Sentences with phrase «years doing just»

They spent the past 15 years doing just that.

Fury over being treated like second - class citizens after spending so many years doing just that to the Democrats was in part what spurred the GOP to mount last summer's Senate coup with the help of two turncoats: Now - Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and ex-Sen.

But Cogito's other co-founder, MIT professor of media arts and sciences Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has spent the past 20 years doing just that.

Preus made it clear that he intended to deal with «problems» at the seminary, and, indeed, over the next five years he did just that.

For years I did just toast and tea thing (which my brother loved to tease me about!)

For the first two years he did just that, won nine games and lost one in 1954, won eight and lost but two in» 55.

The volleyball tournament always provides some separation in the standings and this year it did just that.

Last year they did just that.

And every year I do them just a little bit differently!

For five years she did just that, establishing and running Cary Valley Kennels while my father worked in a local machine shop.

People have been asking for a hands - on portion to the Conference, and this year we doing just that.

With only 6 years he did just fine, and I'd be prepared to argue he'd probably wouldn't have needed the six years.

And every year I do them just a little bit differently!

Not exact matches

Pivoting doesn't look quite so sweet when you've just sunk $ 500,000 into a machine for a tool and die shop or hired 30 new employees to staff your restaurant or signed a five - year lease on a warehouse.

Each year this issue celebrates thoe opportunities to do just that.

Despite a dicey year punctuated with uncertainty around NAFTA renegotiations, the Saputo family business appears to be doing just fine.

To appreciate that, just look at old enterprise software from five to 10 years ago: It was hard - edged, unfriendly software that didn't take the needs of the people using it into account.

«If you are a potential homebuyer, don't just assume that a 30 - year mortgage is your best bet because the monthly payments are lower.»

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

Turcke related a story of how her 15 - year - old daughter was using a virtual private network to do just that.

Meal kit mania may fade in a few years, and when it does, the newspapers and magazines will quietly tiptoe away from the business, just like they did with daily deals.

These pioneers didn't just make one good bet — they hit the jackpot year after year after year.

«Just as 100 years ago electricity transformed industry after industry, AI will now do the same.»

«Secondly, they're borrowing to finance cars and trucks because most Canadians just don't have the money to pay for a vehicle outright anymore, and finally, for student loans, which is another big - ticket item that if they haven't saved for a few years, they will have to get loans for.»

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

What to do: If your mission this year is to improve earnings by 5 % by either gouging your customers or gouging the planet, that's just not going to get it done with the Millennials.

«If you line up the previous El Niño outlier of 1998 with this March 2016 El Niño (as we might do in lining up bull market highs) it gives an idea of when 2 degrees Celsius might first be broached in a future El Niño effect: just 17 years!»

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketiJust a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketijust two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

For the past several years at Lantech we have had a profit - sharing program that we consider to be a just, fair reward for work that has been done.

«Encouraging people to shop small just one day out of the year does nothing to help my business grow.

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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will likely enter the grid services business eventually, and its acquisition of SolarCity last year gave it even more tools and motivation to do just that.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

«The key now is how do you drive loyalty on a year - round basis, not just around price but around value.»

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

For more than four years now, the U.S. Federal Reserve has tried to do just that through a security - purchasing program known as quantitative easing — also commonly referred to as «printing money.»

Even the Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec, the $ 10.1 - billion gold standard of Canada's labour - sponsored funds (it also invests in more mature sectors of the economy), has a 30 - year annualized return of just 3.8 %.

Just because someone has been a leader for several years does not mean they don't need to continue to develop their skills.

Spinergy is a brand of bicycle wheel that, just five years ago, didn't even exist.

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

The 28 - year - old, who became the oldest U.S. figure - skating Olympic rookie since 1936, did just that.

«Just for the record, though, are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago, that you did not actually kiss women without consent or grope women without consent?»

«Don't forget that when you're buying a house you're not just going to think about your current income, but the next five to 10 years,» Conroy said.

How much does just one year of poor gender diversity among executive board members run these three countries?

That turned out to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing to do with the process of selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»

Millennial employees don't just care about the bottom line or their year - end salary.

This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.