Sentences with phrase «years in the past when»

In fact 70 % of auto insurance claims are because of collisions, compared to 10 years in the past when they were mainly for criminal offenses.

Not exact matches

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

As we look back over the past 33 years, Andrea and I are proud of each step we've taken and believe in the importance of always staying true to your brand, but we also believe it is important to adapt, and in some places let go when others can take you to new heights.

In the past week, after Microsoft announced the 32 - year - old appwould be would «deprecated» (which came with Windows 1.0 way back when and allows you to make simple image edits), users responded with what the Redmond giant called an «outpouring» of support.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

• There have been fewer mega-deals: 2017 has certainly not been spectacular when it comes to mega-deals we've seen in years past, like Dell's acquisition of EMC for $ 67 billion or Heinz's acquisition of Kraft Foods for $ 55 billion.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

For Allegiant, however, such great numbers actually mark a stark drop from the past two years, when its almost 30 percent margins were among the best in the industry worldwide.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

01:29 Farber: The jewelry I just started in the past year, actually when my husband lost his job, I thought up the jewelry and now has been really the most successful thing I've done on Etsy.

During the past year, I've found inspiration in quick - hit videos that help me refocus when I start to burn out between work and my studies.

Quebec has drawn at least $ 1.9 billion (# 1.5 billion) from Chinese investment, though it only accepts about 1,500 people a year — a small amount compared to what it was in the past when it didn't have a yearly quota, Katz added.

Unlike in years past, when something happens, we know about it.

If, when attempting to browse the Internet over the past few years, you've been assailed by ads featuring a whitening product to restore yellowing teeth, or an acai berry product to deflate bloated bellies, chances are they could be traced back to the young man in Sherwood Park.

When I look back at the past 15 years, the times when I've been most stressed is when I've been heavily invested and the times when I've been least stressed is when I had cash in the bWhen I look back at the past 15 years, the times when I've been most stressed is when I've been heavily invested and the times when I've been least stressed is when I had cash in the bwhen I've been most stressed is when I've been heavily invested and the times when I've been least stressed is when I had cash in the bwhen I've been heavily invested and the times when I've been least stressed is when I had cash in the bwhen I've been least stressed is when I had cash in the bwhen I had cash in the bank.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

According to surveys by J.D. Power (published in The Wall Street Journal), United Airlines has come in last or second - to - last over the past four years, when compared to other traditional network carriers.

The days are long past when retirement meant a gold watch and a few years dozing in a rocking chair.

Austin - based insurance agency owner Ashley Hunter was upgraded to first class on Delta Airlines twice in the past year, happy results that she credits to tweeting the airline — once when her seat was taken by another flier and a second time for praising service at the gate.

«Structural reform has been quite slow,» Robinson from OMFIF told CNBC, in reference to the past few years following the end of the bailout and when the ruling socialist party took office.

In fact, just in the past year, Atlanta has seen major entrepreneurial action, moving up a whopping 10 slots from 2016, when it ranked 15tIn fact, just in the past year, Atlanta has seen major entrepreneurial action, moving up a whopping 10 slots from 2016, when it ranked 15tin the past year, Atlanta has seen major entrepreneurial action, moving up a whopping 10 slots from 2016, when it ranked 15th.

As we've seen with Instagram's relentless copy - cat approach over the past year, another big risk for Snap is that the Facebook - backed company — or even Facebook itself — will simply move in on its market even further and suck all of the oxygen from the room when it comes to video.

I've noticed a lot of non-profits saying their end of year fundraising has gone well, which was not the case in the past few years when it was a real struggle,» she said.

Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

CBC Canada is reporting that millions of the sea creatures have been spotted off the coast of British Columbia this year, far more than was seen in the past two years when they first appeared.

But despite Trump's penchant for comparing himself favorably to past presidents — he claimed he accomplished more in his first year than any president except Franklin D. Roosevelt and told supporters he could be «more presidential than any president» except Abraham Lincoln — Trump isn't at the top of the pile when it comes to the biggest first - year market gains.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

When Colbert asked how she's been treated by Trump's supporters, Kelly described this past year as having been «a dark year in many ways,» though it has had «a lot of silver linings.»

The shares are down more than 30 % in the past year (although the stock is still higher than the $ 13 it was trading for when Mayer was hired in 2012).

When this DNA is high in an individual, they break past $ 5 million in revenue within two to four years and keep going to up to $ 100 million.

Last year, 111.3 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl, according to Nielsen, which marked a low when compared to Super Bowl viewerships in years past.

According to Morningstar, over the past 30 years, the Vanguard Total Bond fund has experienced six years when the principal loss in the portfolio was more than 2 percent.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

In fact, according to our analysis, though higher U.S. valuations were associated with lower future returns, there were numerous instances in the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonIn fact, according to our analysis, though higher U.S. valuations were associated with lower future returns, there were numerous instances in the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonin the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonin the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizons.

«That's a key change from the past seven years, when weakness in at least one major region offset strength elsewhere and created fragility that made the global economy more sensitive to shifts in growth at the margins.»

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

Yet Facebook, despite undergoing its own grilling by Congress and despite vowing to undertake a self - reckoning in response to its unwitting influence over the past two years of geopolitics, did not take further action against CA until this past Friday, when it reported to the New York Times that it had suspended CA's Facebook account, along with CA's original researchers, Kogan and Wylie.

The 2 % average inflation target is still lunacy, for the millionth time, inflation at or below 2 % and unemployment below 5 % when the economy was not in a recession occurred only four times in the past sixty years, 1998, 1965, 1955, 1954.

But when it came to billion - dollar M&A deals, the headline activity in 2017 seemed dull at best, compared to past years.

Looking back over the past fifteen years, in months when high yield credit spreads were widening, indicating tighter financial conditions and more risk aversion, the S&P 500 outperformed the Russell 2000 by an average of roughly 0.45 percent.

Small business loan applications have increased 60 percent in the past six weeks when compared to last year, at least half of which are weather - related.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

In case you haven't noticed over the past few years, investors have had limited choices when it comes to stock markets that are stable, growing, and full of opportunity.

Don's achievements at IPI over the past five years include: the national Investor Education in Your WorkPlace ® program; the DASH for the STASH program, The 2015 Millennials: Debt and Retirement Saving / Investing Survey, and the 2015 When I'm 65 public television documentary and national engagement program.

The speech concludes that the nature of, and challenges along, the path to prosperity that the Australian economy has taken in the past six years are not much different to those faced when they were considered six years ago.