Sentences with phrase «earlier decades of my life»

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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.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

We have seen many early stage VC shops and Angel Groups move out of the early stage life - science sector over the past decade and in particular the past 3 - 4 years.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

Early in this decade (one could argue about the exact date since a cluster of events is involved) came the technology to make use of this information to bring about by design significant changes in actual life processes.

We are still feeling the effects of three great populist movements that ripped through Southern Baptist life in the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century: Campbellism, Landmarkism, and hyper «Calvinism.

Many of the issues that exercised Merton's mind in the last decade or so of his life anticipated many of the topics that occupy us in the «70s but which seemed esoteric or trivial at any earlier time.

Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages, $ 40 The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a....

That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.

This description of the Christian life was attractive during the early decades of the nineteenth century.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

Uh... those words that you dearly love weren't written down until decades after «Jesus» supposedly lived and according to many many scholars nowadays much of the «Gospel» is made up or recycled from earlier mythical gods.

Its primary value lies in its witness to the picture of the life of the early Church which was developed a decade or so after the fall of Jerusalem and the deaths of the principal apostles.

Blomberg surveys the gnostic gospels, that have gotten so much press over the last decade, and shows how they fail to live up to the criteria of «apostolicity, catholicity, and orthodoxy» (58) that were laid down by the early Church.

the difference between a fan from my very early life, decades ago and some of the younger ones who have never known Arsenal, apart from under Wenger.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

A special holiday gift arrived early for some, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he would extend pardons to those convicted of non-violent crimes committed at ages 16 and 17 and who have since lived crime - free for a decade or more.

A statement on his website revealed that the 62 - year - old, who spent the last decade of his life protesting in Parliament Square, lost his battle with lung cancer early on Saturday morning.

And while that might not be a problem in the early years of life, years or decades of drinking sweet liquids will catch up with them eventually.

A series of extraordinary discoveries over the past decade has transformed our ideas about the evolution of early animals, and of the world they lived in

The species produces seeds early in its lifespan, tends to make millions of viable seeds during its life, and continues to produce seeds for decades and, in some cases, for more than a century.

During the past several decades, the number of live births to women in their early 40s in the United States has increased steadily.

In the same manner, living a decade with mild neck pain was roughly equivalent to dying one year early, and living a decade with moderate depression was about the same as losing four years of healthy life.

Scientists have been arguing for decades over whether such structures are remnants of early microbial life, but the Australian formations are the best evidence yet.

The parasite can persist for decades in the body because of the nematode's unique ability to reinfect the host, repeatedly going through the early stages of its life cycle.

Newbold said because decades can pass between exposure during fetal development or early childhood and the manifestation of the disease in adult life, it can be difficult to nail down a link.

Findings demonstrate support for the enduring effects of sustained school - based early education to the end of the third decade of life.

There are also a few genetic syndromes that can lead to glioblastoma, but those tumors usually manifest quite early between the third and fifth decade of life.

Three decades of study commencing in the 1960's led to the Burgess Shale ultimately attaining the recognition of today as a remarkable rock record of early Cambrian life and its early diversification.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan also said that she believed in alien life and with the advances in science and technology, she thinks that proof of alien life forms will finally be found in as early as about a decade.

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

But if I wanted to lament the loss of anything from the earlier milestone decades of my life, it would be fun.

People can live with HIV for a decade (or longer) before they experience symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and joint pain — a fact that underscores the importance of testing and early detection.

The best prevention for bone - thinning osteoporosis begins early — during the first two decades of life, when you can most influence your peak bone mass by getting enough calcium and vitamin D and doing bone - strengthening exercise.

Early in the last century, Dr. Weston A. Price, «The Isaac Newton of Nutrition», spent more than a decade of his life traveling, studying, and writing about 14 isolated, indigenous cultures from around the globe.

An architect for the first decade of his adult life, Trowbridge turned to stage acting in the early teens, making his film bow in 1918's Thais.

Starting as just a child, the film spans two decades of Marjane's life as she struggles to cope with all of the difficulties that come with adolescence, the teenage years and early adulthood; coupled with the strife of her nation.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

What would be standard rom - com fare was elevated by the period - perfect details, color - coordinated costuming, life - on - the - town montages, and settings that resembled movie sets of several decades earlier, when every cinematic New York apartment had a terrace.

Anchored by a magnificently androgynous performance by Kazuo Hasegawa, reprising a role he had played on - screen three decades earlier, «An Actor's Revenge» is an eye - popping examination of how the illusions of art intersect with life.

Neither are the teen satanists in Jonas Åkerlund's phenomenal Lords of Chaos, based on the real - life story of early 90s Norwegian black metal musicians who wore corpse paint, burned churches and ended the decade dead or in jail.

The name Terrence Malick above the title on «The New World» in 2006 certainly brought with it a certain group of expectations for those of us who loved «Badlands,» «Days of Heaven» and «The Thin Red Line,» but a decade later, released by Criterion this week in a gorgeous three - disc Blu - ray set, the film now feels almost like a bridge between those early works and his recent trio of introspective, deeply philosophical films: «Tree of Life,» «To the Wonder» and «Knight of Cups.»

Although it takes place in the early decades of the last century, The Danish Girl's story of the love and lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener is in many ways a tale for our times.

What's holding Doris back is her lasting devotion to her mom, who dominated much of her life, even ruining a potential marriage some four decades earlier.

This weekend, MUBI explores a decade in the life of the acclaimed Berlin School, an exhilarating movement of German cinema spearheaded in the early 1990s by directors like Christian Petzold and Angela Schanelec, and attracting new attention with Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann.

Expanding on his early short, The Dirk Diggler Story, Anderson's breakthrough movie was a Scorsesian romp through two decades of the porn industry, inspired in part by the true - life story of John Holmes.

But while the live action output was of a different composition from the types of films released a decade earlier,