Sentences with phrase «wrote down years»

But is that name you wrote down years ago still the person you want as a beneficiary?

His words were written down years latter by others and at one time there were many versions of the Quaran.

I'm going to tell you how we make our spaghetti with breadcrumbs, but I'm going to have to get back to you on the bacala because I need to actually write it down this year while my Nonno is putting it together.

I also wrote down the year on the side of the card stock.

They asked me to write down the year.

Not exact matches

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

I sat down and wrote all of my stories from a 30 year time span.

The company wrote down the value of Lumwana by $ 3.8 billion just two years after the acquisition.

Ten booked a A$ 232 million half - year loss in April, and rivals Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment swung to annual losses after writing down TV assets.

Nokia paid almost $ 200 million for the company in 2016, but wrote down the value by $ 164 million last year.

Zenefits did not have a comment about the write - down or the revenue - target miss, but Kenneth Baer, a company spokesman, said it is unfazed by the competition, and will keep on innovating in the year to come.

«Five days before my mother died, she gave me a journal that contained 10 years» worth of prayers and words of wisdom she had been writing down,» says Taylor.

Emeco Holdings has reported a net loss of $ 21.6 million, down from a $ 28.5 million profit last year, following a series of downgrades and write - downs on the back of a slowdown in the mining sector.

Have your staffers write down their happiest work moment of the year, anonymous or not.

Iron ore explorer Gindalbie Metals has detailed a $ 586 million loss for the financial year, which was previously flagged on the back of a write - down of its 48 per cent stake in the Karara project.

Crane hire company Boom Logistics has flagged an $ 18 million impairment in its half - year profit, with a portion of the write - down relating to costs associated with the shutdown of its transport business in the Pilbara.

But what most people seem to have missed is that this year's Berkshire (brk - a) letter also contained some of the best investment advice the Oracle of Omaha has ever written down.

Petraeus, a four - star general married for 37 years, stepped down as head of the US spy agency just three days after President Barack Obama's re-election over his fling with Broadwell, an army reservist who traveled to Afghanistan to write a glowing biography of the general.

As of this writing on Wednesday, Apple shares were down 6 % on the Nasdaq and about 30 % from their 52 - week high in February last year.

Textron wrote down $ 2.3 in its backlog this year after it cancelled a new jet design, and demand for its other aircraft - related offerings has plummeted.

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.

When I started my freelance writing career years ago, clients repeatedly beat my rates down.

Ten years ago, I was ghost writing computer and tech manuals, I was dissatisfied with being overweight, and I was stressed about everything happening in my life, right down to what kind of car I drove.

For Genworth, 2014 was a year of reckoning, as it wrote down the value of many long - term care policies whose costs its underwriting fees can't cover.

«I was fifteen years old,» Sotomayor writes, «when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.»

«In fact, going back more than 100 years, the Dow has been down 0.3 % on average during the first six months after a new Fed chair takes office,» Lynch and Detrick wrote in a note this week.

As I write this, Best Buy said today they expect to be down between 5 percent and 15 percent for the rest of the year.

After heading to Asia for year - end client meetings, Levkovich wrote: «A 10 % total return in the next 13 - 14 months was perceived as being too conservative by many even as our year - end target is in line with mean and median top - down forecasts... Interestingly, several clients suggested that our outlook was far below the bullishness expressed by other even when our numbers are pretty much well within the Street's consensus.»

I gave her a form on which she could write down, at the end of each month, the sales, cost of goods, gross profit, and gross margin on each of her products both for the month and for the year - to - date.

Chinese wealth is also overstated by the amount of wasted investment made during the year that has not been correctly written down.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

Sure enough, last year TLRD wrote down the entirety of the Goodwill attributable to Jos. A. Bank, acknowledging that the «growth opportunities and expected synergies» were essentially worthless.

«It takes an average of 12.5 years to save up a 20 percent down payment — the usual requirement by banks — with the current personal savings rate of 5.6 percent,» wrote columnist Quentin Fottrell of MarketWatch, citing statistics by real estate firm RealtyTrac.

Indeed, the book values of the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials have declined over the past year, as assets continue to be written down.

HP said Autonomy Corporation PLC, a British company it bought for $ 10 billion last year, lied about its finances, resulting in a massive write - down of the value of the business.

I've been doing informal checkups for years, but I like the idea of making it a formal analysis and writing things down to keep yourself accountable.

I'm actively looking at my debt and determining if it makes more sense to pay down mortgages (locking in a guaranteed ~ 4 % return) or investing in bonds (~ 1 % returns if held to maturity) or stocks (uncertain, but I just wrote an article about the current PE ratio and the inevitable reversion to the mean and I believe we are likely headed for 10 years of low single digit returns).

And Thinking the Unthinkable: a Debt Write Down and Jubilee Year Clean Slate.

However, our NOPAT calculation shows that Briggs actually earned $ 74 million in profit last year after the impact of these restructuring, write down, and other unusual charges are removed.

«In March 2016, Iconix publicly announced a $ 169 million write down of Rocawear, and in March of this year, Iconix announced a further write down of $ 34 million.

The agency is seeking Carter's testimony after Iconix wrote down the value of Rocawear by $ 169 million in March 2016 and another $ 34 million this year, the SEC said.

When I sat down last week to write out my goals for the year, the most audacious goals I could think of weren't career accomplishments...

The year - earlier earnings included a $ 2.8 m write - down of its Hamilton hotel project costs and $ 7.6 m write - off of its Auckland property to make way for a convention centre.

He never, ever in a million years would have written these posts back in 2008 when he was down nearly 50 percent and nearly blew up.

«We expect demand to outstrip supply for iPhone X over the next two quarters, but demand could potentially slow down starting in the June 2018 quarter due to anticipation of new devices later in the year,» wrote the analysts.

I've written a lot this year about the unwillingness of many on Bay Street to accept that Poloz isn't going to take them by the hand and walk them down a well - marked, interest - rate path.

Microsoft is scaling down its mobile phone activities, writing off the entire value of the former Nokia smartphone business it bought last year and laying off almost one - third of that business» staff.

One benefit of writing down your thoughts and expectations throughout the year is that it becomes very easy to identify what has been surprising.

The law contains several provisions favorable to businesses, including a cut in the corporate income - tax rate to 21 %, down from 35 %; the ability to write off qualified investments in new facilities right away, rather than over several years; and the potential for a 20 % income deduction for small - business owners who own companies via pass - through entities.

It has been written about often over the past year that sales are not able to engage until further down the buyer journey and marketing has a tough job of «warming up» the buyer for sales engagement.