Sentences with phrase «first year the prize»

This is the first year the prize has been awarded.

Being nominated in 1984, the first year the prize was awarded, probably had a far bigger effect than winning the prize in 1987.

Not exact matches

A recent paper on baseball stats he co-authored with Douglas Fearing, an operations researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, was presented at the Sloan Conference this year, where it won first prize.

Few executives show more public passion for March Madness than the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A) CEO, whose contest for Berkshire employees this year offers a prize of $ 1 million per year for life for correctly predicting the Sweet Sixteen, or $ 1 million for nailing the first 32 games, or $ 100,000 to the person whose bracket remains perfect the longest.

One of my favorite books of poetry from 2015 was not a new one but rather a gorgeous reissue: Ronald Johnson's The Book of the Green Man, first published by Norton in 1967 (my prized copy of that edition is upstairs) and reissued this past year by Uniformbooks with an afterword by Ross Hair.

This Raw Vegan Strawberry Cream Chocolate Truffle recipe won the prize to be my first strawberry recipe this year.

First prize is a year supply of guac (in the form of coupons) and other goodies.

I've made them countless times since I started making them in high school, and I've never been greeted by anything besides rave reviews (and a first - place prize at my office's Christmas potluck last year).

Like last year, the Idaho Potato Lover's Month Retail Display Contest will award matching prizes to category managers if their store entry wins a top prize (first through fifth - place prizes)!

Also new this year, category managers will win a matching prize if their store entry is awarded a first through fifth place prize.

One of SA's prized sheep and cattle grazing stations, Mount Schanck, has been listed for sale for the first time in its near - 200 year history.

The first two years he didn't place, but he took the first prize in 2004.

Doors open at 10:30 a.m. and the first 100 guests in line will receive a free quarter chicken meal with rice and beans and will be entered into a raffle for the grand prize of Free Chicken for a Year drawing at 11:00 a.m. * At 5:30 p.m. on opening day, guests will be eligible to win free meal giveaways, and a drawing for a $ 300 Visa gift card will take place at 6 p.m.

First seen us win the Fa Cup back in 93 as a young fan was great then 24 years on still have that feeling I just hope we can go on and win the biggest prizes now..

If Kane manages to scoop the prize, he will be the first player to collect the award in back - to - back seasons since Robin van Persie managed the feat with Arsenal in 2012, before taking the award with Manchester United the following year.

Mostly a drop in total prize money: the first decline since 1975, to $ 275 million in»09 from $ 279 million in» 08, due primarily to three fewer Fall Series events than a year ago.

Kisner finished tied sixth here last time out, and has already doubled his prize of money of 2014 in the first half of this year.

Two years later Right - fielder Reggie Jackson, the prize pick of the first re-entry draft, hit.194 in his first eight games.

More than 20 companies are making kites (compared to fewer than five in» 99), and while there was one official kiteboarding event four years ago (with beer as the first prize), there are more than 30 scheduled worldwide in 2002, with purses of up to $ 50,000.

The only striker that thrived at Arsenal in the last 10 years was Van Persie and he soon realised that in order for him to compete for the big prizes he had to move on.30 odd goals for Manure the first season he is there and he wins them the league.With the form he was in and the team that he led in his last season it needed 2 - 3 players and we could have won the title ourselves but that was Wenger and nothing has changed for the positive since.We WILL NOT win anything big all the time he remains at the club

For the last four years word has passed in prizefighting that another such figure has entered the business — an immensely wealthy woman in Houston who has adored the prize ring from the moment her parents took a glamorous three - day train ride to New York in June 1938 and she saw Joe Louis knock out Max Schmeling in the first round.

The Boston Celtics pulled off the blockbuster trade of the year Tuesday night, trading Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic, and the prized, unprotected 2018 Brooklyn Nets» first - round pick to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Kyrie Irving.

He held the lead at The Players last year on Sunday and nearly took home the first prize in that $ 10 million purse, but stumbled down the stretch and had to settle for a fourth - place finish and $ 440,000.

The first category on the ballot is for top «2 - year - old colt or gelding,» a credential highly prized by horsemen.

If the lanky Kentucky product is able to live up to the hype and take down this prize, it would be the third consecutive season that the top pick was able to win rookie of the year (although Blake Griffin was a year removed from his draft class after missing his first season with a stress fracture in his knee).

The 26 - year - old has been most impressive for Dortmund this campaign, scoring 18 goals in his first 17 Bundesliga appearances this season, making him a prized asset for the German giants.

Barely used in his first campaign in east London, the New Zealand captain nailed down his place in Sam Allardyce's team the following season as West Ham won promotion from the Championship via the play - offs and picked up the supporters» player of the year prize at the end of 2012/13 after helping the club finish 10th on their return to the top flight.

And this time their prize was not a first Copa America crown but a spot in the 2018 World Cup after 36 years.

A: From a psychological point of view, a minimum of three years between each child is first prize.

Ultra has scooped first prize in the bottle category in the Best Product of the Year Campaign awards.

Either Guy Verhofstadt's book De Verenigde Staten Van Europa which won the first Europe Book Prize four years ago (in English, The United States of Europe), or Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah which won this year's prize, because it describes from the inside the spreading of cross-border organised crime about which we are doing much too little because the shocking scale of it is kept hidden.

The bill undoing the president's prized overhaul will be the first order of business when the House reconvenes this coming week, marking a sharply partisan start on Capitol Hill to a congressional year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.

There was no grand prize winner Saturday in the first Powerball drawing of the year, meaning the jackpot will soar to at least $ 400 million on Wednesday.

For the first time in 16 years, the election for Suffolk County district attorney won't involve Thomas Spota — and in his absence, more than a dozen potential candidates are jockeying for prized major and minor party endorsements.

Reynolds is pictured above with his labradoodles Kennedy (left) and Clinton (right) after they took joint - first prize in the Westminster Dog of the Year in September.

She took first prize both years.

In a stunning and premature decision that is a first in the 113 year history of the august institution, the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm today announced the awarding of the 2013 Nobel prize for Physics to the Higgs Boson.

«Jumping genes» were first identified more than 50 years ago at CSHL by Nobel - prize winning researcher Barbara McClintock.

It was type 1a supernovae that led to the identification of the mysterious stuff in the first place, garnering three cosmologists a Nobel prize earlier this year.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first of many physics Nobel prizes awarded on the back of it.

The first publication to emerge from the project appeared in the journal Management Science last year, and earned its authors a prize for the best publication in its category.

The Leaning Tower Illusion — which won first prize in the Neural Correlate Society's Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest in 2007 — reveals the way in which the visual system uses perspective to help reconstruct 3 - D objects.

Last year, The Policy Research Initiative (an arm of the federal government) gave out their first prizes for people in the Canadian community who have made significant contributions to policy development.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

The hardware required to win the first space prize, Diamandis confided one day, had been around for at least five years.

In the years since the prize was first awarded, the nature of that pursuit has profoundly changed.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

During the first four - year cycle (2013 - 2016), the prize subject focused on the basic sciences, with the specific subject area changing each year: physics and astronomy (2013), biological sciences (2014), mathematics (2015) and chemical sciences (2016).

This was 5 years (to the month) after the precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), had first been successfully tested at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory by Binnig and the late Heinrich Rohrer, and 7 months before Binnig and Rohrer were awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the design of the STM (the prize was shared with Ernst Ruska, the inventor of the electron microscope).

The first ten years of the prize were funded by generous support from the James S. McDonnell Foundation.