Sentences with phrase «year class of»

Considering that the class of 2015 is the most indebted ever (and next year the class of 2016 will be the most indebted ever, and so on and so forth until we all have so much debt that it becomes one of those basic things we tell each other on first dates [«Well, I work in content marketing, live in Brooklyn, and have about $ 30,000 left to pay off my student loans.»]-RRB-

Peter Schilling, IT director at Amherst College, surveyed this year's incoming first - year class of 438 students about their technology use.

Its troubles came to a head last spring, when the entire first - year class of seven students dropped out and several faculty members resigned.

A 1996 court ruling forced UMBC to broaden its eligibility requirements, and its current 4 - year class of 300 students is 60 % underrepresented minority, 22 % Caucasian, and 18 % Asian.

This year, Purdue will welcome a 1st - year class of 37 nuclear engineering students — well over twice as many as entered the program last year.

When teaching a first - year class of 350 students, Leblanc noticed several who had difficulty staying awake for the second half of his three - hour class.

Not exact matches

The federal government has signed a $ 1.2 billion contract extension with a group of defence contractors for maintenance work on eight Anzac - class frigates for the next five years, with BAE Systems and CIMIC's UGL among the major beneficiaries.

Ahilya by the Sea, a quietly elegant bed and breakfast set on the Mandovi River, is a far cry from the over-the-top opulence of its sister property, Ahilya Fort, while the more trend - setting W Goa set up shop this year on Vagator Beach — expect sunrise yoga and fitness classes by day and cocktails alongside a thumping Indian DJ soundtrack by night.

He intended to go back to school in the fall and work on fulfillment while he was in his second year of classes.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

A private, private second class, or bugler in his first year of service in 1917 was entitled to $ 30 a month.

Twenty years later, that landscape is shifting once again, with a new crop of entrepreneurs elbowing their way into the ranks of Canada's billionaire class.

Google's AI program AlphaGo recently beat a world class human player at the game of Go, which many experts believed was years away from being possible.

I spoke to Henry Siu, a professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in automation and the decline of middle - class jobs; he predicted that the trucking industry could automate within the span of one to two years.

A number of asset classes are facing the likelihood of a bust this year, with WA watchers» eyes trained on the lithium sector.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

Stocks «are bouncing back... in what is proving to be a year of amazing of resilience for the asset class and silencing the bears,» said Nick Raich, CEO of The Earnings Scout.

Full - time students take16 months of classes spread over two years, while part - timers can do either morning orevening classes over three years.

Someone at Ralph Lauren introduced her to Amy Astley, then the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, and Weiss spent her sophomore through senior years cramming her classes into two days so she could spend the other three interning at the magazine.

Different executives repeatedly stressed that Yum had a great first half of the year in China and pointed to China's growing consumer class as future potential customers.

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

But 56 % of this year's class were launched from home, leading us to believe the trend has peaked.

Although the Inc 500 list turns over completely about every four years, the class of»01 bears an eerie resemblance to the class of» 97.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

While many of the details for those classes have dimmed from my memory over the years, there are five major lessons learned from business school that I continue to use on a daily basis since completing that degree.

Last year's class of Inc 500 companies was betting big on the future of E-commerce.

Yields on the securities have climbed to their highest levels in six years, and total returns were negative 2.6 percent for the first two months of 2018, making for the worst start of a year for the asset class since 1981.

«As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, «the father of value investing,» have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.»

Centra, a startup that raised over $ 30 million this year through a so - called «Initial Coin Offering» promoted by celebrities including boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., is the target of a class action lawsuit that seeks the return of investor funds.

So I graduated from Harvard, class of» 97, and the internet was just a couple years old then and, of my graduating class of about 1,600, probably fewer than 10 people moved out West to work in tech.

At this year's CES, the annual technology trade show in Las Vegas, Mayweather announced plans to open Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, a series of gymnasiums that utilize the champ's routines for boxing - based fitness classes.

In the meantime, NCEI will partner with schools, exhibits and events such as the Maker Faire in D.C. next year, with a goal of reaching about 50,000 students making class trips to the area over the next three years.

«We've spent a lot of money in the past few years developing Napoleon as a world - class brand,» he says.

This year was the 40th anniversary of Sobey's first class of MBAs, so an extensive network of alumni await new grads.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

Fixed - income investors should be realistic in expecting this to be a year of relatively low returns across asset classes in general — a year in which small ball becomes much more important than swinging for the fences.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

Though the decorating of your dorm room might not be as crucial as choosing a major or registering for classes, that small space will be your home for at least the next year, so you want to create an environment that is comfortable, welcoming, and cheerful.

Snap and its co-founders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, have pledged to donate up to 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock over the next 15 to 20 years to a foundation to support arts, education and youth, the company revealed in its S - 1 filing Thursday afternoon.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

According to the Wainstein report, «Over the course of ten years, there were 729 enrollments in the paper classes by members of fraternities (and some sorority sisters).»

My Gym Children's Fitness Center offers movement, tumbling and exercise classes for children from the age of 3 months to 9 years.

A few years ago, I audited one of my daughter's MBA classes at Harvard and was impressed with the expert use of the case method.

(Not all of these initiatives have worked; the cooking classes, which were fairly small - scale, were killed after a year.)

Reflecting on the past three years, I couldn't help but pause and think how far we've come from our first class of 17 students.