Sentences with phrase «year of long days»

What have I learned in this short year of long days?

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I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

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.

WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead to better ties after a year of strains.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

It'll take long years of expensive schooling before you can have your days in court.

The main event of every year's meeting is an all - day session in which Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger answer questions in front of a packed arena.

When advertisers do make sales contact, it's after an average wait of 89 days and as long as four years.

It is unclear when Uber began using Wickr, but the company said that in October of last year it began paying for a business version that gave it the ability to preserve messages for as long as a year instead of a maximum of six days.

Dedicate one day for an off - site meeting where you can map out the upcoming year, set short - term and long - term goals (both company - wide and on an individual basis), and discuss and celebrate the milestones of the last year.

Much of the money Rainmaker makes now comes from producing two Barbie movies a year for Mattel, a long fall from the days this same studio was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution, having been nominated by Bill Gates himself.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

The index also snapped an eight - day winning streak — its longest in four years — and also ended a streak of six straigh record closes, the longest such streak since 1997.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

That move, added to the hiring of Todd Combs last year, is aimed at preparing investment - rich Berkshire for a day when Buffett, who just turned 81, will no longer be running the company's investments.

She has come a long way from the day she fled Cuba with her parents in 1967 at five years of age.

In the same way, Employee Appreciation Day is a reminder of how companies should treat their employees all year long.

Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.

They spent an average of 466 days on the market, which was the longest amount of time for the beginning of a year dating back to 2012.

Over the last several years, consumers worldwide have fallen victim to waiting too long to pre-order new Apple hardware, leaving them with two options: wait a few more weeks until it reaches their homes or stand in line on launch day in hopes of getting one at an Apple store, third - party retailer, or carrier.

If you do choose to sell any investment held outside of a tax - deferred account, such as an IRA, make sure, if at all possible, you hold it for at least one year and one day in order to qualify for the long - term capital gains rate.

It has long been one of the biggest shopping days of the year, and in recent years, the crowds have gradually begun to shift from storefronts to the internet.

May Day, celebrated on the first day of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worDay, celebrated on the first day of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worday of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worday for workers» rights around the world.

On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.

Why not take the longest day of the year off work and actually accomplish all that stuff that's cluttering your brain?

This year the summer solstice falls on June 20, which means that, if you live in the northern hemisphere, Monday is the longest day of the year.

«You'll work for us [during those four years]; we believe you'll stay longer because of what we did; and even if you leave the day after you get your degree, we believe you're going to be a lifelong customer of Starbucks.

Publicly funded full - day kindergarten means parents no longer have to shell out for 10 months of child care for their five - year - olds (and, in Ontario, four - year - olds)-- a major cost savings.

These tweets would have likely been long forgotten if McDonald's hadn't responded to them yesterday, eight years later, to announce the national launch of all - day breakfast.

Although many commenters supported a 60 - day delay for this purpose, others argued that a much longer period is needed (e.g., a 1 - year delay or an indefinite extension terminating 60 or more days after completion of the examination required by the President's Memorandum).

After a period of market advance and retreat between 1979 and 1982, August 13 of the latter year «marked the first day of what would turn out to be one of the longest and strongest bull markets in U.S. history.»

The standard advice from financial advisors to 20 - somethings is to invest as much as they can in stocks — regardless of periodic market swings, however wild, like those seen over the past few days — and watch long - term compounding do its magic for the next 40 - plus years.

For the sake of brevity, we will skip analysis of the Dow Jones SPDR ETF ($ DIA) because both its daily and weekly chart patterns are quite similar to SPY above (broke down firmly below its 50 - day moving average yesterday, and is also coming into support of its year - long uptrend line).

But longer - dated bonds fell over inflation fears; prices for 30 - year debt sank and fell most of the day for the benchmark 10 - year Treasury, though the latter turned moderately positive at day's end.

One of this year's marquee events is a day - long entrepreneurship expo on Nov. 16 called Imagine Tomorrow.

The study also accounted for the number of employee short - term and long - term illnesses, and employee total sick day counts per year.

All these powerful tidbits of knowledge, and many other psychological trading lessons we've learned over the past 11 years, are regularly shared with subscribers of The Wagner Daily end - of - day trading newsletter, and we we proudly display the cumulative trading performance results of our long - term efforts to prove it (Q4 of 2012 will be updated this week).

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

Instead, long - term investors have the opportunity to seize the day by picking out attractively priced high - quality companies this fall that could help form a foundation of growth for their portfolio for years to come.

We may take advantage of these provisions until the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering or such earlier time that we are no longer an emerging growth company.

At the same time, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, 34 - year - old Glenn Rogers (@rogers on Twitter) had just kicked his feet up after a long day at work.

It's that time of year when the days are getting longer, coats stay in the closet and new Frappuccino blended beverages arrive at Starbucks.

Speaking on Day 2 of the conference, Dr Lawrence Yun, (pictured), Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors, predicted that United States housing demand would continue to boom over next five years, as long as job growth continued.

That's because the 30 - year option came with a higher interest rate from day one, and the homeowner paid that higher rate over a longer period of time.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

As of year end 2013, it's run for 1,758 days, with the longest ending in 2000 at 4,494 days.

NYMEX crude oil is the largest oil futures contract in the world and has a current total open interest of around 1.6 million contracts and it would be impossible for any group of speculators to sell or buy 53 days of world production in a year or longer, no less in a week as just occurred in COMEX silver.

Economists and pundits have been predicting a rise in interest rates for a number of years now, but the professional investors I talk to these days almost all seem convinced that rates will stay «lower for longer.»