Sentences with phrase «year is by»

«The flying that America has done in the last 20 years is by far the most expensive way to get to space and the most dangerous.

«Consumer spending in the last two years was by far the most leveraged in recent history,» CIBC economists observed recently.

One of main ways that Berkshire has grown over the years is by spending large sums to acquire other companies.

I've was in the advertising business for many moons before joining BitTorrent and the in - house agency we built here in the last two years is by far and away the most talented and driven group of creatives and technologists I have ever worked with.

Not exact matches

Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

This end of the market is dominated by DJI, a Chinese manufacturer expected to crack US$ 1 billion in revenues this year.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

It's a much shorter run than Elton's John's farewell tour which is expected to include 300 shows across several years, which may also make tickets a little harder to come by.

According to University of Scranton research, personal financing was the third most popular New Year's resolution for Americans in 2015, preceded by «getting organized» and «losing weight».

This year Roar raised $ 5 million in funding and is part of the incubator program of LA Libations, a brand funded in part by Coca - Cola.

Despite record years in terms of total gross, the number of actual tickets sold by movie theaters has been plateauing for years.

The OPEC member that needs the «lowest» price of oil to balance this year's expenditure is Iran, at $ 52 a barrel, according to data by RBC Capital Markets.

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

Paradoxically, the city's latent racism hasn't affected mayor Aboutaleb's popularity among supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV)- the Dutch nationalist rightwing party led by Wilders, who, on 9 December last year, was convicted of inciting discrimination.

LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables freelancers to promote their business and be found by those in need of their services.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

Orlando has been one of the nation's fastest - growing job markets for several years, with an economy driven by immigration, affordable real estate, and «snowbirding» baby boomers resettling for their empt7 - nest years.

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

For much of its 40 - year history, the medium has been ruled by huge console makers and mega-publishers, such as Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts and Activision.

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

These are the 500 fastest - growing companies in Canada, measured by their revenue growth over the last five years

Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

But the Bank of Canada is beginning to believe that the signal being sent by this year's run of strong economic data is real.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A major European dairy cooperative says that currency swings caused by Brexit are among the reasons it has to cut costs by over 400 million euros over the next three years.

The facts: This 10 - year investment by Exxon, which focuses on 11 natural gas projects, began in 2013 and is expected to continue through 2022, the company said.

(A spokesperson for HCG says the practice predates the government's new rules by several years and that it was «never meant to be a workaround.»)

According to the report, Foursquare is now back on track to beat sales expectations by the end of the year, and the business development team has been successful in attracting several new advertisers to their «post-check-in product.»

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Entrepreneurs have been fueled by an explosive enthusiasm for Uber - of - X on - demand services in recent years.

Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

He was questioned by congressional investigators last year over his connection to Russia, including a proposed deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

But 66 - year - old Anne is unperturbed by her brother's prophecy of doom.

Our guinea pig, Bonobos, is an apparel company founded a year ago by Brian Spaly and Andy Dunn, both Stanford M.B.A.'s.

According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in business after five years are founded by «user entrepreneurs.»

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

«It's been going gangbusters all year long,» said Crabill by phone, noting that Mohu recently won shelf - space at Best Buy, and is expanding its presence at Wal - Mart (WMT) and on Amazon (AMZN)

While it's a rudimentary game, don't forget that it was created by a preteen nearly 33 years ago.

You multiply that by the number of transactions that we do a year, and that's thousands and thousands and thousands of hours we put back in the customers» pockets.

Warren Buffett «s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (brk - a) has become Bank of America Corp's (bac) largest shareholder by exercising its right to acquire 700 million shares at a steep discount, more than tripling an investment it made six years ago.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, whose company is owned by AOL (which was itself acquired by Verizon last year), sent out a memo to employees on Friday saying the company is shifting its approach to video.