Sentences with phrase «year clock from»

It is important to keep in mind, however, that any hurdles encountered at this preliminary phase will not stop the two - year clock from running.

Not exact matches

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

While the Black Friday to Cyber Monday shopping period is expected to be pretty lackluster this year, one bright spot — if you can call it that — is that Cyber Monday is expected to clock double - digit growth numbers, according to a report from Los Angeles - based industry research firm, IBISWorld.

And revenue growth has been torrid: jumping to $ 795.4 million last year from $ 77.8 million in 2014, though the company has clocked in losses.

Eisner worked around the clock seven days a week, and in his first three years, Disney's profits increased from less than $ 300 million to nearly $ 800 million.

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

Over the next four years, you'll see this line trend up slowly with the vigor and persistence of the hour hand on a clock (as if another reason to drop the updates to quarterly from monthly).

Or if we were to turn back the evolutionary clock two billion years and reconstruct the «primordial soups» from which the molecules of life were fashioned, we would have no guarantee that eventually there would have been fish, reptiles, birds, monkeys, or... humans.

That score went to another rookie, Josh Reynolds, a fourth - rounder from Texas A&M who one year ago was watching the clock tick down on the Aggies» 54 — 39 loss to LSU.

During his time with both Arsenal and Barcelona, the 29 - year - old managed to clock up a total of 48 appearances in the Champions League, a total that definitely sets him apart from his Man United teammates in terms of experience.

At the All - Eastern Games in Baltimore, Tennessee freshman RICHMOND FLOWERS JR. took the 60 - yard high hurdles in 6.9, only [1/10] of a second off the world record, and BILL GAINES, a 17 - year - old from Mullica Hill, N.J., missed the world 60 - yard - dash record by [1/10] of a second, with a six - second clocking.

I don't know if he's gotten in trouble off the field recently but a few years ago the Cowboys mandated that he have a round the clock security detail to keep him out of shady clubs, keep him from drinking and to maintain curfew during the season.

The same dude from last year with the same banner and same couple of chums, only this time he decided to wait til end of game, and do it without Gooners sitting directly in front of him who might just would clock him one.

It was not much more than a year ago, but I remember it like yesterday; Arsenal had somehow managed to go two goals behind to Hull City before 10 minutes were on the clock and but for a goal line clearance from Kieran Gibbs, we could have been staring down the barrel of yet another failure in a major final.

Tielemans clocked up 119 league starts for the Belgian side in his four years from his debut before joining Monaco this summer, and revealed that he had previously favoured a switch to Arsenal instead.

Earlier this year it was decided that teams selected to play in the NIT would compete using experimental rules which include a 30 - second shot clock (down from the normal 35 - second clock) and a 4 - foot restricted area arc (up from 3 feet).

Last year Kendra Harrison set a world record at this meeting and she is back, fresh from clocking a world - leading 12.28 in Hungary on Tuesday.

The 25 - year - old Frenchman is, if you believe the reports, attracting attention from England with scouts from both ourselves and The Hammers having been clocked watching him in Serie A action recently.

Rob Mullett, who recently ran the fastest time by a Brit for 22 years with 8:22.42, clocked 8:31.13 for 10th, one place ahead of Luke Gunn, who was among the Bud Baldaro - coached athletes at the Alexander Stadium to see the highly respected and successful distance coach receive his unsung hero award from British Athletics.

A masterful run at the Anniversary Games before Rio took her gloriously to a British record time of 3:57.49, beating Dame Kelly Holmes» Olympic gold - winning time from 12 years ago, which she then sublimely went on to better in a post-Olympic Diamond League meet in Paris, clocking 3:55.22 — the 16th fastest time in history.

World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton picked up from where he left off in the heptathlon, clocking 7.64 in the 60m hurdles for a championship best, bettering the 7.68 mark set by himself in Istanbul two years ago to go nine points ahead of his five - event tally when setting his world record in 2012.

With Chelsea FC just a win away from regaining the Premier League title, UEFA.com winds the clock back ten years to the day when the Blues collected their first league crown under manager José Mourinho and only their second overall.

Come the clock striking midnight and the calendar flipping from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, the ability to try and sign players or sell them will be over until the new year for mostly all of the European leagues.

