Sentences with phrase «year of his time for»

I offered on the spot to buy the next year of his time for $ 5,000 an hour, as long as I got his profits in return.

Well, I had years of time for myself!

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LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

As our thoughts turn to nailing down plans for the year ahead, it's a good time to start thinking about these new rules of engagement.

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

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).

Here are three practices that can help make this season the most wonderful time of the year for you and your loved ones.

«I knew when I was eighty that I would never, for example, think about why I walked away from my 1994 Wall Street bonus right in the middle of the year at the worst possible time.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

A couple years ago, Karen Okonkwo had a difficult time finding photos of women of color for her blog, Sorority Secrets.

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.

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

«The power of an edition has endured at the Times for more than 230 years.

May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp on Wednesday posted net annual income for the first time in 11 years and named a new chief executive ahead of its proposed $ 26 billion merger with bigger rival T - Mobile US Inc..

With over 20 years industry experience, Bimalis responsible for making sure the world learns about the benefits of Celayix's solutions that include: advanced employee scheduling, time and attendance, employee communication as well as integration modules for payroll and billing.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

According to Marcus, a 21 - year - old occupant of the Covenant House, «Covenant House is like a foundation because you can build something for yourself, you have the time and the resources to make it happen.»

Usually happens this time of year for me.»

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

For some people it takes years of hard work, stressful days, and sleepless nights, but like anything you put time and energy into, the end result is definitely worth the effort.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

Other promises from leader Philippe Couillard have included the creation of 250,000 new jobs in Quebec over a five - year time span, a $ 160 million stimulus plan for small and medium businesses in the province, and a $ 150 million innovation fund.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

The decreases are largely the result of the oil glut and all - time lows for crude prices — last year, mining, oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.

These are the magical moments that give the holidays meaning not only for you, but for those who most need it this time of year.

Whether it's your busiest time of the year or you're working hard to keep momentum going into the next year, navigating the holiday season can be especially tricky for any startup.

For each year, a lot of time gets locked down months ahead.

From the start of 2005 through the end of 2014, it delivered a total return of 746 %, or 23.8 % per year, compared with a 20.6 % annual return for the S&P railroad index and 7.7 % for the broader market over that time.

«He said, «Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,»» Eskridge told The Daily Times.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

Xiaomi, reporting detailed financials for the first time, posted a net loss of 43.9 billion yuan ($ 6.9 billion) in 2017, reversing from a profit a year earlier.

The New York Times, for example, says ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers.

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, preparing for his talk with the founder of Frontback — an app that lets you take pictures with both of your iPhone cameras at the same time — Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, is reflecting on the six - year history of this start - up launch conference.

MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace has delayed delivery of its first new CSeries commercial aircraft by several months and potentially more than a year, saying it needs more time for testing and preparation.

Fourteen months after the Chengdu launch, that market was already 100 times bigger for Uber than San Francisco was after a year of doing business there.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

At the same time, two German researchers — Sepp Hochreiter, now at the University of Linz, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, codirector of a Swiss AI lab in Lugano — were independently pioneering a different type of algorithm that today, 20 years later, has become crucial for natural - language processing applications.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

With over 20 years industry experience, Bimal is responsible for making sure the world learns about the benefits of Celayix's solutions that include: advanced employee scheduling, time and attendance, employee communication as well as integration modules for payroll and billing.

ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got plenty of «no thanks» before they settled on Jimmy Kimmel for this year's Oscarcast (Kimmel will be back for a second time in March).

«CBS and Ten have had a strong relationship for a number of years; we are very excited about further developing that relationship... at this critical time,» said Ten CEO Paul Anderson.

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

It takes several years for new lavender crops to be ready for harvesting, so Baird had plenty of time to establish demand.

A City of Vancouver survey of 2,500 residents this year indicated that, for the first time, fewer than 50 % of trips within the city were made by car.