Sentences with phrase «focused for decades»

Kerry Emanuel, an M.I.T. climatologist focused for decades on hurricanes (I first quoted him on global warming and hurricanes in 1988!)

Scientists have focused for decades on the role of biochemical cues in embryonic development, Campàs said, because no techniques existed to measure the mechanical cues that cells are exposed to during the formation of tissues and organs.

Though grazing has been a focus for decades, habitat may not be the critical factor currently limiting recovery of these commercially valuable species.

Fantasyland has been their focus for decades now: you only need look at their history of animated motion pictures.

Our focus for this decade will be on the development of key infrastructure and the uplifting of the 600,000 villages where 750 million people live, as vibrant engines of the economy.

Bill Gates whole focus for a decade is how can he do more measurable good in the world.

Baton Rouge, LA About Blog Vein excellence has been our focus for decades.

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She particularly focused on drug laws impacts on people of color, who have for decades been convicted under aggressive drug laws at disproportionately high rates relative to whites.

If you were thinking it's millennials, that's probably because they've dominated the media's focus for the past decade.

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

After having worked for more than a decade as an entrepreneur (and CEO), I have found the foundation of productivity is focus, and the key to focus is meditation.

Entrepreneurship has been a popular topic for a couple decades, but the focus has been almost exclusively on young white males.

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

In the 20th century companies could be leaders in a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (s).

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

For much of the last decade, startups like Sungevity have been focusing on renewable energy.

For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

The BJP has focused on building up grassroots strength in the state for decades.

While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.

Hedge funds, which have been viewed as under - regulated for the past decade, were the initial focus of FBI raids.

Over the past few decades, he has focused on philanthropy; he co-founded Birthright Israel, spearheaded Heritage Minutes and started the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine in New York.

When you learn his story, though, you see how Musk has been focused on the same vision since he was a teenager, and he's been consciously leveling up for decades.

The business has been around for over a century and, while it has changed over the decades, the brand has always focused on storytelling.

The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story debuted last week to record ratings for its network, FX, while a documentary that also focuses on the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial airs on ESPN this summer, proving that two decades is not long enough to drain the interest of American viewers in the so - called «trial of the century.»

The team has worked together for over a decade with deep knowledge across numerous sectors and a primary focus on Business Services, Industrial Services and Consumer.

China has prospered over the last few decades by focusing its economy on low - cost manufacturing for foreign markets.

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

Bernstein and her husband Richard have been in business with the president and his company for decades through The Americas Group, a consulting and marketing firm focused on construction projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

After the company's debut in 1999, he served as Group chairman and chief executive officer for more than a decade, with responsibility for overall strategy and focus.

I've been solely focused on dividend growth investing for the past decade, and devoted essentially all of my savings that way.

WCAS has made a name for itself over the decades as a leading growth - oriented investor focused on information & business services and healthcare.

After helping others achieve their own financial goals for more than a decade, I was ready to focus on helping others achieve their personal fitness and health goals.

While we have been conditioned over decades to focus on a single target buyer, or as I have written about often, a target buyer persona, we are beginning to see that this will no longer be adequate for B2B Marketers.

Estimates of prospective long - term returns for the S&P 500 reflect our standard valuation methodology, focusing on the relationship between current market prices and earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, adjusted for variability over the economic cycle (see for example Investment, Speculation, Valuation, and Tinker Bell, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade and Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings).

For more than two decades, Genworth Canada has supported the housing market by providing thought leadership and a focus on the safety and soundness of the mortgage finance system.

TerraCRG has hired Christopher Havens, a veteran leasing broker who has focused on Brooklyn's office market for two decades,

Asian indices are enjoying significant gains on Thursday, tracking the positive lead overnight from Wall Street while the focus now shifts towards the much - anticipated FOMC statement, which may or may not see US interest rates increased for the first time in nearly a decade.

FXStreet (Mumbai)-- Asian indices are enjoying significant gains on Thursday, tracking the positive lead overnight from Wall Street while the focus now shifts towards the much - anticipated FOMC statement, which may or may not see US interest rates increased for the first time in nearly a decade.

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This has been the central focus of my work for decades.

Here's the good news: Micro Focus consistently engineers the most robust and reliable travel - specific software available — and has for more than 3 decades.

Later working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and asset management at Deutsche Bank, Barbara Ann acquired a robust grasp of private market valuation that she went on to leverage at Holowesko Partners for nearly a decade, helping the hedge fund grow to several billion in AUM with her focus on special situations and takeout candidates.

The report focuses on the reality of online and connective technologies catching up to the hype that has surrounded this sector for the last decade.

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

For the past two decades or so, the majority of those working in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have witnessed the value of focused and sustained learning and the integrity of fields be progressively diluted and frittered away by an increasingly separate class of professional administrators.

The neocon position has for over a decade focused on advancing American strategic interests in the oil - rich Middle East and finding ways to establish bases for military operations to protect those interests.

Over the last decade, Davidson and his colleagues have produced scientific evidence for the theory that meditation - the ancient eastern practice of sitting, usually accompanied by focusing on certain objects - permanently changes the brain for the better.

For decades, the «religious right» has focused its energies on winning the day through political means.