Sentences with phrase «great decades past»

I not mean its nostalgia for great decades past, although that helps.

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This drawing contains 30 hidden clues that represent the names of some of the greatest entrepreneurial ventures of the past three decades.

China has been through four rounds of major property market corrections in the past decade, said Julia Wang, Greater China economist at HSBC global research in Hong Kong.

Over the past few decades, the Internet has been touted as «the great equalizer,» and small businesses have found some great successes in virtual spaces.

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.

Financially speaking, at least, the past decade has been a great one for owning a home.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Over the past two decades, this has amounted to a trove of data on what employees experience when their company is a Great Place to Work for All — and how leaders can build one.

McFarland points out that many of the great fast - growing companies of the past few decades relied on Market Development as their main growth strategy.

The great wealth boom of the past few decades is now fueling a super-charged era of big philanthropy, with many new, deep - pocketed donors emerging with ambitious plans.

Global economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply chains.

Fund - raising by Greater China — focused funds rose to record levels over the past decade but dropped 64 % last year, as LPs became concerned that capital was piling up, leaving them overallocated in the market.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

In addition to reinventing himself multiple times, from the long - forgotten battles with the FCC in the 90s to giving Charlie Rose a run for his money over the past decade as «greatest interviewer alive,» Howard's savviest role is behind the scenes as a platform rainmaker.

Michael Batnick had a great post this past week about the «lost decade» for the S&P 500 in the 2000s (see What Lost Decdecade» for the S&P 500 in the 2000s (see What Lost DecadeDecade?).

In any case, one of the great catastrophes of the past decade, and in particular of this recession, is the slippage of today's inner cities back toward the depths of those brutal years.

Explained Fake, «Over the past decade, when you looked at the social environment online and the great hegemony of Facebook and kind of owning your social existence, that was frankly very discouraging for a lot of us [who helped build early online communities].

Over the past decade I've enjoyed the resurgence in superhero flicks as many big - name franchises have received the reboot to great effect.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

We've seen booms and busts in new housing starts over the past several decades, but homeownership rates in the U.S. took a huge blow as a result of the Great Recession.

Then, there is the development of 3D printing technology, which has made great strides in the past half - decade.

In other words, in recent decades a greater percentage of all kinds of households have been buying houses than comparable households did in the past.

The cultic - institutional interpretation of the great prophets has been greatly in vogue in the past few decades.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

Q.: One final question: coincident with the expanding frontiers in science, medicine and technology in the past decade, there also has been a great deal of discussion about a theology of hope.

Brazil and South Korea, for instance, have both experienced high GNP growth in the past four decades, but South Korea has had a much greater improvement in life expectancy than Brazil.

The nation over the past two decades has lived through a period of its greatest partisan fluctuation, with the presidential majority having changed party hands four times, the House three times, and the senate twice.

The social and political events that are affecting my thinking are epic movements of despairing modernity, not discrete day - by - day scandal - sheet items like most of the supposed great media events of the past decade.

While it is true that great strides have been taken in furthering the equality of men and women over the past decade, feminists believe there is much work yet to be done.

It creates more economical means for our industry to self - regulate, focus on testing, spot audits and compliance checks, and to build on TOP members» great work (much of it voluntary) over the past decades promoting Tasmanian organic products.

Those numbers reflect an even greater overall decline in dairy consumption over the past four decades.

«During the past four decades, significant progress in rice research has taken place, where IRRI played a great role not only in supporting the development of new varieties but also by advancing knowledge.»

The Capitals» tortured playoff past — no Stanley Cups ever, no appearances beyond the second round in more than a decade with Alex Ovechkin despite great regular - season success — is not the story now.

Sirs: In my opinion Tom O'Hara stands with the greatest milers of the past decade.

Obviously, Tom Brady and the Pats have had great success, but he hasn't lived up to bookmakers» expectations in this particular game in the past decade.

One of the great, depressing bar debates in Sacramento right now is determining which of the Kings» three GMs of the past decade is the worst.

It's also surprising that favorites of -225 or greater have actually produced a positive return on investment (ROI) over the past decade.

With a lot of our youngsters looking good during this pre season our future is looking really great but hasnt it been looking great for the past decade?

Within the past decade Target, Dollar General, Home Depot, Best Buy, UPS, Farmers Insurance, Subway, U.S. Army, National Guard, Sprint, Great Clips, Aaron's, and Miller are all major brands that have completely withdrawn its support of NASCAR or significantly reduced its presence.

Over the past decade, Porto have won 25 trophies, while racking up over 400 million in sales, highlighting the most unique model out of any European club, allowing great success while remaining financially responsible.

The two sides have much in common, with both making great strides after encountering various problems off the pitch during the past decade.

While there might be doubts over how long such a model can be sustainable — and it certainly will take continued full professionalism and great competence in every department of the club, from finance to scouting — so far its success is undeniable and really the only case of a club from a small market having continued success in European competitions over the past decade.

While MLS has made great strides in terms of supporter engagement over the past decade or so the Latin population — a key demographic for North American soccer — has yet to be truly energised by the league.

I think it's become quite clear over the past couple of decades that these skills matter a whole lot and that they are malleable in kids, but we still don't have a great way to measure them.

Breastfeeding trends in Australia have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, but a greater disparity in prevalence rates between lower socioeconomic and higher socioeconomic has been found [8].

Turning a dinosaur on a dime isn't easy, but people have done it before, and recently — for a great example, see the David Brooks Times column from last week about the transformation of the U.S. Army over the past half - decade.

Cuomo said the slogan «Make America Great Again» is code for the nation before immigrants came here over the past few decades.