Sentences with phrase «most of the decade»

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

For most of the decade he was regularly reappointed as Dean of the Theology Faculty.

The result is no doubt an encouraging sign for Mendenhall's turnaround of a UVA program that has been mired in the ACC basement for most of this decade and now sits at 3 — 1.

Arsenal was among the top five for most of this decade in not conceding goals.

Still, as we saw in 2016 and most of the decade previous, Solich's teams are as much about high floors as ceilings.

I've eaten blueberries regularly for most of a decade, since learning of the USDA / Tufts Univ. study of 40 fruits & veggies.

The star of Niki Caro's WWII drama «The Zookeeper's Wife» — and «The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty,» and most of this decade's most prestigious films — is shifting Hollywood's status quo.

Inequality was spreading throughout the 2000s, but fatally cheap mortgages kept many people feeling financially secure throughout most of the decade.

In contrast, Austin had a coefficient of variation near 0.15 for most of the decade, but dipped to the 0.1 level for three years, from 1997 — 98 to 1999 — 2000.

Despite having most of the decade to develop the ’20 Escalade — the «all - new» 2015 model was more an evolutionary update of the» 07, hobbled by General Motors» 2009 bankruptcy — it is rumored that company brass approved ditching the solid rear axle on its most profitable model late in the program.

The Oldsmobile division of General Motors, on life support most of this decade, used the Detroit, New York and Chicago auto shows to display concept cars that were little more than thinly disguised versions of its future vehicles.

Also in the mix was Australian actor and Outback pitchman Paul Hogan (of Crocodile Dundee fame), who would stick around for most of the decade.

Published in the Commonwealth last year, this first novel is a challenging stream - of - consciouness narrative, told from the perspective of a young girl, that proved a tough sell: McBride spent most of a decade shopping it around before finding a home with a small press.

Published in the Commonwealth last year, A Girl Is a Half - Formed Thing is a challenging stream - of - consciouness narrative, told from the perspective of a young girl, that proved a tough sell: McBride spent most of a decade shopping it around before finding a home with Norwich's Galley Beggar Press.

Philips has been developing e-paper technology for most of the decade, and its latest bendy panels use a non-volatile display material from E Ink which, like the Fujitsu development, can present a picture when the power is cut.

P / E10 exceeded 20 for most of the decade of the 1960s.

The return benefit provided by foreign equities is good to see, as it's been challenging to own them for most of this decade, and portfolio allocations to foreign stocks have been stagnant at best over that time.

Put another way, if you chose a 50/50 stock / bond portfolio based on an analysis of one of these periods and then held that portfolio from 1960 to 2004, during most of those decades you could reasonably conclude you had the wrong mix of stocks and bonds resulting in additional risk without much additional return.

With yields falling over most of the decade, taking interest - rate rate risk paid off.

- 1950s: The beagle becomes the nation's top breed for most of the decade.

But teaching staff the methods and enforcing compliance with the law took most of another decade, during which time a western - inspired «no kill» movement gained momentum.

He became a Socialist activist, and worked for various workers» causes for most of the decade, until by 1941.

1950 Sells no paintings at his first solo show, it is met with negative reception, which continues throughout most of the decade, causing him to stop making art for a period of time.

The Bushwick Arts Festival will take place on June 3 - 5, the same weekend that Arts in Bushwick's «Bushwick Open Studios» claimed for most of a decade.

Married in 1943, the couple survived most of that decade living hand - to - mouth.

Now, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat by for most of a decade allowing — indeed encouraging — the use of their data set as an icon for global warming skeptics.

In fact, the jet stream swung north to latitudes never before observed at that time of year; the winds during July reversed their normal pattern, and southern Greenland — where melting has been at record levels for most of the decade — actually saw more snowfall and lower melting in 2015.

Between 1874 and 2011, only 78 of these facilities were built nationwide, most of them decades ago.

Below are some financial tips and ideas to help you make the most of this decade.

Interestingly, most of the decades - old titles I tried didn't feel dated; I attribute this to the revival of retro art styles in indie games over the past several years, as well as the smooth gameplay across titles that challenge you and require as much precision and skill as most modern releases.

For most of the decade, Silicon Valley technology startups have assumed that Google would pay their legal bills.

The iPhone's camera has been the standard setter for most of this decade because Apple has made it a priority, invested heavily, and has a massive team of 800 people working on it.

After spending most of the decade of the 2000s well above 40 percent, the share of remodelers citing whole house remodeling as a common project plummeted to 21 percent in the second quarter of 2010, before bouncing back up to 35 percent in the first quarter of 2012 and 39 percent in the latest survey.

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For a couple of decades, a big part of Canada's sales pitch to international investors has been that the North American Free Trade Agreement works as a backdoor to the world's most voracious consumers.

As a result, most of today's sought - after professions didn't exist just a decade ago!

Most recently, she spent a decade as the Editor in Chief of Hudson Valley Magazine, but she's also held staff positions at Vanity Fair, People, and TV Guide.

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

The company also has a decades - long tradition of hosting competitions among grocers for prizes to create the most compelling displays of Jolly Time Pop Corn.

This year, that's best personified by the world premier of Pee - wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens» return to his most famous character after more than two decades.

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp.

One of the most pronounced reactions, though, came when Meyers did a joke about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime film producer who sparked the reckoning over sexual harassment after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed three decades of allegations against him.

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

Actor Augustin Legrand is taking over the role of «The Most Interesting Man in the World» months after the 77 - year - old American Jonathan Goldsmith bowed out of the role he played for nearly a decade in TV commercials and other promotional spots for the Heineken - owned beer brand.

From the first mobile phone to the Rubik's Cube, check out some of the most impactful inventions from the decade of disco.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

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