Not exact matches
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.
Held once a
year, a company's analyst
day gives investors and analysts an opportunity
to interact
with corporate executives.
«Despite the temporary pullback in production in the first quarter, we still expect our oil sands volumes for the
year to be within our original guidance of 364,000
to 382,000 barrels per
day,» he told a conference call
with analysts.
At its analyst
day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the
year ending January 2021
to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared
with this
year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.
On September 10th of this
year I spent an entire
day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility
with people who had committed felonies and worked
with them on business plans
to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.
On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the
year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per
day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d,
with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d,
to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.
WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride
with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final
day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead
to better ties after a
year of strains.
Small Business Saturday will be the busiest
day of the
year for many independent businesses,
with millions of shoppers expected
to participate in the nationwide occasion on November 25.
to entertain them, and yet the International House of Pancakes, that 58 -
year - old pioneer of all -
day breakfast is bigger
with the young folks than ever.
That was true again in 2016,
with 54 % of employees ending the
year with unused time off, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation
days, according
to a study the U.S. Travel Association's Project Time Off released Tuesday.
And some of the players
to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20
years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo
days); (b) they're fairly fast followers
with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience
to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.
Bond yields, which move opposite price, fell on the
day,
with the Fed - sensitive 2 -
year yield dipping
to 2.49 percent.
Late last
year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her
with new mentors, new skills and the chance
to go home at the end of the
day.
While «Jurassic Park» was able
to sucessfully pull off a sequel 20
years later
with Chris Pratt, «Independence
Day» couldn't do the same without a big star and its former leading man Will Smith.
With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just
days after the start of the New
Year, for people wishing
to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.
Schroeder claims that Meagher broke up
with her just a
day before they were due
to go on a couple's vacation for their four -
year anniversary.
You might even say the same thing about the Internet — though,
to see the parallels
with Bitcoin, it helps
to stroll back
to New
Year's
Day 1983.
The Wall Street Journal reports that OPEC members averaged a 95 % compliance rate last
year,
with production from the group dropping 39.6
to 39.2 million barrels a
day.
Things have changed as Apple continues
to refine the software — honestly my first
year with it was a little bumpy — but now I'm happy
to use it every
day.
And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour
Day, they «go haywire,» as parents
with young kids scramble
to readjust
to a new school
year.
According
to Verizon's paper Bring Your Own Device: The Facts and the Future published earlier this
year, over 60 % of workers report using a personal device at least once a
day in their work,
with 44 % using a personal smartphone in their job.
Investors and traders were
with the bookies, as the pound rose
to the a five - month high on the eve of the vote and European stock markets posted their largest three -
day gain in almost a
year.
Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264
with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and
with fatally shooting a police officer three
days later as he and his 26 -
year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried
to flee.
Up until now, this issue has mostly been watercooler fodder, but
with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's election victory causing the 10 -
year treasury yield
to spike by 19 % since election
day, many investors are now reducing their exposure
to these rate - sensitive sectors.
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.
Next find out how frequently they would use it (
with possible reponses ranging from once a
year to, say, once a
day).
I spent
years with the pedal
to the metal, working seven
days a week.
Regardless, the early demand seems
to support Nike CEO Mark Parker's claim earlier this
year in an interview
with CNBC that self - lacing sneakers will be ubiquitous one
day.
Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few
years ago
with his book Outliers, in which he argued that
to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a
day, six
days a week, over six
years of simply sticking
with it.
The pill looks a bit like a fish oil capsule, and will be tested in men from 18
to 50
years old,
with doses ranging from 200
to 400 milligrams a
day.
President and CEO Steve Easterbrook struck a bullish tone while discussing the results
with analysts, touting last
year's launch of all -
day breakfast 2.0 — an update that saw the addition of McGriddle and other items — as having lived up
to expectations.
«I explained how for the past couple of
years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four
days get consumed
with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained
to the board, but lately «the collaboration
days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned
to email and administrivia catch - up
days.»
Beginning Wednesday, which in Australia marks December 1's World AIDS
Day, Apple will festoon 400 stores, a fourfold increase from last
year,
with (RED) signage, while expanding the number of products, games and apps whose purchases channel an undisclosed percentage of their sales price
to the organization.
In a recent note
to clients, Madani wrote that housing investment may continue
to assist GDP growth throughout the rest of 2013, «but there are still tentative signs that a
day of reckoning lies around the corner,
with housing likely
to become a significant drag on growth next
year.»
In the case of Nike, which worked
with TechStars
to launch the 90 -
day Nike + Accelerator earlier this
year, the goal was simple:
to grow the Nike + ecosystem.
OPEC, along
with Russia and several other producer nations, is keeping 1.8 million barrels a
day off the market through the end of the
year in order
to shrink global stockpiles of oil.
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.
Throughout last
year, the Virgin founder shared what he thinks are the keys ingredients
to building a successful company
with each letter of the alphabet, which he slowly revealed through the 365
days.
Equally puzzling, Fischer said, is why the RNC would choose
to begin coordinating
with Trump now, three
years before Election
Day 2020.
Some companies that go full tilt during the holidays find that
with no time
to plan or take off, a party for their own staffers is likely
to occur after New
Year's
Day.
America's fascination
with entrepreneurial productivity is endless — just look at the waves of books published each
year to the ongoing obsession
with finding ways
to wake up earlier each
day.
With drugstore Seniors»
Days, reduced movie tickets and museum admission, and major tax breaks, anyone about
to hit their golden
years could be justified in thinking they'll never have
to pay full price again.
The 17 -
year - old Cookstown mall, home
to about 50 brand - name manufacturers selling deeply discounted merchandise, gets its share of cost - conscious shoppers, who may make a
day of it
with a stop at the Georgian Downs racetrack nearby.
I invited all my Gmail contacts
to connect
with me last
year and nearly doubled my LinkedIn connections in just a few
days.
The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this
year has hit 10,
with Dreamscape Networks due
to list in coming
days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.
Other experiments that have improved my life beyond my expectations include doing burpees daily (I haven't missed a
day in almost five
years and am in the best shape of my life) and
to go one week only eating food
with no packaging (which increased my fresh fruit and vegetable intake ever since, and did I mention the best shape of my life?).
«Grit is sticking
with your future,
day in,
day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for
years, and working really hard
to make that future a reality.»
But attitude alone isn't enough
to explain the success of a festival that,
with general admission tickets running between $ 100 and $ 135 per
day, pulled in well north of $ 13 million this
year before concessions.
While the plans
to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder
to close the laptop and spend some time
with your kids this Father's
Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few
years from now.
This service matches up tens of thousands of home and apartment owners / landlords
with guests looking for accommodations for between 30
days and up
to one
year.