Sentences with phrase «lasted decade after decade»

Disney was an iconic figure and you need an actor that is believable as someone who has built an empire that has lasted decade after decade.

Not exact matches

A decade and a half after the MaRS Discovery District opened its doors in Toronto, the city's promised health - care ecosystem is at last starting to emerge.

Obama last talked to Letterman in a televised interview on The Late Show in 2015 during Letterman's final run hosting the CBS show after two decades.

Mylan drew major flak last year after news broke that it had steadily increased the list price for an EpiPen two - pack from about $ 100 to more than $ 600 in less than a decade.

«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai defended the rule change, saying it was «utter nonsense» that rules banning cross ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station were still in place after massive changes in media over the last four decades.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Vancouverites may be disappointed their city is no longer number one for livability according to The Economist, a ranking it lost last year to Melbourne after almost a decade at the top.

It's this career philosophy that has fueled her turnaround effort at Yahoo since she joined the company as CEO last year, at age 37, after more than a decade at Google.

The Liberals took back Nova Scotia last year after a decade and a half, and this neighbourhood helped them on their way: 45 % vote Grit.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

Home values in the metropolitan area are improving, after losing more than half their value in the last decade.

JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel would use all its strength from the start in any new war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the chief of the Israeli air force said on Wednesday, sending a firm warning a decade after their last conflict.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

This is what's happening in Japan, where developers built too many golf courses over the last few decades after demand shot up in the 1980s.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

Last May — three decades after completing her BA, and with teacher's college, sommelier training and a creative writing program in between — Hogarth went back to school again.

Domestic fares rose 5 % over the last decade after adjusting for inflation, not including the fees piled on for baggage or preferred seats.

The pace of debt accumulation quickened considerably after 2002; the last decade has been positively orgiastic.

Meanwhile, after decades of selling through select luxury retailers and online, the company opened its first Canada Goose retail location in Yorkdale Mall in Toronto last fall, and another in New York shortly after.

«In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,» the crown prince said according to a wire sent by the Israeli consulate in New York to Israel's foreign ministry in Jerusalem which summarized the meeting, as well as information from several US and Israeli diplomats with knowledge of the meeting.

After the epic housing crash of the last decade, those who are taking money out of their homes continue to do so at a very conservative rate.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

The fact that the last three decades have witnessed one bull market after another shouldn't fool you into thinking that the next three decades will.

After all, even in retirement you will need a certain exposure to growth - oriented investments to combat inflation and help ensure your assets last for what could be a decades - long retirement.

After a decades - long search to solve a string of rapes and murders in California, Mr. DeAngelo, a former police officer, came under scrutiny last week.

After chopping spending by almost one - third to cope with a crash in oil prices and billions in writedowns that sent profits to the weakest since last decade, China's energy giants Continue Reading

But don't forget that growth remains important even as you approach and then enter retirement — after all, your retirement could last 3 decades or more.

Two years ago I posted my first guest blog focused on income inequality, specifically how changes in Canada's redistribution over the last three decades have increased after - tax income inequality, and how these changes compared to OECD trends.

Earlier this week, after four decades in service, the Alaska Air National Guard's last two C - 130 Hercules aircraft flew away for good.

After all, the amount of global GDP that has accrued to investment, as the global economy has «grown» these last two decades is why we have a demand - deficient, deflation prone, stagnant prospect, low - interest world, we have.

After volatile swings in growth patterns during last decade's housing bubble and bust, long - term trends are reasserting themselves.

Last year, for example, the Tax Policy Center estimated President Trump's $ 6 trillion campaign tax plan would reduce GDP by 0.5 percent after a decade and 4 percent after two.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

So, after serial disappointments over the last decade about the unrealized potential of the Indian economy, how should we calibrate expectations about Indian growth prospects in today's rather gloomy global economy?

You might not have noticed it, what with one economic crisis and stock market meltdown after another grabbing your attention, but the last few decades have actually been great ones for investors.

After pumping stock and credit markets up for the last decade they are now, by design, deflating them.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

Then, after a spate of bad loans last decade, the group's reserve fund dwindled below its congressionally - mandated minimum, which is two percent of the value of all outstanding FHA loans.

«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.

The answer can be found in a weak U.S. dollar (the dollar index has wallowed around the 90 mark for much of 2018, after a stunning free fall in 2017), an immense fiscal expansion in the last decade pushing the economy toward overheating, a tight labor market, and recent (albeit modest) price pressure in the wake of trade war possibilities and tariff talk, Slok said.

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

Could it be that like Wendell Berry in Sex, Freedom, Economy, and Community she's weary of all the «shock art» tactics employed over the last several decades, modeled after such Classic (PBS - fundraiser - worthy) Boomer Moments like Bob's «Masters» one?

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

They used to remember thinking but now it's no longer necessary and with the enriched water it is no longer possible after the cataclysmic campaigns of the last decade when it was decided that facts no longer mattered so therefore truth no longer existed so therefore thinking was no longer necessary but in fact futile so therefore not only sterile but dangerous and therefore behavior alone was substantial and adherence to action alone was useful.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

The 76 - year - old passed away «peacefully» at his home in Cambridge last week according to his family, after battling motor neurone disease for many decades.

Last month, the UN reported that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising again after a decade of declines thanks to prolonged conflicts and climate change - related floods and droughts.