Sentences with phrase «year efforts on»

Due to our low statewide exam scores in math prior to 2006, we decided to focus our first - year efforts on math support for all students.

Also, D.C. partner Thomas Buchanan closed out a 15 - year effort on Meritor Savings v. U.S., a $ 276 million win for the Meritor shareholders represented by Winston.

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Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

Get a head start on next year's marketing efforts with this batch of apps for all five of the major networks.

Saujani, whose six - year - old organization is tackling the gender gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion on attracting and retaining diverse talent.

The company expects sales to hit 20 million next year and will soon begin to focus on non-gamers in its marketing efforts.

I'm not just talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.»

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

Biogen is marching on in its own effort, and while updated results are expected in the second half of this year, initial study results haven't been promising.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

After selling Pixamo in 2007, the two focused their efforts on developing Lexington, Mass. - based HitBliss, which launched in private beta earlier this year.

Take this downtime to reflect on your marketing efforts from the past year and plan ahead for the new year.

In recent years, however, Noise Solutions has adopted a much more targeted and directed approach to growth, a strategy that depends on a lot of advance work and then a direct sales effort.

That traction results from a concerted effort Amazon management over the past four or five years to convince businesses in the financial services, healthcare, and government that running on shared public cloud infrastructure meets their security and other requirements.

In addition, countries will have to track their efforts in cutting carbon emissions and report on their progress every five years.

Earlier this year the DMV proposed new restrictions on self - driving car tests, but companies like Apple, Tesla, Ford, and GM resisted this effort.

«In accordance with this commitment, we have intensified our efforts in recent years to address and prevent sexual misconduct on our campus through the creation and expansion of policies and programs and the active engagement of the university community.»

«Fiscal consolidation efforts, high unemployment, tight credit conditions and private deleveraging in peripheral countries will put a low cap on economic growth this year and next,» predicted TD economists in their latest outlook.

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

«Even with this remarkable progress, it remains important to build on these efforts to support further job creation and real wage growth in the years ahead.»

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

Ford said it would refocus its car making efforts on «the best - selling Mustang and the all - new Focus Active crossover coming out next year,» the company said.

Nearly 70 percent said they conduct more marketing activities now than they did two years, and the majority said they conduct marketing efforts on a weekly basis.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

Alibaba (baba), which is making a big cloud effort in China and beyond, was the newcomer on Gartner's list this year.

A guide to the most important aspects you'll want to focus on with your marketing efforts in the year ahead.

But with self - driving cars still years away, GM (gm) and Lyft are focusing their efforts on building out the service.

The deal in Kigali builds on momentum from other international efforts this past year aimed at addressing climate change.

Shah's CSRs also reach out to customers on social media outlets and networks to engage them in dialogue, which helps CSN get candid feedback about the company and its reps. «We have enhanced many consumer promotions, deals and rewards this year and plan to do the same in the next year — in an effort to bolster customer retention, interest and loyalty,» he said.

Efforts to bring the issue to the forefront have been going on for years.

Trump's announcement that he plans to impose tariffs of 25 % on imported steel and 10 % on aluminum landed like a bombshell during the seventh round of NAFTA talks, prompting expletives from a least one negotiator and casting a pall over the painstaking efforts to update the 24 - year - old deal.

The effort comes at a time services like Stitch Fix, whose sales have hit almost $ 1 billion this year as the company gears up to be listed on the stock exchange, are growing fast.

To support these efforts, Chobani plans to spend 35 percent more on marketing next year, with the bulk of spending occurring in the first half of the year, said Chobani's chief marketing and commercial officer, Peter McGuinness.

Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

There's little doubt that Ottawa's effort to inject more competition into the market five years ago is teetering on failure.

Google, though, has fought efforts to block cookies on its Chrome browser for years, but touted this potential new system as a way to protect user privacy.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

The 80 - year - old ban on private companies advertising their fundraising efforts lifts on Monday, and the industry is largely cautious, waiting for the SEC to hand down more details on how the change wi...

It took INSEAD many years to bring both campuses on the same plane and today, the efforts appear to have paid off.

The two are on their way to meet with Chris Pritchard, a 24 - year - old Ph.D. candidate and Langer protégé, with master's degrees from Oxford and MIT, who heads InVivo's research and development efforts.

By Q4 this year, retailers realized they needed to expand their efforts on the mobile front.