Sentences with phrase «are in the past for»

Whether one examines church attendance, election results, rates of intermarriage, or attitudes about dating, one fact stands out: the American melting pot is alive and well for American blacks, just as it was in the past for Italians, Jews, and Asians, to name just a few.

The rest of the League can breathe a collective sigh of relief now that flag football is in the past for the Champaign League.

That's in the past for me, just a situation that I had to deal with, that I went through this off - season.

The first is in the present tense for first year students; the second is in the past for second year students.

Not exact matches

The Arctic policy is a consolidation of the world's second - largest economy's activities in the Arctic for the past five to 10 years, according to Zhang Zhixing, a senior East Asia analyst for geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor.

At the very least, it might be prudent for the BoC to separately take into account asset prices when it sets monetary policies (as I've argued in past columns stretching back to 2007).

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

It's probably too early to answer those questions, so in the meantime let's take a look at the Priv, which I've been using for the past week.

Despite the exodus, sales have ticked up during the past few years; Target is on track for $ 73 billion in 2014.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

While many cryptocurrencies have been in bear market territory since a correction that began in late December, this week has been especially bloody for investors, with the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down nearly 40 % in the past two days, and Ripple shedding nearly half its value over the same period.

Global stocks have been a hot trade for investors with the iShares MSCI emerging markets ETF (EEM) surging more than 15 percent in the past year, outperforming the S&P 500, which is up just 10 percent in that time.

In the past week, Walmart, Sears, and Target have all been under the microscope for, respectively, disappointing financial results, staff cuts and speculation over consumer malaise.

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.

Wednesday: Boeing & Biogen Boeing: In the past, this company has been deemed a loser on suspicions that airlines won't upgrade their fleets for fuel efficient planes now that the price of oil is so low.

Beckwitt, 58, who was also elected to Lennar's board, has been with the No. 2 U.S. homebuilder for the past 12 years and moved to the role of president in 2011.

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

If you've come to the Japanese console - maker in the past 10 years, though, you're forgiven for not remembering such a time.

In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

In a government memo, which was first spotted by Axios, U.S.C.I.S. argues that computer programmers are not presumed to be eligible for these visas, as they have been in the pasIn a government memo, which was first spotted by Axios, U.S.C.I.S. argues that computer programmers are not presumed to be eligible for these visas, as they have been in the pasin the past.

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

On the Democratic side, the appeal of stronger gun laws was evident in Clinton's attacks on rival Bernie Sanders over his past votes against background check laws and for limits on lawsuits against gun makers.

But in the wake of the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment allegations that have come to light across multiple industries over the past several months, it's on every company to assess whether their HR policies in this arena make it possible for everyone to feel safe at work.

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

For the past year, they've been subleasing a 1,000 - square - foot space from the owners of the Thai restaurant in town, and now they have their sights on the theater.

«The events of the past few months are a strong reminder that the Internet can be used for the worst reasons imaginable,» Microsoft said in its post.

Although the set of indicators used is somewhat different than in past years, there is enough overlap to allow for some comparison.

She has made few public appearances in the past, but was praised for her fashion sense during her surprise visit to China with Kim.

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Amazon has been criticized for a lack of transparency and, in the past, ramifications due to lack of transparency led to fines.

Volatility has been the byword for the Chinese stock market in the recent past, not least because the government has a habit of intervening in the form of lockdowns and corporate actions whenever the Shanghai index dives.

Alternatively, if the Department of Finance were to continue tightening mortgage credit, and to also withdraw some of the government's past measures boosting the housing sector, it may not be necessary for the Bank of Canada to rein in a housing boom with higher interest rates.

It's worth noting that private equity funds are also becoming more available through registered investments advisors to accredited investors: those with $ 200,000 in income for the past two years or $ 1 million in net worth.

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.»

And what's more worrying for YouTube is that just over 15 % of Facebook video viewers surveyed by Ampere in North America and Europe hadn't watched a single YouTube video in the past month.

For example, cubicles in rows are a thing of the past.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

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While in the past, these «Alexa skills» would have to be enabled — meaning a user would have to go into their Amazon Alexa app, search for the skill they wanted and turn it on — now, a user can bypass this step and simply ask Alexa anything.

Despite its growth over the past year, Store No. 8 is still in its infancy and Finnegan is continuing to look for new entrepreneurs and avenues for innovation.

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

She has given several interviews over the past few days in anticipation of her new memoir Raising Trump, which is slated for release on October 10.

One recent study showed that immigrants in New York were less likely than nonimmigrants to own a business that has been running for more than three - and - a-half years, and more likely to have shut down a business within the past year.

Whereas entrepreneurs may have looked to their investors or board members in the past for guidance, founders are discovering that their investors are increasingly strapped for time, which leaves them with nowhere to turn when making tough business decisions.

While past revolutions have been disruptive for some workers and firms, they have not resulted in permanent, mass unemployment.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.