Sentences with phrase «years of doing just»

After 9 years of doing just that, he won his place in the Senate in 2008 while running on the Democratic ticket.

Everyone who posts on here has to be a staunch and passionate fan and Jon, between us we represent over 100 YEARS of doing just that!

We have all met that excited, laptop - lugging administrator, who after a year of doing just that, finally switches back to paper.

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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.

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.

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

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.

«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).

«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.

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 %.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

Last year, the estimated wealth of the former English teacher turned internet entrepreneur was just over $ 4 billion, which did not even place him in the top 20.

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

Just as those repeated years of 4 % and better growth in the 1990s added up to a stunning surplus, our recent string of 2 % and worse years add up to the opposite - and will keep doing so, unless something sparks much higher growth.

This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

In fact, according to data from Vanguard, just 4 % of people earning below $ 50,000 a year max out their 401 (k) at the current limits, and 11 % of people who make between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 do.

So in 2015, after years of fiery debate, the Democrat - led FCC did just that.

The increased deployment of drones to the Arctic this year doesn't just spell economic opportunity for global shippers of oil and gas companies but also for drone manufacturers.

Just because the State of the Union normally refers to a speech given to discuss the year's upcoming priorities from the president's perspective, don't think that only a nation can derive benefit from an annual address of this sort.

Three years after Dodd - Frank was passed, the alphabet soup of banking regulators collaborating to write some 400 new industry rules are just 39 percent done.

According to Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman, it appears the NFL is souring on him for two reasons: some are offended by his protest of the national anthem last year, and others just don't think he is a good quarterback anymore.

But don't be distracted: Just two years after Democrats lost control of the upper chamber in the 2014 midterms, they're poised to snatch it right back.

The executives just don't expect these conditions to last much longer than a couple of years.

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

On average, it can take anywhere from several months to just over a year to settle an estate, according to Nolo, an online legal resource and publisher of do - it - yourself legal guides.

You don't just move into a CFO role because you spent x-number of years as a controller.

The transcendent impact of good customer service can inspire your customers to do the unthinkable — just ask 47 - year - old North Carolina native Shirley Ratliff.

The Federal Reserve's just - released Survey of Consumer Finances, done every three years, tells a stubbornly grim tale.

If investing in security doesn't provide a visible enough return to convince your chief financial officer, just look to the statistics: in the past year, 43 percent of companies have experienced a data breach.

Unilever, for example, filed a suit against Hampton Creek last year claiming false advertising and unfair competition because Hampton Creek's Just Mayo doesn't contain eggs — a requirement under the current standard of identity for mayonnaise.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

The more plausible explanation for the stock market's success this year has less to do with Trump, and more to do with the woman he just declined to reappoint as chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen.

In a similar vein, earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter claiming that the Just Mayo products are «misbranded» because they do not meet the definition and standard of identity for mayonnaise.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Businesses with products that don't change much over time can more easily recover the cost of making an infomercial because they can produce just one and use it for years.

It's been a long haul these last few years and I wasn't reaching them, and we just figured it was probably a good night to pull a trick out of the hat and do something different.»

At the outset of this year's NFL season, just before DraftKings and FanDuel became household names thanks to an onslaught of television advertisements and a damaging scandal, there were five states where DraftKings and FanDuel did not operate, either because they were expressly illegal or they stayed away because the law was clearly unfriendly: Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Washington.

If you don't spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may not have heard of Whistle Sports, a digital video network that launched just over one year ago.

A couple of cheap gadgets like a child - safe knife helped her to do just that, and she even set her 9 - year - old the task of grilling his own hamburger (with supervision, of course).