Sentences with phrase «year of kicking»

Moreover, according to The Economist, they are within 15 years of kicking our pasty, white asses in technology as well as energy infrastructure and everything else.

We look forward to nine more years of kicking ass in the wonderful world of Windows.

Not exact matches

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

One year later, he faced a complaint from the mother of a 15 - year - old boy who claimed he used excessive force when arresting her son, including putting his gun to the side of the teen's head and kicking him in the ribs.

This year's 29th installment, which kicks off March 11, could be the biggest yet with some of the most prominent speakers in the event's history.

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

As National Small Business Week kicks off, we gathered some insight from the six finalists in the running to win National Small Business Person of the Year.

This year, Adidas has created what it's calling «the perfect sneakers for Oktoberfest,» a pair of $ 200 ($ 238) kicks designed to repel beer and vomit, as well pretty much any other liquid you can throw, drop, or pour on it, a process the company is calling «Oktoberfesterization.»

Of course, the backup system kicks in only when the company is actually able to pay bonuses, which hasn't happened this year.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

The oldest of professional golf's four «Majors» kicked off Thursday, and the talk is all about 21 - year - old Jordan Spieth.

We can thank Susan J. Fowler, whose blog post kicked off Uber's year of reckoning, and Ellen Pao, whose trial forced the Valley to stop brushing off conversations about its gender problem as unnecessary distractions.

We spent the first five years of our business in a constant state of anxiety, culminating in a near - disaster; in 1989 our bank kicked us out and we lost our line of credit.

Meanwhile, BHP has made a $ 20 million donation over the next five years to the Telethon Kids Institute, with the first annual instalment of $ 4 million to kick - start Telethon tomorrow night.

As you kick off the new year, let go of old habits and focus on becoming more efficient.

Kids start a new grade of school, Jews like me celebrate the New Year with Rosh Hashanah, and businesses kick in new plans for making the most of the remaining yYear with Rosh Hashanah, and businesses kick in new plans for making the most of the remaining yearyear.

«I got kicked out of school for a year.»

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA's Energy Apprenticeships Group has kicked off with 16 process operator apprentices to begin their four - year training today.

Worse, if your plan fails a discrimination test late in the year, it might have to kick back a portion of participant contributions at year - end.

He kicks off 2018 and his third year as CEO of the health care company with a stock that's up nearly 70 %, strong earnings and profits, and a strategic acquisition.

Although the startup has made a departure from its soccer - centric roots, it's hard to ignore that the company is picking up steam amid FIFA World Cup Qualifier matches, the start of the Confederations Cup, and almost exactly a year before the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia.

When you're going through your teenage years, that confidence kicks you off for the rest of your life, whether in a good way or a negative way if you lack confidence through those years.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

While we won't know for sure the identities of all of this year's Oscar winners until host Jimmy Kimmel kicks off the festivities on ABC this Sunday, the small cottage industry of Academy Award predictions has plenty of thoughts on the subject.

It's why Bill Gates reads 50 books every year (roughly one a week) and Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2015 with the goal of reading one every other week.

The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off Friday night in Rio de Janeiro with an opening ceremony that is likely to be one of the most - watched TV events of the year, if previous Olympic openings are any guide.

With the «holiday season» kicking off earlier and earlier every year, if executed effectively, these handful of weeks can deliver massive financial gains.

Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this year's Berkshire shareholder convention on Saturday, the opposite is true: The vast majority of the stocks Warren Buffett owns have made money over the past year, helping his portfolio gain some $ 16 billion dollars in value.

Though the TSA and the hotel group have been in talks for more than a year, the conversation kicked into high gear about four months ago, according to Susan Peckenschneider, director of global partnerships for Carlson.

After years of slow growth, Four Seasons is kicking its global expansion into high gear.

Kim's March trip was his first to his country's only major ally since taking power six years ago, kicking off a flurry of diplomacy.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

Co-organized by E11 Global, a global startups support platform, and Dubai's Step Group the challenge is being kicked off to celebrate the Year of Zayed, and aims to «empower Emirati youth with an entrepreneurial drive and prepare them to successfully contribute to the UAE's startup ecosystem.»

The end of the fiscal year on September 30 is the deadline for Congress to revoke or replace the second tranche of sequester cuts, set to kick in on October 1st and mandating another $ 17 billion worth of across - the - board spending reductions.

Although Jan. 1 is the official date to kick off any new resolutions, here are four productivity ideas to put into practice ahead of time and gather a head of steam before the new year:

Many reforms will not come into play until 2014, but there are several aspects of the legislation that kick in this year.

The MLB season kicks off on Thursday, and one of the biggest storylines of the year will be Bryce Harper's future.

Consumer prices in the German state of Saxony rose by 1.6 percent year - on - year in April, up from 1.5 percent in March, kicking off inflation releases from the German states.

Ask the hundreds of millions of TV viewers who, that same year, witnessed a paraplegic man kicking off the Soccer FIFA World Cup in Brazil, moving the ball with help from his mind - controlled robotic exoskeleton.

Baker won't reveal the details, but the company is said to have pulled in revenue of around $ 70 million last year, most of it from a deal with Google in which the search engine giant kicks back a commission on ad revenue obtained when a Firefox user enlists the browser's Google search bar and ends up clicking on a sponsored link.

The most thorough numbers I've seen were compiled by Internet Filter Review a few years ago, before the deluge of YouTube porn clones kicked the downfall into high gear.

If they can do this and retailers can offer compelling in - store demonstrations, then we see no reason why HDR can not give a kick - start to the UHD TV market over the next couple of years.»

A California man and his family were kicked off of a Delta flight after they refused to give up a seat originally purchased for their teenage son that they opted to use for his 2 - year - old sibling instead.

Apple «s launch of the iPhone 8 kicked off with less fanfare on Friday than new models in previous years in the United States, Asia, Australia and Britain, as fans held out for the premium iPhone X, due out in early November.

Meanwhile, the company's 200 or so carts and kiosks, in malls from Seattle to South Florida, kicked in 60 % of last year's $ 24 million in sales.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Because the money boosting the state sector must be used by the middle of this year, according to the government, Williams says the short - term kick to the economy should last through the end of the year.

Elliott's top brass saw Cohn's strategy as an obvious extension of the firm's bread - and - butter, labor - intensive investing, and five years ago they kicked it into high gear.

Swift told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Louisiana residents graciously welcomed her when she kicked off the U.S. dates of her «1989 World Tour» in the state last year.