Sentences with phrase «year improvement of»

Profits were reported as $ 189 millon — a solid year - on - year improvement of around 50 percent.

The Houston school district has launched a large - scale plan to pay teachers bonuses based on the year - to - year improvement of their own students» test scores.

Not exact matches

Over the past three years, HomeStars — a Toronto - based company that publishes online reviews of home improvement professionals — has grown from 22 to 53 employees.

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

So, if your router is more than a couple years old or you are using the router provided by your internet service provider, you will experience an improvement in your quality of life when you buy a new model.

A Wi - Fi router is one of those tech gadgets that exhibits vast improvements in features and speeds every few years.

One fee that has become crucial to YVR's ambitions and a lightning rod for consumer discontent is the Airport Improvement Fee (AIF), which rose from $ 15 to $ 20 last year for passengers travelling outside of B.C. Whereas U.S. airports rely heavily on funding from government for infrastructure, Canadian airports are forced to borrow or raise fees, explains YVR senior vice-president Tony Gugliotta.

A year ago this week, after close to eight years, I left Microsoft and jumped headfirst into the world of startups and joined Porch.com, a home - improvement network.

This is the second year of the Fortune league, and we made some changes and improvements from last year.

That's because at the end of the five - year lifespan of the funding, the borrower usually buys back the warrants at a valuation adjusted to reflect any improvement in fundamentals.

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

That ranks it as the single greatest area of safety improvement in the last 70 years, he said.

Based on the seven factors considered, Team GB is predicted to win a grand total of just two medals this year — just a slight improvement on the single medal won at the two previous winter games.

After years of thriving during a broader retail slump, the home - improvement chain is having a hard time pleasing shareholders with its results.

But next year could be an improvement, as the creativity of Hollywood will be on full display: a Stars Wars sequel, a James Bond sequel, a Jurassic Park sequel, and a Fast and Furious sequel are all slated for release.

A new generation of computer chips may not seem that exciting, but the incremental improvements over the past 50 years are what has driven the digital revolution and made many «radical» innovations possible.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2011 saw «an across - the - board increase in the rate of entrepreneurial activity has not been seen in the U.S. in the last ten years,» and «the majority of entrepreneurs were motivated by improvement - driven opportunities to start new ventures.»

The study found only marginal improvements toward parity in senior and executive leadership positions since 2012; at the current pace of change, it will take 100 years to reach gender equality in the C - suite.

And despite the increasing number of companies choosing to reveal their diversity numbers via annual reports, there hasn't been much — if any — improvement in recent years.

As Intel moved to a new scale for printing chips, it could would follow for several years with annual «waves» of improvements, he explained.

In a separate report focusing on larger integrated oil companies, Moody's came to a similar conclusion — that the substantial improvement in the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

That would be a decline for last year's record of 17.55 million, which was itself an improvement on 2016's 17.5 million.

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

The New York - based company in February announced its best user growth in eight years, adding 2.2 million net new U.S. subscribers for 2015 — a 30 % improvement over 2014 — for a total of 29.5 million.

It's increasingly looking like consumers are learning to skip the «S» versions of the iPhone, or the ones that come every second year that supposedly don't have big new improvements.

The improvement from March's spike of 64,141 was not enough to erase an increase in job - cut announcements this year, Challenger says.»

It said improvement in earnings will remain a challenge over the next two to three years and deleveraging, the process of reducing a company's debt, will be slow.

He was 30 years old, and some of the nation's top spine doctors warned him that further improvement was unlikely, if not impossible.

Because a legacy is created day by day, year by year, leaders should be constantly engaged in a process of self - improvement.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

Since the JOBS Act — or Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — was passed in April of last year, the pace of IPOs has shown marked improvement.

Home Hardware jumped 10 spots this year, perhaps reflecting the shuffling of the deck in the home improvement category as competitor Rona was bought by U.S. giant Lowe's.

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has said it's his job to be thinking years ahead, but he's also fixated on the milestones of today: this month's process improvement, tomorrow's product launch.

The Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, for example, started using leadership assessments a couple of years ago to help pinpoint areas where senior staff need improvement and to verify impressions of outside candidates.

For decades, we lived within Moore's Law, which predicted that the number of transistors packed into a processor would double every two years, providing a steady gallop of technology improvement.

«If you see a few more months of improvement of this magnitude, it is a clear sign that the labor market is tightening and is poised to break out next year,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

With Google's all - important search algorithm in a state of permanent improvement — Quipp says it is updated 550 times a year — the SEP team needs to stay on top of all the technical developments and rapidly adjust the company's advice to clients to reflect those changes in the search world.

The study found that improvements in life expectancy top out at about four hours of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

Agon said he was confident the division's performance would pick up this year, saying the mass market brands were already doing well in China and selling better in the United States, even though there were few signs of improvement in France.

In fact, its last quarterly earnings report showed that the number of overall customer «relationships» increased 156,000, a 90 % improvement from the same period last year.

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»).

The International Monetary Fund also upgraded its estimates for Canada, calling for 2.1 % this year, an improvement over its previous call of 1.7 %.

In previous years, the portion of Alberta's reductions achieved through facilities improvement approach half the reported total.

So as AMD tweaked the chips for this year's second generation update, which hits stores today, gaming performance was high on the list of desired improvements.

The latest survey, released January 9, suggests Canada's companies are feeling okay about 2017, which is a significant improvement from the previous couple of years.

Ever since the bank introduced that extraordinary forward guidance in December of last year, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been at pains to explain to investors and reporters that the 6.5 % target is a «threshold» and not a «trigger,» meaning that the bank could decide to keep rates low for longer if it is not satisfied that 6.5 % really indicates a substantial improvement.

Still, that represents a big improvement from five years ago, when almost two - thirds of Bay Area companies had either zero or one top position held by a woman.

Through the first nine months of 2014, the Scottsdale, Ariz. - based company showed improvements in year - over-year revenue ($ 825m vs. $ 1.02 b), customers (11,196 vs. 12,452) and EBITDA ($ 155m vs. $ 215m).