Sentences with phrase «half decade before»

Can Canada's manufacturing sector once again generate major growth for the economy as it did in the decades before oil and other commodity prices surged to record highs?

A lot of women will have been working doggedly for at least a decade before we achieve these personal milestones.

Steven Pressfield was a struggling writer for nearly two decades before he published The Legend of Bagger Vance, which subsequently became a Hollywood hit starring Will Smith.

The Tsarnaevs, ethnic Chechens, immigrated to the United States from Russia a decade before the attack and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston.

«However, it will be decades before they take a major share of the global energy supply.»

That was remarkable, especially his description of having wasted two decades before he finally decided he was ready to grapple with some of those emotions.

In 1997, Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple, the company he had been ousted from over a decade before.

A handle along the top of the camera is flanked by a grip sprouting out of the bottom, akin to Super 8 cameras from decades before it.

Particularly striking is the mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of «getting out of the building» and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

There are many so - called «overnight successes» that have actually been around for decades before finally reaching the tipping point and having mass appeal or nationwide / worldwide recognition.

Since the average Prussian died decades before that, Bismarck wasn't exactly promising the moon.

I hope it will be many decades before we find out my legacy.

By saying it will be a decade before change occurs, Williams has dealt a psychological blow to her peers who are working on diversity and to the few minorities and women who are already in the industry.

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

While it would be simplistic to attribute her rise solely to Draper's mentorship (she was asking for her own office five decades before Lean In), it's clear that her drive to excel stems from the critical voice she's internalized.

In 1959, decades before buying local was all the rage and California Pizza Kitchen was a household name, a pizza joint in San Leandro, Calif., rolled out its flaky crust, fresh tomato sauce and naturally aged cheeses.

One example of the former might be cluing them into Caitlin Jenner's original rise to fame as an Olympic athlete, which came decades before her association with the Kardashians, or her highly - publicized gender transition this year.

It may be up to a decade before Stanford sees a return on its StartX investments, Livingston says.

Founder Tom Bunchman started out as a franchisee himself, having managed and maintained a business for over a decade before launching the JumpBunch concept in 1997.

Moral of the story: Don't wait five decades before getting your cysts removed.

In an interview with Bloomberg Markets, Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm), said that it will likely be a decade before a banker gets nominated to a prominent role in Washington.

More than a decade before he started Tesla, Musk was studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania and then battery technology at Stanford, both key fields for learning how to build an electric car.

Greenberg led AIG (aig) for four decades before he was ousted in 2005.

For decades before Katrina, New Orleans had been a city sliding into decline, economic experts say.

Still, outside of cities, car ownership will remain sensible, the company noted: «It'll take much more than a decade before it makes sense for someone in Wyoming, for example, to ditch their car.»

It might be decades before technology forces us to truly confront the issue robot rights, but the debate surrounding the ethics of how we treat machines is probably worth having right now.

Donna Olshan started her eponymous boutique residential brokerage in 1980, when it looked as if New York City real estate, if it ever did come back from the economic doldrums of the decade before, would certainly tarry.

To be clear, the catch - share system didn't create inequity — Rafael began swatting the mosquitoes decades before it came into play.

IBM tells the story of racially integrating its facilities more than a decade before the Civil Rights Act mandated they do so.

The site at position # 1 was at position 5 or worse for a decade before I created and executed a linking strategy for them.

«I think we have at least a decade before we start getting into issues,» said Patrick Moorhead, analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

I think that it will be hard to escape the conclusion that household debt grew at an unsustainable pace in the decade before the great financial crisis and that this was an important spur to growth.

My argument is that a significant part of the strong productivity performance in the two decades before the crisis was due to globalization, and that the globalization process may have brought trade in the global economy to a new balancing point.

Regardless of whether they were founded decades before the digital age or have only been in operation for a few years, any branding agency worth its salt will have a deep understanding of, and respect for, digital marketing.

Keep in mind this is two decades before Medicare and Medicaid were created.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

My uneducated, knee - jerk reaction is that American consumers seemed to do well for decades before China joined the international trade order.

But for about a decade before it was outlawed in 1985, it was used as an aid in psychotherapy, especially on the West Coast.

Keeping risky assets away from insured deposits had been a key principle of U.S. regulation for decades before the repeal of Glass - Steagall in 1999.

But, by far the biggest reason that this argument is bunk, is that it will be decades before the majority of the subsidies actually disappear.

It's the one Quebec made when it suddenly demanded to be reimbursed for the pains it had endured two decades before: simple fairness.

Smith used drugs for the past decade before starting her recovery journey at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida.

And decades before the smartphone era, famed trader Jesse Livermore emphasized the importance of not buying and selling stocks too much.

With no other business waiting in the wings to move into the location, «it could take up to a decade before anything happens,» Soglin said.

To summarize how we arrived at this figure, the United States lost roughly $ 100 billion annually to cyber crime in the decade before the Barack Obama — Xi Jinping agreement renouncing commercial cyber espionage.

But what's strangely forgotten is that last decade's housing bubble was just an attempt to make up for the gains that had been lost in the decade before that.

He notes they'll be continually looking at how the brand is received and how it can be improved, swearing (literally stating, «read my lips» before laughing) that it won't be another four decades before changes are made again.

It stood as an independent agency for nearly three decades before being incorporated into AmeriCorps in 1993.