Sentences with phrase «for decades of time»

However, this debate has gone on for decades of time.

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After the Times wrote a story suggesting that Trump may have avoided paying taxes for close to two decades as a result of a large tax loss on his real estate investments, the candidate threatened to sue the newspaper.

The company also has a decades - long tradition of hosting competitions among grocers for prizes to create the most compelling displays of Jolly Time Pop Corn.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

And herein lies the secret of turning ephemeral dreams into tangible outcomes, of launching that company that's been on the bucket list for decades, or publishing that novel that's been languishing in the bottom drawer since the dawn of time — it's being able to structure the dream into something that inspires action and momentum.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

Amid a hail of gunfire the helicopter was able to take off from the prison after picking up three prisoners serving decades - long sentences for various violent crimes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

NASA has wanted to study this region of space for decades, but each time it had the chance it opted out.

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.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

Decades of research show that working more than 40 hours a week is unsustainable and severely dents productivity per hour, and neuroscientists and others warn that failing to give your brain adequate time to rest and recuperate is a recipe for disaster (which you might guess that many people have grasped for themselves, given the current mania for «mindfulness»).

«At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing,» GE CEO John Flannery said in a release Tuesday.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

[Hofstadter] might know what needs to be done for things to be intelligent, but it has taken someone, unfortunately me, the decades of time to drag that mattress out of the road so we can do the work.

Yellen is expected to chair the committee's next meeting on Jan. 30 - 31 for what will be her last FOMC gathering of her time on the committee spanning three decades as chair, vice chair, San Francisco Fed president and governor.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

As Fortune reports here for the first time, Dell's deals reflect a decade or more of meticulous planning, as well as some vital, long - lasting relationships — formed with a serendipitous boost from a Hawaiian vacation community.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

For the summer as a whole, on - time rates have improved from 75 % to 77 %, with only 10 out of the top 50 airports seeing a deterioration since the beginning of the decade.

When the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in December 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade, Wall Street expected it to be the beginning of a trend.

Almost all of DiCostanzo's customers were Boomers or older, many returning to two wheels for the first time in decades.

Between 1976 and 2000, Canada's average retirement age fell from 65 to an all - time low of 61.5, where it hovered for a decade.

He demanded not just the repeal of the sodomy law, but the opening of government jobs to known homosexuals - a radical idea at the time, and one that would remain far out of reach for many decades.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

Recording Industry Association of America's CEO Cary Sherman admits the U.S. music market grew at a healthy rate «for the first time in over a decade.»

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the final version of a GOP - backed tax plan Tuesday that would overhaul the nation's tax laws for the first time in decades.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Tracking time and attendance: «Buddy - punching» — when employees manually punch each other's time cards to falsify their work hours — has been the bane of small businesses for decades.

Instead of sticking with one company for a decades - long, full - time career, we continue to see people across the workforce turn to online freelance platforms to find contract - based «gigs.»

Clinton goes on to lament the plight of a woman standing nearby: «She has to take a brand - name drug, been taking it since the early 1980s,» the candidate says, explaining that the price of the drug has multiplied nearly 82 times in the decades since to $ 14,700 for a refill today.

After a decade of «coddling» the super-rich and people who «make money with money,» Buffett wrote, «it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.»

However, in my three decades of experience coupled with reading about markets before my time, the only strategy that I see standing the test of time is to buy solid blue chip dividend - paying stocks from diverse industries, hold them for the long term, and diversify them properly with a judicious allocation to bonds and cash.

For more than a decade, David has been front and center reporting on the biggest stories of our time, helping drive us forward with tireless dedication, hard work and good humor.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

Evelyn has been a vital member of the Time Inc. team for more than two decades.

The collapse of two high - profile deals in such a short time frame is a rarity for Buffett, who has spent decades building Berkshire into a sprawling conglomerate through shrewd takeovers.

These cultural shifts have been evolving for decades — it is high time tech companies figured out how to accommodate reality instead of pretending it's still 1955.

And for the first time in decades, business owners can advertise that they are raising capital (thanks to Title II of the JOBS Act).

Sales of full - fat dairy products, including whole milk, rose significantly in 2015 for the first time in decades.

Tom has been in the business of job applications for a decade, and she's seen things change significantly in that time.

The «Bones» have been supporting the CBP mission since Aug. 6, 2016, when the first B - 1s, belonging to the 28th Bomb Wing from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, deployed to Guam, for the first time in a decade, to replace the B - 52s and deter North Korea taking part in a significant number of «shows of force» over the Korean Peninsula.

«For decades, the tobacco industry denied claims and science that it harmed the health of its customers; downplaying criticisms by citing the consumers» freedom to chose their lifestyle and how responsible usage was perfectly fine — while at the same time scientifically engineering the product and promotions to drive ever - higher consumption.

One of the leading scientists of our time, J. Craig Venter has been on the cutting edge of science for more than two decades.

His steady leadership during the challenging times of the civil rights era was transformational for the people he served, in addition to countless others across nations decades later.