Sentences with phrase «in early part of last decade»

In the early part of the last decade, he acted as conflict - of - interest commissioner for the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and is currently overseeing a coalition against homelessness in Victoria.

Then in early part of last decade, we had Energy Sec Spencer Abraham as I recall urging development of LNG import on urgent basis.

In the early part of the last decade, Leckey began work with large speaker stacks to produce a series of performances.

Today, there are far fewer Canadian income trusts available to investors than in the early part of the last decade.

CHICAGO — In the early part of the last decade, Michael and Peter Spierig (The Spierig Brothers) debuted with the unique zombie cult hit «Undead» and horror nuts waited to see what they'd do next.

Having made that conscious decision to invest in the early part of the last decade, we should have been bringing that deficit by the middle part of that decade back to surplus.

Not exact matches

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

While avocados only gained popularity in the US in the last several decades, they've been popular in other parts of the world for centuries and were considered a superfood by cultures like the Aztecs, who even had some of the earliest guacamole recipes.

Volkswagen Group spent tens of billion of euros developing the MQB platform in the last part of the previous decade and the early part of this one.

Throughout the early part of the last decade, a segment of AIG's business took on way too much risk through various derivative products, a ticking time bomb that finally exploded in 2008 - 2009.

But the Tokyo studio itself was formed early in the last decade as part of a corporate restructure at Nintendo.

Before joining Microsoft early in the last decade, Rare was a part of Nintendo's cavalcade of second - party developers, having created hit titles for the gaming giant such as Donkey Kong Country, Diddy Kong Racing, and the much loved Golden Eye 007 FPS.

A seminal figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s, contemporary artist Ashley Bickerton has, for the better part of the last two decades, distanced himself from his early work.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

Despite early monographic shows organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Art Museum in 1970 (in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa) and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery of the University of Texas at Austin (now the Jack S. Blanton Art Museum) in 1971 and 1974, and his inclusion in many important group exhibitions in this country over the last three decades, Torres - García's art has for the most part remained the exclusive province of academics and art cognoscenti.

Through the early part of the last decade, they specialised in housing for first time buyers, and completed major residential developments in Finglas and Greystones.

Note the high values in the early part of the century, nearly as high or as high as the value for the last two decades.

This is a very significant development when compared to the trend for the earlier part of the last decade, during which annual claims costs came in consistently within a $ 50 million to $ 65 million range.

«The growth we saw in the industry in the early and middle part of the last decade was driven by a lot of upper - end discretionary projects,» Baker said.