Sentences with phrase «about a decade of»

We'd both worked for Kaplan, Inc., for about a decade of perspective before we started Everfi.

The act of kicking a member out of the Academy is rare, but the AMPAS board in October did vote to expel Harvey Weinstein after a special emergency meeting in October, following bombshell reports the New York Times and New Yorker about decades of alleged sexual harassment and abuse.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

Perhaps the most important reality about the decade of the «60s, during which Underwood did his writing, was the organic populism of «the movement.»

After about a decade of doubt, study, and frustration, I made a resolution: to pursue the truth about the Bible without compromising my intellectual integrity, regardless of whether that pursuit led me to affirm my long - held presuppositions or whether it forced me to change my mind.

But after about a decade of baking, I returned to the iconic loaf and came up with an award - winning recipe.

We're talking about a decade of failure, lies, and the fact we're arguably the worst treated football fans by their respective club, in Europe, maybe even the whole world!

Wenger has made this club massive, and we have all stuck by him for about a decade of mediocrity.

Perhaps its a generation thing, and that everybody that lived through a certain era has rose tinted memories about the decade of football they grew up in.

After about a decade of research and testing, the original AminoGenesis formula was born and the results astounded even those who created it.

The volcanoes were almost continuously erupting, and about a decade of that would put enough aerosols in the environment to thoroughly destabilize the planet's climate.

Officials are optimistic the reefs will bounce back from last year's bleaching, as they did within about a decade of 1998, the last event on that scale.

Using about a decade of data from 1.7 million male U.S. veterans, researchers found that while too - low levels of HDL cholesterol were associated with an increased risk of death from any cause, so were high levels of HDL cholesterol.

And it reveals some stark realities about a decade of controversial school reform in the District.

At the end of August, Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid from Publisher's Weekly asked me to participate in a survey about the decade of growth in comics and graphic novels, and mine and my colleagues» responses are in an article that just went live on the PW site.

Meanwhile, AU remains mum about decades of author abuse by the Big Five.

My view is that investors, when they start out, should practice wide diversification and move towards concentrated positions only after about a decade of experience and as they move towards concentrated positions, their propensity to take business risk and management risk will go down but their ability to acquire deep knowledge about a handful of businesses with value creating potential will go up.

I'd imagine since we've had about a decade of QE the nominal price of the bond purchased in 1981 would rise significantly (since interest rates were at all - time highs in 1981)..

In general value stocks are getting attractively priced relative to growth stocks after about a decade of growth beating value by upwards of 2 % a year.

However, Miller's vision went even further, and after about a decade of continued innovation in the small - pet nutrition category, the company was again renamed — this time, as Oxbow Animal Health — in 2008, because, as Miller puts it, «Those words better fit the direction that our company was headed and the importance that we put on animal health.»

Hyperallergic's Editor - in - chief Hrag Vartanian speaks to mega-collector Don Rubell of the Rubell Family Collection about decades of collecting and establishing one of the biggest collections of contemporary art in the world.

The station opened on 1 Jan 1882, but there was a gap of about a decade of missing data from 1908 to 1918 as can be seen on the URL above.

Now, after about a decade of research, Zhongxiang Zhao, an applied physicist at the University of Washington, thinks he's figured out a better way.

After about a decade of decline, it's now restructuring a large percentage of its $ 73 billion in outstanding debt in the most extensive bankruptcy of U.S. municipal.

In the experience section of the shift manager resume sample, the jobseeker includes three positions covering about a decade of work history.

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What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Over the last decade the newspapers have been full of stories about Ponzi schemes, crooked investment «advisers» and insider trading.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

One of the most pronounced reactions, though, came when Meyers did a joke about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime film producer who sparked the reckoning over sexual harassment after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed three decades of allegations against him.

While some artists will continue to have reservations about having their work featured in ads, Gardner and Hayman say there is still a greater likelihood of people finding a new band or their favourite new song in a television show these days than there was a decade ago.

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

Happily working decades beyond the magical age of 65, here are his words about how anybody can follow suit, and thrive doing so.

Yet for decades, scientists have known surprisingly little about what genes are linked with the development of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Indeed, think about the ubiquity of certificates of participation — younger people have been rewarded for just showing up for things for decades.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

CFOs are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy than they've been at any time this decade, according to a survey out this morning from Deloitte.

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.

The federal agency predicts that the number of people about to enter the labour pool (aged 15 — 24) is set to drop below the number about to exit it (aged 55 — 64) over the next decade.

And reading transcripts from those halcyon days of a decade ago, before the U.S. crash, two things become readily apparent that may lend some insight to Poloz's situation — U.S. Federal Reserve officials were indeed worried about causing alarm.

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

Conservative critics say the decision, which split between three Democrats and two Republicans, was imbalanced and overturned decades of legal precedent about joint ownership.

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

«There's only so many people who want to Twitter about Gossip Girl or whatever,» says Shelley Smit, Universal McCann Canada's managing director who also served as Labatt's director of media and sponsorships for a decade.

A recent Statistics Canada Megatrends report suggests migration to Canada has accounted for the bulk of population growth since about 1999, and is only going to get more important in the coming decades:

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

When Stuart Vevers wants to reconnect with the DNA of the Coach brand as he sets about designing a collection, he hangs out in the climate - controlled archives on the ninth floor of company headquarters, where it houses 28,000 Coach items going back decades.