Sentences with phrase «for decades of work»

At that difficult moment, we could not have been more grateful for the decades of work by Planned Parenthood fighting for and protecting a woman's right to make her own health care decisions.

About the Series Richard Zorza, one of the founders and leaders of the access to justice (ATJ) movement, recently received the American Bar Association's 2014 Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access» Lifetime Achievement Honor for decades of work on behalf of self - represented litigants.

Longtime environmental activist Carol Van Strum is now also the recipient of a prestigious environmental protection award for her decades of work.

Dr. Holdren has been widely praised by the scientific community for decades of work on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation to climate and energy policy.

Your reward for decades of work is 24/7 freedom.

In recent years, Stanton, who died on Sept. 15 at 91, became almost as well known for his charismatic offscreen personality as for his decades of work in film (usually as an arresting supporting player, occasionally as a sublime leading man).

In 2010, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, for his decades of work with foster and adopted children and their families, at the ATTACh conference in San Francisco.

PFC's clinical laboratory director, Dr. Joseph Conaghan, is internationally recognized for his decades of work in human embryology.

On July 6th 2017, Mark Reinfeld was inducted into the North American Vegetarian Society's Vegetarian Hall of Fame for his decades of work in the field of food activism.

Not exact matches

For a couple of decades, a big part of Canada's sales pitch to international investors has been that the North American Free Trade Agreement works as a backdoor to the world's most voracious consumers.

Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers — called Joy - Cons — that let you play anywhere.

The more - senior flight attendants, some of whom have worked for the world's largest carrier for decades, are best positioned — because of their seniority — to get those flights.

A lot of people work really hard for decades and decades, like Winston Churchill and Einstein,» she said.

A lot of women will have been working doggedly for at least a decade before we achieve these personal milestones.

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.

For decades — centuries — the archetype of the successful business person has been the sneering blowhard, unafraid to bark orders and excoriate the work of underlings.

The on - site master's degree program, launched a decade ago, is one of many reasons Dixon Schwabl regularly shows up on Fortune's list of 50 Best Small and Medium - Size Companies to Work For.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

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.

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.

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

Amidst allegations of abuse and decades of denials, Allen still continues to work in film, tapping big names for starring roles in his movies and still garnering support for fans and audiences.

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»).

Wayne Sim, the founder of Calgary - based 3esi Innovation Inc., had worked with clients in Russia's sprawling and inefficient oil and gas industry for almost two decades.

[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.

You may argue I'm no expert, but I've been in the news business for close to two decades, working nationally and abroad, so I've stayed in literally hundreds of hotels... from the Soviet - era «Intouristes» to the Mansion at Turtle Creek in Dallas.

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

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

I'd worked for a variety of startups over nearly a decade.

Working at the same job for decades or staying in the same line of work for your entire career can get you stuck in a rut.

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

I've worked on creating an optimal way of doing business for more than a decade.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

«She's got this mix of blue collar and white collar, can talk tough issues and simple issues — and all in this disarming way,» says John Simon, the company's general counsel, who has worked with Williams for a decade.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Instead of providing massive giveaways to the wealthy and well - connected, Trump and Congress should be taking bold steps to raise the wages of hard - working Americans whose real wages have been stagnant or in decline for decades.

«We thank the FDA and [Mitsubishi Tanabe] for working together to expedite the approval of the first new ALS - specific treatment in decades,» said Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of The ALS Association, in a press release.

Legislators from both sides of the aisle were receptive to this work, and were set to consider the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, called «the most significant anti-trafficking legislation to come before the Senate in over a decade.»

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

Because this scenario showcases a slew of problems that are endemic to our modern healthcare system — from the utter lack of bacterial control in clinical settings and the associated infections that result... to a process that shuttles vulnerable patients in and out of emergency rooms for piecemeal diagnosis and treatment... to overcrowded, overburdened hospitals that still mindlessly cling to patient - management processes that haven't worked for decades.

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.

Let's review my 401 (k) savings targets by age and see when various age groups of savers may become 401 (k) millionaires if they are able to work at a job with a 401 (k) plan for several decades.

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LIGO's first detection of a gravitational wave was a team effort involving hundreds of scientists and engineers who worked together for decades.

«Having spent the past two decades working together with our team to build DreamWorks Animation into one of the world's most beloved brands, I am proud to say that NBCUniversal is the perfect home for our company, a home that will embrace the legacy of our storytelling and grow our businesses to their fullest potential,» Katzenberg said.

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.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

Nye has been working in the construction business for more than three decades and since 2010 has been CEO of Martin Marietta (MLM).

Ayer, who worked at the airline for over 30 years and spent roughly a decade as its CEO until his retirement in 2013, has joined the board of a relatively new drone startup called AirMap.