Sentences with phrase «earlier this decade when»

After a high point earlier this decade when the two governments agreed on a city - friendly sales tax distribution formula, relations between the two governments turned sour.

He channeled the spirit of an earlier decade when he substituted a beanbag chair and a swath of pink shag carpet for the second - and third - row seats, but it fit the bill for a two - day music festival headlined by Eminem, Muse, and the Black Keys.

In contrast to earlier decades when art students relied on their professors to connect them with the New York gallery scene, the new crop of success stories made it without the old (white) boys» network.

«We brought a truly fresh approach to the industry earlier this decade when we launched Real Living as the first - ever consumer lifestyle real estate brand, and we will continue to do so by bringing new programs, services, support, training and technology, to our brokers and sales professionals,» Rouda, Jr. said in the news release.

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The idea was first presented to Saller decades earlier, when Mary Alison was just 8 years old.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev had emigrated with his family from Dagestan, Russia, a decade earlier, when Tamerlan was about 16.

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.

When the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced earlier this week that mortgage delinquency rates had fallen to the lowest level in decades during the fourth quarter, there was a rash of stories patting Canadians on the back for their financial prudence.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Early on, when the need for that money is still a couple decades away, the fund will adopt a more growth - focused strategy.

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

Asked Shenfeld: «When it's claimed that today's median American family is worse off than one decade ago, do we really capture the benefits from the existence of the Internet, cellphones and other goods that couldn't have been in the earlier consumption basket at any price?»

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.

When gold prices hit new highs earlier this decade, gold had a positive correlation to stocks, meaning when stocks rose, so did gold priWhen gold prices hit new highs earlier this decade, gold had a positive correlation to stocks, meaning when stocks rose, so did gold priwhen stocks rose, so did gold prices.

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.

«As alluded to earlier when discussing the long - term upward drift in CAPE, another related but distinct headwind for contrarian stock market timing in the second half of our sample has been the decades - long valuation drift in post-World War II equity markets, over which the CAPE gradually doubled.

As Barry Eichengreen writes of the British economy, «Its performance compares less favorably with Europe's in the «twenties, when it persistently lagged its Continental rivals, than in the «thirties, when it closed much of the gap that had opened up in that earlier decade.»

Rubin strolled out the door of Citigroup in early 2009 $ 120 million richer than when he originally rolled his shopping cart into the well - stocked aisles of hubris at Citigroup almost a decade earlier.

The largest negative deviation was in October 1974, when the actual annual 10 - year return for the S&P 500 was about 5 % lower than the projections that our valuation methodology indicated a decade earlier.

So when we think about where we're at with financial markets here in 2017 things are strange and not like they used to be if you'd go back a decade earlier.

Explained Fake, «Over the past decade, when you looked at the social environment online and the great hegemony of Facebook and kind of owning your social existence, that was frankly very discouraging for a lot of us [who helped build early online communities].

This relationship broke down in the early part of this decade, when strong global growth coincided with an unexpected weakening in the Australian dollar, but seems to have reasserted itself lately.

As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.

The monthly payment on a $ 250,000 mortgage taken out when five - year mortgage rates were four per cent would jump from $ 1,319 to nearly $ 2,000 if rates rose to just eight per cent, where they were earlier this decade.

While Odysseus on his return to Ithaca is exactly the same as when he left two decades earlier, «what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing and the old man whose favorite son has been torn to pieces by a wild beast!»

This puzzling situation remained for many decades until the early 21st century when the recently discovered dark energy component provided new hope for a consistent cyclic cosmology.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World War.

This is what happened in the early decades of the 20th century when J. Gresham Machen and his colleagues broke away from the northern Presbyterian church.

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.

In spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.»

«Although public opinion on abortion has stayed relatively steady for four decades, support for legalizing the procedure under any circumstance spiked in the early 1990s, when today's fortysomethings were coming of age,» wrote Emma Green for The Atlantic in 2015.

When the issue about the Ten Commandments comes up in court, it usually is over a set that was installed decades earlier, usually at private expense — no taxpayer money involved.

In 2002, the controversy was renewed when declassified «Richard Nixon tapes» confirmed remarks made by Graham to President Nixon three decades earlier.

That was quite a contrast to The Rock's stance when Lane Kiffin bolted in the middle of the night for the USC job almost a decade earlier, but Kiffin understandably looks great to the Vols at this point:

Steve Spurrier and Florida changed the math as the decade went on, but when Taggart was playing at Manatee High in Bradenton in the early»90s, the Seminoles and the Hurricanes were the aspirational teams.

The Bearcats dominated early in the 1950s and moved to Division I, but when head coach Sid Gillman left to take over the Los Angeles Rams, they cranked through nearly four bowl - free decades, threatening to make noise but rarely making a ripple.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

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.

Kent Baer, the Stanford defensive coordinator, says Tuiasosopo's performance reminded him of a day nearly two decades earlier when he was coaching at Utah State and had his hands full trying to stop a particular quarterback at BYU.

Coach White had been only 23 when he had come north from Indiana University to run the Tosa swim team two decades earlier.

Without prompting, he recalled that day three decades earlier when the fans of Nebraska cheered him off the field.

2nd palace is no better than 3rd or 4th (except for cl qualifier), it is the title that I want, it has been a decade now... Actually this season I gave up the title race early on when we failed to strengthen our team in the last summer (CB+DM+ST all were must) and I'm not convinced we will add the needed quality this window (top DM + top top ST and maybe GK+CB)...

They had a spell in the early sixties where they we're dominant, and believe me, I saw them, they we're a great side but we also had a great spell in the thirties when we we're, and there's no doubt about it, the best club side in the world with a superb stadium to match it, however, when it comes down trophy's» we're far ahead» winning silverware in every decade since the those glorious thirties, what it is?

The Togolese striker has hit great heights during the early days of his career when he was at Arsenal, but he constantly fell out with every club and fans during his decade long career.

As a coach's wife for three decades and the mom of three who participated in sports from early childhood through college, she's seen it all when it comes to youth sports: the really good, the painfully bad — and everything in - between.

The last decade did see some improvements for Africa's oil producers, especially when compared to the continent's earlier boom in the 1970s and early 1980s.

When I was young, liberalism had a powerful sex appeal, but I sense that today my sons are no longer seduced by it in the same way as I was three or four decades earlier.

The mayor sought to make clear that the problems at Rikers were «decades in the making» and compared today's problem - plagued Correction Department to the New York Police Department in the early 1990s, when the murder rate reached historic highs.