Sentences with phrase «made about a decade»

This crochet pattern was made about a decade ago and it's still stylish.

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In his own memo, Allbritton opened by talking about how, «A decade ago, early in 2006, I made a decision to start a new newspaper focused on Capitol Hill.»

He has written about economic policy and the men and women who make it for almost two decades from Ottawa, Washington and, currently, Mumbai.

Singapore Airlines launched a new first - class suite product for its Airbus A380 - 800 in December 2017, making a splash with its first major cabin revamp in about a decade.

Throughout much of its first decade of existence, the search engine company presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world for the better first and making money second, an ethos exemplified through its famous «don't be evil» motto.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, meanwhile, made what might be the investment of the decade when he snapped up 30,000 of the Silk Road coins for about $ 600 each.

Located about midway along Mexico's Pacific coast, Mazatlán has been out of favor among tourists and expats for decades but is making a comeback.

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

After a decade of «coddling» the super-rich and people who «make money with money,» Buffett wrote, «it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.»

Zuckerberg himself has said that we're probably about a decade away from smart glasses beginning to make a serious dent on mainstream markets.

Most have been there for decades, and they get so delighted talking about working there that they make Google (GOOG) employees look like detainees.

Over the past few decades, researchers have made strides to understand more about stem cells and regeneration.

She might as well be in the 1950s or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced in those decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 - year - old company's global sales.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Ecommerce has been around for nearly two decades now, and while it's given people all kinds of convenience and flexibility in making purchases, it hasn't erased their underlying fears about safety.

Vogt says that he is not pessimistic about ITER and NIF producing «interesting» science and making progress toward fusion energy after several decades have gone by.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

President Trump said that lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult - film actress to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

Common Cause filed a similar complaint about a $ 150,000 payment made shortly before the election by American Media Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who has said she had an affair with a married Mr. Trump about a decade ago.

Decisions we make today won't be felt for decades, so we have to be fairly certain about what we're doing now.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

President Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

Barely three years later he was named as a finalist for Fixed Income Manager of the Decade — a title that eventually went to Bill Gross — when, in a move that shocked the industry, he was summarily fired from TCW (makes you wonder about those stewardship grades).

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

And to make matters worse, another study revealed that daily diet soda drinkers grow about two - and - a-half more inches of belly fat each decade than those who don't drink the stuff.

Over the past decade, China's racked up about $ 318 billion worth of investments in European assets, and it's starting to make the European Union...

Despite the fact that all the central banks have been woefully wrong about nearly every single forecast they have made on GDP growth, inflation and labor markets for decades, they enjoy an aura of infallibility which would be the envy of any medieval Pope because they succeeded in doing what governments by themselves were unable to do in 2008 - 9, namely stop and reverse the financial crisis.

I don't like predictions, and I'll never make short term predictions, but I'll venture a wild guess about the next decade.

«It's been more than a decade since the Liberals starting making empty promises about Highway 1, to take just one example.

SEO has been around for decades, but only since the early 2000s has the search engine giant, Google, taken measures to make SEO more about the web user's experience than following specific formulas to make one's website rank high in search results.

He's also been managing portfolios for more than two decades, and as such, knows a thing or two about how to make the most out of your money.

Much has been made recently about slowing productivity growth, but the longer - term view in Figure 2 shows that the U.S. has become radically more productive over the past several decades.

Would stores continue to mark down prices and make the whole holiday really all about consumerism, without the veil of religion that it's hid under for decades?

They kept this horrible crime under wraps for decades so why are they making such a huge deal about women receiving contraception?

My main dissent, which I did not express, was that the discussants were treating the battles about worship as a relatively recent phenomenon — several references were made, for example, to «the last two decades.»

Early in this decade (one could argue about the exact date since a cluster of events is involved) came the technology to make use of this information to bring about by design significant changes in actual life processes.

To make silly statements about people going to hell fails to recognize the fact that there is a lot of blame to go around for the craziness of the last decade.

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

As I look over the last couple decades of my life, it is when I am studying, teaching, and writing about Scripture that I feel most content, most fulfilled, most at home, most connected with God and with who He made me to be.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

The enormous exegetical ferment which has been engendered by recent decades of brilliant and notion - cracking biblical studies makes it quite impossible to derive schematically neat ideas about worship from the New Testament community.

(FOOTNOTE: We have made no effort to include all of the New Testament in this survey, but a word or two at least must be said about the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is probably to be dated in the last decade of the first century.