Sentences with phrase «from decades of working»

A master's degree in educational administration from McGill University gives her a firm theoretical foundation, but above all her perspective is practical, realistic, and compassionate, stemming from decades of working with actual children, families, and teachers in real situations.

A veteran of many such encounters from his decades of work in Africa, Fay stood his ground, the recommended response.

Treat yourself to daily moments of reflection with inspirational quotes collected from a decade of work by renowned PLC experts.

The exhibition presents 28 of Newell's abstract oil paintings culled from decades of work.

According to its website, Kymeta is the first commercial offspring from a decade of work in the field of metamaterials:

Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom is drawn from his decades of work as a psychanalyst.

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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.

In the past two decades, Johnson has gone from broke and unable to land an interview to working in the same space as Elon Musk, arguably one of the world's most influential inventors.

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).

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.»

Culling from over a decade of research, Dr. Brown's work shows that vulnerability may be the missing element that not only brings teams together, but strengthens the bond.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

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.

Not only that, the arrival of the baby - boom generation at retirement age over the next two decades will see the ratio of seniors to working - age people (aged 20 to 64) go from just over 1:5 in 2006 to 1:2 by 2056.

With your decades of experience working in Hollywood, what have you learned from working with different types of people such as, you know, from talent and crew to executives?

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

Neil Armstong and Buzz Aldrin stepping down onto the moon's surface in 1969 was a single moment that stemmed from a decade's worth of work — and a challenge from President Kennedy.

One executive from Diageo told Betsy that his wife wouldn't stand for Tom's torrid pace of work for three minutes, let alone three decades.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

Mariano notes that roughly 75 percent of sellers within the industry are women, down from about 90 percent a few decades ago, but more men and married couples are joining the ranks and finding a better work / life balance than the corporate world provided.

Mr. Bannon worked as a media banker for Goldman Sachs several decades ago and built up some of his fortune from royalties on reruns of the «Seinfeld» television show.

While I generally consider this advice to be wise, especially for inexperienced investors who should probably opt for something like an index fund, working with a qualified advisor or, if they are wealthy enough, an asset management group, the problem comes from the fact that if you find a truly outstanding business — one that you have conviction will continue to compound for decades at rates many times that of the general market, even a high price can be a bargain.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

In the decade since their blockbuster international bestseller Winning was published, Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into business, traveling the world consulting to organizations of every size and in every industry, speaking before hundreds of audiences, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, and, in 2010, starting their own fully accredited online MBA program, 30

«We want to work on those steps in terms of strategy to go from where we are today to where we want to be in the future,» he said, and build for next decade.

Diversification strategies appeared to have «worked» during the golden years of the 1980s and 1990s, simply because US stock markets were returning 17 % to 18 % every year on average during those two decades and Stevie Wonder could have pointed to a bunch of stocks from a newspaper listing the components of the US S&P 500 during that period and likely would have fared very well.

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

According to a recent NBER Working Paper, Berkshire has the highest Sharpe ratio of all US stocks from 1926 to 2011 and a higher Sharpe ratio than all US mutual funds around for more than three decades.

Though lacking the grave specter that shadowed much of the work from the last decade of his life, these songs carry a gravitas that proves that this period was far from creatively fallow for the Man In Black.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, most Protestant churches worked together to enact legislation that would protect women and children from the factory system, limit the hours worked by all, and improve wages.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

Although many philosophers in history have written from a process perspective, the term today is reserved for a particular school of thought centered around the works of Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophical writings spanned the two decades of the 1920's and 1930's and the two countries of England and the United States.

I suspect that its usage stems for the most part from the work of Gabriel Fackre, whose books on evangelism have circulated far and wide in this decade.

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

The other avenue of thinking comes from Philip Lieberman, who has been working on this research for decades.

In the past two decades of biblical studies, whether in the work of Samuel Sandmel, Brevard Childs, Robert Alter, Rolf Rendtorff, Earhard Blum or even John Van Seters — and these are only a handful among many others — the interest has shifted away from discrete, historically unfolding «sources» toward an appreciation of the internal relationships of diverse traditions in their final canonical (received) form.

It requires, in the end, a grand work of the Holy Spirit to dredge from the dogged channels of our minds the waste quietly expelled for decades into the flowing stream by those very shore establishments whose useful products have made us what we are.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

The men and women in white coats tracked the eating habits of 16,000 university graduates for a decade from the moment they threw their mortar boards in the air and set off into the world of work.

Whatever level you wish to compete at in snack food packaging, Ishida Europe offers you advanced equipment and expertise, in adition to the support you would expect from a true partner with decades of highly successful experience working with the top names in the sector.

A trained winemaker with a diploma in Wine Technology and Viticulture from the University of Melbourne, McDougall has more than a decade of winemaking experiences working with wineries such as Vietti and Innocent Bystander.

The Mid-Atlantic, Healthcare Division will benefit from Larry's decades of leadership experience working in every division of Towne Park.

Sadly, this book appears to have been out of print for decades, but it works off accounts given by players from both teams, and proved to be an invaluable source of reference.

At age 88 of complications from pneumonia, New York Daily News cartoonist Bill Gallo (below), whose work over seven decades captured the thrills and absurdities of the sports world.

Men's reported level of work - life conflict has risen significantly over the past three decades, (from 34 % in 1977 to 45 % in 2008) while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed significantly (Galinsky et al, 2009)

After that, throughout the next decade, I suffered sexual and physical abuse at the hands of fellow children and teachers, verbally abuse by my father and physical abuse from my mother, who could barely cope with her own divorce demons, working full time and having to raise a traumatized children (a son and a daughter) on her own.

Now, after a decade of NHS care, she is able to use a needle and thread again and has developed a way of working and a design that doesn't cause too much of a strain on her hands — although she admits that the level of detail in each doll and outfit probably comes from wanting to ensure enough care and attention has gone into it, in case her hands fail her and this is the last one she ever makes.

The biggest challenge over the decades has been for working dads to maintain their commitment at home in the face of resentment from your partner who is picking up the slack.

She has had the opportunity to learn the art of midwifery from several midwives, midwifery study groups, workshops and through self - study for more than a decade and has been immersed in birth work since 1997.