Sentences with phrase «decades of my work at»

«Today is the culmination of over two decades of my work at the grassroots, in non-profit organizations, in labor and as a public servant.

Mr. de Blasio cited Mr. Dorancy's two decades of work at the Department of Education as a key reason for endorsing him for the central Brooklyn seat in his race against Mr. Hamilton — a former aide to Mr. Adams once seen as his heir apparent.

He'll be celebrated at (RE) APPROPRIATIONS, an exhibition spanning five decades of his work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York from 6 September

Marshall's practice is informed by extensive experience cataloguing pelt collections, including a decade of work at the Bronx Zoo, resulting in a specialist's eye.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

A lot of women will have been working doggedly for at least a decade before we achieve these personal milestones.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

You may argue I'm no expert, but I've been in the news business for close to two decades, working nationally and abroad, so I've stayed in literally hundreds of hotels... from the Soviet - era «Intouristes» to the Mansion at Turtle Creek in Dallas.

Securitization has generally worked as advertised, although mortgage - backed securities and related derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis almost a decade ago.

After more than a decade at Salesforce, I've seen the number of distractions at work grow along with the pressure to continually pack your pipeline with viable leads and new business.

Working at the same job for decades or staying in the same line of work for your entire career can get you stuck in a rut.

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

Large institutional investors are good at focusing on long - term gains, and pension funds in particular must work to anticipate the needs of contributors decades in advance.

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.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

Let's review my 401 (k) savings targets by age and see when various age groups of savers may become 401 (k) millionaires if they are able to work at a job with a 401 (k) plan for several decades.

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

Not only that, the arrival of the baby - boom generation at retirement age over the next two decades will see the ratio of seniors to working - age people (aged 20 to 64) go from just over 1:5 in 2006 to 1:2 by 2056.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

Ayer, who worked at the airline for over 30 years and spent roughly a decade as its CEO until his retirement in 2013, has joined the board of a relatively new drone startup called AirMap.

At one of the startups where I worked, one co-founder was a decade younger than me.

The news comes just a day after Nordstrom announced the president of its Rack division, Karen McKibbin, would be retiring in March, having worked at the company for three decades.

That's according to David Stafford, executive VP of human resources at Michelin, a company with about 22,000 North American employees, many of whom he says have worked for the company for decades.

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.

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

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.

He has a decade of experience as a magazine journalist, having worked as an online editor at Canadian Business, as the associate editor of BCBusiness and more recently as the senior editor of Vancouver magazine, where he often worked on policy - oriented feature stories.

His resignation Thursday, after a decade at the helm of the company his father Izzy Asper founded, comes as Mr. Asper works on a potential bid to stay on as a key investor in CanWest.

A decade of research shows that training your brain to be positive at work first actually fuels greater success second.

The mining companies agreed to a settlement deal, estimated at $ 395 million, with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted silicosis and tuberculosis while working underground for decades.

To understand the dynamics at work, one needs to look at the balance of payments — not so much the balance of trade itself, but the currency speculation, international lending and arbitrage that has dominated exchange rates over the past two decades.

The following two decades were a classic illustration of mean reversion at work.

As part of FlexJobs» 10th anniversary celebration, we're looking at a decade of flexible employers embracing work flexibility!

Shaun has a decade of experience in Silicon Valley, where he worked in field sales at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Salesforce.com, and MuleSoft.

Later working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and asset management at Deutsche Bank, Barbara Ann acquired a robust grasp of private market valuation that she went on to leverage at Holowesko Partners for nearly a decade, helping the hedge fund grow to several billion in AUM with her focus on special situations and takeout candidates.

The Racine, Wis. - based family - owned marketer of such brands as Windex, Pledge, Glade and Ziploc is now «A Family Company at Work for a Better World,» changing the tagline for the first time in nearly two decades.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

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.

Jing Wang, 52, of Del Mar, California, also had served as president of global business operations at Qualcomm, where he worked for more than a decade.

Today, Hughes and Young work side by side here at the last U.S. smelter that makes the high - purity aluminum used in armored vehicles, sons of a region where jobs in the metal industry, ubiquitous for decades, have become a rapidly disappearing way of life.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

I believe it is the general concensus of scholars who do serious work at determining when the gospels and other New Testament books were written were written many decades after Jesus died.

The prospect that second - generation revisions of these will be made seems rather remote at this point, though much of the work of the past decade appears blatantly sexist to present - day eyes.

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

New York (CNN)- While all eyes are on lower Manhattan, nearly 200 people gathered more than 100 blocks north of Ground Zero on Friday night to honor 9/11 families and to recognize a decade of interfaith work at the Interchurch Center.

Edgerton is one of the most underrated actors working today, and Will Smith seems to be finding his rhythm again recently after over a decade of constantly bombing at the box office.