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The Goldman Sachs partner had spent much of his nearly 25 years at the firm orchestrating deals in the US's busiest financial hubs — New York and San Francisco — where the investment bank was entrenched in corporate boardrooms of the world's most important companies.

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Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

Having spent much of his career developing housing for seniors, the 68 - year - old is building something different for his own retirement, a waterfront dream home on 10 acres.

After spending much of the year preparing and delivering presents to children all over the world in just one night, Claus takes a much deserved break to recoup and recharge.

But, how many of us also pause to reflect on a place where we spend so much of our time and energy during the year — work?

«Very little of the conversation is about how much capital the company will be spending on data centres this year, or the composition of the typical advertiser spending money with the company.

The minute he got off the aircraft in Dallas, Bob called the head of in - flight catering and demanded to know how much they spent each year on black olives.

In contrast, RIM has been much more R&D intensive; the $ 1.35 billion it spent on R&D in the last fiscal year was 6.78 % of its total revenue.

While it is important to enjoy your success, the truth is that it doesn't matter how much you make if you spend all (or nearly all) of it every year.

Those teams have spent much of the past year creating designs for the levitating pods that may someday carry passengers at up to 700 miles per hour through a low - pressure tube between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Zuckerberg spent much of last year traveling after he pledged to visit all the U.S. states that he had not previously been to.

In recent years, much has been made of how much companies are spending to buy back their own stock, particularly with buybacks up 50 % so far this year.

Brady spent much of last year's offseason focused on a single task: winning an appeal to the Deflategate ruling that threatened to suspend him for four games.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

Here's how much was spent on a range of American goods by cross-border shoppers over the past year, according to the report:

He's spent the better part of a year holding himself in check while Hillary Clinton has disavowed much of his record, piece by piece.

It's easy to spend a bit too much during your first few years of retirement — particularly on vacations, Plessl and Houser note, as people want to travel while they're still healthy.

But Job's successor, Tim Cook, has instead spent much of the past three years tinkering with Apple's existing product line - up — bigger iPhones, smaller iPads, improved software — and massively growing sales by pushing into huge new markets like China.

This year's show featured more than 150 exhibitors with state - of - the - art technology for people who spend as much time in the digital world than they do in the real one.

Intrigued, former Walrus staffer Knelman spent much of the eight years following this conversation digging into an illegal industry that treats the world's cultural heritage like «one big department store.»

Susan Bick joined AT&T 20 years ago and has spent much of her career in various roles within IT.

Majority - owned by Softbank Group, Sprint (s) has spent much of the past year looking for ways to raise money at the lowest possible rates to cover looming debt maturities of its own.

Because so much of our year is spent in the workplace, it is important to extend this tradition into our professional lives.

Chrisomalis clocks about 150,000 miles a year (and roughly 2 million total thus far)-- much of them spent traveling between the company's New York headquarters and its brewing facilities in Nara, Yamagata, and Kyushu, Japan.

To get a rough idea of how much you'll be spending each year in retirement, you can start by calculating what percentage of your working income you'll need to replace.

To start with, you need a rough idea of how much you'll spend each year in retirement.

Next, Kapetaneas went through all of his checking and credit card statements from the past year and found out exactly how much money he was spending and where.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

• 40 % of workers say they spent eight hours or more planning for the holidays this past year, while only 34 % spent that much time planning for retirement.

Breadsticks have become a battle cry for Starboard, which said it has identified myriad examples of wasteful spending that add up to as much as $ 75 million a year.

In making its bid for a chunk of the $ 20 billion worldwide instant coffee market, much of that is the United Kingdom and Japan where instant is the de-facto coffee mode, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schulz says his company spent 20 years perfecting a top - secret technology that ultimately results in a cup of coffee made with Via, that is indistinguishable from Starbuck's typical brewed coffee.

But, in the UK, this isn't as much of a thing, said Tarn Rodgers Johns, a London writer and social media manager who spent a year of college in Colorado.

I don't regret the years I spent in corporate America environment, but business ownership is so much more rewarding.I work even harder than I did before but the level of satisfaction is so much higher.

And there will be a searchable archive — available for seven years — which will include the ads themselves plus some associated data (such as how many times an ad may have been seen, how much money was spent, and the kinds of people who saw it).

Honestly, it sometimes seems like everything we learn in years of schooling and training is boiled down into a series of broad stroke rules about how much you should save, spend on a house, set aside for taxes and on and on.

In any case, spending a year or two in a part of the country where the language is different seems like a worthwhile activity that should be encouraged as much as is feasible (ie.

Facebook spent much of last year grappling with questions about whether it had become a force for ill.

The VC trade group has spent much of the last year working to preserve carried interest tax benefits and protect immigrant entrepreneurs from deportation.

He spent much of this year's SXSW dogged by rumors that Foursquare was bleeding cash and struggling to raise additional funds.

Cheryl Nelan, 44, spent much of her 23 - year corporate career helping businesses adapt to changing times and technology.