Sentences with phrase «just as a decade»

Anything and everything that goes wrong will be blamed on the Common Core, just as a decade ago every education misfire was blamed on No Child Left Behind.

This much was clear when he mounted his Bliz - aard Ball Sales throughout the 1980s, performances where the artist sold snowballs on street corners with other vendors, daring to question value in art just as that decade's art market was starting to boom.

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As a result, most of today's sought - after professions didn't exist just a decade ago!

Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently founding his own startup, Horizn.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

And just as Airbnb and Uber have the landscape of accommodations and local transport unrecognizable to something from only a decade prior, we will eagerly await what the future might look like, in a world where verified and trusted interactions between individuals become as could change the face of institutional hierarchy as we know it.

The unconventionally underwritten video debuted just as OK Go left EMI, their label for almost a decade.

More than 61,000 people attended Burning Man in 2013, which just a decade ago drew half as many people.Business Insider / Aly Weisman

Trump hasn't denied the Times» conclusion that he could have avoided taxes for nearly two decades, just saying he was smart to pay as little as possible.

He says Adidas needs to «reset» everywhere, not just in the U.S. Evaluating the brand, Liedtke is as brutal as the critics, acknowledging that young athletes aren't looking to the three stripes the way they did a decade or two ago.

That year, just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine that a President of the United States would ever use a social media channel as a primary form of communication.

The Giulia Q has been designed to beat BMW at its own game, just as everybody has been trying to beat BMW at its own game for decades.

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

But for the most part, solar panels are just as big and ugly as they were when they hit the market more than four decades ago.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

As more boomers retire in the next decade, and Millennials take over as the largest working generation, today's companies just aren't prepared ahead for developing tomorrow's leaderAs more boomers retire in the next decade, and Millennials take over as the largest working generation, today's companies just aren't prepared ahead for developing tomorrow's leaderas the largest working generation, today's companies just aren't prepared ahead for developing tomorrow's leaders.

Whether they've been around for decades or were launched in the last two years, some companies just have a bit of magic when it comes to grabbing attention and establishing themselves as fan favorites...

Nielsen recognizes that the university feeder system is just one element of many that will ultimately contribute to the viability of Vegas as a start - up cluster — a process that may take decades to achieve.

When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label for such corporate creatures in a November 2013 TechCrunch blog post, just 39 of the past decade's VC - backed U.S. software startups had topped the $ 1 billion valuation mark.

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

on Silicon Valley for two decades, through good times and bad, and I felt as though I had heard just about everything.

One of Ault's prime concerns relates not to the eight convicted capital murderers who are set to die, but to the men and women of the execution team who are being asked, just as he was two decades ago, to kill in the name of justice.

The nascent forces at work today may be just as profound and it's critically important to begin to explore and understand them because they will shape business models for decades to come.

If TEN can maintain 2016 NOPAT margins as expected (6 %) and grow NOPAT by just 3 % compounded annually over the next decade, the stock is worth $ 110 today — a 107 % upside.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has just published statistics showing that the wealthiest 1 % of America's population doubled its share of wealth over the decade ending in 2007 as the bubble reached its peak.

I also think its wrong to characterize the European response as just standing pat with the high energy taxes they've had for decades.

The reality is that one doesn't need interest rates reasonably estimate 10 - year prospective market returns, just as one doesn't need interest rates to calculate that a $ 100 expected payment in 10 years, at a current price of $ 65, will result in an expected total return of 4.4 % over the coming decade.

It's just another number, but the milestone is widely viewed as another sign that the secular bull market in bonds that's prevailed for decades has ended.

News and music are dominating user activity on smart speakers, just as they did in the early days of mobile devices a decade ago.

Profits are growing strongly just as they have been for decades.

As of last week, the S&P 500 was priced to achieve an estimated average annual total return of just 5.83 % over the coming decade, based on our standard methodology.

It is a scary thought, but if we're going to be realistic about the decades ahead, we are just going to see more and more fires and we have to ensure our communities are as prepared as possible.»

But to see it as just that misses the fact that demand and growth generally in the emerging world are quantitatively important enough now to matter to the global economy in a way that it did not only a decade ago.

I know I would not be as wealthy if I had just invested in stocks, because there was no leverage, and there was a last decade when real estate performed tremendously between 2001 until the financial crisis.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

Humans are social creatures; just look at the massive impact and expansion of social media in the past decade as proof.

Today is definitely not the same world as it was just a few decades ago and the financial industry in particular has embedded extremely high levels of manipulative psychology into their attempts to control us and to keep us passive.

In addition, Prudential has regularly increased its dividend over the past decade, and its current yield of just over 3.4 % has been achieved despite paying out less than 20 % of its earnings as dividends.

Even with that boost, the dividend accounts for just around 50 % of profits, which leaves plenty of room for future increases as earnings churn higher in the coming decade.

In just one decade, TerraCRG has established itself as a true market leader.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Just as Microsoft owned Desktop computing for three decades, Apple could be on the cusp of owning mobile computing for decades as well.

But let me just say, carbon emissions in the United States are back to where they were two decades ago, even as we've grown our economy dramatically over the same period.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.