Sentences with phrase «years day spent»

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The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

At its investor day on Wednesday, Home Depot said it would roughly double the investment spending in the next three fiscal years to some $ 11.1 billion.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

In the former year, it agreed to «forgive» a $ 3 million loan to Trump — for money he'd spent developing the riverboat casino — if sometime over the next two years, the stock price exceeded $ 25 for ten of 15 trading days.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

So rather than sweat the investment game, she spent years holding down a day job while bootstrapping her new company on the side.

Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, 37, spent 27 days in the church before he was granted a one - year deportation reprieve, which was renewed in May.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

The talks were delivered by the staff of DigitalMarketer, a company that spends all year putting its sales ideas into practice before spending three days telling other people what they've learned.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

I spent years with the pedal to the metal, working seven days a week.

For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day «cyberloafing,» it could cost you $ 35 million each year.

That's quite a few: As CEO of Acker Merrall & Condit, his family's nearly 200 - year - old Manhattan wine shop, the 41 - year - old spends about 120 days a year on the road, mostly courting the still - booming Asian wine market.

Someone at Ralph Lauren introduced her to Amy Astley, then the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, and Weiss spent her sophomore through senior years cramming her classes into two days so she could spend the other three interning at the magazine.

Since investment banking giant Lehman Brothers fell nine years ago this day, signaling the start of a time when six homes were foreclosed on every minute, global consumers have been spending a lot of time on Netflix and a nice bit of cash on video games.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

At just 15 years old, his father sent him to spend eight days alone in a remote cabin on the coast of Washington in a heavily wooded place called Iron Springs.

Fu Wenyue, a 23 - year - old dresser in Shanghai, said she had already spent around 4,000 yuan ($ 600) on clothes, cosmetics and kitchen utensils in pre-event sales, transactions ahead of the day which officially only go through once midnight strikes.

Finally, after having spent a small - fortune and many years of your life, the day comes for you to prep for the big journey.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

The next day, Russian officials announced they were halting the Future Leaders Exchange Program, in which American and Russian teenagers spend a year in each other's countries.

«If you're spending $ 3 a day on coffee, that's about $ 1,000 a year.

Here's how, on average, this year's CEOs say they spend their day.

While sleeping on an air mattress in the office, dining on cans of Kroger soup, and working 18 hours a day, he spent a year and a half incubating his idea for dairy - free protein bars.

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

During one particularly unstable year, he spent 220 days in the U.S., fighting fires in the company's branch offices.

Bruic spends her days now working at the Afghan army's two - year - old signals school, where she advises Afghan officers on communications networks and training.

It's that time of the year where we spend our days and nights frequently caught up in reflection.

Likewise, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed last year that Americans spend an average of 40 minutes a day on Facebook.

Miguel Patricio, who has worked for AB InBev since the Brahma days, last year became its global CMO after spending four years as a zone president in China.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Hagel's nomination comes on the heels of a New Year's Day deal that averted economic calamity when lawmakers agreed to prevent huge tax hikes and government spending cuts.

The 14 day average of Gallup daily consumer spending as of October 4 was $ 84, compared with $ 62 last year for this period.

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

Major Brian de Leon, a 15 - year veteran of the Army with three tours of duty in Iraq, arrived at Wexley's Seattle offices in April and has been spending three days a week with the company's creative team.

They spent an average of 466 days on the market, which was the longest amount of time for the beginning of a year dating back to 2012.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

The basic idea is to abstain from shopping and spending for the day (which is also Black Friday, the start of the busiest shopping period of the year in the U.S.).

On what has and hasn't changed at Yelp over the years: I still spend a ton of time with product and engineering, we do seem to get a lot more press attention these days, but perhaps most fortunately I haven't had to invest a lot of time with Wall Street (if you pardon the pun)... our CFO Rob Krolik handles most of that.

If it will be used daily, or several times per day, and you plan on keeping it for years to come, then you'll want to consider the quality of the item along with the price and determine if spending more makes sense.

Anyone who has spent a day in Mountain View, Calif., in the past few years has probably spotted a Lexus SUV driving around town that is equipped with Google self - driving tech spinning on its roof.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

Zenith says people spent an average of 170 minutes of TV viewing per day last year.

«Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by two to three hours / day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20 kg to 30 kg / year could occur.»

While it's true that small expenditures DO add up (spending $ 3.50 every day on a coffee drains nearly $ 1,300 a year), you should be thinking about the $ 1,300 not the $ 3.50.

Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, was so named because spending would surge and retailers would traditionally begin to turn a profit for the year, moving from the red into the black.

The jury last year spent six days contemplating the case without ever reaching a verdict.