Sentences with phrase «years to the day when»

I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

With Chelsea FC just a win away from regaining the Premier League title, UEFA.com winds the clock back ten years to the day when the Blues collected their first league crown under manager José Mourinho and only their second overall.

We are nearly one year to the day when Britain will leave the European Union.

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.

«But I do believe that from leadership to the Republican Study Committee, it's very problematic when one of, maybe the major pieces of legislation obviously we get passed this year, that you have been a naysayer from day one,» he said.

Every cycle is different, obviously, and the immediate reaction most people in this day and age having seen what they've seen in the last 30, 40 years, is that when the Fed hikes and they invert the curve, the situation is going to melt down, you're going to have a recession, and so on.

It's one thing to write years when you mean months, or days when you mean nights.

Earlier this year for example, Viral Nation was preparing to launch a major Valentine's Day campaign for the Chinese internet firm Baidu, when Micheli received an unsettling call.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

Sort of like people in the newspaper business, they'd like to go back to a day 20 or 25 years ago when the internet didn't pose any threat.

He was a well - oiled machine that simply thought nothing bad could ever happen to him and for 15 years nothing did!This pro was in for the shock of his life when one day he took a few shortcuts and caused a massive explosion nearly ending his own life.

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.

I'm looking forward to the day when it gets really fine - grained — it would really have come in handy when I worked at the CBC, an absolutely giant maze of corridors that I still got lost in even after three years of working there.

Earlier this week, Ramadan Abedi told the press that when he spoke to his 22 - year old son five days before the attack, he sounded «normal.»

Last year, when the Fed hinted that it was going to stop buying bonds, tapering its quantitative easing, bond yields jumped nearly 2 % points in just a few days.

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

It is unclear when Uber began using Wickr, but the company said that in October of last year it began paying for a business version that gave it the ability to preserve messages for as long as a year instead of a maximum of six days.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

By offering a number of paid sick days each year, you give good employees breathing space for those rare occasions when they are too ill to come in.

That same day my old Wall Street Journal colleague Jake Schlesinger reported that the Trump administration intends to be «more focused in the coming year on countering China» — unlike last year, when it sparred with a broad range of allies in North America, Europe and Asia.

That move, added to the hiring of Todd Combs last year, is aimed at preparing investment - rich Berkshire for a day when Buffett, who just turned 81, will no longer be running the company's investments.

Years of self - promotion paid off big when she landed an appearance on The Today Show, which catapulted her sales to seventh place on Amazon the day of its airing.

Shteir offers an account of the crime's evolution from Elizabethan London, where the term «shoplifting» first appeared, through the present day, when the economic downturn is being linked to a big spike in consumer thefts — up 8.8 % in the U.S. in the first year of the Great Recession.

Fast - forward a few years: When Blank faced tough days in the first companies he started, he said he would think back to that moment.

Even when used for up to eight hours per day, LEDs can last more than 10 years.

Either way, when I got several days behind on my goal of doing 100,000 pushups this year (more on that here) I wondered how it would feel, physically and emotionally, to keep grinding out a ton of pushups, hour after hour.

If you don't have time to do a little bookkeeping each day, when will you find time to record a month's or a year's worth of records?

Hagel's nomination comes on the heels of a New Year's Day deal that averted economic calamity when lawmakers agreed to prevent huge tax hikes and government spending cuts.

When Acuff had the idea to help people reach their goals in 30 days, he gave the program away for free for more than a year.

That might still sound like a hardship to most folks, but when you've been locked up and living in a 7x7 cell for seven years like he has, it's just an amazing feeling to know you have five days of freedom.

These days everywhere from Tampa to Timbuktu is connected to the internet (literally, I sent emails from the middle of the Sahara when I visited several years back).

As for his dreams of starting a company, Fiance realizes now after a year of fundraising that he wants the House Fund to harken back to the old days of venture capital when the emphasis was less on the capital.

Earlier this year when Spanx CEO Jan Singer, a former Nike executive, left to run Victoria's Secret, Blakely returned to run the day - to - day operations of her company.

So when the insurer disclosed in November that it was taking a $ 345 million hit on its balance sheet in order to cover its additional claim liabilities — contributing to a $ 760 million loss for the year — Genworth's shares dropped 38 % in a single day.

As you begin to think about a day when you might sell or delegate control of your business, you'll likely start projecting months, years, and even decades into the future.

This became abundantly clear to me days before our trip, when I awoke in a cold sweat after a dream about a years - ago experience hauling a rickety old moving trailer.

It's the time each year when we think about our finances and what we can do to get smarter with our money but now it's almost Memorial Day and, you know what they say about good intentions.

«When you look at [financial] audits three to four years from now, it's going to be night and day,» Love says.

All of this comes in handy when booking our vacation days, which can accrue up to 25 days per year based on continuous years of service.

And what a Good day for CNN Money to remind us that it's that time of year again: when those marshmallowy, sticky, colorful treats start showing up in abundance on store shelves and in Easter baskets.

Year - round, Fortune recommends stocks and investing strategies to help readers capitalize on the business trends of the day, and this is the season when we look in the mirror and ask ourselves if our picks have paid off.

These days, the 50 - employee firm, still located in downtown Toronto, says about 30 to 40 % of its revenues come from exports, up sharply from two years ago, when that figure was just 10 %.

Schachter writes that while Yahoo's mobile monetization was up 36 percent year over year in 2015, it might be difficult for Yahoo to gain or maintain share, especially when just days ago, behemoths Facebook and Google showed investors they can do just that, Victor Anthony, Internet media equity research at Axiom Capital Management, told CNBC's «Squawk Box» on Wednesday.

Looking back on her early days in the real - estate business, Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran recalls the moment when her boyfriend and business partner Ramon Simone told her — after seven years together — that he was going to marry the company's secretary.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

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Just 90 days into a job it's hard to talk about legacy, but what's more important to me is that when you grade AMD, whether it's three years from now or five years from now, you grade it on that this was a fantastic set of assets that she turned into something special.

On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.

Strikingly, Christmas and Easter were the two specific occasions when dog poisoning by chocolate rose significantly compared to other times of the year (including Halloween and Valentine's Day).