Sentences with phrase «for decade by decade»

«We are learning the hard way that social progress has to be fought for decade by decade,» Brown said.

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It is also striking news for those who remember that Microsoft paid $ 97 million more than a decade ago to settle a case brought by re-classified independent contractors who sued for employee benefits.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

According to town officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and documents obtained by Business Insider, AMC has kept the Celebration theater empty for close to a decade because it's cheaper to take the loss on the theater than to pay staff and operate it.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Another report, published by progressive advocacy group Center for American Progress and FWD.us, found that repealing the program could cost the U.S. $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, and that contributions to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could drop by $ 24.6 billion.

The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

Developed through the knowledge gained by operating thousands of salons for decades, the Supercuts Franchise Platform has developed the optimal model in how to setup and manage salons down to the last detail.

For almost two decades he'd worked in the lawn - care industry, first for a company bought out by TruGreen, and later with his own business, Lawn Dawg, which grew to seven branches that maintained 25,000 lawns throughout his home base of New HampshiFor almost two decades he'd worked in the lawn - care industry, first for a company bought out by TruGreen, and later with his own business, Lawn Dawg, which grew to seven branches that maintained 25,000 lawns throughout his home base of New Hampshifor a company bought out by TruGreen, and later with his own business, Lawn Dawg, which grew to seven branches that maintained 25,000 lawns throughout his home base of New Hampshire.

When adjusted for swings in inflation over the last two decades, the Nasdaq composite is just now touching its 2000 peak, according to an analysis by LPL Research.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

To her teammates, some of whom she has known for over a decade, she is merely «Sincy,» a nickname affectionately spoken by players and managers alike.

Drugs can be rescheduled by petitioning the DEA but the agency has ignored repeated petitions to remove marijuana from Schedule I for decades.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

Yet that is exactly what has taken place in the B.C. Interior this decade, driven by Chief Louie, the vanguard of a new generation of aboriginal leaders far more interested in creating jobs for their members than in endless litigation or lobbying.

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Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

Among my favorite closed headphones is this pair by Sony that has been in production for decades.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

The predominant concept known as «interval training» used by top athletes and Olympic medalists for decades can now help busy entrepreneurs and ordinary folk do a lot more in less time.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Xerox has been targeted by activist investor Carl Icahn and shareholder Darwin Deason, who joined forces last week to push Xerox to explore strategic options, oust its «old guard», including its CEO, and negotiate better terms for its decades - long deal with Fujifilm.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

Indeed, the U.S stock market has been over-valued for more than a decade going by several yardsticks — yet it's still holding up.

For example, in Ontario between 1996 and 2006, and especially in the last decade, tenant households dropped by 84,000.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

Decades ago, this neighbourhood was known for its saw and grist mills, but that working - class vibe has since been replaced by swanky homes and three - car garages.

The September decision by the Obama administration to delay final approval for the Dakota Access Pipeline was intended to give federal officials more time to consult with Native American tribes that have faced dispossession from lands for decades.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

«If I harvest $ 10,000 in losses every year and I do that for a decade, I created another $ 100,000 in capital gains that will be subject to tax because I've systematically lowered my cost basis by the same amount,» Kitces said.

The great success of the Ford class will not be defined by any one innovation on board, but by the foresight displayed by the designers who are boldly creating a carrier to launch planes that haven't even been designed yet, to fire weapons not yet built, and to secure the US's interests at sea for decades to come.

Here's a look at forecasts by the EIA for annual energy production from solar in the U.S. over many decades, courtesy of Steffen Christensen:

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

Geek Squad computer repairmen have reportedly been working with the FBI for at least a decade, according to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

I've worked in business journalism for a couple of decades, but Inc. has been by far the job I've loved most.

His corporate maneuvering over the past decade has been guided by his belief that Dell can dominate as a one - stop tech shop for corporations facing profound technological change.

We demand investigations into R. Kelly's abuse allegations made by women of color + their families for two decades.

Nearly two decades ago, PayPal transformed the world of e-commerce by offering to mask a user's credit card information for online transactions.

Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

For decades airlines were trapped in a state of financial turbulence, exacerbated by their vulnerability to oil prices.

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The trend to drop landlines has been growing over the last decade alongside the growth in mobile phone use, according to semi-annual surveys performed by the Centers for Disease Control, which wants to monitor how to contact people for future surveys.