Sentences with phrase «year past high»

Then - commissioner David Stern, who pushed for the creation of the age minimum in 2005, wanted to extend it to age 20 or two years past high school graduation.

The survey provides data on wages and occupations going 10 years past high school as well as clear indicators of whether students participated in ESL or bilingual education programs.

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The company, which started out primarily as a flash - sales site for high - end women's fashion, has diversified its product offerings over the past few years to include houseware items and travel packages.

Cryptocurrency trading saw a massive uptick in the past year as bitcoin's price skyrocketed to new highs.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

«Price gains over the past two years could trigger substantially more inventory in the months ahead, and that could support higher sales and tame home price appreciation.»

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

In the past five years, however, several high - profile takeovers proposed by foreigners were spurned.

Still, there is a temptation to abandon one's past investing style when higher P / E stocks outperform lower ones over multiple years, as they've done lately, Harper says.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

In January, Miller said a rise in the 10 - year Treasury yield above 3 percent «will propel stocks significantly higher, as money exits bond funds for only the second year in the past 10.»

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

For the past two years, it's had the highest year - over-year growth of any Buffalo Wild Wings location in the country and is still growing.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

In the past year, major cities have occasionally seen bidding wars — not for homes but for prime rentals, with choice units renting for higher than asking price.

Bitcoin's surging price over the past year has been in due part to Chinese investors seeking higher returns.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

During the past six years, we've realized a common denominator across all campaigns that generate north of $ 1 million: High - quality marketing assets.

Petrol prices reached 14 - year low averages in the past year but gross retail margins hit fresh highs, the competition watchdog says.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

Camera technology has also increased over the past year, so expect a lot of those drones to be capable of shooting 4K video and capturing high - quality stills.

In the past few years, various Chinese companies and funds have made numerous bids for high - tech firms — some with military applications — in the U.S. and Europe.

The bearish sentiment in Asia followed a softer lead from Wall Street, which has led a global equities rally over the past year thanks to strong world growth fueling higher corporate earnings and stock valuations.

«Although central banks have learned from the pain caused by high inflation in past years, they will not be able to offset the increase in interest costs due to all the money that has been and will be printed,» wrote one respondent.

Energy companies have made up a good portion of debt issued in the high yield market over the past few years.

In the past year, Breyers, the ice cream brand owned by Unilever, introduced a low - calorie, high - protein ice cream with the calorie count printed in big letters on the container, just like Halo Top.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

Unfortunately, high unemployment invariably leads to a high crime rate and this past year has seen violent crimes such as murder and armed robbery skyrocket.

The reason these two markets have done well, and especially Germany, is that most investors flocked to high - quality investments this past year, says Ian Cooke, a vice-president and portfolio manager with QV Investors.

Over the past 30 years, instructor TJ Walker has trained tons of high - profile clients in public speaking.

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

The beermaker's financial performance has earned Brito high marks from Wall Street — the stock is up more than 150 % over the past four years, compared with the S&P's 68 % gain — but it is Brito's management style that has earned him a place on Fortune's 2013 Executive Dream Team.

Several high - profile men at Fox News were ousted in the past two years after sexual misconduct allegations, including former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and hosts Bill O'Reilly and Eric Bolling.

In the past, Chadwick served as the finance chief at a number of high profile companies, including Skype leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft (msft) in 2011, at McAfee leading up to its acquisition by Intel (intc) that same year, and earlier at Cisco (csco).

Maduro's approval has also hovered around 20 % over the past two years, which is not high, but is noteworthy in light of the turmoil in Venezuela over that time.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

We've had 3,000 partners working with us over the past 15 years and that goes from the most high - tech labs and electronics companies to «mom and pop» machine shops.

Meanwhile, Samsung took less than two years to become the bestselling smartphone seller (for each of the past three quarters), grabbing high - end market share from the almighty iPhone.

Because of my high profile over the past few years, the government officials, the rich people, have not liked to interact with me.

Today, the bachelor's degree is the high school diploma of years past.

The moves are the latest ways Trump is seeking to reshape the Federal Reserve, which has seen a high level of turnover in the past two years.

However, the loonie has now been near parity for four of the past five years... [we] are still waiting for the promised benefits of a high - flying loonie.