Sentences with phrase «year is a unit»

(A person - year is a unit of time.)

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The video game giant will double the number of Switch units it produces during the fiscal year ended March 2018, The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of its plans.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

«At 22 years old, I was in charge of an entire crew, and I was responsible for being part of the whole organization and unit that was repairing helicopters that are [worth] millions of dollars.

The company's Pratt & Whitney unit halted deliveries of its Geared Turbofan engine for the Airbus A320neo for almost a month this year, but the issues are coming under control and «we feel very good about the supply chain and our ability to support Airbus requirements,» CFO Akhil Johri said in an interview on Tuesday.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Over the rest of the year, unit margins are expected to improve overall compared to 2017.

Although NBCUniversal's theme park revenue was strong compared to the previous year, the entertainment unit's movie business didn't do so well, thanks to some weak releases such as Ride Along 2 and Hail, Caesar!

Airbus said its order intake for its helicopter unit fell 5 percent last year from 2016, while demand for passenger jets is surging as record numbers of travelers take to the sky.

Microsoft's Xbox One, which also has more raw graphical oomph than the Switch, was released the same year and has sold around 30 million units to date.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

Since technicians today have as many as 200 units on their routes — five times as many as they did 30 years ago — overtime is common.

The Pilbara housing market and the South West unit market were two of the strongest regional property sectors over the past year, a report released today has found.

The subpoenas are being coordinated with the SEC Enforcement Division's cyber unit, which was created last year.

Total units shipped (CDs, tapes, and records combined) have increased by 55 % since 1983, the year CDs were introduced, and the dollar value of those shipments has increased by 137 %.

Siemens is set to conclude internal preparations to sell its healthcare unit by the end of March of next year, the chief executive officer told CNBC Thursday.

GE CEO John Flannery on Tuesday said that the 125 - year - old business is considering carving out its major divisions into separately traded units as it announced a $ 6.2 billion charge related to its insurance operations.

If builders in Toronto stopped developing entirely and merely completed projects that are already scheduled and underway, there would be enough units to supply the market for five years.

Indianapolis - based pharma giant Eli Lilly is slashing 485 jobs, with most of the cuts coming from the Alzheimer's unit that saw high - profile (and expensive) clinical flop last year.

Both players have excelled as starters, putting up career years, and the Warriors» starting five has been the best five - man unit in the league based on net rating.

AT&T and Time Warner said in a filing on Tuesday that Time Warner's Turner unit had offered its distributors licensing terms that forbid Turner from «going dark» on any distributor for seven years after the deal closes if they were to reach an impasse in negotiations.

If Pizza Hut was struggling, so was NPC: in August, the franchisee reported that same - store sales at its Pizza Hut units fell almost 6 percent in the second quarter compared to a nearly 4 percent drop a year ago.

The company is on track to sell 200 units over a 10 - year period, not including potential sales to BRIC countries.

The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

The unit was sold to Canon Inc this year.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

There's been plenty of hype about virtual and augmented reality gaming this year with the recent arrival of first - generation headsets from Facebook's Oculus unit and smartphone maker HTC.

In a February article, market analyst Ben Rabidoux calculated that between 25,000 and 28,000 of the 55,000 condo units being built in Toronto in 2013 will be completed by the end of the year, with 30,000 set for completion at a later date.

The Italian - American automaker is forecasting Jeep's annual sales to jump about 30 percent next year to 2 million vehicles and predicts the brand could eventually deliver 7 million units a year as appetite for SUVs surges worldwide, Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne has told analysts.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation warned late last year that large cities risked overbuilding if developers continued to churn out condo units before they were sold.

But in order to do so, we need to know basic things such as the units (jobs vs. person - years of employment) of the numbers we're debating.

Robert Hazell, head of the Constitution Unit at University College London, says that is an «impossible timetable,» and estimates it could take up to three years to hammer out the details.

Developers are shifting toward building rental - purpose units to fill the demand from that market, and new construction will likely slow down this year, says Guatieri.

In fact, according to a 2012 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 66 % of multinational companies say «talent shortages are likely to affect their bottom line within the next 5 years.»

One of the concessions for winning state regulatory approval to convert Fidelis to a for - profit unit includes a $ 340 million contribution to New York state, payable over a five - year period, which will be treated as increased administrative costs.

Blankfein's Bitcoin comments come at a time when some Goldman Sachs clients have signaled interest in the cryptocurrency, which has surged 340 % since the start of the year — a single unit is now worth about $ 4,300 according to CoinDesk.

HVMN is selling some of these supplements in the tens of thousands of units per year, reaching monthly subscription revenue of $ 3 million to $ 5 million in 2016, according to a source familiar with the company's financials.

San Francisco's Office of Economic Analysis released a study in May stating that the city would see an economic hit of $ 250,000 to $ 350,000 per year per home converted to a short - term rental unit, according to Re / code.

Nintendo says it is working hard to ramp up production, with a target of 10 million units this fiscal year, but the Journal reports there are shortages of flash memory and batteries, and that the console's detachable wireless controllers have proven tough to make.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

Contact information for 1.5 million customers of Verizon's business - to - business arm was hacked this year, a surprising revelation given the company's cybersecurity strength (and the fact that Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a unit Fortune 500 companies often call for help when they get hacked).

It has also created a Government Revitalization Unit that is now attempting to pare trillions of yen of what Hatoyama calls «wasteful spending» from next year's ministry budgets.

As the 36 - year - old founder of Morrisville, North Carolina - based Window Gang, he's watched his franchise's units nearly double in each of the past three years.

This year's broadcaster, NBC, sold out of its time slots just after Thanksgiving, and most units were gone before the NFL season even started.

According to Ho Wing Hong, a senior ship surveyor with Hong Kong's marine accident investigation unit, there have been more than 150 collisions to date this year in Hong Kong's waters alone.

Nintendo is still targeting sales of 9 million Wii U units over the fiscal year through March 2014.

After 18 years at Alliance, eight of them as president of the movie distribution unit, Theroux was booted out in 2006 for trying to orchestrate a management buyout.