Sentences with phrase «close to a decade ago»

What's unusual about Mendoza's approach is that it involves abandoning the website his company, Jewelry Sales & Design, launched close to a decade ago in favor of a simple third - party - hosted landing page.

You're right about that, but look at all of the games you listed, they're all from close to a decade ago.

Not exact matches

«I think we're not closer to war than a week ago, but we are closer to war than we were a decade ago,» National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday on ABC News.

Today, as Steeped Tea settles in to its position as «the» name in direct sales of loose - leaf, it bears a pretty close resemblance to the vision Jahshan had nearly a decade ago.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

And since the company closed its Greenwich, Conn., office a decade ago, it's been harder for Manhattan - based employees to commute, what with no train service to offices in Englewood Cliffs, N.J..

With a bit of luck, prices nationwide could reach close to the all - time peaks seen in the housing bubble a decade ago.

A Bristol church which closed six decades ago will reopen this autumn to engage with young people that aren't connected to a church.

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Because of its critical position in the quality chain linking plantation to chocolate production, the Barry Callebaut Group identified this fermentation more than a decade ago as one of the key steps that required optimization in order to close the quality chain and provide the purest, most intense, natural chocolate experience up to now.

But when Isaac Jordan takes the mat for his match, his wiry father — 5» 7 and about 150 pounds, close to what he was three decades ago when he wrestled for Wisconsin — is not in his prime front row seat.

Nearly a decade ago the Tuscan left Roma having run a dominant Internazionale close to the wire using a revolutionary false nine tactic: trequartista Francesco Totti starting up front but dropping off between the lines,...

I say «limited experience» because until about a decade ago most adoptions were closed with little to no information about birth families for individuals who were adopted and vice versa.

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago,...

It will not be easy to break a culture that took hold in Nassau decades ago and flourished through Republican and Democratic administrations even as Nassau came close to insolvency.

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago, as the renowned broadcaster's path to this centre - right camp we find him in now started on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.

We can not afford to close the Bronx's very last book store — a store we worked so hard to bring to our community almost two decades ago.

Rattner — a close friend to Mayor Bloomberg and a big - time Democratic fundraiser — founded Quadrangle with four other businessmen a decade ago.

Two decades ago, when Mr. Cuomo was HUD secretary, he hired Mr. Blasio to oversee the New York region for the department; the two, while not close friends, were certainly political allies at the time.

Later reassessments put them closer to our species, and about a decade ago a dating technique suggested they were about 160,000 years old.

About two decades ago, Close was working nearly exclusively on dehydrins — a family of proteins that all plants make in response to drought stress or low temperature.

Closer to the hole, at about 15 light - years, as Becklin discovered two decades ago, is a second ring of dust.

Touting a special position as a gay hookup site and community that is owned by gay men and built for them, Gaydar was first launched in the UK more than a decade ago and has gained an international following in the recent few years, with close to 6 million gay members now.

It is designed to fill in gaps, to close a loop Kojima began drawing decades ago.

Breeds like the Narragansett that were close to extinction a decade ago are making a comeback as people choose to go with the darker, gamier meat.

It's only been 25 years since the original's release, and the film has not faded much from the cultural imagination, thanks to home video re-releases, a hit Broadway adaptation that closed a decade ago, and the internet.

Okay, say teachers, let's build one Dorchester Reporter, January 7, 2016 In the wake of a cut in funding a decade ago, the library at the John W. McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point was closed, leaving students without a quiet, out - of - the mainstream place to study and read... read more.

It would be similar to the educational goals set at Charlottesville more than a decade ago, none of which have come close to being reached.

The number of Teslas sold to - date, somewhere north of 130,000 and south of 150,000 globally is impressive for a small independent, though that's close to a full decade of selling EV cars, with the Model S launching six years ago.

While Kia compares the K900 to the German automakers and to the Lexus LS460 that is probably closer on price and mission — luxurious highway cruising with incredible comfort front and rear — it's really going to excite someone milking the last year out of a Lincoln Town Car, or who wondered what to do once the Cadillac DeVille departed a decade ago.

