Sentences with phrase «decades of development in»

Hurricane Mitch, in 1998, swept away decades of development in Honduras over the course of just a few hours.

The Association of Chief Police Officers» (Acpo) president will warn members at a conference speech in Harrogate that changes could undermine decades of development in England and Wales.

A Decade of Developments in Performance — Based Legal Education, 21 William Mitchell Law Review 673 (1996).

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«The credit quality, this move up in interest rates, this loss of a four - decade uptrend in bonds, downtrend in yields, that's the source of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across in the last couple of decades,» said Gordon.

That remains a lofty hurdle in a field where it can take decades of research and development before a team can enrol its first study participant.

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank and an advocate of aggressive monetary easing, to become the new governor in a push for bolder efforts to end nearly two decades of deflation.

In the last decade the researchers have made this observational link between the development of Alzheimer's and a decreased cancer risk and vice versa.

The objective is to raise more than $ 327 million — which would be Canada's largest mining IPO in more than a decade — and the development of the company's African copper projects is riding on those funds.

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.»

The iPhone maker has decided against pursuing the development of an Elvis Presley biopic series in light of allegations last week of The Weinstein Company's co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassing women over decades, Deadline is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of Apple's decision.

In most of these countries, China may be difficult to dislodge because it has been operating development programs there for many years and decades.

South Korean companies dominated 2012, asserting their superiority in the automotive and tech sectors, and reaping the rewards of decades of meticulous business development.

More than 40 programs have popped up in the last half decade offering services such as mentorship, networks of partners, access to investors and business skills development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 5development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 5Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 52 programs.

The CSeries is Bombardier's new generation of aircraft for commercial airlines, in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller models of passenger jets built by rivals Boeing and Airbus.

Over the past decade he built a «federation» of semi-independent companies, including VMware (s vmw) in virtualization, RSA (s rsa) in security, and Pivotal in software development and deployment.

Other real estate assets are being revitalized, including the former Lakeview generating station property in southeastern Mississauga, which is expected to see a balanced mix of commercial, residential and recreational development over the next decade; and the Seaton Lands in Pickering, where one of the largest new urban communities in Canada will be developed over the next 20 years.

Universal Studios Japan says development costs for the Nintendo attraction are expected to reach more than $ 434 million, but claims the addition will add 1.1 million jobs in Japan and bring economic benefits of more than $ 100 billion within a decade after opening.

During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

Melamed, one of the central players in the creation and development of the financial futures markets, was CME chairman from 1968 until 1976 and held various leadership positions at CME for more than three decades.

Since Amazon decided about a decade ago to stay in downtown Seattle, the company said, it has invested over $ 4 billion in the construction and development of offices in the city, though it won't disclose the budget for the spheres.

E.g., perhaps it made some sense to withstand some decades with a current account deficit in order to support the development of countries (then poor) in order to strengthen the position of the U.S. during the Cold War.

Our team of experts have over a decade of expertise in the startup and impact ecosystem and deep knowledge and experience in business development and fundraising.

Mr. Hunter has over two decades of experience in healthcare finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, strategy and operations.

Jason Squire, CFO, Founder Creating Canada's first 4G network in the early 2000s is just one of Squire's notable achievements; he has a decade - plus of mobile - and cloud - development expertise.

Hundreds of web and mobile development companies have started in Buenos Aires over the last decade, and successfully so.

See, the movement of dialogue in short order from development economics on the post-modern social marxian critique, bound up in decades of thought from well before the vertical rise in its popularity in the 1960's to today.

The Minoryx team is made up of a group of drug discovery and development experts with several decades of experience in biotech and pharma.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

The Chinese development model is largely based on the Japanese version of the high - savings model, and analysts in China and abroad have long noted similarities between Chinese growth in the past two decades and Japanese growth in the 1970s and 1980s.

This pedantic focus on the name distracts from the fact that smart beta might just be one of the most meaningful developments in the investment landscape of this decade.

As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»

They could also restrain or reverse the ongoing process of global economic integration, most notably the development of global value chains, which has supported growth in recent decades.

In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

Here's what Calvin Ayre, one of the world's first online gambling entrepreneur - billionaires said last September: «The single biggest positive development in online gambling over the past decade has been the invention of bitcoin.

In Europe, the market's development has been hampered by a hodgepodge of national bankruptcy laws, and investor sentiment that has not fully recovered from the sovereign debt crises early this decade, according to Oh.

The nominee will bring decades of experience of technological developments in the financial services sector.

Meanwhile, spending on research and development in the private sector has been increasing at a clip of 4.9 % a year since 2007, up from 4.1 % the decade prior, while public and private R&D as a share of GDP recently hit an all - time high.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

For almost two decades Meegan has served in the fields of international development, corporate strategy and business planning, project management, marketing, training and education.

Jerome is a Managing Director of Business Development, bringing to Oberon more than a decade of experience in corporate finance including asset - based lending and mortgage - backed securities.

Douglas Loe, healthcare equity analyst with Echelon Wealth Partners, brings more than a decade of experience to financial analysis in the global drug development, medical technology, healthcare services and specialty pharmaceutical sectors.

Capital spending, on the other hand, should ease later in the decade, as development at Horizon, which now accounts for more than one - third of the company's outlays, winds down.

Then, there is the development of 3D printing technology, which has made great strides in the past half - decade.

The book covers the proliferation of slavery and the China trade, along with the development of the oil industry, advertising and the explosive rise of digital technology in the past few decades.

She has a decade of academic research experience in synthetic biology, recombinant protein expression, and development of genetic engineering tools.

These organizations helping to make Goal Centric the leading pioneer in buyer persona development with a body of work that dates back to over a decade.

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.