Sentences with phrase «decades of their lives in»

More than any event I've witnessed in two decades of living in and writing about this city, this snowstorm underscores the horrible history of suburban sprawl in the United States and the bad political decisions that drive it.

They invest decades of their lives in producing healthier animals.

After almost a decade of living in India, we are now based in Los Angeles, California where we are always planning our next adventure.

Claire Marie Algarme: After two decades of living in the Philippine capital, she moved back to her quiet hometown where she now focuses on honing her writing career.

Their names are not in any academic paper, news clipping or obituaries about Bhattacharya, who spent the last two decades of his life in the US.

At the Schinkel Pavillon (until July 29), «The Empty House» is a show dedicated to artworks Louise Bourgeois created in the last two decades of her life in which the artist focused on the architectural and associative possibilities of the sack, hollowed or filled, as a form relating both to cells and to the female body.

For example, I don't have a huge garage where I can store tools and the kind of stuff that people horde over decades of living in a house.

The criminal justice costs of violence are also high: People who repeatedly commit acts of violence may spend several years or even decades of their lives in prison.

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Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Meanwhile, Behan, 48, and Jaime Gifford, 51, who are in their 10th year of living aboard Totem, a Stevens 47, logged decades of sailing experience prior to setting off on their journey in 2008.

After decades engaged in fulfilling, challenging work, a life of leisure isn't necessarily appealing.

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Two decades after the bloodshed that tore apart communist Yugoslavia, the men convicted for their destructive roles are increasingly present in public life, especially in Serbia, where many of them remain popular.

But, Jason said, for the next decade they plan to restrict themselves to just living on the cash flowing from investments and ignore any capital or market increases in the value of properties, pensions, and shares.

Wilson is the author of The Pittsburgh Cycle, 10 plays set in each decade of the 20th century depicting the lives of African Americans.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $ 67 billion.

It took her a couple of minutes to get over the shock and start recognizing faces, says Ezon, but the crowd included family and friends from all walks of life, some of whom she hadn't seen in decades.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

In other words, after decades of free spending, we've hit the reset button and are living the new norm.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

In a decade of Formula One racing, Lewis Hamilton has established himself as one of the best drivers to have ever lived.

In the past couple of decades, the world has been racked with wars and other conflicts that have dislocated the lives of 60 million people, making them refugees.

Over the past few decades in the U.S., wages have remained stagnant while the costs of building and living in housing has steadily risen.

Now, however, obesity in the U.S. is poised to overtake cigarettes in deadliness, with one major recent study concluding that, on average, obesity robs people of a decade of life.

Ma Bell was so wrapped up in the paradigm of the telegraph — an expensive technology used mostly for business and life - and - death announcements — that for decades it discouraged customers from using the phone for socializing.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

An individual has the potential to impact the lives of a billion people in a decade.

Since 1950, life expectancies at birth have ticked upward at a rate of roughly two years per decade, from an average 68.2 for a newborn in 1950 to 76.8 for one in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

«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.

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life serlife on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life serLife series.

May 1 - Apple Inc reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $ 100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade - old smartphone invention had life in it yet.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Though the Moscow - Islamabad rapprochement is in its infancy, and it is neighbor China that is filling the growing void left by the United States in Pakistan, a slew of energy deals and growing military cooperation promise to spark life into the Russia - Pakistan relationship that was dead for many decades.

May 1 - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $ 100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade - old smartphone invention had life in it yet.

Young Americans living with a devastating muscle disease in the U.S. face an approximately $ 88,000 price hike for a year's worth of treatment that's been around for decades.

Venture capitalist Mark Suster explains that the cost of starting a company has fallen by 90 % in the past decade, one reason investors — who also have heard of Zuckerberg and Mason — are more willing to fund more companies, with younger founders, ever earlier in their life cycle.

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

But the Heart and Stroke Foundation offers a parallel version of that decade to come, one that echoes the mantra in The Shawshank Redemption, «Get busy living, or get busy dying.»

The rising cost of living may be partly to blame, particularly in the spending categories, like health care, that have increased the most over the past decade.

In the last decade, the tech giant has spent untold millions of dollars measuring nearly every aspect of its employees» lives.

my current scenario: 60k annual + bonus of 15k - 50k Live in Texas (very low cost of living) age: 26 Have 50k in equity in my home, prices continue to soar where I purchased as well as for the next half decade.

Ms. Powell Jobs, a food lover, lives with her children in the same unpretentious red brick home she and Mr. Jobs bought two decades ago, where they raise bees and send friends Christmas baskets with hand - labeled Mason jars of honey.

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The answers to these questions will fundamentally determine the kind of government we want and the kind of country we will live in in the coming decades.