Sentences with phrase «half dozen years»

No amount of spin will make Trump's dozen years at the helm of a Trump Hotels, the only public company Trump has ever run, look like anything but a flop that damaged thousands of shareholders, bondholders, and workers.

Half a dozen years ago, cousins Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac met up to share a couple of drinks and a couple of memories of the lobster cookouts of their youth.

A dozen years back, Santa Monica was the toast of the town, with families and singletons alike flocking to the storied seaside city.

For a dozen years, Jaws entertained roughly 2,500 riders each hour.

At this point, it's been more than a dozen years since a certifiable blockbuster won best picture.

With a dozen years under her belt in Germany's highest political office and a national election approaching in September, this was supposed to be the year that Merkel's leadership came under threat.

Dara Khosrowshahi DAH - ra Cause - row - shaw - hee Khosrowshahi took over as CEO of car - sharing service Uber in 2017 after a dozen years at Expedia.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

Approximately 93 percent of small business owners in one small survey overpaid their taxes over the past dozen years.

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

A dozen years ago, some customers approached him with an idea: They required highly automated paint shops in their plants, but the components — booths, ovens, robotic sprayers, conveyers, etc. — came from various suppliers, and were cumbersome to assemble.

At 75, a dozen years removed from his time in office, Fox has used profanity and humor to defend Mexicans from Trump's attacks and rebut his contention that he can force Mexico to finance a border wall separating the two countries.

The «decade» of Steve actually began in 1997, when he returned to Apple after having been ousted a dozen years earlier.

Only a surprisingly successful month of August (when the usual stream of summer blockbusters often turns into a trickle) has helped the industry recover from a month of July that did not reach $ 1 billion in total gross for the first time in a dozen years.

The key driver of these income trends, besides lower employment and hours in the aftermath of the financial crisis, has been wage stagnation over the last dozen years.

My wife and I lived in a pile of junk on a beautiful property for a dozen years before we were debt free and had the cash to tear it down and build our dream home.

Last month, unit sales were the lowest for any August in the past dozen years, and nearly 40 % below the 10 - year August norm.

More than a dozen years later, Kleynhans has enjoyed some success.

While the major stock exchanges, securities regulators and police have made significant progress in the past dozen years purging the old - style boiler rooms and pump - and - dump schemes from the public markets, the marketing of suspect securities continues to thrive in the private domain.

About a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

Conceived as a military aircraft manufacturer a dozen years earlier, Sweden's Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget suffered a cataclysmic but unsurprising postwar plunge in product demand.

Moore has known Orr for more than a dozen years and considers him a top - tier leader.

Avi Reichental, who had been with the company for a dozen years, has been replaced on an interim basis by Chief Legal Officer Andrew Johnson.

(That's one reason we named him one of our 2016 Businesspersons of the Year — and probably about a dozen years too late at that.)

Edward Garden will replace Robert Lane, who is retiring due to health reasons after a dozen years as a director, GE said in a statement.

Cohen and Trump's relationship dates back a dozen years.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

Teagan Bax, 12, of Atlanta, at the base of the arch, where attendance has been declining for a dozen years.

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

I worked for a mutual fund company for a dozen years and now work for an insurance company that manages 403bs, 401ks, 457s and that stuff.

It's among four planes that will undergo upgrades at a cost of $ 73 million to keep them in the fleet for another dozen years.

For L'Oreal USA, one of the unexpected upshots of using trade credit insurance for the past half - dozen years has been easier conversations with any customers lagging behind with their payments.

In this go - round — he, too, says he is submitting a new bid this week — he may have lined up a name familiar to those tracking newspaper property sales of the last half - dozen years, as a would - be partner: Ron Burkle.

Over the past dozen years of buyer research and buyer persona development, I can boil the acquiring of profound buyer insights down to two big things: qualitative synthesis and context.

Apart from being consistent with the Bank's statutory obligations, it is what has been envisaged in successive formal agreements between two Treasurers and two Governors stretching back now over a dozen years.

It has varied cyclically over the past dozen years, but around a flat trend.

Recalling an in - depth conversation more than a dozen years ago with John Mearsheimer, the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, He Yafei says, «In the beginning if you pin each

Napa Valley's 4 - decade - old Signorello Estate winery became the worldwide face of the Northern California firestorms, but lessons learned during an epic blaze that shook the local wine world a dozen years ago prepared Signorello for the rebuild.

Being in the unique position of being able to look back on over a dozen years of involvement with persona development strategy, I see the evolution of the Social Business Persona addressing what user personas and buyer personas can not do on their own standing.

This happened a dozen years past to the TM on Bayers Road.

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

♦ In early October, Le Monde reported that Catholic universities in the national French system have doubled enrollments in the last dozen years.

I saw it about a dozen years ago and remembered it as an enjoyable and darkly funny action movie with an exceptional performance by James Caan.

Back then, I couldn't find ANY Christian books on spiritual abuse — the first main ones (like * The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse * and * Toxic Faith *) wouldn't even be published until a dozen years later.

So I bathed them all with baby soap, and then sopped up the water on the floor with a worn out towel from our wedding registry a dozen years ago.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

I remember, a dozen years ago, being told by an editor with the best list on worship in the business that his firm had never made money on any of these books.

But since we became Christians a dozen years ago, we have practiced Sabbath each week.