Sentences with phrase «years at a time made»

My DH was away for a year at the time I made the switch so he didn't really have much say in the decision.

Knowing she needed actors for years at a time made the task particularly challenging.

Not exact matches

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.

Spacey, who stars as President Frank Underwood in the acclaimed series, has been accused of making unwanted advances on Anthony Rapp, who at the time was 14 years old.

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In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

The upset came just a day after the ten - year anniversary of Appalachian State's wild upset over Michigan in Ann Arbor, but as ESPN notes, that game did not have a spread archived at the time it was played, making Howard's win the biggest upset in history in the context of Vegas lines.

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

Combining AOL and Yahoo, an idea that has come up many times over the years, could instantly make Yahoo a major player in Internet advertising, with Armstrong - one of the world's top ad executives - at the helm, analysts said.

A year ago, I suggested persuading a bunch of your friends and family to quit at the same time would make it easier for everyone to stay away.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

«Simply tell them that you plan for gifts in December of each year and you will consider making changes at that time,» Kramer said.

Too many entrepreneurs and experts make the mistake of assuming that just because their product or service is one that's useful throughout the year or «evergreen», it's automatically interesting as a story at any time.

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.

Every year around this time, much is made about the so - called «Oscar bump» and how much Hollywood studios can expect to rake in after a big win at the Academy Awards.

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.

For instance, Budge's titles require players to answer a math question that a typical kid can't solve before making a purchase: A game targeted at four - year - olds might ask, «What's nine times eight?»

At the time, the former investment banker was making noise about taking the world's largest economy off life support, which helped market bulls roar into the new year.

Two years ago, after Facebook's $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp made huge news, the New York Times reported that Zuckerberg and WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum negotiated the deal over a plate of chocolate - covered strawberries at Zuckerberg's house.

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 company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

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.

After 35 years as the CEO of Inc. 5000 No. 2539 Professional Translating Services in Miami, «We have made sure not to take any unnecessary risks, while at the same time assuring that we grow year after year,» he says.

Investors in Amazon's 1997 IPO (three years after its founding at a market capitalization of $ 625 million, in current dollars) made 565 times their money, compared to 20 - times for investors in Google's 2004 IPO (six years after founding at a valuation of $ 29 billion) and 3.7 - times for investors in Facebook's $ 110 billion IPO five years ago.

EASTWOOD: But then years later I went back to Universal, it was a different regime then but I went back to Universal and I went to Lew Wasserman who was the head of Universal at that time and I said you know that you have this story called Play Misty for Me that's on the shelf nobody was making.

During his twenty years at the helm, Welch increased GE's market value twenty - eight times, making GE America's most valuable corporation.

Though a brand - new teacher in Korea makes just $ 27,702 in their first year, by the time they've hit the 10 - year mark it rises to $ 41,875, and at the top end it's $ 77,979.

As a business owner, I make it a goal to vacation at least three times per year.

I've done that off and on for 20 years, working for various dealerships, and there were times I made a pretty good living at it.

At the time, all the networks were making 20 - plus movies a year and a couple of miniseries and maybe a few limited series, and so you were making things all the time.

According to SEC filings from May, Heins will make his base salary of $ 3 million for another two years, plus another $ 5 million cash and a stock portfolio that was at one time worth more than $ 16 million and is now worth more like $ 7 million, reports Arik Hesseldahl of All Things D. Related: BlackBerry Says, «Remain Calm.

Four years on, the F1 boss appears to be frustrated again as he tries to keep one of the most glamorous races on the calendar after the contract expires in 2017, at a time when the city - state is weighing whether the event makes economic sense anymore.

Amazon is paying less than Emaar's offer of $ 800 million, sources said, making it lower than the $ 1 billion valuation at the time of Souq.com's funding round last year.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

New York has the smallest pay gap at 11 %, with full - time, year - round women over 25 there making a median salary of $ 47,358, while men make $ 53,124.

Last year, The New York Times documented the explosion of young coffee up - starts, noting «more than 40 new cafes and coffee bars have joined a small, dedicated group of establishments where coffee making is treated like an art, or at least a high form of craft.»

In other words, Wall Street is convinced the creator of Snapchat, which up until 2015 didn't have any sales at all, will be big enough to make the Fortune 500 by the time it turns 10 years old.

On this day two weeks later, nonetheless, it is the right time to look at a widely - noted stock market prediction that Buffett made 17 years ago, in 1999, and that is just reaching its terminal point.

This is the second time the company has made the Inc. 5000, coming in at number 458 this year.

This year marks the second time Caduceus Healthcare made the Inc. 5000, coming in at number 301 last year and at 334 in 2014.

«Even though my new job came with less money and a 5 a.m. start time, it was the best decision I have ever made,» said Grybek, talking about her second job at a nationally syndicated TV show a few years back.

Rosser says in a good year, the business — which Jenkins founded in 1976, after years of scrimping and saving as a union sheet metal worker — made about $ 750,000 in revenue at the time.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

This is the first time in at least three years that Facebook's revenue is lower versus prior quarter, but it's obviously still a lot of money to make.

Conversely, its absence tends to make utilities and their investors nervous, and Congress's tendency to reauthorize it for as little as a year at a time just aggravates that angst.

One of Defy's biggest success stories is Coss Marte, a convicted drug kingpin who at one time made $ 2 million dollars a year running one of the New York City's largest drug rings.

With the year coming to a close, there's no better time to look back at the words that moved us, made us laugh and inspired us to do more.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

Made of iron and wood, the first New Year's Eve ball to be dropped from the flagpole at One Times Square in 1907 weighed 700 pounds.