads to back up what had been a slow - build digital effort.

Trump's comment came in response to a question during a Monday press briefing about why he had not yet addressed the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger, who were killed during an ambush two weeks ago.

Since Bolton accepted the job two weeks ago to replace H.R. McMaster, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its already extensive array of national security challenges.

The new restaurant opened only a few weeks ago on West Swan Road in the Swan Valley, and manager Duncan Head says it has taken quite a bit of work to renovate what was an old fruit - growing shed.