Sentences with phrase «minority.the turn of the century»

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Musicians may wish there had been blockchain when Napster undermined music sales around the turn of the century through file - sharing.

Around the turn of the century, the telecommunications industry underwent a round of consolidation that included some layoffs.

We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

Around the recent turn of the century, things started to take a turn for the better in Downtown Los Angeles.

When he co-founded Impinj at the turn of the century, Diorio thought its new technology would improve the performance of radio frequency used by cell phones.

But at the turn of the century, Chadha decided his baby needed a helping hand to continue to evolve.

Change Number 6 is that Starting a Company means you no longer Act Like A Big Company Since the turn of the century, there's been a radical shift in how startups thought of themselves.

«For decades, households in Ontario had incomes as much as 20 per cent above the Canada average, and 10 per cent higher as recently as the turn of the century.

At the turn of the century, automobiles were regarded as toys for the very rich.

In the late 1930s, the Army introduced trousers to replace the jodhpur - like service breeches that had been in use since the turn of the century.

But a review of past deals suggests Stephenson has his work cut out for himself, and there could be parallels to the disastrous failed AOL acquisition of Time Warner at the turn of the century.

With the government still using floppy disks and checking for Y2K compliance, the private sector's creativity will help move the Trump administration past the turn of the century, presidential advisor Jared Kushner said Monday.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer at the turn of the century, Gordon Brown, knew that sacrificing the pound would have been electoral suicide.

How else can you explain the meteoric rise of Amazon which not only survived every market tide over the turn of the century and beyond, but emerged even stronger with a brand set for world domination?

«It had several layers of impact, bearing in mind there's been forestry companies in Ucluelet since the turn of the century,» said Ucluelet Mayor Bill Irving.

Since the turn of the century, Kentucky Bourbon production has skyrocketed more than 315 percent (455,078 barrels were filled in 1999).

This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.

Coinciding with this period of elevated commodity prices, the share of the manufacturing sector in Canadian GDP has declined since the turn of the century from 18 per cent to around 11 per cent.

This has contributed to California enjoying its highest credit rating since the turn of the century, Bloomberg reports, and caused demand for its municipal debt to climb.

Bill Gates made his largest single gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft Corp. shares that accounted for 5 percent of his fortune, the world's biggest.

In his career, Bartek has been involved in the interactive industry since the turn of the century.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

By the turn of the century, online retailing had become a veritable bubble, and in the early 2000s, that bubble burst, causing millions of people to lose faith in online shopping.

It's interesting that Alan mentioned historical points where stocks «fall out of a bed in one fell swoop, as they did in 1987 and, more recently, the turn of the century.»

After all, markets rarely fall out of a bed in one fell swoop as they did in 1987 and, more recently, the turn of the century, so there's usually plenty of time to cut and run... we hope.»

With the national unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, a 17 - year low, there are more job openings in the retail industry than at any time since the turn of the century, government data show.

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Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

In contrast, when the FTSE 100 first breached 7,000 at the turn of the century, the same bond paid 6 %.

Unlike conditions prevailing at the turn of the century (massive stock valuations and recession), we think the earnings fundamentals underlying many idea - companies (of which tech is a part) remain solid.

Since the turn of the century, we've been reminded of one of the risks of investing — the risk of market declines.

Vice President of Bud Light Andy Goeler told Adweek that it was the biggest hit since the turn of the century:

Based purely on long - term cycles, a successful argument could be made that we have been in a secular commodity bull market since the turn of the century in 2000.

Turn of the Century is a 90's cover band based out of Long Beach, CA, and they reached out to us with the desire to raise money for solar power in Puerto Rico.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

It is from these districts, among the bachelors who lived in them, that the highest rates of suicide in our country have been reported since the turn of the century.

He suggests that this contemporary state of bachelor affairs is the natural fulfillment of the subculture of the turn of the century and, as well, that these formative expressions were originally suppressed and unacknowledged.

An unbiased view would presume the numbers of homosexual men at that time to be quite small — most likely the 2 to 2.5 percent that is now reported — and as far as I can see from the evidence, these few homosexual men did little or nothing to influence the bachelor subculture at the turn of the century.

Such «panoramic vision of the past» (la vision panoramique du passé) had been discussed extensively at the turn of the century; Bergson took notice of it in Matter and Memory, and the same problem was discussed more recently by George Poulet, the author of Études sur le temps humain.5

The predominant mood of Protestantism at the turn of the century was positive, optimistic and liberal — and its leaders welcomed the modernism heralded by the new age: the spirit of rationality and scientific inquiry, the growth of social awareness, and the sense of an expanding world.

Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.

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The best answer to the Anglican difficulties was found in the formation of two societies at the turn of the century, the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge founded in i688 (S.P.C.K.), and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (S.P.G.) in 1701.

Also invented at the turn of the century, the airplane developed as a common and safe means of transportation after the war.

The typical formulation of the antithesis between Jesus and Paul around the turn of the century was to the effect that «Jesus preached the kingdom but Paul preached Christ».

William James warned us about the pitfalls of this compulsive preoccupation, what he called he called the bitch - goddess SUCCESS, around the turn of the century.

The conflict between Thomas» black supporters and his critics recalls the epochal struggle among blacks that raged at the turn of the century between the followers, respectively, of Booker T. Washington and of W. E. B. DuBois.

Darwinian evolution, we noted earlier, created a serious problem for all religious inquiry in the nineteenth century, and, to some extent, continued to do so beyond the turn of the century.