We wind the clock back to look at memorable quarter - final stories from years gone by, featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, Kevin De Bruyne and remarkable comebacks from Dortmund and Deportivo.

It's staggering to think of the unnecessary miles clocked up every year by businesses of all sizes going to and from meetings when they could save themselves a small fortune by simply picking up the phone.

Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of YOUNGER: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years, shares tips from her book.

The Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will have a huge challenge in the coming two years as it fights to defend the American people from a barrage of legislation coming from the soon - to - be Republican House majority that seeks to turn back the clock in the country a decade or more.»

Editor's Note: BxNN will keep posting this clock in our daily news roundups — tallying the days until the NYPD releases neighborhood sector crime stats, which we requested from them via a Freedom of Information Law request last year.

The great and unavoidable debate about top pay, pensions, Fred Goodwin's knighthood and Stephen Hester's bonus - swollen and exacerbated by the biggest squeeze on middle - class incomes in a generation - is being exploited by our partners in government to rescue them from reputational damage, wreak it on us instead, and roll back the clock to the dismal years before the Thatcher tax revolution.

This year, Doeleman is heading to the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile, the world's most powerful radio telescope network, to install extraordinarily precise atomic clocks that will allow researchers to combine the Chilean telescopes» data with those from observatories in Hawaii, Spain and eventually the South Pole.

In recent years, clock researchers have uncovered some of the gears and springs that keep this circadian timepiece running, largely by identifying a handful of key genes in organisms from bread mold to mice.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

As at most universities, she has the option of adding a year to her tenure clock and will have 18 months from the birth of her baby to decide whether to take it.

The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.

Professor Aneta Stefanovska from Lancaster University, who has been studying the physics of biological oscillations for over 20 years, said: «Combining the technique to noninvasively record the fluctuation corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid and our sophisticated methods to analyse oscillations which are not clock - like but rather vary in time around their natural values, we have come to an interesting and non-invasive method that can be used to study aging and changes due to various neurodegenerative brain aging may begin earlier than expected.»

He had refined a dating technique that could reliably clock sand as old as 8 million years, and she hoped he could extract some exactness from the Ellesmere sands.

If the molecular clock is right, then unicellular forms of animals, plants and fungi all diverged from a common ancestor in a rapid burst around a billion years ago.

The Cellular Counter More than 50 years ago, a researcher uncovered the first clues that an internal biological clock might regulate age — and that it's not just the daily assaults from the external wear and tear of life that cause us to wither and eventually die.

New fossil evidence suggests human ancestors may have split from chimps as early as 10 million years ago, bringing fossil evidence in line with data from molecular clocks

1949 through the present Atomic clocks Mechanism: Microwave resonance of atoms Error: From 1 second every 300 years in 1955 to 1 second in 70 million years (2001) Accurate enough to: Synchronize GPS satellites

1920s through the present Quartz clocks Mechanism: Electrically induced vibrations of quartz crystal Error: From 10 seconds per day for a cheap watch to 0.3 second per year Accurate enough to: Measure variations in the rotation rate of the Earth

Shenoy said the day will come — closer to five than 10 years from now, he predicted — when a self - calibrating, fully implanted wireless system can be used without caregiver assistance, has no cosmetic impact and can be used around the clock.

For nearly 65 years, the clock has served as an international symbol of the level of risk — figurative midnight — that the world faces from nuclear weapons.

The clock idea originally sprang from Hillis's observation that in the 1980s, all long - range planning seemed to smack into a wall called the year 2000 — the nice, round number seemed to be the omega point for everyone from software programmers to international policymakers: «Nobody could even think about the year 2030.

Meanwhile, Central Park itself clocked in at 100 millirem per year, probably because of background radiation from granite found in the park.

«I did not realize how the renewal clock of 5 years dissuaded me from going for risky ideas until I became a [Max Planck] director,» she says.

To find an answer to this question, she and her colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have investigated in the past few years how such «precision frequencies,» as they can be generated by an optical atomic clock, can be sent on a journey.

Last year the clock moved half a tick, from 3 minutes to 2.5 minutes before midnight; it has been in single digits since India and Pakistan staged back - to - back nuclear weapons tests in 1998.

A Spin - down Clock for Cool Stars from Observations of a 2.5 - billion - year - old Cluster was published in the journal Nature.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.