Sentences with phrase «by about a decade»

Solomon is a stylish, stunning woman herself; I spend half of our interview trying to figure out how someone this young could be this successful before she mentions her actual age — and it turns out I was under by about a decade.

That delays predicted mass reef deaths by about a decade.

This pushes back the first recorded case of AIDS in the US by about a decade: the only earlier known case of human HIV infection was in Zaire in 1959.

Third, because the maximum warming lags emissions of carbons by about a decade, budgets based on ESMs (or combined observations / ESMs) do not fully account for emissions over the final decade before the 1.5 C threshold is exceeded.

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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.

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.

In his own memo, Allbritton opened by talking about how, «A decade ago, early in 2006, I made a decision to start a new newspaper focused on Capitol Hill.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

About two decades later, the Firearm Owners» Protection Act effectively banned newly manufactured machine guns from being purchased by civilians at all.

But, when we talk about America becoming great again — defined, in a vague way, by a greater degree of upward mobility — what decade most often gets referenced?

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

«Although China will be switching over to renewables by 2039, concerns about unhealthy air will be so intense after two decades of respiratory diseases that they could likely pioneer buildings with filtered air, oxygen supplements and artificial light to replace lost sunlight,» said Jacques Gordon, LaSalle's head of global research and strategy.

But two decades of attending both horrible and excellent holiday parties thrown by my clients have taught me a few things about throwing an office holiday party that have nothing to do with flowers and decorations and customized invitations purchased at Staples.

«When I joined the company in 1992, we used to talk about our mission as putting a PC in every home, and by the end of the decade we have done that, at least in the developed world,» said Nadella.

Mr. Comey had served in the Department of Justice for the better part of two decades, and I was confident that Mr. Comey understood and would abide by the department's well - established rules governing any communications with the White House about ongoing investigations.

The «static» score of the bill — the amount of projected debt added when economic growth is not factored in — shows that the deficit would grow by about $ 1.5 trillion in the decade after the bill is implemented.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

«I am sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.

Attacking tailings accumulated over that entire period, Suncor has reclaimed its first pond, is working on another two and has five more it plans to drain over the next two decades, expecting to reduce the surface area of its tailings ponds by about 80 %.

It's about a decade overdue, by my estimation.

Vogt says that he is not pessimistic about ITER and NIF producing «interesting» science and making progress toward fusion energy after several decades have gone by.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

By one estimate, changing the tax status of retirement - plan contributions — by taxing them today, but then not taxing the eventual withdrawals — would raise about $ 1.5 trillion over the next decadBy one estimate, changing the tax status of retirement - plan contributions — by taxing them today, but then not taxing the eventual withdrawals — would raise about $ 1.5 trillion over the next decadby taxing them today, but then not taxing the eventual withdrawals — would raise about $ 1.5 trillion over the next decade.

Both versions of the bill would cut taxes by about $ 1.5 trillion over the next decade, slashing the corporate tax rate and doubling the standard deduction used by most Americans.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

«The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries both friendly and not so friendly for many, many decades,» he said, complaining about what he said was the United States» $ 800 billion trade deficit.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

I've written before about the presidential election cycle theory, developed several decades ago by Yale Hirsch, whose son Jeffrey serves as editor of the indispensable Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 50th edition.

In the online world, «inbound marketing» is a term that was popularized about a decade ago by HubSpot cofounders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah.

Common Cause filed a similar complaint about a $ 150,000 payment made shortly before the election by American Media Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who has said she had an affair with a married Mr. Trump about a decade ago.

Regardless, we believe that the S&P 500 is likely to experience flat returns or losses over the coming decade, and we remain concerned about growing financial distortions driven by yield - seeking malinvestment, as we were in the runup to the global financial crisis.»

Much has been written about how to manage this new generation of workers between the ages of 18 and 35, which will constitute more than 35 percent of the workforce by the end of 2013 and more than 50 percent of all workers by the end of the decade.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

While CBO projects higher projections for wages and taxable corporate profits will boost revenues by about $ 195 billion over the next decade, it also expects changes in interest rates and inflation will increase spending by $ 302 billion over the same period.

The United States has been lying about Iran having a nuclear weapons program for decades, as well documented by Gareth Porter and other journalists.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

Friday's inter-Korean summit drew a mixed reaction from relatives of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea decades ago, with some hopeful for the return of their loved ones and others anxious about the outlook, including the lack of a reference to the abduction issue in the leaders» joint declaration.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

When we moved to Toronto from Washington, D.C. about a decade ago, my wife and I were shocked by the cost of housing.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Over the past decade, the number of knowledge workers in Columbus grew by about 34 percent, with the share of knowledge workers increasing from 22 percent to 26 percent.