Sentences with phrase «years in the making for»

(CNN)- It was two years in the making for a television crew to get access inside one of the holiest sites of the Greek Orthodox world, the monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece.

It's Sept. 19 — a day two years in the making for Chestnut Hill College, a tiny Division II Catholic school in Philadelphia.

This feature was several years in the making for me.

This film's been 10 years in the making for the two of you.

It's also been a few years in the making for the Smyrna, TN Nissan factory.

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That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

According to Horizons Exchange Traded Funds, ifrnyou invest $ 100,000 for 15 years in an ETF with a 0.7 % management fee, versus arnmutual fund with a 2.25 % fee, and get a 10 % return on both, you'll make $ 83,801 rnmore with the ETF.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

As earnings season comes to a close — and as the S&P 500 looks to rebound from its worst month in two years — investors are hungry for the types of large single - stock moves that create money - making opportunities.

For the second year running, Canadian Business declared BlackBerry our Loser of the Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2year running, Canadian Business declared BlackBerry our Loser of the Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2014.

«While your business likely has major goals to get to in the next six months to two years, don't ignore the little things that make experiences for your customers more awesome in the meantime.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

In a statement, he said, «2017 was a strong year for McDonald's, as customers responded to the many ways we are making their experience more convenient and enjoyable.

This spectacle has been 25 years in the making, the result of the countless hours White has spent perfecting an innovative product, soliciting extensive customer feedback and deploying an innate talent for schmoozing.

Brisbane - based law firm Shine Corporate has made its second acquisition in Western Australia, paying $ 13.3 million for personal injury specialist Bradley Bayly Legal, after paying a higher price last year for Stephen Browne Personal Injury Lawyers.

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

In 2011 he went to work for law firm Jenner & Block, which specializes in representing telecommunications firms, but the following year Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell recommended to president Obama that Pai would make a good FCC commissioneIn 2011 he went to work for law firm Jenner & Block, which specializes in representing telecommunications firms, but the following year Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell recommended to president Obama that Pai would make a good FCC commissionein representing telecommunications firms, but the following year Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell recommended to president Obama that Pai would make a good FCC commissioner.

So by making roughly $ 2,555 a year through mining (at the current price of bitcoin), I'm on track to pay off the extra parts I bought for mining in about 230 days.

Its coal volumes have been falling for several years, and the combination of tougher environmental regulations and, in all probability, continued low natural - gas prices make it likely that the decline will persist.

For the next few years, the brothers made periodic trips to New York City, where they could buy retired trash trucks in bulk at auction.

Though the 36 - year - old now sits in opposition as MP for Calgary Nose Hill, she's still making an impact, not least through her frequent and often combative use of Twitter.

Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why women lose confidence in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities for advancement; they're penalized for having kids.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

But 30 - plus years in the business make Donovan less likely to conform for conformance's sake.

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learniFor its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learnifor over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

«For the first year or so, we traveled from military base to military base in our trailer and wrote proposals, made phone calls, filled out loan applications, and conducted payroll with a post office box as our corporate address,» Latshaw recalls.

And if convicted, in addition to any other penalties handed out, the company could be barred for 10 years from competing for contracts with the Government of Canada — a category of contracts that make up an important element of the company's income.

In 2011, I said «no» more and worked hard for four years to make my dream of being a global lifestyle entrepreneur a reality.

The issue stems, in part, from year - old changes to Canada's express entry system which makes it impossible for someone in the PGWPP program to gain express entry without a Labour Market Impact Assessment, as chronicled by Nicholas Keung:

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Apart from a reprieve for EU workers, asked what would make the picture brighter for British businesses in coming years, Marshall highlighted a moderation in inflation levels.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»

In October, Gene filed for bankruptcy — just over two years after making a salary most Canadians can only dream of.

The 32 - year - old crown prince has made waves in Saudi Arabia for the economic and cultural reforms he has promoted since being named heir to the throne, the most notable reforms ranging from the much - vaunted «Vision 2030» to diversify the economy away from oil, to lifting a ban on cinemas and women driving in Saudi Arabia.

I made the same argument more than two years ago in «20 reasons for ending Canada Post's monopoly.»

If you only make the minimum monthly payment, you won't pay off the credit card for seven years and seven months and you'll pay $ 6,432 in interest.

In the case of video games, rumours have been circulating for a while now about both Sony and Microsoft implementing technology into their next - generation consoles — expected this year — that would make it impossible to play used products.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

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.

In 2006, the federal government made it even easier for citizens to buy homes by permitting the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. to insure 40 - year - long mortgages with no down payment required.

Lashes told Digitaltrends.com, «I'm a huge fan of pop art, and the digital memes that go around now are a social art form that's going to be studied for years to come, and it's totally a new way of communicating with people... I hate when the snakes get in there and start making products and squatting on sites.

The condition even made the celebrity news when the Spanish chef Ferran Adria announced in January he was closing his world - famous restaurant, El Bulli, for two years, claiming creative burnout.