Sentences with phrase «years in the making built»

Villa CaboFino was eight years in the making built by hundreds of laborers, skilled craftsmen, and artisans all entirely by hand.

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If you build fewer than 100,000 vehicles a year, it doesn't make sense to manufacture in China, says Steve Man, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in Hong Kong.

Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

This week, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to build three plants in the U.S. in the coming years, but Cupertino has not made any announcements.

With such huge profits to be made, I expect the boom in apartment and condo building to continue, perhaps approaching its 1972 peak within the next few years.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

A young real estate CEO made a plan to build up his net worth and check out in six years.

So in June 2015, the couple made another concession to inventions: They left Manhattan, where they'd lived for 22 years, and moved upstate to a house they built as a future retirement home.

It took a while to learn the skills that would ultimately make me a senior executive in the high - tech industry and then, a successful management consultant, but I can attribute everything good that happened to me over the next 20 years to that fateful day and the relationships I've built since.

«When you make it so the whole team does it, it really does give the entire team a long weekend — a built - in, enjoy - yourself time each month of the year,» Douglas said.

Think about the five people who really helped you out this year, in a work - related or personal scenario; and make it a resolution to build your friendships with them.

Eight years ago Buffett invested $ 232 million for a nearly 10 % stake in BYD (Build Your Dreams), a Chinese company that makes lithium - ion batteries and electric cars.

The next thing I remind first - time entrepreneurs is that by starting a business, you have made a decision that does not allow you any time, in your first year, to do anything but build your business.

Ben made the strong case that the XC90 demonstrates that a Chinese company can handle the stewardship of a major brand that has built up an impressive level of equity over the decades, especially in the US, where it was for many years synonymous with safety.

At its core of this first hackable product will be a durable aluminum profile, made of 40 percent recycled material, which creates a flexible base to build seating or bedding «where comfort and functions can be altered to meet the changing needs in a home,» IKEA said last year.

Mike Krieger liked to joked that the app, which took barely eight weeks to build, was a year in the making.

The company, founded in 2007, has provided for many years consumer backups (uploading your hard drive to the cloud), but had the technology built (their own self - built software and hardware to profitably create backup) that could handle large amounts of data, but also make sure the company still made money.

«Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan for the family they want to build and be more efficient in overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year in TechCrunch.

In approaching the New Year, focus on how you can optimize your business to take full advantage of tools that can make your life easier and your more business more successful with the solid foundation built in 201In approaching the New Year, focus on how you can optimize your business to take full advantage of tools that can make your life easier and your more business more successful with the solid foundation built in 201in 2014.

The automaker also said that it plans to build between 15,000 and 17,000 vehicles in fourth quarter, and to deliver between 17,000 and 19,000 — meaning the company would make 50,000 to 52,000 deliveries for the year.

Using Silevo's technology, SolarCity is building a massive manufacturing plant in Buffalo that will be able to make about one gigawatt worth of panels a year.

Not too far from Tom and Betsy, there was an enormous Toyota plant nearby in Georgetown, Kentucky built using Just in Time (JIT) principles, but the process of making bourbon is just about the opposite: you have the product just sitting there for years before you can ship it to anyone.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

But in recent years, architects have increasingly turned to prefabricated construction, in which parts are built off - site and assembled on - site, making the process a lot quicker — and often cheaper.

«We'd been in our building for years and weren't looking to move, but a real - estate investor made an offer on it that we couldn't refuse.

On March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia, she organized the very first Girl Scout troop, and every year since, we've honored her vision and legacy, building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

At the same time, the next generation of multi-billion-dollar drugs takes time to build the billions in sales needed to make the best - seller list — but can be expected to do so starting next year.

It never seems like that much when you're actually making the payments each month, but multiplying it by 12 makes it $ 3,228 by year 1, and then $ 22,596 by year 7 — which is roughly the amount we've been doing this so far... And that's ON TOP of the built in amounts going straight to principal with every payment too!

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«I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today,» he also commented, «but when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly.»

In just 13 months, the Rotman One - Year Executive MBA will dramatically accelerate your leadership potential and allow you to build skills that will make an immediate impact.

Orders are made by NASA around two or three years in advance, giving companies enough time to build their rockets.

But when you can make 7 % via P2P Lending, 9 % — 12 % via real estate crowdsourcing, 8 % — 18 % via venture debt, 6 % — 12 % in SF real estate unlevered, and 20 % + a year building an online business, suddenly, shooting for a ~ 5 % annual return in public equities (my estimate for a realistic return) doesn't feel that great anymore.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

For Ripple Labs, 2014 was the year in which we not only clarified our strategy for building the Internet of money but also made large strides in turning that vision into reality.

«Over the past year we have made fundamental changes to transform Wells Fargo as part of our effort to rebuild trust and build a better bank,» CEO Tim Sloan said in a statement.

«Having run pharmacies for many years, we've seen the shift in customers tastes and preferences and built a pharmacy that solves the major challenges that customers face and makes managing medications easier and more accessible then ever.»

Bain and Cinven, who earlier this year took control of Germany's Stada, are hoping to use the Merck unit as a buy - and - build platform for Stada, which makes generic drugs and consumer care products and had annual revenues of more than 2 billion euros in 2016, the sources said.

The car, built in a futuristic glass plant in Dresden, Germany, made its debut 10 years ago and was supposed to redefine the luxury segment.

But in the rest of the country — which represents the majority — property is now more affordable than it has been for years, making developers less inclined to build more.

He was still in empire - building mode as recently as a few years ago when he made an aggressive bid to buy Time Warner.

The most notable of these sleeper startups are Tradewinds, the blockchain spin - off behind the IEX exchange made famous in Michael Lewis's «Flash Boys,» which is expected to emerge later this year with some big news, and two startups from within R3: Post Oak Labs, a fintech consultancy with blockchain roots and DrumG, building products for clients using Corda.

Thalmic Labs has opened a new office at 27 Gaukel in Waterloo — a 124 - year - old building with 26,000 square feet of space, and the former site of Schreiter's Furniture — as it looks to make...

A year ago, we announced Bloomberg Beta — our fund to invest in and make companies, and (we hope) it is a fund built differently.

About a year ago, I made a selection of a few (in my opinion) indispensable link building tools.

The company also said it plans to make $ 30 billion in capital expenditures in the United States over the next five years, including the building of a new campus that will initially house customer - support operations.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

This record - breaking donation, along with many others, has enabled us to make a 2 - year commitment to building schools in the US Virgin Islands, Florida, Puerto Rico and Caribbean Islands, alongside our partner, the Happy Hearts Fund.

Former pastor Mark Driscoll made news a few years ago by accusing the Orange County City Council of religious discrimination for not allowing him to convert a building in the area into a church.