Sentences with phrase «decades of his time at»

He remembered my name, and those of hundreds other students, probably across decades of his time at my high school.

Not exact matches

Design trends change quickly, and in the span of a decade or two, the fonts, colors and shapes that seemed cool at the time could be laughed at in the modern era as nostalgic leftovers.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

By the beginning of this decade (as Fortune wrote at the time), tech executives were calling the area «Silicon Slopes.»

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

CFOs are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy than they've been at any time this decade, according to a survey out this morning from Deloitte.

Rather than try to time the market or buy into the newest blockchain trend, MetaStable looks closely at the real - world use cases of various digital currencies, and aims to make at least decade - long bets on the most «credible candidates,» Seims tells Fortune.

Levi's timing seemed equally fortuitous when he, along with six B.C. trade unions, set up GrowthWorks in 1991, at the start of a decade - long tech boom.

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.

The two - decade time horizon was significant because it captured transactions that occurred after legislation designed to discourage inversions by requiring stockholders to pay capital gains taxes on their shares at the time of the inversion.

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

The situation's not quite as good as it was at the end of the previous decade, but it's as good as it's been in a long time.

«At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing,» GE CEO John Flannery said in a release Tuesday.

This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

Further, with government approval at an all time low and an upcoming election with two of the most disliked candidates in decades, we may simply be no longer able to rely on the actions of our elected officials to regulate social goods.

He demanded not just the repeal of the sodomy law, but the opening of government jobs to known homosexuals - a radical idea at the time, and one that would remain far out of reach for many decades.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

Recording Industry Association of America's CEO Cary Sherman admits the U.S. music market grew at a healthy rate «for the first time in over a decade.»

In October the company's shares surged past their all - time high price of $ 59.56, recorded in the heady days of the dotcom bubble and at the tail end of a decade that the company unquestionably ruled.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

Nearly a decade removed from its acquisition of Guidant — which Fortune labeled the second - worst ever at the time — Boston Scientific is finally pivoting from the pacemaker and heart - stint driven business it had been pursuing.

But at the same time, the seemingly endless economic doldrums (the flicker of optimism from this week's jobs numbers notwithstanding), the rise of the Occupy movement, and the general sense that young people are being particular battered by coming of age in a monster recession, suggests that while the»90s and naughts didn't offer much to rebel against, the current decade certainly does.

The deal marked the culmination of at least a decade of attempts to marry the politically sensitive Proton with a foreign carmaker, with GM and Volkswagen both walking away at different times.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

We've all spent a minimum of a decade in formal education, so you'd think that in all that time, we'd have at least mastered the most basic principles of how to study efficiently.

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.

Time series analysis could help predict, based on what happens at the London Stock Exchange, how other exchanges will be impacted using decades» worth of stock data.

On the form he showed at the Masters, Woods still seems a good bet to break Jack Nicklaus» record of 18 major tournament wins; but the revenue records the tour set in the last decade, before the bursting of the Tiger bubble and the broader American economic bubble, are unlikely to be improved any time soon.

«For decades, the tobacco industry denied claims and science that it harmed the health of its customers; downplaying criticisms by citing the consumers» freedom to chose their lifestyle and how responsible usage was perfectly fine — while at the same time scientifically engineering the product and promotions to drive ever - higher consumption.

What it's like: Colin Robertson spent three decades in the Canadian foreign service, working as a diplomat in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Washington and spending time at home in Canada on projects including the patriation of the Canadian constitution and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.

The sustainability of a pension system is important in that arrangements that are put in place at a particular moment in time are often counted on to deliver incomes for decades into the future.

The time was 3:18 a.m. local time on March 23, when, at 91, Lee, who was Singapore's Prime Minister for three decades, died in the 50th year of independence of the city - state that he molded into one of the most sophisticated places on the planet.

Although most analysts at the time considered my forecasts to be shockingly low and wholly implausible, and thought so even two to three years ago, I have always said that before the end of the decade it will have become the consensus.

While I generally consider this advice to be wise, especially for inexperienced investors who should probably opt for something like an index fund, working with a qualified advisor or, if they are wealthy enough, an asset management group, the problem comes from the fact that if you find a truly outstanding business — one that you have conviction will continue to compound for decades at rates many times that of the general market, even a high price can be a bargain.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

Two and a half decades is a long time to wait, but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The way I figure, baby DivHut will have two decades of dividend compounding till he becomes a legal adult at which time I hope he'll continue on his own dividend growth journey from the portfolio we have started for him.

As a result, I observed at the time that most of the productivity «miracle» in the decade leading up to 2003 could be explained by import growth in excess of consumption growth:

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

Microsoft, which closed Monday at $ 30.74, has traded around that level for much of the last decade, never coming close to its all - time peak of about $ 60 in late December 1999.

At the time, free - market reformers argued that corporate America had become fat and wasteful after decades of postwar growth, with no checks on how managers spent cash — or didn't.

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.

As we have seen time and again, the flexible workspace market has experienced incredible growth and is sustaining that growth across the world; Savills found that UK serviced office take - up increased by more than 150 % in 2017, while CBRE discovered that the flexible office market has been growing at an average of 13 % per annum over the last decade.

It may have taken a surprisingly long time for analysts to understand why the credit process made rebalancing both urgent and inevitable, but it was clear to many economists, especially among Chinese academics, that severe distortions had been building at least since the beginning of the last decade.

Alitalia, Italy's perpetually bankrupt flag carrier (literally: the company is presently under bankruptcy protection... for the third time in under a decade) sold all of their aircraft to raise some quick cash, then leased them back at not exactly favorable conditions.

Buffet's study of investing goes back decades to his time as a student at Columbia when he studied with Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor.

Given that spreading ownership of capital and increasing employees» share in economic rewards has bipartisan appeal, 37 the only valid answer to the question by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, or other time travelers is that, after four decades of neglecting policies to stimulate broad - based profit sharing and employee share ownership, we have changed course and are now placing them in the policy portfolio, if not at the center of economic policymaking that they occupied from the days of Washington to Lincoln.

At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing.»