Sentences with phrase «century people started»

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

In the twentieth century, the Holocaust, skepticism about God's existence, global anti-Semitism, and the foundation of the State of Israel all contributed to Jews» seeing their attachment to a unique people as the starting point (and in most cases also the end point) for Jewish identification.

But somewhere around the 18th century, people started reading the Bible differently.

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

«Through YieldWise, The Rockefeller Foundation will finish the business we started with the Green Revolution more than a half - century ago — to ensure more of the world's people are fed and the planet's precious resources are protected.»

Centuries ago people imagined Earth to be ground zero for the universe — its center and starting point — until astronomers told them otherwise.

Birthrates are falling around the world; by the end of the century the number of people on the planet may top out and, in an unprecedented reversal, start to decline.

«Even though people started to be born further away from their families during the early 19th century, they were still marrying cousins for 50 years,» says Kaplanis.

Experimental psychology started in some sense in the 19th century with people trying to understand perception of light.

NEWS: Climate change could cause many glaciers in western Canada to start to disappear by mid century, affecting people and places that depend on their water

The average person's stress levels, diet and toxic load are all immeasurably worse today than they were at the start of the twentieth century.

People have been writing romantic personal advertisements for centuries, starting with the first in 1727 placed by Helen Morrison in her local newspaper.

Its the 21st century, and more people are starting to embrace age - gap dating.

Aidy Bryant says to kick off this parody of a K - Pop music video that firmly addresses the #MeToo movement by pointing out that women have been harassed for centuries - it's just that people are starting to pay attention.

Aidy Bryant says to kick off this parody of a K - pop music video that firmly addresses the #MeToo movement by pointing out that women have been harassed for centuries — it's just that people are starting to pay attention.

As you know, there have been many times in the past where people panicked over technology displacing workers, starting with the Luddites in the 19th century.

I started a conversation about that on Twitter and people started saying, «Is this acceptable in the 21st century?»

Even as we started #FutureChat, some of the keenest observations on The Bookseller's new listing of the 100 most influential people in the UK book business were being drawn by my colleague Philip Jones in his commentary, Centuries apart.

These were real people being led to real deaths, at the start of a season of violence that would send a ripple of fear out across the twentieth century.

Author Walter Mosley explores the mysteries of life, labor and freedom in the 21st century - from the failures of global capitalism and the impossibility of socialism, to technology's toll on humanity's understanding of itself, its needs and its limitations - and explains why building a future that serves humankind starts with destroying the ideological frames that reduce people to servants of a system, not masters of their potential.

Author Walter Mosley explores the mysteries of life, labor and freedom in the 21st century — from the failures of global capitalism and the impossibility of socialism, to technology's toll on humanity's understanding of itself, its needs and its limitations — and explains why building a future that serves humankind starts with destroying the ideological frames that reduce people to servants of a system, not masters of their potential.

Half a century ago, people started using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to explain how sensitive an individual investment was to movements in the market.

However, the maltese breed almost went astray during the 17th and 18th centuries when people started to create an even smaller version of the dog.

Dog breeding has long been a practice by humans, but it was only in the 19th century that people started taking note of canine bloodlines.

From the second half of the 19th century, Gran Canaria started gaining popularity in European circles as an attractive base for recreational holidays; a place for people in need of a rest.

People started flocking to Main Beach in the late 19th century as it was one of the first accessible destinations on the Coast and earned its name accordingly as it was the main tourist beach for people travelling down from BriPeople started flocking to Main Beach in the late 19th century as it was one of the first accessible destinations on the Coast and earned its name accordingly as it was the main tourist beach for people travelling down from Bripeople travelling down from Brisbane.

Ironically, not only was this 9th century stronghold a symbol of the start of the Moorish occupation of Spain, but the flag raised on the 25 metre Torre de la Vela, January 2nd, 1492 signified the end, when Ferdinand and Isabella banished the Islamic people from Granada.

Starting with the sixteenth century, it hops and skips through to the present day, inevitably leaving out a lot of people on the...

A reminder that Britain before the 16th century was not entirely an artistic blank slate would have been useful, but this exhibition reflects the strengths in a collection whose starting - point is 1545, and it should change for ever how people talk about the history and identity of British art.

It's gratifying to see people here starting to focus on Maurice Strong but really folks, this political movement is much older and goes back to the end of the 19th century.

That may have been partly because of the steady accumulation of knowledge, and also because the public in wealthy countries had become better educated (a larger fraction of young people was now going to college than had gone to high school at the start of the century).

What's hilarious is watching people who have less understanding of classical laws of physics than 19th century physicists start babbling about 20th century quantum mechanics.

When enacted at the start of this century, Scotland's mental health and capacity legislation was regarded as world leading in its principled and rights - based approach to interventions concerning persons with a mental disorder.

We have many people and organizations to thank, starting with the LGBT individuals and allies who took the courageous first steps towards equality during the last three decades of the 20th century.

Starting as a 19th - century family small community by the Neches River, about 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, this Texas «Golden Triangle» city now has an estimated population of over 118,000 people.

In Napoleon Hill's best - selling «Think and Grow Rich,» everything starts with desire, the first of eight steps to success Hill identified in his conversations over 20 years with the most financially successful people of the early 20th century.

I started my first blog to make people aware of the many concepts proposed in the past half - century for accomplishing piloted moon and Mars programs.

Bill Lublin CEO CENTURY 21 Advantage Gold Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Region served: Southeast Pennsylvania and South New Jersey Years in real estate: 40 Number of offices: 7; plus 1 corporate center Number of agents: 200 + Average time on market: 86 days Average sales price: $ 165,000 Current market conditions: While we're experiencing a slow market, people are starting to get off the sidelines, especially those that either need to buy or sell.

If you measure generations at their birth, Carlson explains, you include those who die as infants and young children (as much as one - fifth of early 20th century generations), but miss all the people who immigrate into the country as part of one generation or another (such as those who continue to inflate Generation X, which started out much smaller).

But 20th century buildings suddenly became very plain, very austere, very functional — and many people started to hate architecture and architects.