Sentences with phrase «year as i attempt»

The Mercedes B - class E-cell is one of the handful of smaller models that will introduce US over the next few years as it attempts to its fleet wide fuel economy.

This basically means that companies like Genesis and Brookdale Senior Living may face a few lean years as they attempt to adapt to yet another new payment paradigm.

Previous rumors claimed Apple was going to launch a $ 259 budget iPad this year as an attempt to win back customers in the education sector, most of whom have gone over to either Google or Microsoft for their technology needs — at least in terms of classroom devices, that is.

So please bear with me this year as I attempt to share our home and my decorating style in less than ideal circumstances!

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

The party earlier this year attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law also known as Obamacare.

As the unemployment rate among young people has skyrocketed in recent years, the Administration is attempting to whet their entrepreneurial appetites.

As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (vrx) said on Tuesday it would reorganize, and stood by its full - year forecast, as it attempts to restore investor confidence after facing a storm of criticism over its business practices.

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

The move is seen as appealing to female customers and as an attempt to bolster the company's beauty products business, which generated 4.2 % ($ 3.4 billion) of CVS's retail sales in 2016, a decrease from the previous year.

When it was acquired by Dell a little over nine years ago, many in the gaming industry saw it as a lame attempt by a stodgy corporation to buy its way into the «cool kids» club.

Ellison has been stepping up the rhetoric against Amazon (amzn) over the past year, as Oracle (oclcf) attempts to make a big business selling computing resources on demand, which technology analysts also refer to as Infrastructure - as - a-service (IaaS).

Facebook's envy of Snapchat has been well - documented — as have its attempts over the years to imitate various features of the mobile video - messaging service.

I like to see retirees attempt to smooth their income, paying as little tax over their entire retirement, rather than just in the first few years.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

General Electric has hemorrhaged value over the past year as new CEO John Flannery attempts to turn the conglomerate around.

In recent years Whole Foods has attempted to stress value, and even launched a lower - priced Whole Foods 365 line of stores, but for the most part it is still thought of as an expensive place to shop for groceries.

This, Klosterman argues, is how it has always been (for a while we were certain the Earth was flat until that was proven incorrect), and from that starting point, he attempts to explore which ideas or truths we believe today may be seen as woefully incorrect 100 years in the future.

Waltham, Massachusetts - based Alere, which makes tests for infections such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and dengue, sued Abbott in August last year in an attempt to force the company to move ahead with the deal.

The chain was able to keep refinancing its debt for years, but attempts to take Toys «R» Us public fizzled and its stature as market leader kept eroding.

«If I look at what they've done since (Wilson) announced he was stepping off the board, they've ramped up their product quality team, they've attempted to reinvigorate the design process as they were the clear leader three years ago in the space,» Burns said.

Strangely, many companies are constantly attempting to race toward the creation of the «perfect» messenger for your contacts such as BitTorrent's Bleep or Wire, the cross-platform messenger that The Next web called one of their apps of the year.

This comes just nine months after the Labor Department sued Google for not handing over 19 years of pay data on 21,000 Google employees for a routine audit into the company's pay methods, as part of that department's attempt to show whether Google's hiring discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other factors.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Resolute Mining Ltd has given the green light for a $ 77 million expansion of its Ravenswood project in Queensland, as the Perth - based gold miner attempts to capture some of the 25 - year - high gold price.

India's stock markets rose on Tuesday, bouncing back from their lowest levels in a year as markets were seen as oversold, while sentiment was also helped after the government said it would make another attempt to pass the goods and services tax (GST).

In an attempt to crack the glass ceiling in start - ups, a number of mentoring and investing organizations have started or grown significantly over the past few years, such as Women 2.0, SpringBoard Enterprises, Astia, and Golden Seeds.

Today, McDonald's is pushing its McCafe offerings, as players such as Taco Bell, Chick - fil - A and Starbucks have attempted to encroach on the breakfast market in the past year.

But as if exorbitant deal costs weren't touchy enough, Tabcorp also made a hash of its half - year 12.5 cents yield, attempting to offer the Dividend Reinvestment Plan, despite the deed precluding the bookmaker from issuing more scrip while it subsumes the Queenslanders.

Similarly for stocks because they fare poorly as well in inflationary periods... Unfair though it may be, an investor should continue to expect an attempted inflationary solution in almost all developed economies over the next few years and even decades.»

Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

We think more opportunity may exist abroad as banks in some regions attempt to clarify their business models, a process that took place in the United States more than five years ago.

However, attempting to hit a single year deficit / surplus target is extremely difficult, as it is influenced by many factors outside the control of the government, most notably by economic developments.

Alice, Christy, Jim and Rob Walton are among the worst - performing billionaires this year, down a combined $ 43.4 billion as the mass merchandiser invests in stores and e-commerce in an attempt to revitalize sales at the retailing giant.

Authored by incoming federal trade commissioner Rohit Chopra as he awaited Senate confirmation for his new post, the paper marks the first comprehensive attempt to rethink federal anti-corruption policy in years — maybe since the Watergate era.

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

Often termed as the silver to Bitcoin's gold, Litecoin has been attempting for years to become the closest alternative t...

In his four years as CEO the company managed a merger of equals, grew from $ 210 million in revenues to $ 562 million, survived an aborted takeover attempt by Microsoft (msft), and evolved into a company that today is a regular on Fortune's list of Best Places to Work.

Unfortunately, this information is lacking in government documents and as a result no one really knows what the government expects to spend this year... This note examines the various issues and problems in attempting to do this link.

In recent years, the most intense discussion at Camp Kotok has revolved around the Fed as everyone eagerly anticipated and attempted to forecast first Fed tapering and then the timing and pace of rate hikes.

As the world of business became more complex in the past 100 years, attempts to segment buyers and customers have become more sophisticated.

As in most budgets, it was an attempt to remind everyone of what the government has done for «the middle class» for the last two years.

I held a few seminars in an attempt to push Gold as the best way to make money during a falling market (the general markets were down 40 + % in less than 2 years), but getting an order was like pulling teeth.