Sentences with phrase «earlier in this decade»

But we haven't forgotten that, early in this decade, Theil along with Max Levchin and Elon Musk developed and sold PayPal.

That process is likely under way now with options, as top executives, who scored big with them earlier in the decade, have begun doling them out to workers.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

Early in the decade the company had been dogged by R&D failures, most notably of Vanlev, a high - profile hypertension drug that had been hailed as a can't - miss blockbuster but then fell short of even getting FDA approval.

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.

In lay - witness missions earlier in this decade that notion was challenged.

Following a price crisis for world dairy farmers earlier in the decade, global prices for milk and other dairy products look set to grow strongly during 2017.

When we played Bama earlier in this decade they were in a completely different class and the scores were nowhere near indicative of how far apart the two programs were.

He gives as an example the last time the Democrats held the Senate earlier in this decade.

While lacking in detail, the new proposal differs from a plaza expansion plan that was abandoned early in the decade in the face of strong neighborhood objections.

The Siena poll finds that nearly two - thirds of New Yorkers think race relations are just fair or poor, a number that's up from polls conducted earlier in the decade.

Kiernan Plaza got its name in 1989 after the death of Peter Kiernan, who as president of Norstar Bank had moved his bank from Guilderland to Union Station earlier in the decade.

Moore's decision is an interesting one given that he was being only lightly targeted by national Republicans after weathering a series of brutal battles earlier in the decade.

She donated $ 10,000 to Paterson's campaign and $ 10,000 to Cuomo / Duffy plus $ 1,900 to Cuomo earlier in the decade.

Led by astrophysicist Paul Crowther of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, the group sifted through observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier in this decade and combined them with new images by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.

The stresses endured by honeybees became clear to Sam Comfort earlier in this decade when he was working for a Montana pollination outfit called Arlee Apiaries.

That may be true, remarks Sascha Caron, a physicist from the University of Freiburg in Germany, but nonetheless much of the particle physics community has warmed to the idea of global searches since Knuteson first proposed it early in this decade.

No, I didn't really delve into all the books like I had earlier in the decade, but I certainly became much more interested in Bats himself and I picked up quite a few comic anthologies to get me back into the swing of things.

This new set from Image packages together three films previously released on DVD by Home Vision early in the decade, including two such early, unambitious vehicles that offer the girlish sex symbol in her prime.

The 20 + seconds of silence had been intentional, in order to investigate an alien spacecraft that had crashed there earlier in the decade.

In his output from early in that decade, with its elements of fatalism and compositional sophistication, one can see the seeds of the poetic realist tendency in French cinema, a style whose popularization Duvivier would have a fundamental hand in a few years later (along with the likes of Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Jean Renoir, all of whose work has come to overshadow Duvivier's).

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

I realized that early in my decade on the Strip, when at a stoplight I looked over into the next lane and saw — No way!

The fervor behind hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles earlier in the decade sputtered.

The shift from sedans and hatchbacks («cars» in industry parlance) to SUVs, crossovers, and pickups («trucks») appears to be a long - term trend, helped along by gasoline prices much lower than earlier in the decade, and making fuel seem comparably cheap.

This represents a remarkable turnaround for the company, which consistently found itself toward the middle or back of the pack earlier in the decade.

Scaglione's drew his inspiration for this gorgeous design from within his own portfolio, as the Sprint Speciale was inspired by the radical and outrageous B.A.T. concept cars that traveled the show circuit earlier in the decade.

Early in the decade, Honda was one of many automakers seduced by touch - only, button - free smartphones.

Earlier in this decade, Amgen committed itself to leveraging its extensive biotechnology experience and core capabilities to create high quality biosimilars.

In a Peabody Award winning program, NPR correspondents argued that a «Giant Pool of Money» (represented by $ 70 trillion in worldwide fixed income investments) sought higher yields than those offered by US Treasury bonds early in the decade.

For example, both the price and the availability of credit to the high grade and high yield bond markets have assumed a very different tone from earlier in this decade.

The financial sector has been devastated in this crisis, whereas it was almost completely unaffected by the downturn in the equities market early in this decade.

Many of the big banks closed or curtailed their subprime lending operations early in the decade, but their funding of nonbanks means they still have a role, albeit an indirect one, in the sector.

The contributions to ROE in the financial sector in 2007 - 2008 more than erased the gains made earlier in the decade.

Some homeowners are especially troubled because they paid the going price for their homes earlier in the decade.

MLS, I don't have a strong idea about DEG — I know that back earlier in the decade, they had their share of execution issues.

In a cash - in refinancing, something practically unheard of during the housing boom earlier in the decade, the homeowner pays down their mortgage balance at closing.

It cited periods of such failures to receive or deliver securities, known as «fails» in the repo market, earlier in the decade when rates dropped.

The Spyro series, currently controlled by Activision, was the basis for the spinoff «Skylanders» which helped to fuel the «Toys to Life» craze earlier in the decade.

Paintings from earlier in that decade utilized compounded waveforms like those found in some Op art.

Diao has been active since the late 1960s, when he gained recognition for the kind of rigorous procedural abstraction that Robert Ryman (a hero of Bois's) had staked out earlier in the decade.

In terms of the 1980s, 1989 is a more familiar point of return, but earlier in that decade is slightly dreamlike.

By the late 1930s, O'Keeffe's work took another great shift toward a regionalist look that, although more subdued and lyrical, is also undergirded by the same structural principles from earlier in the decade.

The two indispensable American artists to emerge early in that decade were Cindy Sherman, working in New York, and Mike Kelley, working in L.A.

If this is the case then the warming throughout the 1990s is simply an artifact of volcanic activity early in the decade.

Biological fuels received a black eye earlier in the decade when the rush to embrace corn ethanol came to a crashing halt as the technology's economics and carbon footprint became clear, Doug Struck wrote in Part I («Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble»).

Rainfall in Australia overall has increased since the 1950s compared to earlier in the decade.

By comparing changes in ice thickness taken in 1999 to measurements made earlier in the decade, they concluded that the continent is giving up nearly 50 gigatons — that s 50 billion tons — of water per year, with greatest losses coming from the eastern coast.

Green roofs came into their own early in the decade, primarily due to the great work of Steven Peck and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities; They turned it into a movement, «to increase the awareness of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of green roof infrastructure.»

It says that spending has remained almost unchanged since 2006, after a major jump earlier in the decade.