Sentences with phrase «year we counted on»

Every year we are well aware of the potential of this group, every year we count on them, every year Arsene refuses to purchase players in their position for fear of stunting their growth, and every year they get hurt at critical periods and put us in this position.

Last year we counted on our top two or three guys to carry us more often than not.

Sep 29, 2015 24 Pages 3 - 7 years Counting on Community is Innosanto Nagara's follow - up to his hit ABC book, A is for Activist.

Not exact matches

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

First thing Monday morning, a grand jury indicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Richard Gates on 12 counts related to financial dealings over the years.

Every dollar counts for business owners, so if you don't know where you stand on a monthly basis, you may not be around at the end of the year.

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

Over the next few years, count on some walk - in urgent - care centers to evolve into true standalone emergency rooms and for ambulances to increasingly head there instead of to hospital ERs, particularly in the case of certain types of injuries (such as wounds or broken bones).

So merchants can count on the number of chip cards being used at their business to increase sharply over the next couple of years.

Revenue was up 18 percent last year and head count 35 percent, and the company has been on the Inc. 5000 a remarkable nine years in a row.

A jury has ruled Ross Ulbricht, the 30 - year - old who founded the black market website Silk Road, guilty on all counts.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

The 28 HR services firms on the 2013 ranking had an average 5 - year revenue growth of 451 %, average 2012 revenue of $ 38.2 million and an average employee count of 315.

Market strategists and portfolio managers maintain that folks should look past those lofty valuations and focus on what counts: A powerful, steady forward march in profits that should deliver near double - digit returns, or even better, for years to come.

When you do find a company that meets your criteria, count on holding it for years.

Kevin Dee can count on one hand the number of sick days he's taken in the past 15 years.

For 20 straight years, Whole Foods has been counted as one of America's «Great Places to Work,» an annual list that is based primarily on employee surveys and published by Fortune.

Here's a look at the top seven on the 2015 Fortune 500 list and how their head counts have fared over the past 10 years.

And some of the CEOs on the list were new or retired during the course of the year, so their figures only reflect a partial count.

Medicis spends upwards of $ 70 million a year on R&D, as does Valeant, and Pearson is optimistic on its earning potential, telling analysts, «You can't count on it until it gets approved.

But the product will miss the critical Christmas and New Year's period when Japanese children can count on gifts.

With personality and perseverance as her guides, she went on to host for 35 years (and counting), receive an Academy Award nomination and even own a television network in her name.

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.

«At one time, you could always count on the CPU being able to give a boost of performance each year,» Mannel said.

The 20 retailers on the 2013 ranking had an average 5 - year revenue growth of 725 %, average 2012 revenue of $ 29 million and an average employee count of 220

The 18 natural resources extractors and service companies on the 2013 ranking had an average 5 - year revenue growth of 864 %, average 2012 revenue of $ 171.3 million and an average employee count of 601.

Although the oil rig count has been rising, US production is still down year - on - year, reflecting some continued caution and weakness among the largest producers.

The 18 food processors and distributors on the 2013 ranking had an average 5 - year revenue growth of 385 %, average 2012 revenue of $ 27 million and an average employee count of 53.

Sproule, who counts stints at Jaguar, Tesla, and Nissan over his career, has been overseeing the luxury British sports car manufacturer's marketing and communications on a worldwide basis over the past few years.

The 45 business services firms on the 2013 ranking had an average 5 - year revenue growth of 1,354 %, average 2012 revenue of $ 27.2 million and an average employee count of 125.

Blount smiled, and replied: «Count on it,»» recalls Petersen, who has taught at Kellogg for 16 years.

Still, we can count on there being at least a few million new college dropouts per year.

On Tuesday, the chicken chain announced plans to increase its global restaurant count to 4,000 from 2,500 in the next seven to 10 years.

Currently, Chicago hosts as many as 104 private companies on the Inc. 5000 (last year, it counted 95), landing second place on the list of Top Cities for Fast - Growing Companies.

He faces up to 415 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

They are now counting on him to raise their businesses to the next level: 100 or more paid speaking engagements a year.

I counted several directors who have been on corporate boards for 10, 15, 20 and 25 years.

Judging by the investments that are underperforming so far this year, the supposedly safe - haven assets — the ones you counted on to keep your portfolio stable during periods just like the current one, when market volatility surges — are turning out to be not so safe after all.

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

And over the last forty years, large corporations have nearly eliminated the safety nets that workers used to count on from them, including implicit promises of long term employment and secure pensions.

The jury convicted Cosby on three counts — penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant — all felonies and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, though the terms could be served concurrently.

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

The Paris - based group, which counts Switzerland among its 35 member states, on Tuesday issued findings from a year - long review of the Alpine country that has long been associated with shady financial transactions and as a haven for clandestine deal - making.

Count all the money Valeant has spent on acquisitions as drug research, and suddenly it has spent 200 % of its revenue over the past five years on R&D.

«I'd been a health minister for five years, if you count provincial time plus federal time,» he says, leaning forward on an armless lounge chair in his office.

No Participant shall receive Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units during any Fiscal Year covering, in the aggregate, in excess of 7,000,000 Shares (for this purpose, (A) counting such Shares on a 1 - for - 1 basis and (B) for Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units as to which the number of Shares earned is dependent on the level of attainment of performance vesting conditions, counting in respect thereof the number of Shares that may be earned at maximum performance), subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 11.

Count on needing a personal guarantee for the first three to five years of your business.

That's particularly true for older workers who might be laid off in their peak earning years, when they had been counting on catching up on retirement savings.

Instead, the government committed to reducing debt by $ 3 billion a year, primarily counting on better - than - expected fiscal results at year end to honour that commitment.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.