Sentences with phrase «decades years ago»

Donna's, which sits on the corner just down from the townhouse our founder bought over three decades years ago, has closed after thirty - some years, the victim of a rise of (local rumor has it) $ 16,000 a month in rent.

Donna's, which sits on the corner just down from the townhouse our founder [Richard John Neuhaus] bought over three decades years ago, has closed after 30 or more years, the victim of a rise of (local rumour has it) $ 16,000 a month in rent.

There was no existence of a professional summary section on resumes until about a decade years ago.

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After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all faiths.

After more than a decade growing the company, the Scheinbergs cashed out three years ago, selling to Amaya Gaming for $ 4.9 billion.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Four decades ago, he was the bellman on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship; in recent years, his own yacht could have been mistaken for one — before he sold it for a huge profit.

Spotify, which launched its streaming music service a decade ago, has enjoyed a surge in subscriber growth only in recent years.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Less than a year ago, King — the executive that doubled sales of the company's TaylorMade - Adidas Golf business in the span of a decade — was appointed president of the company's North America business.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

Before taking the helm at Foxwoods two years ago, the industry veteran spent over three decades working in hospitality industry.

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

The yield on a 10 - year Canadian government bond is just 1.7 %, compared to more than 5 % a decade ago.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

The world was a very different place 22 years ago when Jobs gave this interview (thanks, in many ways, to the tech Jobs helped build in those decades), but this advice is timeless.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

Growth last year sunk to only 1.3 %, down from the 7 % to 8 % rates experienced a decade ago.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

This is in marked contrast to the perspective of a year ago when the elimination of the debt did not appear likely until the next decade.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

And Toronto's culture of entrepreneurship has evolved light - years ahead of where it was just a decade ago.

Dropping «Donuts» from the brand name has been a strategic no - brainer for over a decade, and ideally should have been fully completed at least five years ago.

That year, just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine that a President of the United States would ever use a social media channel as a primary form of communication.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

To be sure, most of the big point moves are in recent years for an obvious reason: The Dow is much bigger than it was decades ago.

Lots more people today can go online in some fashion than were able to a decade ago, so, what, we wait 20 years for the olds of today to die off so the olds of tomorrow have smartphones?

But both parties failed at executing any meaningful partnership agreements to allow that to happen; in fact, it was only last year that the two started codesharing their flights, something that should have happened a decade ago.

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

Western Australia's inaugural Telstra Business Woman of the Year says professional women still face many of the same barriers today as they did two decades ago.

Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18 years before being allowed to legally marry in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two years or two decades ago is not legally clear.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

That's why corporations started outsourcing labor to foreign countries a decade ago, and while they'll begin in - sourcing work to robots over the next 10 years.

But after the bust comes the boom: Expect soaring crude prices later this decade as demand from fast - growing Asia collides with greatly diminished supply — a classic bust - boom cycle with which the oil industry was all too familiar 100 years ago but may have forgotten since.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

Year it began franchising: 1982 Number of franchises: 546 Startup costs: $ 225,000 to $ 358,000 Overall 2012 Franchise 500 rank: 79 Hungry Howie's got its start nearly four decades ago in a converted hamburger shop in Taylor, Mich..

«The transition from Honduras was very scary,» says Polanco, who was just 12 years old when she arrived in the U.S. almost three decades ago.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

The federal Liberals came to power a year ago in large part on their promise to invest $ 120 billion in infrastructure over the next decade, essentially doubling Ottawa's spending from the previous 10 years.

With total manufacturing output flat over the decade, this adds up to far fewer manufacturing jobs in North America than 10 years ago.

While Kohl's business has held steadier than the likes of J.C. Penney (jcp) and Macy's (m) in recent quarters, its top line is roughly where it was six years ago, a big contrast to the retailer's torrid growth for decades prior to that.

Here are eight of the hard - earned lessons I've learned leading up to my fortieth year that I wish someone had told me a decade ago:

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.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Two decades ago Marsh was honored by Beverage Industry, a trade publication, as the 1993 Executive of the Year.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

Less than a year ago they held a net long position in 10 - year paper of 362,000 contracts, the largest in a decade.