Sentences with phrase «years i run into»

At a xmas party late last year I ran into a friend that has gone gaa gaa over the Kindle.

Many if not most of the companies that I hold for years run into disappointments, become an unrealized capital loss in my portfolio for a while, and come back to greater success.

After just less than a year we ran into that most insidious of realities, money;... Continued

I have a lot of civilian contractor clients working in the Middle East and African war zones and one that just renewed their life insurance coverage another year ran into an all too frequent problem, working in a location devoid of printers or scanners, or in his case ink.

Having sold rural properties for 30 years I run into this same problem time and again.

Not exact matches

Joseph and Ted Burnett jointly head up Burnac Corp., a family - run firm that invests in real estate and grocery produce distribution, but in recent years they have been exiting these businesses and transitioning into bonds for their estate - planning purposes.

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.

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

«There's this herd mentality in our field where investors run to two or three themes a year, so it could develop into a bubble in that particular sector.»

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

While the prices of those jets are only the starting costs, operational costs can easily run into several millions of dollars per year.

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

At the same event, I ran into Bob Schwartz, Nordstrom.com's former President and someone I've known for several years.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

Mexico - based KidZania plans to jump into the market soon, and shoppers should expect to see more experiential - play offerings across the U.S. KidZania currently runs 24 entertainment centers worldwide and will make its debut in America in Dallas, Chicago and New York by next year.

He began to think about finding a strategic partner in 2006, and thought he found the right match two years later in Dubai World, a large real estate developer that quickly ran into financial difficulties.

Over the years, he used his «Idol» success to bring more attention to his long - running radio show, score more gigs like «Dick Clark's Rockin» Eve,» and branch out into producing shows including E!'s Kardashians franchise and NBC's drama «Shades of Blue.»

The funding will continue to the end of the calendar year and into next year, but that's about as much money as there is to run those programs.

Instead of fleeing to a warm - weather destination to avoid the cold and snow this year, why not run headfirst into the season's embrace?

Less than a year later, walking down Church Street in downtown Burlington, he ran into Bob Johnson, his old friend and former warehouse manager.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

After seven years running a service business that helps large organizations with multiple locations manage social media and online reputation, my company and I decided to make a leap into the mobile app world.

On the off chance that you do run into any issues, these come with a one - year limited warranty, which can be increased to a generous three - year warranty by registering them with the company through the SportLife app.

(Presumably, this future does not include the risk of serving expired meat — which the company's China subsidiary ran into earlier this year when one of its suppliers was caught repackaging old ground beef.)

The drive also offers a three - year limited warranty, so you're covered if you run into problems.

About a decade later, I ran into an old friend — someone who had helped me prepare for the Supreme Court interview, whom I hadn't seen in years.

Earlier this year it backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress.

Still, I think this is a spot for them to run through Southern Mississippi and start working towards getting back into the top ten next year.

We have spent the past two years experimenting with different ads — sometimes running a dozen campaigns simultaneously — until we refined our approach to where we now have two campaigns that are highly effective at attracting new prospects that we can convert into paying customers.

The Busch family ran the company for nearly 130 years, even after it went public, but the stock stagnated in the early 2000s when Michelob and Budweiser fell into a sharp decline as Americans gravitated to wine and spirits.

Nintendo shares have seen big gains this year as the company has more broadly expanded into the mobile market, with titles like «Pokemon Go» and the upcoming «Super Mario Run.»

And then there is Dropbox, the popular file storage and file sharing company that ran almost entirely on AWS until it quietly moved 90 % of that workload into its own data centers over the course of a few years.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

The five - year rebranding process focused on bringing urbanites into the fold by introducing more accessible outdoor activity lines for walking, running, and cycling.

Eighty years later, in Google's hometown of Mountain View, one of its pod - cars ran into a bus.

They quickly took significant market share in the first year in football and baseball cleats, but decided to slow down their move into the category after investing heavily in the training and running shoe markets and not making as much noise.

The new regulations would bring Ontario into line with other Canadian provinces, like Alberta and Manitoba, and the United States, where debt settlement ran wild for years before sparking a huge federal crackdown in 2010.

The Oster Jelly Bean Toaster comes with a one - year warranty in case you run into any issues.

A sharp sell - off in bond markets this week spilled over into global equities with jitters that a near 30 - year run bull run for fixed income could be coming to an end.

Two years later, Cerner became such a believer in the concept that it jumped into the business of designing, building and running those clinics for other companies.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

Gindalbie Metals shares slipped on the ASX today after the iron ore producer said it would need extra working capital to see out the end of the year, having run into more issues at its Karara project in the Mid West.

The Cuisinart CountdownToaster comes with a three - year warranty, so you're covered if you run into any problems.

However, Bloomberg reported that it's also looking into another crash earlier this year where a Model S ran into a fire truck parked on the highway, where the driver claimed Autopilot was engaged at the time.

After all, Stenebo has watched Kamprad's «incompetent» male spawn move into the top spots at Ikea, being groomed to run the show, while the 20 years he spent working his way up from a German Ikea warehouse, to upper management, to being Kamprad's right - hand man have run their course.

A few years into its run, the company ran into some obstacles and had to rethink its approach, like temporarily shuttering it's same - day delivery option in Los Angeles, and included a $ 9.99 delivery fee.

Here's how Rohit Patel describes inner city Baltimore: «When I moved into the city sixteen years ago it was run down, but it had a vibrancy to it.

At industry events that year, everyone I ran into with a connected product or a KickStarter was in talks to sell out or score more funds.

In the past year, most of the financial startups that set out to upend the highly regulated realm of traditional banking have run into roadblocks.

Figuring out how to move into remote markets is one way the family - run Harnois Groupe, founded by Claude Harnois in 1958, has multiplied its revenues 50-fold in the past 30 years.