Sentences with phrase «half century»

And after a century of mass Irish emigration, Varadkar, a doctor by training, is himself from immigrant stock: His father is a Hindu doctor from Mumbai.

It's the 21st - century version of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

It was that skeptical mindset of questioning 18 th - century medical treatments that led Hahnemann to propose his new system, homeopathy, based on his «like cures like» theory.

«The exercise is already done, in bringing text from the 1990s in the 21st century.»

Yes, you read that right: In the 21st century, there are factories where muscled men and women brush and scrape at freshly dyed denim to give it a weathered patina.

Wrapify, based in San Francisco and launched in July, takes an idea that's long been in the marketplace — wrapping cars with company logos and marketing messages — and drives it into the 21st century.

We laugh at the pseudoscience behind it, yet it seemed real to centuries of people.

Americans throw more than 2 million weddings per year, so there's room for other startups to help usher the industry into the 21st century.

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Human resource managers, or those aspiring in that direction, will love this new look at work in the 21st century.

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

Twentieth Century Fox has released a new Amazon Echo skill called Offworld Colony Simulator.

Announced blockbusters include AT&T - Time - Warner (though it's in trouble), Disney - 21st Century Fox, and Discovery - Scripps.

That technology has worked fine for centuries.

For Levi executives, it's the first real change to the way jeans have been made in more than a century.

Located in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, the buildings in the 16th - century city of Trinidad reflect the natural environment — sugarcane green, ocean blue, and sunshine yellow — sometimes all mixed together on the same building.

And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe at its larger rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming service, a service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

If you've never seen the show, each episode is a self - contained allegory for how some aspect of 21st century technology affects our everyday lives.

And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

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.

This is especially true when HMS Dreadnought was created in 1906, ushering a new era of battleships that defined the 20th century.

This is the 21st Century, right?

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

The project is a typically finicky downtown venture: the early - 20th - century structure occupies almost the entire property it sits on, so the materials and heavy equipment have to be shoehorned in via a narrow alleyway or, in the case of massive new roof joists and pipes, through the roof.

As of Sunday morning, Covenant, from 20th Century Fox (fox) and Scott Free Productions, looks to be the winner with a three - day estimate of $ 36 million from 3,761 locations.

Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

It's taken more than a century to refine the technology, and indeed, wireless power still faces obstacles related to safety, interference, efficiency and range.

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

But there's a difference between Jolly Time and the many other brands on the shelves: It's managed to continuing selling the same product, albeit in different forms, for a century.

Millennials now face the bleakest financial future of any generation in over a century.

More than half a century ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called the race to space «a great new American enterprise.»

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Musicians may wish there had been blockchain when Napster undermined music sales around the turn of the century through file - sharing.

Fox News is a U.S. cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

The Rosenthals say that core ethos won't change as the Sunset Marquis enters its second half - century in business, but they're already exploring the next evolution of other assets in the Raleigh portfolio.

A century after the war began, German and British soldiers still get together to play soccer and celebrate Christmas.

Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

Called Alcatraz East, the facade will resemble a 19th century prison, and according to a press release, it will house such artifacts as John Dillinger's death mask, Al Capone's rosary, the Bronco from the OJ chase and «items related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.»

In a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriage.

Brothers Larry and Bill are direct descendants of Timothy Matlack, the 18th - century brewer and politician who penned on vellum the original Declaration of Independence.

The good news is that businesses can easily make adjustments that will bring their HR teams further into the 21st century.

The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.

For over a century, IBM has been focused on selling solutions to large enterprises.

Cable channel AMC took SXSW as an opportunity to promote its upcoming show The Terror, which follows a 19th - century British Naval crew on a deadly polar expedition.

The tools for doing it have evolved continuously for a century, but the essence of marketing is the same as it ever was.»

He was the father of Toyota's manufacturing system, when Toyota was starting after World War II up to the early to mid-Twentieth Century.

FiOS Custom TV sparked similar objections from Comcast (CMCSA) and 21st Century Fox (FOX) on Tuesday, after Verizon formally announced the new service in a press release.

Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, a prison built in the 19th century that housed Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, has been a museum since 1994.

Still, Davidson of American Century points out that Schlumberger shrewdly uses the periodic downturns to improve its competitive position, buying companies on the cheap.