Sentences with phrase «year of call from»

New York has taken recent steps toward legalizing marijuana after years of calls from advocates.

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T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

Saujani also called out the bias of tech - related curricula — and culture more generally — which she says is almost invariably written to «speak to a 13 - year - old boy from Silicon Valley.»

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

As you'd expect from the founder of Facebook, he started a book club of sorts called A Year of Books on — you guessed it!

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

This year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails, calls and tweets from members of Global Citizen.

From the short - lived to the legendary, INSIDER rounded up all of the celebrity couples who called it quits this year.

By the fall of 2010, just a year after the buyout, Skype was surging: Users had climbed to 600 million from about 400 million a year earlier — and it saw rising usage of its video calling services.

This is just the latest in a series of blows for the company, which began with a high - profile exposé from The Wall Street Journal last year that called the company's underlying technology into question.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

Disclaimer: The author has personally benefited from a number of CEO peer groups over the years and he currently runs a peer group for the CEOs of fast - growth companies called: The Inc..

The declining sales of this year's «Call of Duty» prompted Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson to lower his price target on the publisher from $ 27 to $ 24, though he maintained an «overweight» rating.

All of which encouraged Barclays to nudge up its 2017 call for global growth to 3.5 %, from an expected 3.1 % this year.

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

Pet supply retailer PetSmart Inc succumbed to calls from some shareholders for a sale on Sunday with an agreement to be bought by a private equity consortium led by BC Partners Ltd for $ 8.7 billion, in the largest leveraged buyout of the year.

Roughly a year ago, Sam Adams brewer Boston Beer (sam) debuted the company's first hard seltzer under a brand called Truly Spiked & Sparkling, finding inspiration from the increased sales of carbonated bottled waters and broader interest in low - calorie alcoholic beverages.

Self - service options can save companies anywhere from $ 1 million to $ 3 million per year while reducing the burden placed on call centers and improving the level of service they can deliver.

To help keep some middle and lower income people from being hit by the AMT, Congress has enacted temporary relief during each of the past several years by passing what's called a patch.

Just 3 percent of all Hong Kong - listed stocks, by capitalization, come from so - called «new economy» sectors — tech as well as biotech — according to a report last year by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse operator.

But now, just about two years later, and with Einhorn's stake in the company 40 % larger (excluding call options), shares of GM are 3.5 % lower from when Einhorn first initiated his most recent stake.

And if the bank continues to keep the ratio of its revenue paid as compensation lower than usual, it could result in savings of about $ 300 million for the company in the year, according to an estimate from Autonomous Research's Guy Moskowski in the bank's earnings call.

Last year, Sawyer Sparks, 23, turned down a $ 500,000 offer from Hasbro, maker of Play - Doh, to license his patented gluten - free modeling clay, called Soy - Yer Dough (that's blueberry blue, above).

Ken Jacowitz, a 54 - year - old librarian from the New York borough of Queens, called it «a funny film made by funny people.»

Last year, Vice took a majority stake in U.K. production studio Pulse Films and the company said earlier this year that Viceland had ordered six episodes of a scripted comedy series from actor James Van Der Beek and musician / DJ Diplo, called What Would Diplo Do?

The billion - dollar black market site was once the premiere online bazaar for drugs and other contraband, but it remained hidden from casual internet users for years because of something called the dark web.

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.

Trump's positive outlook on relations with Kim Jong Un is a marked departure from social media taunts in November of last year, in which he called Kim «Little Rocket Man» and noted that his people and military «put up with living in such horrible conditions.»

Analysts are now calling for earnings per share of $ 12.79, up 4 percent from the same period last year, according to crowdsourced data.

Last year, the company surveyed a portion of its call - centre staff on health and wellness with the help of Scienta Health and found many suffered from headaches, obesity and other preventable problems.

He says the frequency of his communication with the CEOs of Berkshire subsidiaries ranges from a handful of times a year — he averaged three calls a year with Benjamin Moore's CEO for a long time — to almost daily for a handful of key figures such as Berkshire's reinsurance chief, Ajit Jain.

But from Tuesday's call, VMware logged a profit of $ 172 million, or 40 cents per share, compared to $ 167 million, or 38 cents, per share for the year - ago period.

Modern Meadow is just one of 19 futuristic startups that have received donations from the Thiel Foundation over the past two years as part of an unusual program called Breakout Labs.

Here are the transcripts of 12 quarterly earnings calls that you participated in from 2012 to 2014, the three full years in which we know this scam was going on.

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

But this week, several reports emerged that paint a picture of what to expect from this year's big «Call of Duty» game.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

That's the view of a panel of business economists, whose latest growth forecast calls for a 3.1 percent advance in U.S. gross domestic product in 2015 — up from a 2.2 percent expansion this year.

Three years ago, Sterling Lanier, a serial entrepreneur then running a successful market research firm, got a phone call from a medical researcher he knew at the University of California, San Francisco.

Back in the beginning of the year, serial entrepreneur and startup investor Jason Calacanis launched Inside.com, which he called «a mobile - first news reader that's full of external links and story summaries,» with topics ranging from Google to Wonder Woman.

As you probably recall, President - elect Donald Trump recently took a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing - wen, a decision that flies in the face of 40 years» worth of U.S. - China diplomacy.

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

Unions, newly confident but reeling from years of what they would probably call a hostile work environment, can almost taste a big victory.

Mullin says much of the credit goes to a 12 - year - old kid from Georgia who called him up with suggestions.