Sentences with phrase «in a class of over»

I ended up 4th in a class of over 120 in high school (several towns combined for one school).

I ended up 4th in a class of over 120 in high school (several towns combined for one school).

At Harvard (where Ginsburg began law school before transferring to Columbia when her husband took a job in New York) she was one of nine females students in a class of over 500.

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Wigdor initially filed its class action in November on behalf of two unidentified women, arguing that Uber put thousands of women at risk and put profit over safety.

Kenya's Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has voiced his concerns over the country's lack of world class hotels which he argues has made Tanzania a better proposition for tourists in East Africa.

Much as advisers cling to the long - term view of portfolio management, there's something to be said from jumping out and in of over - and underperforming asset classes, at least with money you can afford to put at greater risk.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

«She ambled into class with a cigarette dangling from the corner of her mouth, walked over to a table, threw one leg over its corner, and began to lecture in her slightly cleaned up Brooklyn accent.»

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

«I think Bernie's a helluva guy and has a lot of good ideas, but clearly he missed a couple days of class when they were going over economics at the U. of Chicago,» writes Jeremy Thornton, an account executive at Lamar Advertising, a small ad firm in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

In the meantime, NCEI will partner with schools, exhibits and events such as the Maker Faire in D.C. next year, with a goal of reaching about 50,000 students making class trips to the area over the next three yearIn the meantime, NCEI will partner with schools, exhibits and events such as the Maker Faire in D.C. next year, with a goal of reaching about 50,000 students making class trips to the area over the next three yearin D.C. next year, with a goal of reaching about 50,000 students making class trips to the area over the next three years.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

Snap and its co-founders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, have pledged to donate up to 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock over the next 15 to 20 years to a foundation to support arts, education and youth, the company revealed in its S - 1 filing Thursday afternoon.

A pending class action lawsuit over player wages has shed new light on the finances of teams in the Ontario and Western Hockey Leagues

According to the Wainstein report, «Over the course of ten years, there were 729 enrollments in the paper classes by members of fraternities (and some sorority sisters).»

Facebook is also facing a class action lawsuit in the U.S. over its use of facial recognition.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

Over the 10 weeks of the class, entrepreneurs learned from a range of experts in healthcare, including venture capitalists and other business owners.

For the class of 2012, Harvard had its pick from the second largest pool of applicants in its history — 9,524 for 910 seats in the first - year class — an increase of 5 % over 2009.

As the CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, I have seen firsthand, over the last five years, an increase in the number of world - class companies seeking to hire top - performing B2B salespeople.

Over and above, I enjoyed the study weeks, the case discussions, the camaraderie and the collaborating spirit in each of every class, all of which were significantly intellectually enhancing to me.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquIn court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin California at some point over the past six years.»

In an awkward exchange with Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, Zuckerberg said he did not know the details of two class - action lawsuits that Facebook had settled over privacy concerns related to data gathering techniques it has since changed.

Demand for commodities is expected to stay relatively strong over the coming 20 years, reflecting the growth of the middle class in emerging markets, especially China.

The Council of Institutional Investors, an association representing funds and managers with over $ 3 trillion in assets under management, is «no fan of dual class shares or entrenched founders.

Using its proprietary antisense technology, Ionis has created a large pipeline of first - in - class or best - in - class drugs, with over 40 drugs in development.

I sat down with the athlete / business mogul earlier this month at his newest venture — a TruFusion fitness studio in Las Vegas that offers over 65 types of classes.

For example, across nineteen Techstars classes in its four year history, over 70 % of all Techstars graduates have raised capital (Techstars publishes an amazing chart that lists every company in every class and their fundraising status as well as employee count).

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

In 2017, the bank also reached a preliminary class - action settlement of $ 142 million over concerns about retail sales practices and unauthorized accounts from 2002.

In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 201In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 201in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

EY found in a survey that 64 % of companies deemed to be such best in class cases have seen 10 to 30 per cent revenue growth over the past three years.

While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

Our transformation strategy — which has attracted over $ 114 million in growth capital — is focused on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the user experience and better monetize our world - class content in order to deliver personalized content to our 60 million monthly users and drive value for all of our stakeholders.

She has prosecuted a wide range of class action matters for over a decade, helping to recover millions in settlements on behalf of shareholders.

I have had, over my time at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment, Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil, gas, energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my classes.

Since hosting 200 guests onboard the first train in 1990, Rocky Mountaineer has now welcomed over two million guests to enjoy world class cuisine, rich historic storytelling, warm Canadian hospitality and a first - hand look at the vast and untouched wild beauty of the Canadian Rockies.

This flexibility will allow for greater control over payroll budget and best in class alignment of on demand resources.

Such conversions of Class B common stock to Class A common stock upon transfer will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

The late MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch made an extensive study of the results of populist economic programmes around the world, finding that while they sometimes had immediate positive results, over the medium - and long - term they were catastrophic for the working class in whose name they were launched.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

Even closer to home for advisors is the class action lawsuit brought employees of CheckSmart who are charging that CheckSmart and Cetera Advisor Networks, as co-fiduciaries, allowed «grossly excessive» fees in a 401 (k) plan whose investments performed poorly over a period of six years.

As COO, he had full responsibility for all Portfolio Management, Investment Research and Office Operations of the firm, designing and developing new products for the firm in the asset classes of preferred shares and common stock, in addition to his responsibility for the firm's Government bond portfolios under management (over $ 1.7 billion).

«Perhaps the biggest issue we have with high yield is that the asset class» performance has been driven over the last several years not by fundamental strength, but by QE and a lack of global yield,» BofAML credit strategist Michael Contopoulos and others said in a note to clients.

I capped off the long days of classes and meetings in a smoke - filled bar near the university's campus, excitedly discussing literature and philosophy over pitchers of cheap beer with a couple dozen people I'd just met.