Sentences with phrase «lawyer.the past decade»

This is particularly true in business, where unpredictably has been at an all - time high in the past decade.

The past decade has seen a rising demand for «music supervision» of the type Grayson Matthews provides — companies and individuals dedicated to creating or finding the right song for the right moment in a piece of film.

Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

This goes far beyond a paper code of conduct, philanthropic hand - outs or the social audit fatigue which has gripped the industry over the past decade.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Over the past decade, social websites have continued to grow in popularity at exponential rates.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

Horner is a three - time entrepreneur who has been featured in Inc. magazine, on KABC and Extra and in other publications highlighting her successes in the Silicon Beach community over the past decade.

That operating wizardry has allowed the sports - apparel Goliath to push its dividend up steadily, at 18 % a year over the past decade, an «astonishingly good number,» says Kilbride.

Implementing a winning management strategy grew to become a top priority for small businesses for the past decade.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

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.

In the past decade, this commitment increasingly means being in the city.

Chriss pegs growth in the contingent work force to structural changes in employment over the past decades, including a decline in enrollment in defined - benefit pension plans and growth in the average duration of unemployment.

Consequently, Salt Lake City has enjoyed among the highest rates of salary growth in the country over the past decade, according to BLS data.

In the meantime, the Canadian market is losing steam, and that will curb the blockbuster earnings growth that all of the banks have enjoyed over the past decade.

If you were thinking it's millennials, that's probably because they've dominated the media's focus for the past decade.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

D&O begins to matter when companies have outside investors — according to one survey, nearly a third of private companies reported D&O claims from shareholders in the past decade.

A good starting place would be some transparency about the changes that have occurred to the tax system over the past decade and how the measures he is proposing will address both the overall fairness and efficiency of our fiscal system.

WA taxpayers have pumped $ 171 billion into running the Federation over the past decade as almost every other State and Territory has enjoyed an economic free ride on the State's coat - tails.

Traditional BI platforms have come a long way over the past decade.

Connecticut has raised income taxes three times in the past decade, but now, struggling to meet its pension and healthcare obligations, it's going after hedge funds in Greenwich, the Financial Times reports.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

The world of manufacturing has undergone a lot of changes in the past decade, though a lot of people don't seem to have noticed.

In Canada, the opportunity to improve is immense — the number of people with inadequate literacy skills has increased to almost one in two the past decade.

I've used Sensodyne toothpaste off and on for much of the past decade, and I've always been impressed with how reliably they treat tooth pain with regular use.

Instead, the relationship between employees and employer cracked under the financial pressure of the past decade.

In tandem with our annual Giving Well Guide, we anaylse trends and issues in philanthropy, an area where there has been substantial development as Western Australia's wealth has grown in the past decade or so.

With the growth on online businesses in the past decade, shipping and online services have become popular.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

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.

It has doubled over the past decade and is projected to reach $ 350 billion by 2020, according to the province's own Financial Accountability Officer.

Over the past decade, the traditional sources of venture capital funding have dried up.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

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.

If you want further testimony about how much personal bankruptcies have dropped over the past decade, talk to Susan Grossberg, a Springfield, Mass., attorney.

With the explosion of digital marketing this past decade, chief marketing officers have become exposed to tremendous troves of data and are taking advantage of the information available to them.

As a neutral observer with no stake in this issue either way, I can't say I particularly care whether Google or Apple is the more influential and important company of the past decade.

Yes, Canada Post in the past decade and a half has sold a lot of its dusty old post offices and continues to develop its franchise network.

Chief Louie touted his corporation's proven track record of managing major projects — $ 220 - million worth of capital spending over the past decade — as well as its ISO 9001 certification, a seal of quality management.

Almost all GrowthWorks's funds have posted negative returns over the past decade.

Traditionally, Ottawa has raised the ceiling anytime CMHC approached it, a practice that has allowed the institution to grow exponentially over the past decade.