Sentences with phrase «around decades of»

The discovery immediately becomes a likely candidate for a Nobel Prize, and not just because it ties a neat bow around decades of evidence supporting a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity.

Turning around decades of economic decline in a matter of years is «an unreasonable expectation» even as gains in job growth have been made, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at an event in Glens Falls on Wednesday.

I could've just sold everything on eBay in piecemeal fashion, I suppose, but after around a decade of collecting, I'd like to think that the collection deserves better than that.

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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.

Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world.

The CBO, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and World Bank all forecast an average reading of around 2 % over the next decade.

With the dam broken and decades worth of accusations of sexual harassment and abuse finally flooding out, we're hearing more and more apologies from powerful creeps who took advantage of and dehumanized the women around them.

But around the turn of the decade Alcoa led a producer shift to pricing alumina on the basis of spot market indices compiled by price assessors such as Platts, Metal Bulletin and CRU.

If social media today, a decade after Facebook's founding, presents a warped, cracked reflection of the world around us, RelSci is trying to map that world, especially the professional part of it, with increasing detail, precision, and context.

Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

What a lot of businesses fail to see is that the cliche taglines come from billion - dollar companies that have been around for decades.

What amazes me is that these hypothetical investors would be considered some of the smartest around, investing steadily every month no matter what the market was doing, for decades on end.

We can leverage these core tenets to solve for a number of organizational issues around trust, authentication, and verification that have challenged society for decades.

LONDON — An influential Tory MEP who helped to draft the biggest change to European finance laws in the last decade says the government's leaked Brexit impact report shows a «consensus» is emerging around the effects of leaving the EU.

This Texas company has been around for decades and has become a global brand of choice in the computer industry.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

While poverty has fallen around the world over the past 2 1/2 decades, the vast majority of the people who moved past the $ 1.25 - a-day threshold hail from China.

If they continue on that path, they will discredit China's remarkable achievements accomplished over decades of hard and smart work to save, produce and sell to willing buyers around the world.

Gorilla Glass, which has helped Corning corner roughly 40 percent of the display glass market (Japanese competitors Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass hold a 25 percent share each), has been around since smartphones first shipped with touchscreens and Apple debuted the iPhone roughly a decade ago.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Over the past decade or so, Keller has refocused all of Cascade's business units around the dual themes of reducing customers» use of oil and helping them move to zero waste.

The euro zone economy expanded at its fastest rate in a decade in 2017 and European equities are set to end January with gains of around 3 percent.

«Gas prices are currently at the lowest levels in more than a decade, thanks to a glut of supplies around the world,» said Julie Hall, AAA spokeswoman.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Thursday's decision by the National Labor Relations Board involving the Teamsters Union and Browning - Ferris Industries reverses decades of standard practice around the concept of joint ownership in business.

There was a time, around a decade ago, when Calgary was a hotbed of disruptive change in the business of selling images.

Busby says this idea of formal integration has been around for decades, but the considerable bureaucratic and planning inertia inherent in making such systemic change has until now put implementation on the back burner.

Nikon was the Pepsi to Canon's Coke, or maybe the other way around, but the two companies had a lock on the high - end market of single - lens reflex, or SLR, cameras for decades.

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.

This borrowing will materially worsen the government's debt position: Moody's now expects Spain's public debt ratio to rise to around 90 % of GDP this year and to continue rising until the middle of the decade.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

Giesler points out that for decades, McDonald's was one of the best companies around at shaping consumer trends in ways that benefited its business.

Some of them had been around for decades.

Though podcasting has been around for over a decade, 2016 was probably the year of the podcast, with so many great ones hitting high points, with more and more terrific luminaries joining the medium.

The post is also an example of a category of content that has been around for decades, but seems to be especially popular this summer, centered on disillusionment with the startup world.

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...

The event — which has been happening for over a decade — will run for most of April this year and gives attendees the chance to sample gourmet offerings prepared by Michelin - starred chefs from around the world.

His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

Many top - selling toy franchises have been around for decades, showing the power of big brands — and the dearth of innovation — in the industry.

While plant - based alternatives have been around for decades, a cohort of this new generation of companies — including Beyond Meat — is using food tech to get plants to more closely replicate the taste and texture of animal protein.

The price drop is an unexpected turn of events for an industry that for decades has operated under the assumption of Peak Oil — geophysicist M. King Hubbert's theory, first proposed in 1956, that the United States» then soaring oil production would peak and begin to decline around 1970.

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

Ecommerce has been around for nearly two decades now, and while it's given people all kinds of convenience and flexibility in making purchases, it hasn't erased their underlying fears about safety.

This concept of income - splitting has been kicked around for decades in Canada.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

LONDON — The staggering ascent in the Swiss franc, one of the most acute moves in decades by a major currency, has hurt financial firms around the world, with at least two brokerages going out of business.