Sentences with phrase «back at the turn»

... Back at the turn of the century, you know, we didn't have the mass communication and mass transportation that exist nowadays.

When you look back at turning points in a game, this simultaneous catch by both Penn State and Ohio State with the Nittany Lions already up eight points in the third quarter is surely that.

There was an ol' - timey ballpark boom back at the turn of the millennium.

The difference between these two types of wheel setups is that the one with four rotating wheels can go in any direction (like shopping carts at ikea) whereas the walkers with fixed back wheels can only go front or back at turning angles or straight, not completely sideways.

«All subtype 1B infections today are descended from that one 1B infection back at the turn of the century,» he says.

The filmmaker did a similar switching - gears thing back at the turn of the (21st) century, following the beautifully grim Magnolia with his goofy two - step Punch - Drunk Love (starring Adam Sandler, no less).

Way back at the turn of the century, The Wachowskis created a little science - fiction film entitled The Matrix.

Eva Moskowitz looks back at her turn away from district schools, as she plans for 100 schools of her own

The Prius has come a long way since its humble beginnings back at the turn of the century, but it continues to offer a unique style that's unmistakable.

Way back at the turn of the century, I had a webcomic that had spilled over from my college days *.

Back in January of 2000, way back at the turn of the century, Raleigh had one storm drop more than twenty inches of snow on the city!

Back at the turn of the century, developer Kronos Digital Entertainment released Fear Effect, an action / shooter that controlled like old Resident Evil games.

It's been a while since the last one, with the original and sequel appearing on the ill - fated Dreamcast way back at the turn of the century.

Back at the turn of the millenium, fifty artists were called upon to devise a series of pop - up shows run at an independent project space — these included writers, film - makers, designers and performers, with known names like Richard Hamilton and Anish Kapoor, among them.

The famous Michelson — Morley experiment settled all bets back at the turn of the century, but I can not help myself wondering what if aether is the same but a different name (Unknown matter and unknown energy).

Back at the turn of the decade, when just a tiny fraction of the population even knew what the term meant, he used the downloadable radio - style shows to unwind at the end of long days reading case law while studying at Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law.

Not exact matches

Those who become accustomed to spending hours at the office may find it difficult to turn off their work - mode switch and get used to a more laid - back or relaxing lifestyle.

«Suddenly someone wants to turn the clock back in some really perverse way,» Oddie said at a campaigning beach party in May.

But now they're «frozen» because, like the parishioners at that Berkeley church, they're part of an organization where simply saying something, asking a question, pushing back on a planned initiative, turns heads.

They excel at turning a boring presentation into something people will talk about in the hallway and even on the ride back to the office.

Sometimes I couldn't get them an exact answer after hours, but a midnight response from the CEO over an order delay that says, «I am checking on it and will be back to you at 9:30 am,» turns a dissatisfied customer into an advocate.

It was at that meeting that Ukraine's then leader, Viktor Yanukovych, abruptly decided to turn his back on the EU and embrace Moscow instead.

«Everyone at the session can now go back to his organization with a turn - key way to get new ideas out of great entrepreneurs,» says Case.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

Back in 1996, at age 24, she turned a $ 5,000 inheritance into Dress for Success, a nonprofit that provides interview suits and career development training to women.

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Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»

But if the market turns down, PowerLight probably won't go broke; it can always go back to the one - roof - at - a-time growth of its earlier days.

Kim was too young to compete at Sochi 2014, so during the wait for the 2018 Olympics, she racked up three X Games gold medals, became the first woman to land back - to - back 1080s, scored a perfect 100 at the X Games, and won golds at the Youth Olympics — all before she turned 17.

After helping to grow the fashion rental service to a reported $ 100 million in revenues in 2016 — and finally turn a profit — she stepped down at the end of March, and has been eager to get back into startup mode.

While the Golden Arches fiddles with its marketing in an attempt to bring back the eaters who've been turned off by its production methods, the managers at Chipotle are moving aggressively to safeguard the customer experience itself.

The revamped Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the monstrous underground atom smasher that hurls particles at near light speed, will turn back on this weekend after two years.

Back in October, David Armstrong of STAT News wrote a mind - blowing report detailing how West Virginia health and insurance officials tried to slow the pace of prescriptions in their state, but were thwarted at every turn thanks to collusion between Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and pharmacy benefits manager, Merck Medco (which is owned today by PBM giant, Express Scripts).

«Looking back on my time at Yahoo, we have confronted seemingly insurmountable business challenges, along with many surprise twists and turns.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

At the same time, Pershing Square has reportedly cut almost 20 % of staff in a bid to turn the hedge fund back around to its glory days, Reuters reports.

That approach saw CWB turn down the opportunity to invest in asset - backed commercial paper offered by the likes of Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, thus sparing it from the 2007 meltdown that caused huge writedowns at its larger peers.

According to a fascinatingly nerdy deep dive into the subject in the New Yorker, the current mania for the word «hack» all started way back in the 1950s at MIT, where members of the model railroad club were already warning those «hacking on the electrical system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.»

As the entire free world was embracing American style free market capitalism, we here at home were turning our backs on it.

In a series of secret memos sent back to Washington, described to me by several current and former US officials who have written or read them, diplomats reported that Russian intruders had broken into their homes late at night, only to rearrange the furniture or turn on all the lights and televisions, and then leave.

If you've been turned down for a checking account, you might want to apply for City National Bank's Bounce Back Checking at one of the bank's branches.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

Turning back to the implications for Australia, periods of sudden increases in anxiety within international financial markets are moments when, if at all possible, it is good to be in a position to be able to maintain steady settings.

And then we will look to public banking options, and perhaps to Dennis Kucinich's American Monetary Act to turn you commercial banks back into savings banks to stem your wild speculation at the economy's expense.»

Either way, we can look back at the year and acknowledge that the results have turned out better than most would have expected heading into the year.

Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. - born engineer, was not only detained on his way back home to Los Angeles but also asked to turn over his work - issued phone and provide the access PIN to unlock it, potentially compromising sensitive material and contacts related to his work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The least lucrative option, as a rule, is to turn your rewards into cash back at a rate of a penny a point.

In fact, looking back at history can offer some valuable insights as to how certain major benchmarks have behaved leading up to critical turning points.

A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.

In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»