Sentences with phrase «years at a time by»

So far, net square footage is up 9 % over last year at 879,075 sq. ft.. Also, the number of exhibitors this year is exceeding the number from last year at this time by 11 %, with the Hot Rod Alley, Restoration Marketplace and Business Services sections nearly sold out.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

At the same time, Foot Locker shares, already down sharply this year, tumbled 25 % in heavy trading as the retailer reported that comparable sales fell 6 % in the second quarter — a stunning result given the 1.7 % increase expected by Wall Street, according to Consensus Metrix.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Associattime to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel AssociatTime Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

WeWork does not disclose revenue, but documents obtained by The Information and cited by The New York Times peg the figure at $ 75 million last year, with $ 4.2 million in profits.

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.

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

In my young adult years, I had long hair, wore too much flannel, and my discourse revolved around and was greatly influenced by subjects such as Pearl Jam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club and Beavis and Butthead.

Dan Saltzstein, an editor at The New York Times Travel section, was impressed by the 12 - year - old's initiative.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The ITER international project in France has been plagued by cost overruns — the original 5 - billion - euro project is now budgeted at 13 billion euros (about $ 15 billion)-- and its 23,000 - ton Tokamak experimental reactor, three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, is still many years from completion.

By comparison, Internet behemoth Alphabet (goog), whose Android mobile platform competes againstApple «s iOS, trades at 20 times expected earnings and 13 - year old Tesla Motors trades at 132 times earnings.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

After three months, employees qualify for free health care, provided by a full - time nurse and a part - time doctor at the plantation's infirmary, along with 15 paid vacation days a year.

«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually think out multiple years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»

Trump's plan seeks to revamp how projects are approved and funded by reducing permitting time to two years and allocating $ 200 billion over 10 years — mostly as incentives to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend at least $ 1.3 trillion.

Perhaps more importantly, if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per year, 5 times the current rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.

At the annual sales conference for my company this year, I did not lead off by speaking of victories but rather of a time when I was unable to make a sale.

Yet, no comprehensive solution to the problem was offered by the government at the time of the 2014 operation; nor in the years afterward.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Solares estimated at the time that he could make up the $ 1.5 million in eight years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his costs by now.

They wanted to know if they should break their mortgages and refinance at BMO's limited - time, bargain - basement 2.99 % rate — the lowest rate ever officially offered by a Canadian bank for a five - year, fixed - rate mortgage.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

The 39 - year - old president, a newcomer to international diplomacy, will meet many of his counterparts for the first time over the next few days at the NATO meeting in the Belgian capital followed by a G7 summit in Sicily.

At the center of the study is a new map of the hazards posed by geomagnetic storms of a strength that scientists expect to occur every 100 years — five times more frequently than «500 - year» storms like the Carrington Event.

Darren Woods, who has worked at Exxon for more than 20 years, has helped expand the refining business at a time when the company's core exploration and production business has been rocked by low commodity prices.

In 17 years as a hotel housekeeper, Dar has been propositioned and pursued, and leered at by guests too many times to count.

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

As Lavalife and Round13 Capital co-founder (and former Dragons» Den star) Bruce Croxon put it at the recent PROFIT 500 CEO Summit, the life of an entrepreneur is one of going all out for years at a time, followed by a year or so of total downtime.

Timmer: You know, the last two years until the January high, were really extraordinary times for the market, and I fear that investors got spoiled by that, because the S&P was up I think 52 % in two years and in 2017 the volatility — the standard deviation of those returns — was at an all - time low of 3.9.

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

Buffett, who for much of his career avoided tech stocks, has capitalized on that rally by doubling — or, if you will, sextupling — down on Apple stock: He owns six times as much of it now as he did at this time last year, making him one of the iPhone maker's largest shareholders.

The assembly rolled by at its set pace and no matter what time of day or year it was, and you screwed a certain number of widgets together every hour.

This year's bestseller, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof by Ina Garten ($ 35; Clarkson Potter / Random House), had topped sales of 132,000 at press time.

Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.

Those investment plans were met with suspicion by critics at a time when Qatar is embroiled in the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years and is locked in an airspace rights dispute with three other Gulf states.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

Start by identifying items that can be stored for longer periods of time, such as seasonal material, collateral and marketing items that are only used at a certain time of the year.

At about this time three years ago, it agreed to complete its multi-billion dollar acquisition of European druggist Alliance Boots, and followed that 10 months later by trying (and failing) to buy smaller rival Rite Aid (rad) outright.

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

«Asset values such as the stock market are at all - time highs, every major industry around the world last year grew by more than 20 percent, volatility is at an historic low.

By automating our inventory, the time we spend tracking assets has been cut in half, saving us $ 50,000 a year and at least $ 3,000 a month in lost revenue.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.