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Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

That relationship has played out this year — as interest rates have risen since January, the HYG high yield corporate bond ETF has come under pressure.

And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

A letter to Bains from the Great White North Franchisee Association, a group representing at least half of the franchisees, cited commitments to maintain franchisee relationships, the rent and royalty structure for five years and existing employment levels at franchises across Canada as issues.

And as for his relationship with Seacrest all those years back, Dunkleman admits that they didn't get along and that they hadn't spoken since that first season.

Farrell said Kenny «does not want to be seen as too close to Trump or to be identified with Trump and the same time he wants to preserve a relationship with a guy who is going to be president of the United States» for the next four years.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Synn most recently served as Director of Relationship Marketing at Nordstrom Inc. and brings more than fifteen years of experience in the retail, e-commerce and technology space.

It has imperiled multibillion - dollar deals and could ravage business relationships for years to come, as well as pummel the earnings of countless U.S. businesses, from oil producers to investment banks.

Take the New Year as an opportunity to create deeper, more productive relationships with your work team.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

Originally, the Sherpa Program was set up as a one - year program, but the bonds created became so strong that many of the relationships have continued past the initial year.

As for Jobs, reports of Zuckerberg's relationship with him resurfaced last year, in the wake of news that Zuckerberg, early in the Facebook era, had gained insights and wisdom from a month - long trip to India.

As University of California Davis economist Ann Huff Stevens asserts in her contribution to the 2008 book Laid Off, Laid Low, «In recent years, a conventional wisdom has emerged, suggesting the extent to which U.S. workers and employers form long term relationships has deteriorated.»

Over the years, Ratliff has forged meaningful relationships with her «guests,» as she calls them — so much so that, when she fell on hard times, they banded together in support.

Coach K (as he's affectionately known to players and fans) is known for building quality relationships with his young players, despite being about 50 years their senior.

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

Last year, May proclaimed the strength of the «most special relationship» between the two countries, and the government extended an invitation for a state visit as a guest of Queen Elizabeth II.

Clearly, the independent AMD board members should have been meeting often in 2009 to solidify their own relationships with each other, given the appointment of three new members and Clafin as chair that year.

Over the past few years, this idea about «relationships» has spawned a variety of sales buzzwords - such as consultative selling, customer - based selling, customer - oriented selling and partnership selling.

What's more, in this province, a trusted pitchman can transform a brand, as proven by actor Claude Meunier's 25 - year relationship with Pepsi, which long outsold Coke in Quebec.

«I'm proud of what I created at American Apparel and am confident that, as its largest shareholder, I will have a strong relationship with the company in the years ahead,» he said in a statement.

Robert Rose, CMI chief strategy advisor, wrote a terrific article earlier this year on how trust and the relationship with an addressable audience will be the only value left as advertising continues to transform.

-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.

Zillow has doubled down on enhancing its relationships with the real estate industry this year as it works to increase the accuracy of its listings database by negotiating direct listing feeds from MLSs and brokers.

Over the past three years, Russia's break with the West has cemented Beijing as the more powerful partner in the Russian - Chinese bilateral relationship.

Allen comes to Zillow from the large Utah MLS, UtahRealEstate.com, where he oversaw sales, marketing and relationships as director of business development for the past five years.

After nearly 20 years in the corporate and ad agency worlds as a copywriter and brand strategist, veteran marketer Rachel Parker set out in 2010 to help businesses succeed by growing their relationships online.

In 2009, that relationship began to reverse, and through 2011 and 2012, light oil at Edmonton traded at massive discounts to similar crude streams on global markets — an average of $ 22.83 / bbl in fiscal year 2012 - 2013, as shown in the blue wedge at the top of the graphic below.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

Businesses have a three - year «transition period» during which they can still send messages of a commercial nature if they can prove they've had a business relationship with the recipients, known in law as implied consent, in the past two years.

Each year, our investment professionals from around the world gather at two global roundtable meetings to present and participate in discussions on investment topics and, also, just as importantly, to develop relationships with colleagues.

As a mining analyst early in his career, and as an investment advisor and partner at Leede Financial for 6 years, Farhan has developed impressive relationships with financial institutions and public companies alikAs a mining analyst early in his career, and as an investment advisor and partner at Leede Financial for 6 years, Farhan has developed impressive relationships with financial institutions and public companies alikas an investment advisor and partner at Leede Financial for 6 years, Farhan has developed impressive relationships with financial institutions and public companies alike.

Over the past couple of years gold has rallied when the greenback has been making gains, as well as when it was weakening, therefore investors must now take note of the inverse relationship between US real interest rates and gold, which has been observed more consistently.

The idea of customer relationship management, or CRM, has been around for years and companies such as Salesforce have built billion - dollar businesses around managing the direct...

Our team sources more than 2,200 deal opportunities / year through our family office relationships and exclusive intellectual property, such as PrivateEquity.com, Wilson Conferences, and the Family Offices Group Association which combine to reach 1 million professionals each week.

The current valuation of the S&P 500 is lofty by almost any measure, both for the aggregate market as well as the median stock: (1) The P / E ratio; (2) the current P / E expansion cycle; (3) EV / Sales; (4) EV / EBITDA; (5) Free Cash Flow yield; (6) Price / Book as well as the ROE and P / B relationship; and compared with the levels of (6) inflation; (7) nominal 10 - year Treasury yields; and (8) real interest rates.

I would like to start with the U.S. 10 - year Treasury notes (UST) chart as this instrument has a strong relationship with gold, which I already showed you in August.

So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.

Following this rapid growth period, we anticipate that GFI will slow their expansion over the next year.9 They are planning to increase their fundraising capability primarily through strengthening their relationships with existing donors as well as identifying new potential groups of donors.10 They hope this will allow them to maintain sustained growth beyond the startup phase.11 Given additional funding, we do think that GFI is structured in such a way that they could continue to expand their organizational capacity across all departments; however, we think that it's possible they will continue to encounter some hiring issues (although not to the same extent as those seen in 2017).

Investors should take comfort in this relationship, as corporate earnings have been strong recently and look poised to move higher in the coming year.

As you can see, the 10 - year Treasury bond yield and gold have an inverse relationship.

Importantly, the relationship is nearly as bad even if these «equity premiums» are compared with the difference between the realized 10 - year S&P 500 total return and the 10 - year Treasury yield (to get a true «excess» return).

Almost two years after racy photos exposed his relationship with a woman and prompted the end of his tenure as a Roman Catholic priest and media star, Albert Cutie on Monday said celibacy is not necessary or particularly healthy for those aiming to heed God's call.

But the LCMS» relationships with other churches have also been growing over the past few years as well.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Awareness is not tethered to the physical but relationship with the physical There is no such thing as non existence physically or conceptually Agency of time and space must be outside our subset of existence and predate singularity Our known world is configured to be appear concentric Probability of intelligent life in only 14 billion years is one out of ten to the power of 127 assuming one universe.

That famous man took him on as a junior partner, a relationship that lasted the 17 years up to Lincoln's election as president.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.