Sentences with phrase «years of effort on»

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Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

Get a head start on next year's marketing efforts with this batch of apps for all five of the major networks.

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

Biogen is marching on in its own effort, and while updated results are expected in the second half of this year, initial study results haven't been promising.

In recent years, however, Noise Solutions has adopted a much more targeted and directed approach to growth, a strategy that depends on a lot of advance work and then a direct sales effort.

«In accordance with this commitment, we have intensified our efforts in recent years to address and prevent sexual misconduct on our campus through the creation and expansion of policies and programs and the active engagement of the university community.»

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

Trump's announcement that he plans to impose tariffs of 25 % on imported steel and 10 % on aluminum landed like a bombshell during the seventh round of NAFTA talks, prompting expletives from a least one negotiator and casting a pall over the painstaking efforts to update the 24 - year - old deal.

To support these efforts, Chobani plans to spend 35 percent more on marketing next year, with the bulk of spending occurring in the first half of the year, said Chobani's chief marketing and commercial officer, Peter McGuinness.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

The worst missteps were former CEO Ron Johnson's focus in 2012 on a failed re-imagining of the 114 - year - old retailer into a hipper store, along with the ill - advised separation of Penney's e-commerce and stores teams, a strategy that flew in the face of every other retailer's efforts.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Those reductions came on top of the 5,000 jobs the company has cut since it launched a restructuring effort last year.

In an effort to rectify these concerns, President Trump last April signed the «Buy American, Hire American» executive order, which seeks to crack down on visa fraud and authorizes USCIS to tighten oversight of the annual application process, which opened this year on April 2.

Other than projected free cash flow for the year ending December 31, 2018, for which a reconciliation is provided, we have not provided quantitative reconciliations of these forward - looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable forward - looking GAAP financial measures because the excluded items are not available on a prospective basis without unreasonable efforts.

«The OIG's focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn,» McCabe said.

In a statement to Business Insider, the CCA noted that the DOJ's directive would affect only 7 % of the company's business, and it will instead be focusing on «new, innovative opportunities we've been exploring in recent years in a proactive effort to meet their evolving needs.»

Such an effort may seem counterintuitive to existing online advertising paradigms, given that businesses are expected to spend $ 141 million on online ads this year, per eMarketer — of which Google takes home an estimated 32.4 percent.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

Ballantyne, who joined the firm four years ago, has helped oversee an ambitious expansion of the company's marketing efforts, which focus on a series of huge wholesale furniture and gift trade shows in Atlanta and North Carolina.

The league launched Women Officiating Now, a subset of their recruiting efforts, which focuses on bringing more women to training workshops and sponsors events for female officials, including one last year with the International Women's Football League.

Salesforce tops this year's list, thanks to its efforts to create a Great Place to Work For All, its commitment to philanthropy (employees get paid 56 hours per year to volunteer, for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.K.)

Of the top 25 companies on the list, 18 are more traditional brick - and - mortar retailers that have pushed their online efforts over the past five years.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

Following the Paris attacks last year, the European Union (EU) regulators planned a crackdown on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in an effort to tackle the financing of terror.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is embarking on its biggest cost - cutting push in years as it tries to weather a slump in trading and dealmaking, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

This is a less - well - explored area but one that CrunchBase is well - suited to address because of its efforts last year to sharpen its data on women co-founders and this year to do the same with data on female venture capitalists.

RIYADH (Reuters)- Saudi Arabia's banks are preparing for muted lending growth this year, providing a reality check on the state of the country's economy and government efforts to stimulate growth.

On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good, as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the hopes of getting them to sign a lease with WeWork.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

A veteran of D - Day, he capped a lauded career on Wall Street and in the State Department by shepherding the first years of the city's fractious effort to rebuild after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Now, as Wall Street executives come under pressure from shareholders for their mounting subprime - related losses, Mr. Steel's mix of a Goldman pedigree and years in the thick of the government's effort to grapple with the housing crisis has made him a short - list regular on investment bank board committees looking for new leadership.

Robin Silvester served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in 2016 - 17, a year in which the organization integrated findings of the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 into its advocacy efforts and continued to build on the strength of its four Signature Programs.

So it's pretty apparent your holiday marketing efforts need to be on target this time of year.

To get there, Lemann recruited a team of young, fresh - faced executives, led by 33 - year - old Daniel Schwartz, to oversea a turnaround effort that's so far focused on relentless cost - cutting and a dramatic reorganization of Burger King's business.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy Charities Unveil Bold Year - End Appeals in Storm's Big Shadow Schwab Charitable has moved quickly to encourage and assist donors in making gifts to benefit relief organizations working on recovery efforts after the recent superstorm.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

Apo - The European Union on Thursday launched a plan for thousands of 18 - year - old Europeans to travel in the bloc for free this summer as part of efforts to promote the EU.

As our study has consistently shown over the past eight years, there is no long - term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance; instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources, as well as the quality of their talent, processes, and decision making.

The central bank made a concerted effort starting late last year to divorce its «forward guidance» on interest rates, what it tells markets about the expected future path of policy, from specific calendar dates.