Sentences with phrase «year changes due»

To what degree are year - to - year changes due to differences in teacher effectiveness that schools can actually control?

Not exact matches

Danone announced a cost - cutting plan of 1 billion euros ($ 1.1 billion) over the next three years, due to changes in Europe and a tough environment in China.

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward - looking statements due to these risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which include, without limitation: the uncertain timing of, and risks relating to, the executive search process; risks related to the potential failure of eptinezumab to demonstrate safety and efficacy in clinical testing; Alder's ability to conduct clinical trials and studies of eptinezumab sufficient to achieve a positive completion; the availability of data at the expected times; the clinical, therapeutic and commercial value of eptinezumab; risks and uncertainties related to regulatory application, review and approval processes and Alder's compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the manufacture of eptinezumab; Alder's ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights, and operate without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others; the uncertain timing and level of expenses associated with Alder's development and commercialization activities; the sufficiency of Alder's capital and other resources; market competition; changes in economic and business conditions; and other factors discussed under the caption «Risk Factors» in Alder's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2018, and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Video Services underlying revenue was 2.0 % lower in Q1 2018 versus Q1 2017 due to the impact of IFRS 15 accounting changes which led to a year - on - year reduction of EUR 8.2 million in HD +, with no cash impact.

RBC's capital markets division saw a 13 per cent jump year - on - year in net income to $ 748 million, primarily due to a lower effective tax rate largely due to U.S. tax changes and higher results in corporate and investment banking and global markets.

The fastest - growing wage, meanwhile, belongs to librarians, whose salaries have increased on average by 39 % over the past five years, due, in part, to the changing nature of their work.

Carrier announced earlier this year that it planned to close the factories and move manufacturing jobs to Mexico, a change that was estimated to save parent - company United Technologies Corp. $ 65 million a year, in large part due to reduced labor costs.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

After power changed hands in D.C. a year later, the federal government and Congress delayed picking up the baton for several months due to partisan bickering and lobbying by special interests.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Commentary: «Revenues were up 8.3 % for the third quarter versus the prior - year period, due primarily to higher commodity prices impacting the Company's supply chain revenues, higher same store sales in both domestic and international stores, store count growth in international markets and the positive impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.»

In addition, it noted what would be fairly boilerplate severance terms: «If the Company terminates Mr. Ryan's employment without cause on or after a change in control or he resigns for good reason due to a change in control, subject to his execution and non-revocation of a release of claims, the Company will pay him, in addition to his previously - accrued compensation, severance equal to the following: (i) in the case of a change in control of Tribune Publishing or the Company, 12 months of his base salary and one year of his annual targeted bonus amount.»

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

If you start extrapolating 15 % a year returns in your portfolio due to the past four years, many of your other assumptions change e.g. age of retirement, rate of savings, spending decisions, and so forth.

Due to badgers being a protected species in North America and most of Europe, the successful usage of synthetic bristles is the first significant change to the shaving brush in 250 years.

How this value gets articulated and expressed may change significantly year - to - year and even be supplanted by another value due to a global event — while needs such as ease of use and revenue growth will remain constant.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Seed investment activity has increased dramatically over the last three years due to fundamental changes in the dynamics of the venture capital industry.

Pricing declined 0.9 percentage points, primarily due to changes in promotional spending levels versus the prior year in Italy, the UK and Russia.

Litigation financing has existed for years in Australia and the U.S. but not in Canada due to a widely held interpretation of a provision of common law — but that's changing.

Due to recent tax - law changes, anyone with an adjusted gross income above $ 250,000 — for a married couple filing jointly, it's $ 300,000 — will face a limit on itemized deductions that could thus limit their potential tax savings for the 2013 tax year.

Olsavsky said the re-acceleration is partially due to lapping pricing changes from last year, but generally caused by an increase in usage.

Cooling US core inflation this year was driven by major one - off drops — especially the sharp fall in wireless costs due to changes in major pricing plans — as well as some moderation in a few key categories such as housing.

Due to potentially - large oscillations in the desire to hold cash and to the fact that changes in the money supply can take years to impact the cost of living, this theoretical rate of purchasing - power change will tend to be inaccurate over periods of two years or less but should approximate the actual rate of purchasing - power change over periods of five years or more.

(For instance, I've been unable to get a mortgage again until the past year or so, anyway, due to my mercurial and ever - changing income status.

I think part due to the changes in deferred asset year to year.

In addition, the year - over-year change in GST revenues to the end of October 2010 had been overstated due to unexplained declines through the first half of 2009 - 10.

When there is a significant discrepancy between the figures in the two tables, it is often due to: (i) differences in when long - term cash is accounted for; (ii) substantial changes in pension value or NQDCE; or (iii) companies granting long - term incentives for the year in review following the fiscal year end.

However, all of this changes after a few years, due to official budget rules that limit the cost of the bill to $ 1.5 trillion in total — which therefore means that in order to make the corporate tax cuts permanent, the individual tax relief will completely expire by 2025.

That is 51 % more than last April, mostly due to changes that were made in the portfolio in the past year.

This difference is due to changes of the timing of some dividend payments; for whatever reason, this year my semester dividend income from Telefonica was credited in December while in 2016 I received the payout in November.

Our exchange rate against the US dollar and the currencies of most of our trading partners has shown little net change over the past year, and the rise in the trade - weighted index in recent months has been due mainly to the weakness being experienced by the Japanese yen.

In the world of marketing and sales, we are seeing the need for contextual understanding due to a very relevant fact: the context we understood for many years about buyer behavior has drastically changed due to social technologies.

-- «The year - on - year rate of change in the CPI (all items less fresh food) is likely to continue on an uptrend and increase toward 2.0 %, due mainly to an improvement in the output gap and a rise in medium - to - long term inflation expectations.»

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

In the next 35 years, 529,000 people could be killed due to climate change.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

«Unfortunately, we have decided to cancel this year's conference due to unforeseen changes to our speaker line - up and other challenges we believe would make it difficult to provide the quality of conference people have come to expect from Resurgence.»

Three hundred years later, Aristotle was the first known person to use observational data, the changing of position of stars due to traveling south, to support the round earth hypothesis.

Years before any diet changes due to celiac, soy or no dairy or egg.

Aside from the opportunistic $ 754 million acquisition of Diageo's United States wine business late last year, which accelerated Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke's US luxury wine plans, his strategy of «premiumisation» — which was widely shared internally with the suitors during months of due diligence in 2014 — hasn't changed.

I've lost all 40 lbs in a year (mostly within the first 4 months) since changing my lifestyle and consume fruit per day (mainly berries) as ordered by my doc to help with cognitive issues due to a stroke I had following my surgery.

It's horrible to believe something like that, but in my vulnerable teenage years — between adapting to physical changes due to puberty and trying to fit in at school — my self image was definitely not a pretty one.

A number of studies are now linking food losses and waste to rises in inflation, food security, resource inputs and climate change as the global food industry experiences its third bout of inflation in five years due to poor agricultural harvests in the US, Russia and South America.

The buttercream is genius but I personally found it a bit sickly; this however is most likely just due to my tastebuds having changed as I haven't eaten cake or frosting in three years!

I have been gluten - free, dairy - free for 18 years after finding out the rheumatoid arthritis symptoms I was having were due to food allergies (immune response)... since I made the change, it all went away.

It claims in the next five years countries will shift in importance due to a change in consumer demand in dairy.

In recent years, due to the changing consumer profile, the frozen food industry has changed significantly.

That Smitty, Fallon and Barrow were able to cash in on the Maturity last Saturday is due to a welcome change in the conditions of this rich 4 - year - old race.