Sentences with phrase «year is at hand»

The end and beginning of another calendar year is at hand.

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Made from pasta, eggs, and cheese fried into a donut shape for hand - held ease, this creation originated at New York's Smorgasburg, a spread of fusion curiosities and Instagram food trends that could be the birthplace of next year's hot combination, too.

Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

Then again, the financial situation of their business is such that they could benefit from more regular financial review and planning and up - to - date accounting — instead of leaving every invoice, receipt, and ledger to hand off to the tax preparer at the close of the fiscal year.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

When I finally got my hands on it earlier this year, my suspicions were confirmed: it was too heavy, too short on battery life and, at around $ 1,000 with its optional - but - actually - necessary keyboard cover, too expensive.

On the other hand, Lucas and Lee Brown, 22 - year - old twin brothers and students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, made the decision to close down a fashion business they'd been running from February to October 2005 when it became clear that their inventory wasn't selling.

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

Retail stocks, on the other hand, have been at the top — or near the top — of this list each year since 2012.

While the moves, if successful, would keep the Pentagon running at last year's levels, they are far from Republican hopes of handing Trump about $ 634 billion in fiscal 2018 funding for the military's regular operations, $ 85 billion above last year.

For investors, seeing insiders buy stock is usually a good sign, and so it is at Shaw Communications, whose 83 - year - old founder, JR Shaw, handed over $ 5.27 million in 2016 to increase his stake in the company to 4.1 %.

While Taggar says the startup will be focused on corporate rentals in the Bay Area for at least the next year, Caldwell says the startup could have success in places where a significant percentage of housing is in the hands of individual investors with multiple properties, such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Under the rules handed down by the Fed last year, the cap for debit - card fees was set at 21 cents per transaction, plus 0.05 percent of the value of the purchase and a 1 - cent fraud - prevention fee for the big banks.

Justice Steven Barrett in Bronx Supreme Court handed the longest sentence of 6-1/2 years to Eliseo Perez, 49, who was an assistant chief for security at the time of the attack.

So dumb, in fact, that when he handed me the papers to sign years earlier, I didn't even bother to look at what I was signing, trusting that everything was in order because he said it was.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

After all, Stenebo has watched Kamprad's «incompetent» male spawn move into the top spots at Ikea, being groomed to run the show, while the 20 years he spent working his way up from a German Ikea warehouse, to upper management, to being Kamprad's right - hand man have run their course.

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

At this year's show, we saw two themes: digital health innovation is no longer limited to fitness trackers and smartwatches, and the newest devices being offered are geared towards consumers taking health monitoring into their own hands.

Leslie Hand, vice president at IDC Retail Insights, says her colleagues are calling 2017 the «year of reckoning» for retailers — and that the future of retail has to be a blend of digital and physical.

But given the pace with which bonds have sold off this year, a period of consolidation might be at hand.

A changing of the guard is under way at prominent CBD agency Burgess Rawson, with founding partner and joint managing director Geoff Potter stepping down from the position he has held for 21 years and handing over the reins to fellow joint managing director, Andrew McKerracher.

Thankfully, however, Larry Kim, CTO of online advertising firm WordStream and 2015 US Search Personality of the Year, was on hand at C3 in New York to share 10 of his best paid content promotion hacks in a Mission to Mars - themed presentation.

On the other hand, the university sector has for many years provided examples of plans that are DC at core but which include DB guarantees.

Women are at the forefront of this trend, often as spouses playing a hands - on role in family philanthropy that has included scaling up some of the largest foundations created in recent years.

But what if you've been blogging for years and yet you've been afraid to try your hand at affiliate marketing because you think it won't work for you?

That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a few years, and while I think most investors are more long - term oriented than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated with money in hand now.

It's hard to believe it's just a few years since countries like Ireland and Spain had to go cap - in - hand to international lenders — at least if you look at their bond yields.

The officer, Shawn Wilson, claims in the lawsuit filed last week in San Patricio County, that Hitt»... seemed to be trying to cover - up...» an investigation into alleged assault against a 15 - year - old boy at the hands of a Taft official, last year.

But after the product's introduction last year, at least two Juicero investors were taken aback after finding the packs could be squeezed by hand.

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

Seven years into the current economic expansion, speculation is growing that a recession is close at hand.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

His years of hard work were gone at the hands of an all - in - one, risky investment allocation.

«At the end of the day I'm not voting against a bill that is going to take guns out of the hands of 18 - year - olds,» said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Broward County.

For those in this bracket of the work force, it is essential to realize just how much opportunity, benefits and advantages there are when it comes to having nonprofit insurance at hand, especially as a great means to a stable and secure future while at work and even through the years of retirement.

While 2016 was a banner year of the country's live streaming, a turning point may be at hand for the sector in 2017.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

«On the other hand, investors are planning to hold onto their rental properties for at least eight to ten years and realize the benefits of rising rents and low vacancy rates.

If someone handed me $ 10,000,000 with the imperative to construct a portfolio that will, comprehensively, make money in all environments, increase wealth by at least 5 % in excess of the rate of inflation over the long term, and do it in a way that the total dividends paid out would be greater each year, these are the companies I would choose.

In the last 15 months, the 77 - year - old has taken positions in and then launched campaigns against 14 companies, a burst that has made him, at an age when he would have long been expected to fade away, the most disruptive individual in business, with a hand in almost every major corporate story in America.

This so - called hot - hands theory relies on the high returns of funds that were hot for awhile and survived for at least a few more years.

It's a good idea to keep those records on hand for seven years because customs services in various countries can challenge you on rules of origin at any time.

After 10 years at the helm of China's Communist Party, Hu Jintao is scheduled to step down this week as the party's general secretary and hand over China's control to his designated successor, Xi Jinping.

However, if you are a single doctor making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a meaningful debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that made long - term investments) even if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so much more with your hand in life.

The past several years have featured little more than a gigantic asset swap, the short description being that massive volumes of government debt have been swapped by central banks for massive volumes of idle bank reserves, while massive volumes of low - yielding, covenant - lite debt have been issued into the hands of yield - seeking investors, in order to retire massive volumes of corporate equities at elevated valuations through buybacks.