Sentences with phrase «at decades of history»

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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.»

Many start - up companies don't have the resources to throw at security nor the many decades of history in trying to keep client money safe, said Westby.

Take a look at the video below: it walks us through decades of history in just 80 seconds.

And Elliott, whose 13.4 % annual rate of return over its four - decade history is unmatched among hedge funds, has also outperformed at a time when that asset class has woefully lagged the market.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

PMI data showed private sector employment growing at one of the fastest rates for a decade in May, with manufacturing jobs being created at a pace not previously seen in the 20 - year survey history.

If you take a look at the global corporate history, you will see that the large cap stocks, also known as Blue Chip stocks are by and far the most consistently high performers in the market, even when you average them across decades of performance data.

A History of Innovation In 1984, Marriott became the first branded hospitality company by nearly a decade to enter the timeshare industry with the acquisition of American Resorts and its 184 - villa project which became Marriott's Monarch at Sea Pines.

At the mid-point of the Decade, the WCC initiated a project of ecumenical Team Visits - Living Letters - to every member church, for the first time in its history on a single major ecumenical theme.

And having read it and though about it for decades, I can state that many of the stories are poor attempts at literature or history, unless you like thinly veiled plagiarism.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

I myself was drawn back toward the church in which I was reared, in part by the discovery that at least the history (if not always the present reality) of the Holiness churches was a most significant incarnation of values that I had discovered in the student movements of the past decade.

These contrasting positions are, of course, simply the echo of views that have contended with each other at different points in Christian history and have been a staple of argument over the last several decades within the academy.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Read more about the history of the coffee industry over the last few decades at TechnoServe and an article about bird diversity in Tanzania at the African Bird Club web site.

COPPELL, TX (Jan. 26, 2016)-- Fresh on the heels of a major re-branding launch, Cicis announced its 11th consecutive quarter of systemwide SSS growth, its highest annual average unit volume (AUV) in at least two decades — breaking the $ 1 million threshold — and the highest weekly AUVs in the chain's history.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

Nothing intrinsically special about 10 years in footballing terms — I, admittedly with no better logic, look at the decades in terms of the 80s, 90s, 00s etc and feel better about us and we still have another 5 years to complete our history for this decade!

If you look at the First Five Years of the last decade Wenger at least managed to qualify for the Champions League in each of those seasons.The Second Five Years have clearly shown we as a Club have gone backwards and spiralling in a downward descent.And in these Five Years we have spent MORE money on transfer fees and player wages than at any time in the Clubs history.

Super Bowl XLIX kicks off this Sunday at 6:30 PM Eastern Time in one of the quintessential matchups as arguably the best defense of the last decade takes on one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.

I mean, Wenger's arc is pretty much well defined at this point, and despite all his amazing achievements in his first decade, he fact that he doesn't evolve as the game has evolved has meant Arsenal, with all the institutional advantages a club could ever want (great location, great history, astounding amounts of money), have been left behind, and the evidence of that could not have been more starkly on display than it was on Sunday.

But the roots of this rivalry lie two decades ago, when both West Brom and Stoke were at the lowest ebb in their history, languishing in the old third division, a far cry from their present day status.

Espn soccernet had on fergie marvellous 25 years, not forgetting the amount of luck on his side and the 12 man the referee at old trafford on his side, got to hand it to him he knows how to find, manage and disperse of players, wish I could say the same for mr wenger for last half of a decade, I not going to rant about wenger and the dissapointments but I ask for fans not to put down all their cards in favour of arsenal performances as history looks bleak as wenger hasn't taken us over to the trophy cabinet exploration for a while.

Now I'm actually someone who thinks history has judged the SAPs a bit too harshly, and that the economics of the Washington Consensus — if not the politics or the implementation process — deserve at least some credit for the great boom being seen across the developing world over the last decade.

The paper looks at three periods in the history of Israel, starting with its first decades, in which, it is argued, the republican discourse is the prominent one.

«At some point, there will be a correction; that's just the history of the markets over many, many decades,» DiNapoli said.

Simon has spent the last two decades working in the public affairs industry, having studied history at the University of York and worked as a researcher to a Conservative MP.

It is unclear whether replacing Ms. Finkle will have any significant impact, given a history of extreme violence at Rikers that stretches back decades, as well as a strong correction officers» union that has resisted even minor efforts to toughen oversight.

The project was started by Sam Bowring, an expert in geologic time at MIT, and Douglas Erwin, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History, who conceived of Earthtime during a transcontinental flight together a decade ago.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

As seas rise, it won't be pretty, said Sam Purkis and Gregor Eberli, marine geologists at the University of Miami who offered to explain the area's geologic history and how it could help predict the effects of sea - level rise in the coming decades.

Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decadat the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decadAt the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decadat The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

For the past decade, Markus Horning of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University has led a project to deploy specially designed «life history transmitters» into the abdomens of juvenile Steller sea lions.

Unfortunately, to puzzle out the new wasp's lifestyle, the researchers could only rely on specimens collected back in 1985, which had spent the past few decades stored in the collections of the Natural History Museum of London before being loaned to the Frost Museum at Penn State for research.

A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide - ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms — all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

Fast forward several decades, and scientists are now equipped with the advanced genomic technology needed to explore a species» evolutionary history at an unprecedented level, leading to new questions that challenge current definitions of what constitutes a species and which species deserve protection.

Millions, if not billions, of specimens reside in the world's natural history collections, but most of these have not been carefully studied, or even looked at, in decades.

«Not acting is not an option because the life histories of these flying, nocturnal mammals — characterized by long generation times and low reproductive rates — mean that population recovery is unlikely for decades or even centuries, if at all,» said McCracken.

The rate at which this knowledge has accumulated in the past decade has been nothing short of breathtaking, and as a geneticist I feel lucky to have been able to practice my trade at this point in history.

DERMA E has a long history of making sustainable, natural products and have managed to stay at the top of their game and evolve as decades have passed.

Throughout all of human history until a decade or so ago, senior men looked at the loss of potency as the end of their sexual existence.

There is a history of this sort of thing, of course: the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, in which female recruits were forced to run a «gauntlet» that amounted to a gang rape; the 1996 accusations of 30 women at the Army Aberdeen Proving Ground; the 142 allegations over a decade at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which finally surfaced in 2003.

So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.

The film will feature interviews with musicians and producers who recorded at the studio over the decades as well as history of the complex.

Tony's distorted view of history crumbles when documented proof of his actions is presented at his first face to face meeting with Veronica (the great Charlotte Rampling) in five decades.

While Hollywood has a history of portraying the American hero as the victim of suffering and torture due to his mysterious superiority (Clint Eastwood's Western heroes come immediately to mind), the past three decades of war and growing social crisis, and accompanying ideological confusion and disorientation, have played at least an indirect role in the increasing number of movies based on the same theme.

nicely interweaves the bittersweet history of the remake with a behind - the - scenes look at the middle - aged Strompolos and Zala collaborating for the first time in decades.»