Sentences with phrase «decades past about»

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In the past two decades, Lubetzky has learned a lot about what it means to run a business that is both profitable and gives back to the community.

A good starting place would be some transparency about the changes that have occurred to the tax system over the past decade and how the measures he is proposing will address both the overall fairness and efficiency of our fiscal system.

Price shared her insights about what it takes to stay in business for more than two decades, planting seeds for future successes and how to move past fear and find your voice.

If you want further testimony about how much personal bankruptcies have dropped over the past decade, talk to Susan Grossberg, a Springfield, Mass., attorney.

Over the past decade, about 150 companies have achieved skyrocketing valuations of $ 1 billion or more.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

While many professional athletes have sought my financial advice, the past two decades have taught me no one wants unsolicited advice, especially about money.

Indeed, the industry has sparred with the DEA for much of the past decade about the role it should play in monitoring the delivery of drugs.

We're not talking about the large deals for senior producers that characterized the past decade.

If the general drift of devices over the past four decades has been towards more personal computing — from the PC to the smartphone to the smartwatch — the Surface Hub marks an about face toward communal computing.

Had it not been for Tiger's absurd run for the better part of a decade between 2000 - 2010, more people would be talking about Dustin Johnson's run of top - tier performances over the past year.

Many pundits pointed out that Microsoft, under Ballmer, has missed just about every major technology trend of the past decade, to the point where it is now largely irrelevant.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Over the past few decades, the sale of such goods migrated largely to big - box multinational chains, where employees couldn't care less about answering customers» questions or concerns.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

Over the past decade, virus - writers worldwide have created and released about 80,000 viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other «malware» programs, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus software vendor Sophos Inc. (www.sophos.com) And about 600 to 800 new variations crop up every month, although, typically, only a few cause widespread or serious headaches.

Since 2005, the Multiple Listing Service's Home Price Index has climbed 55 %, while housing prices have jumped about 90 % over the past decade.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Why, after a number of Facebook privacy scandals over the past decade, are users finally thinking about why they trust Facebook?

Over the past few decades, researchers have made strides to understand more about stem cells and regeneration.

He lamented that society has, in the past decade, been less apt to reach consensus about major universal challenges that require solutions.

«For the past decade, N.S.A. has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,» said a 2010 memo describing a briefing about the NSA for the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters «Cryptanalytic capabilities are now coming online.

Yes, but think about the leading entrepreneurs of the past three decades: Steve Jobs, Ken Iverson, Herb Kelleher, Anita Roddick, Yvon Chouinard, Howard Schultz, Jeff Bezos.

The top line cost of an EpiPen two - pack ballooned from about $ 100 to $ 608 over the past decade.

For roughly the past two decades, I've read just about anything I can get my hands on in terms of professional and personal growth.

As the chart below shows, foreign investors have accumulated about $ 6 trillion in Treasurys over the past two decades — roughly 40 % of the market — through trade and intervention, according to BAML data.

The dramatic drop in oil prices to $ 40 - 60 in the past four years after a decade of $ 100 per barrel oil has lessened consumer concerns about gasoline prices and boosted SUVs and truck sales.

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

But [the increase in commodity prices] is just the beginning of the story, accounting for about one - half of the appreciation of our currency over the past decade.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

Over the past decade, Canada has been admitting about a quarter of a million new immigrants annually.

The price of gold more than quadrupled in the past decade even though inflation has remained relatively restrained (consumer prices are up about 27 % since 2003).

That's when Koch snapped into full salesman mode, enthusiastically talking about Brewing the American Dream, his brewery's micro-lending program which has helped over 300 food and beverage startups over the past half - decade.

Over the past decade, the number of knowledge workers in Columbus grew by about 34 percent, with the share of knowledge workers increasing from 22 percent to 26 percent.

«For the past decade, N.S.A. has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,» said a 2010 memo describing a briefing about N.S.A. accomplishments for employees of its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.

Rents in Raleigh increased about 10 % over the past decade, while pre-rent wages fell for blue - collar -LRB--4 percent) and service (1 percent) workers.

Over the past decade, China's racked up about $ 318 billion worth of investments in European assets, and it's starting to make the European Union...

Daniels's story about her sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier would remain under wraps long past Election Day.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

Michael Batnick had a great post this past week about the «lost decade» for the S&P 500 in the 2000s (see What Lost Decdecade» for the S&P 500 in the 2000s (see What Lost DecadeDecade?).

«It has become increasingly common over the past few decades for insurance producers, like broker - dealers, to recast themselves as financial advisors or retirement planners in order to attract clients seeking objective, professional advice about their retirement and other investments,» the CFA says.

Alternative lenders have already doubled their share of the $ 1.4 trillion residential mortgage market in the past decade to about 13 per cent, according to the finance department.

As I have written about several times of late, research in the past four decades has shown that the predominant largest factor influencing decisions on the part of buyers are their goals and their associated goal - directed behaviors.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Passionate about foreign affairs, entrepreneurship, and writing, Elmira has spent the past two decades working on foreign policy, international development, and with startups worldwide.

The company has been talking about engineering a strategic shift away from consumer PC sales — which still account for 70 % of its revenue — and toward business clients, as IBM has done over the past decade.

Snyder and Arone aren't all that worried about inflation given widespread changes in the U.S. economy over the past decade that have kept prices down.

As a result of what happened during just one of the past twenty decades (the 1970s), most people now believe that a large rise in «price inflation» or inflation expectations is needed to bring about a major rally in the gold price.

There has been monetary policy madness in spades over the past two decades, but within this context there is nothing especially mad about the Fed's plan to raise rates and undertake quantitative tightening at the same time.