Sentences with phrase «earlier this decade began»

LIPA earlier this decade began filing tax challenges to lower the payments, but the cases have been slow to move through the courts.

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But sh e said that she was interested in getting back to the kind of early - stage company that eBay was when she began a decade - long stint as its CEO in 1998.

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 «decade» of Steve actually began in 1997, when he returned to Apple after having been ousted a dozen years earlier.

Federal Reserve Chairmen Arthur F. Burns and G. William Miller tightened interest rates repeatedly over the decade's course, so that the prime rate, the interest rate charged by banks to creditworthy customers, climbed from 8.5 percent in February 1970, when Burns began in the job, to an astounding 11.75 percent in early August 1979, when Miller left office.

Still, the weak showing left G.M. with a lower market share for the year than it had a year earlier despite executives» promises that G.M. would begin to grow again after decades of shrinking market share.

Bultmann began writing in the early decades of twentieth century, that is the time between the first two world wars.

When we remember that Jefferson's three intellectual heroes were Bacon and Newton and Locke, and that Jefferson was, like most of the founding Fathers, a once - born man, we will begin to understand the growing prevalence of single vision in the early decades of the republic.

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....

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).

Let me begin with the Christological metaphors that emerged within the early Christian movement in the decades after Easter.

The earlier disillusionment gathered weight as it stretched over several decades, beginning with the purges of the 1930s and extending, at different rates among different individuals, all the way up to the crushing of the Hungarian uprising and to Khruschev's «secret speech» in the 1950s.

Although SI's swimsuit issue didn't officially begin until 1964, the first swimsuit - clad woman to grace your cover was 20 - year - old Pamela Nelson, who appeared a decade earlier, in only your third issue (Aug. 30, 1954).

Peter Poutiatine began teaching 25 years ago in the backcountry of Washington State, and the early lessons he learned about experiential education, the expeditionary model, and real - world connectedness have guided his classroom pedagogy for nearly two decades.

Founded in 1996, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center is rooted in and builds upon the work of T. Berry Brazelton, MD, internationally renowned pediatrician, whose scientific research and clinical observations of babies and young children, beginning in the 1950s and spanning six decades, radically reshaped the field of early child development and the practice of pediatrics.

After a decade as a newspaper reporter and editor in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, Pat began working as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in 1998, charged with supporting a group of businesses that were early proponents of solar, wind and energy efficiency in K - 12 schools and universities.

«Legislators from both parties have acknowledged the importance of beginning the process of redistricting early on by their regular votes in support of giving LATFOR hundreds of thousands of dollars annually over the past decade.

In 1980 he began studying one called verbenone that other researchers had isolated from beetle guts more than a decade earlier.

Reinhard Böhm, a climatologist at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna, spent much of the past two decades reconstructing early temperatures from this region, based on several thermometer series that began between 1760 and 1780.

In the early decades of the 20th century, some trade unions began providing their members group health coverage.

Even if the instrument were ready sooner, its telescope might not be: The E — ELT is set to begin operations no earlier than 2025, placing an image of Proxima b at least a decade if not 20 years into the future.

Pearse was uniquely qualified: Decades earlier, she began her scientific career studying the genetic makeup of a species of flea that had a special taste for the Tasmanian devil.

In Advanced LIGO, which will begin its searches early in the coming decade, we expect to see a rich plethora of different types of waves, with signals coming in every day or week.

Further research involves ways to produce food crops enriched with omega - 3 fatty acids beginning early next decade.

A decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine - tuning a U.S. West Coast prototype that could be in limited public use in 2018.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

In work that he began in the late 1920s, abandoned for several decades and returned to the in early 1970s, Dr. Huggins helped discover a family of substances that induce bone formation.

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).

Your body has been prepared for the menopausal cliff for decades before, and it will pay future dividends for you to understand the more subtle hormone imbalances that begin as early as your late 20s.

And, she added that, «because research indicates that Alzheimer's and other dementias develop over several decades, increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior beginning in early adulthood may have a significant public health impact.»

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.

It all started with my love for fashion which I have carried on for over three decades in that industry, really beginning in my earliest childhood years when hamming up and modeling my birthday - gifted outfits for my Dad's movie camera were my greatest pleasure!

Early views of Hawaii, dating from the last decades of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th,.

[4] Speed networking was first utilized during the early 2000s and began rising in popularity by the end of the decade.

Serving the latter is Driving Lessons, the most significant film project to come from any of the three leading Potter kids since they began their Hogwarts run early this decade.

The year is 1933, months after the radio series began its popular run (Tonto did not appear until the 11th episode), and the «noble savage» (Depp, virtually unrecognizable beneath heavy «Little Big Man» - style makeup) offers to set the record straight about John Reid's legendary exploits some six decades earlier.

Coverage will begin just ahead of the 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival and in earnest from the San Juans over Labor Day weekend, a little over a decade removed from In Contention's earliest cry into cyberspace.

I often say that STEAM education happens the most in early childhood, and has been for decades: Young students often gather for circle time and begin their day with songs that focus on academic content.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

The Supreme Court began its long withdrawal from the civil rights fray in the early 1970s, after two decades of activism on racial integration.

The car is part of General Motors» $ 12 - billion product investment for the second half of the decade, and will be built in Detroit - Hamtramck for North America, Europe, South Korea, Japan, Israel and the Middle East, and in China beginning early next year for that market.

Although the CVT option has been used in commercial trucks for decades, passenger vehicle manufacturers did n`t begin to use it en masse until the early 2000s.

Sandra Brown's bestselling romantic thrillers have been topping fiction lists for more than three decades, with a list of 65 titles beginning in the early 1980s.

Your young one might be years, or even decades, away from tapping into a 401k of their own, but it's not too early to start them on the concept of contributions and matching dollars when they begin saving money.

Making the decision to retire early was the greatest thing we've done but we began the preparations decades before.

It has been celebrated on Ambergris Caye beginning during the early years and the decades when fishing was the primary industry and San Pedro was still a tiny village.

Her love for video games, sound and technology began at a very early age and grew into a decade long career in the games industry.

Marian Goodman began her professional relationship with Richter close to three decades earlier and recently opened her latest exhibition of Richter's «Strip Paintings» in the gallery's Manhattan location.

In his recent acrylic and oil works on canvas, Il Lee offers a counterpoint to his well - known ballpoint pen work and continues his early investigations of materials and process that began decades ago.

Untitled 82 - D, a stunning and rare example of an early «nail» painting, brings the viewer back to Lee's early investigation of materials and process that began decades ago.