Sentences with phrase «for quarter century»

He acts as the representative plaintiff in a $ 1.75 billion class action against the Government of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board and Canada's two largest railway companies CN and CP, alleging that 100,000 Western grain growers were overcharged for grain transportation for a quarter century.

«For a quarter century, economists have made (lame) assumptions on climate damages.

The head Priest has been slaughtering the first born female virgin for a quarter century, promising that this will make wheat bloom in the desert, and finally admits he can not see green shoots.

We've been crusading for a quarter century to compel GE to remove these 1.3 million pounds of toxins that made the Hudson the most PCB - polluted waterway in America.

For a quarter century Washington backed Chiang.

That was when she met the Canadian - born French artist Jean - Paul Riopelle; they remained close for a quarter century, living together from at least 1960 to 1979.

Daix knew Picasso well for a quarter century and has written extensively on the artist.

(When I change my mind I call it a Kenege — when you've been in the business for a quarter century, it happens.)

The Menil Collection presents Poems for a Quarter Century, readings about art, marking the Menil's 25th anniversary.

«People are more jaded in New York,» said Hilarie Moore of Los Angeles's Mark Moore Gallery, who's been on the fair circuit for a quarter century.

For a quarter century, the South Korean - born artist has been coaxing massive webs of line from disposable ballpoint pens....

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But the average mutual fund investor earned only 7.3 percent — a gap of 2.7 percent each and every year for a quarter century.

As the Canada Pension Plan's website states, «We invest not for the quarter but for the quarter century.»

I have been investing for a quarter century now.

The easy trade - off between growth and inflation that so flattered asset prices for a quarter century is over.

A radically reduced standard of living for a quarter century or more is hardly the stuff «golden age» dreams are made of.

Given the choice of waking into a world even more full of travail than the version they left, who could blame them for punching the snooze button and returning to their slumbers for another quarter century or so?

That vision would drive U.S. education policy for a quarter century, and it was a big part of the No Child Left Behind Act signed by George W. Bush in 2002.

I suppose I should start with the obvious: that with his passing the nation lost a pioneer in education reform, someone who, for a quarter century, fought hard for change, innovation, and improvement in America's schools.

He said that fully understanding this dynamic is essential to making sense of why education policy «has been such a disappointment for a quarter century,» because schools are organized like they are largely due to the pressures exerted by teacher unions.

The 1080p transfer includes the film with a solid 1.85:1 aspect ratio, which really does a lot of justice for this quarter century old anime.

There is likewise premium participation accessible for a quarter century for each day.

For a quarter century global - warming theorists have predicted that climate creep was going to occur and that we needed to prevent greenhouse gases from warming things up, thereby raising the sea level, destroying habitats, intensifying storms, and forcing agricultural rearrangements.

The new standard will replace the Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a mathematical recipe used for a quarter century as the government standard, and also used by businesses.

Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever - expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.

KAREN: No, there never has, and I've been covering politics here for a quarter century.

Klein says Avella, who he's known for a quarter century, is a good fit.

For a quarter century, 1970 - 1995, Dr. McNelis was synonymous with St. Thomas Aquinas College.

BY SAM SCHWARTZ Lower Manhattanites are getting «railroaded» (or should I say «trucked») and have been for a quarter century ever since an act of Congress dictated that tolls on the Verrazano Bridge should be collected only in the Staten Island - bound direction.

In Florida, Republicans have all but abandoned the race to retain the seat held by Ileana Ros - Lehtinen for a quarter century.

After the last child was born (he is now 17) we never spoke of our sexual difficulties again and the marriage has now been sexless for a quarter century.

Alas, baseball's discriminatory policy would continue for another quarter century.

Had the council been put off for a quarter century or more, there is good reason to think that it would not have borne nearly so much good fruit, but would instead have come too late.

His founding of Process Studies and editing it for a quarter century retained for a Whiteheadian form of process thinking a visibility it would otherwise have lost in an unfavorable philosophical environment.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology,» the president said.

Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has known Buffett for a quarter century and counts him as a close friend.

Simple: Many big commercial clients sign leases for a quarter century or more into the future, so the industry keeps an eye on how work, and the places where we do it, are most likely to evolve.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology.

Not exact matches

For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

Leader - Chivée further notes that it's been a quarter century since Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas - and yet inappropriate conduct in the workplace is still a real concern for many women.

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.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

There was another long boom - very different in its shape and in the division of the spoils - that also lasted for a quarter of a century, between 1982 and 2007.

Bezos will be a stark contrast to his fellow Seattle - area resident Gates, who has topped the list for much of the past quarter - century and devotes his time and money to philanthropy.

Chevron (cvx) continued on its «longest losing streak in more than a century,» surprising Wall Street with a loss of $ 1.47 billion, or 78 cents, for the quarter.

Negotiations start Wednesday for an update to the quarter - century - old North American Free Trade Agreement.

I'm proud to say that I've been married for a quarter of a century.