Sentences with phrase «about decade and»

«We were always very committed and we were already married about a decade and a half when we finally were able to get to a marriage enrichment event.

The deal is the biggest local television station sale in about a decade and comes amid of a wave of consolidation in the industry.

There has been some warming over the past century, though it stopped about a decade and a half ago.

I was a libertarian of sorts (Objectivist, actually, for about a decade and a half), and I am still quite sympathetic towards that sort of world view.

Bet you wished you lived when I did where the Sun had a greater output and made the earth warmer for about a decade and a half or so... We have all these kooks who want to blame carbon dioxide for the change in temps, can you believe that?

I worked as a vet tech for about a decade and had some additional training in companion animal nutrition.

The two lived common - law for about a decade and kept their finances separate.

Clark has had a credit freeze in place for about a decade and has only lifted it half a dozen times.

I read everything I could by Isherwood and about Berlin and about that decade and its writers; and the more I read, the more I came across the name Lin Yutang, alongside mentions of his second book, The Importance of Living.

I've attended the Sundance Film Festival for about a decade and, until now, there's always been a constant.

About a decade and half ago, John the Goliath did some shouting too by accusing John the Jerrican of planning to prepare palm nut coup, eii, sorry, soup.

Many of our employees have been with us for about decade and without their hard work and creativity this business would not be anywhere near as successful.

Not exact matches

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.

Final - mile delivery is a market that Transport Futures economist Noel Perry said could grow to about $ 12 billion over the next decade, from about $ 3.7 billion today, thanks in large part to a growing appetite from younger consumers to buy everything from BBQ grills and mattresses to dining room tables online.

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.

But it has raised questions about how much Manafort has been paid throughout his decades as a political consultant — and who paid him.

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.

In the past two decades, Lubetzky has learned a lot about what it means to run a business that is both profitable and gives back to the community.

Smartphones are now more powerful computers than PCs were a decade ago, and these advances bring with them even more technological delight — and questions about privacy — than their desktop brethren, thanks to always - on GPS.

«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.»

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.

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.

Price shared her insights about what it takes to stay in business for more than two decades, planting seeds for future successes and how to move past fear and find your voice.

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.

He has written about economic policy and the men and women who make it for almost two decades from Ottawa, Washington and, currently, Mumbai.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

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

«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.

The refusal to acknowledge the bad debts incurred by banks during its property bubble plunged Japan into its «lost decade» and ended talk about Japanese global domination.

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

However, Handsome Her's owner, Alex O'Brien, told Broadsheet Melbourne: «I do want people to think about it, because we've had this [pay discrepancy] for decades and decades and we're bringing it to the forefront of people's minds.

Facebook, on the other hand, is only about a decade old and represents the American economy's shift away from manufacturing goods to the creation of software and ideas.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

Throughout much of its first decade of existence, the search engine company presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world for the better first and making money second, an ethos exemplified through its famous «don't be evil» motto.

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

It started on a yacht in one of the fjords off the coast of British Columbia with a helicopter poised on the bow and a pilot I knew, about to go into terrain that I had visited two decades prior.

U.S. Trust has put out similar surveys for about two decades, but this is the first one to include data on high net worth business owners and executives, it says.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Starting about a decade ago, social - networking platforms for business — most notably on LinkedIn — introduced much needed transparency to beleaguered buyers, allowing for third - party comments and reviews.

«This system was designed decades ago,» Gates continued, «and it doesn't reflect what educators have learned about helping students and teachers do their best work,» namely, that students learn far more effectively when their instruction is tailored to their specific needs.