Sentences with phrase «by decades more»

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I got my job by slowly becoming more and more qualified at many things over a few decades.

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

It is also striking news for those who remember that Microsoft paid $ 97 million more than a decade ago to settle a case brought by re-classified independent contractors who sued for employee benefits.

This year, that's best personified by the world premier of Pee - wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens» return to his most famous character after more than two decades.

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

By all accounts, it was a smooth transition more than a decade in the making.

Yet that is exactly what has taken place in the B.C. Interior this decade, driven by Chief Louie, the vanguard of a new generation of aboriginal leaders far more interested in creating jobs for their members than in endless litigation or lobbying.

It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

The predominant concept known as «interval training» used by top athletes and Olympic medalists for decades can now help busy entrepreneurs and ordinary folk do a lot more in less time.

Indeed, the U.S stock market has been over-valued for more than a decade going by several yardsticks — yet it's still holding up.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

Brand - licensing models are not new in the industry; European companies like Philips and Alcatel have made money from consumer electronics by licensing out their brand after capitulating to Asian competitors more than a decade ago.

The September decision by the Obama administration to delay final approval for the Dakota Access Pipeline was intended to give federal officials more time to consult with Native American tribes that have faced dispossession from lands for decades.

Known as «the Fifth Beatle» Martin was named by Guinness World Records as the most successful music producer ever, with more than 50 No. 1 hit records over five decades.

He said that by the later part of the next decade, Facebook would see notable progress in areas like connecting more of the world's population to the internet, the role of artificial intelligence in Facebook products and the accessibility and quality of virtual reality and augmented reality.

There is no two - syllable word I have typed more since the the latter part of the previous decade than «crisis,» usually preceded by «financial.»

Racial discrimination in hiring and employment practices continued at investment bank Morgan Stanley (ms) despite a class - action settlement more than a decade ago, according to a new lawsuit filed Thursday by a former employee.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Viacom announced new rebranding efforts on Thursday morning that will see the struggling company focus its efforts on six flagship brands — which include Paramount, the studio acquired more than two decades ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, whose family owns the controlling stake in Viacom and CBS.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

In one the researchers compared the sentences received by major players (that is, those who stole $ 100,000 or more) in the savings - and - loan scandal a decade ago with the sentences handed to other types of nonviolent federal offenders.

After more than a decade of research and development, Coca - Cola launched its first ever soda approved by the FOSHU Japanese food standard.

McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst years in more than a decade, hinted at its investor meeting last week that it's looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.

A recent report by Morgan Stanley shows that millennials are spending more on expenses like rent, cellphones, and personal services than young people a decade ago.

CBS Corp's board is set to discuss a merger with Viacom Inc on Thursday, sources have told Reuters, possibly starting the process of reuniting the two media companies split by mogul Sumner Redstone more than a decade ago.

It ended more than seven decades of monopoly of the oil sector by Pemex.

What Happened: More than a decade after being founded by two New York City beer distributors, the brand was acquired by Nestlé - Dreyer's in 2004.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

The cost of getting the first product out the door for an Internet commerce startup has dropped by a factor of a 100 or more in the last decade.

Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

The companies were split more than a decade ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, although the Redstones still control both through a third, private company.

More than 40 programs have popped up in the last half decade offering services such as mentorship, networks of partners, access to investors and business skills development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 52 programs.

Medicare spent more than $ 15,700 per beneficiary with diabetes in 2014, but effective intervention strategies could decrease federal spending on diabetes treatment by $ 1.3 billion in the first decade, according to analysis by Avalere Health.

China announced last week that it would open up the market to foreign automakers, which have been encumbered by ownership limitations in the country for more than two decades.

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

Doggles are also part of the uniform of many service animals, including those used by the U.S. military, which has purchased more than 1,000 pairs in the last decade.

According to the Wall Street Journal, seven in 10 bachelor's degree recipients were expected to graduate with student loans averaging $ 35,000 — more than twice the inflation - adjusted amount owed by students two decades ago.

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

Attacking tailings accumulated over that entire period, Suncor has reclaimed its first pond, is working on another two and has five more it plans to drain over the next two decades, expecting to reduce the surface area of its tailings ponds by about 80 %.

In an interview with «60 Minutes» on November 12 — and in her new memoir, «Fierce» — Raisman said that she was abused by Larry Nassar, a doctor who spent more than two decades working with the US Gymnastics team.

«But these policies have now been deployed for some years - in the case of Japan, for more than two decades - and at least so far, they have not convincingly shown an ability to decisively overcome the problems posed by the zero bound.»

When the 2000 bubble burst, private tech funding fell by more than 80 percent and didn't recover for a decade.