Sentences with phrase «first time in more than a century»

In recent years, established corporations such as Siemens, Hershey, 3M and Wrigley recruited new CEOs from outside the company for the first time in more than a century.

It was the first time in more than a century that a sitting Canadian prime minister testified before a public inquiry.

Shi, president of Furman University, points out that during the»90s the work week actually increased for the first time in more than a century.

• With golf returning to the Olympics for the first time in more than a century, Golf Channel will carry 115 hours, including the men's tournament (Aug. 11 - 14) and the women's tournament (Aug. 17).

In addition, the conservative Club for Growth, which spent more than $ 1 million to help Hoffman in last year's special election, has so far declined to take sides in the upcoming race in which Democratic Rep. Bill Owens is seeking to defend the seat his party wrested from GOP hands for the first time in more than a century.

As a result of the divided vote, the Democrat in the race won the conservative district for the first time in more than a century.

«George Freeman MP: George Osborne is becoming the entrepreneur's friend Main Greg Clark MP: This government is decentralising the public sector for the first time in more than a century»

Cooper Union has come under fire for its decision to charge undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century, starting last fall.

Greg Clark MP: This government is decentralising the public sector for the first time in more than a century

Darr was among dozens of Republicans swept into office in 2010 in Arkansas, when his party won control of both chambers of the state General Assembly for the first time in more than a century.

An international research team has observed cell fusion in flowering plants for the first time in more than a century.

In Virginia, the Republicans took control of the legislature for the first time in more than a century, after a campaign in which GOP candidates talked a...

At the same time, the electorate elevated a Republican to the state education commissioner's job for the first time and handed control of the Senate to Republicans for the first time in more than a century.

The Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced in April that the school would begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century.

Cooper Union has offered not to renew its president's contract to try to address an inquiry into the college's finances and a lawsuit over its decision to charge undergraduates tuition for the first time in more than a century.

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which is one of the last tuition - free colleges in the country but has been under severe financial strain, announced on Tuesday that for the first time in more than a century it will charge undergraduates to attend.

It is a tense time for the college, which provoked a firestorm and a lawsuit when it started charging tuition last year for the first time in more than a century.

The Manhattan college began charging tuition in 2014 for the first time in more than a century to avoid financial insolvency.

, where you can admire Monet's Water Lilies, Renoir's The Seine at Chatou and a variety of other masterpieces, including the seven murals which make up Edward Steichen's In Exaltation of Flowers, on view together for the first time in more than a century.

Facing serious financial trouble in a weak economy, Cooper Union, the New York City college founded in 1859 to provide free education for the working class, may begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century, its president said Monday.

For the first time in more than a century, the Cooper Union will begin charging all its students tuition.

Eleven Cooper Union students and one journalist have barricaded themselves inside of the school's Foundation Building to protest a plan that could charge students tuition for the first time in more than a century.

An article on Tuesday about the possibility that Cooper Union, the New York City college, might begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century, misidentified, in some editions, the location for a campus meeting that its president, Jamshed Bharucha, held with students on Monday.

And for the first time in more than a century, Boreas Ponds will soon open to the public for outdoor recreation.