Sentences with phrase «from years and decades»

about defendants from years and decades past who handled their cases in beneficial ways; and foster security - conscious conversations about being in solidarity with targets of state repression locally and nationally.

What educators need to emphasize is not that the colon stores junk from years and decades ago (i.e. a scare tactic) but that a vital component of a successful detox — and life!

His recollection of details from years and decades ago: nearly perfect.

Not exact matches

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

This year's Tony hosting slot finally went to Kevin Spacey, the decorated actor who has since been disgraced by allegations of sexual harassment and assault from men dating back decades.

It would take at least two years to negotiate the breakup and then as long as a decade to extricate the UK from Europe.

Collins said coverage issues must also be dealt with, citing a report from the Congressional Budget Office that said 14 million people would lose health coverage under the House bill over the next year and 24 million over the next decade.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

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 value of Canadian gas exports last year fell to $ 13.1 billion, from a peak of $ 35.6 billion in 2005, and analysts project the U.S. will become a net gas exporter within a decade.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

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.

Dropping «Donuts» from the brand name has been a strategic no - brainer for over a decade, and ideally should have been fully completed at least five years ago.

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.

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).

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

«Last year, we successfully completed the transformation of our extensive Spraberry / Wolfcamp acreage position in the Permian Basin of West Texas from a vertical oil play into a horizontal oil play with a drilling inventory that will last decades,» chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield said in the company's 2014 annual report.

It's unlikely, for instance, to encourage tardy claims from «people who know all relevant facts and fail to exercise their rights for years or even decades,» as the Chamber put it (pdf) in a letter to the Senate.

The event — which has been happening for over a decade — will run for most of April this year and gives attendees the chance to sample gourmet offerings prepared by Michelin - starred chefs from around the world.

For almost two decades, it has been successfully fending off incursions from dollar stores and specialty retailers, chalking up steady growth and market - share gains each year.

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

The Fed raised its key overnight lending rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but it has backed away from further monetary policy tightening this year largely due to a global economic slowdown and financial market volatility.

While a superstar like LeBron James will play in the league for over a decade and earn a great deal of money from personal appearances and endorsement deals, the median NBA player has a career of only three to four years, and generates a relatively modest amount of outside income.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

Qualtrics has raised $ 220 million from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners over two rounds of funding, but the 13 - year - old company was bootstrapped for its first decade, taking institutional money for the first time in 2012.

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

Toronto - Dominion Bank sees as many as 90,000 jobs lost by the end of the decade from the move and Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management, says higher minimum wages across Canada could boost consumer prices by 0.5 percent over two years.

But with provincial deficits swelling from coast to coast this year, and rising health care costs expected to ravage provincial coffers in the coming decades, federal figures are starting to paint an increasingly misleading portrait of Canada's government debt situation.

LeEco stretched from video streaming to TV sets, smartphones, sports and even electric vehicles in a little over a decade, although this rapid expansion spurred a cash shortfall last year that left the company scrambling for new funds.

These things don't change a ton from year to year — there's a shortfall out there in a few decades and the fixes for it are known — which is not to say they're easy.

Those controls reduced the scale of projects from gigawatts to megawatts and development times from decades to years.

David served on Peter Drucker's Foundation Board in the United States for over a decade, the last few years as Vice Chairman and was Chair of Upper Canada College from 1992 - 97.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

But our year - to - date returns might now be into a second digit had I recognized that investors have learned utterly nothing from the bubbles and collapses of the past decade.

Once the company stopped hiding its eco-story and started marketing its six - decade leadership in green materials sourcing, it became Number One in its category (a dramatic turnaround from its bankruptcy a few years earlier).

After a decade in the trenches (plus 4 years prior to that dabbling at various other entrepreneurial ventures) I think there's little I can't take on the chin and plough through; apart from maybe corporate bureaucracy.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

With funding to the tune of $ 500,000 from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch's foundations from 2005 — 2011, and $ 1.4 million from Exxon Mobil this past decade, it shouldn't be a surprise that ALEC has had many successes in its 40 years of existence.

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Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

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.

Years or decades from now I will look back and thank my younger self for picking up quality companies on the cheap.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

But while Buffett missed out on huge returns from Amazon, Google, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and others during the past decade, he also avoided huge losses from the countless other flavor - of - the - month tech stocks that fell by the wayside throughout the years.

European private equity and venture capital fundraising soared to its highest level in more than a decade last year, new data from industry group...

As Friedman and Schwartz admit, the decade from 1869 to 1879 saw a 3 - percent - perannum increase in money national product, an outstanding real national product growth of 6.8 percent per year in this period, and a phenomenal rise of 4.5 percent per year in real product per capita.

The «loss» of tax revenue from non-taxable capital gains won't show up for years and decades in any substantial way.

For the three months ended September, 2012, 35 per cent of new housing construction in Australia was in multiple units, up from 29 per cent five years early and 21 per cent two decades ago.

Meanwhile, spending on research and development in the private sector has been increasing at a clip of 4.9 % a year since 2007, up from 4.1 % the decade prior, while public and private R&D as a share of GDP recently hit an all - time high.