That a group of women did achieve a family size close to replacement (an average of about 2.1 children is required to insure the same population in the next generation) several decades ago when contraceptive techniques were less sophisticated than even today's unsatisfactory variety is compelling testimony to the fact that lower fertility is attainable even without a revolution in contraceptive technology.

Job opportunities had spurred the 50 - something couple to leave decades ago, but in their advancing years they now felt the tug of wanting to be closer to family and the city where they both grew up.

Despite being nowhere close to levels seen just over a decade ago, cash - out refinance loans are on the rise, this according to a new data dive by LendingTree.

Decades ago, Americans» personal saving rate was closer to what Houchins - Witt suggests.

I fell in love with the Cavachon nearly a decade ago, in my opinion as close to the perfect companion as you'll find, the offspring of the sweet & gentle Cavalier King Charles Spaniel & the hypo - allergenic non-shedding comical little snowball, the Bichon Frise.

For this installation, Skip Gallery will return to its inaugural space in the car parking space opposite 19 Hoxton Square, London N1 6 PB, a site that is fitting for Turk's collaboration, who exhibited The Golden Thread (a series of casts of black refuse bags) in the now closed down White Cube Hoxton Square over a decade ago.

More than a decade ago, Theaster Gates renovated a house in Greater Grand Crossing, a South Side neighborhood close to his job at the University of Chicago.

Whitney Museum of American Art: «Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama — Manhattan, 1970 - 1980» (closes on Sunday) Four decades ago, performance art was young, funky and clunky, beyond modernism, or maybe perversely beneath it, meant to reflect a world in which materials were transient, old models useless and values shifty.

Boas» book is the end result of decades of work; she began her interviews more than 20 years ago, before so many of those who had been close to Park passed on.

But the city has long been mapping a plan to redevelop its waterfront, which had been dominated by a wastewater treatment lagoon used by a Georgia Pacific pulp and paper mill that was closed a decade ago.

«For close to 500,000 years there were some ups and downs in the atmosphere and then just not more than about 150 years ago it started raising from 280 parts per million to 330 parts per million in the 80s, and now even more quickly,» Wolfe explained, «It's [the amount of CO2] going up exponentially every decade.»

UNEP News Center: The Convention on Biological Diversity closed the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties today with Governments committing to step up actions to achieve, by the end of the decade, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed four years ago, and contribute to the sustainable development agenda.

In a big victory for free speech, The Hill states: «The withdrawal closes a major chapter in the drive by liberals and environmentalists to punish Exxon over allegations that it knew decades ago that fossil fuels were causing climate change but denied it publically.»

A decade ago many database developers, including Informix, a company subsequently acquired by IBM, said their database management systems were close to solving the unstructured data issue.

A decade ago, that may have been the appropriate — and quite frankly, the only — conclusion to be made after a solo practice closed its doors.

To wrap up the patent - related news, we start with some interesting speculation from Neil Wilkof of IPKat about whether Apple, which was once criticized for its «closed system, proprietary outlook,» is now out - competing Google and it's open source approach to technology development using the same proprietary approach that arguably failed Apple several decades agTo wrap up the patent - related news, we start with some interesting speculation from Neil Wilkof of IPKat about whether Apple, which was once criticized for its «closed system, proprietary outlook,» is now out - competing Google and it's open source approach to technology development using the same proprietary approach that arguably failed Apple several decades agto technology development using the same proprietary approach that arguably failed Apple several decades ago.

«When young people are investing in the stock market, their behaviors are much closer to how people navigate products like Spotify or Amazon, rather than traditional investing products» says Bhatt [Disclosure: I knew the startup's co-founders from college a decade ago].

The truth is that the completely optimistic outlook with which Turkle began her research decades ago — the belief that technology would give us tools to grow closer to ourselves and to each other — evolved with the evolution of these tools.

Decades ago psychologists discovered that simply being close in physical proximity to another person increases liking and attraction for that person.