Sentences with phrase «of a decade by»

«The Tipping Point» was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon customers, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian, and was Barnes & Noble's fifth bestselling nonfiction book of the decade.

The industries were attacked at the early stage of that decade by an ecological movement.

The accusations emerged from the giant scandal in Brazil involving the state oil company there, Petrobras, which was bilked for billions of dollars over the course of a decade by corrupt executives, politicians and contractors — including Odebrecht.

The disease had been in the news for the better part of a decade by the time of the film's release in late 1993.

Voted Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2008, Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100 + publications around the U.S. and Canada.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the better part of 2009, you've already heard the buzz surrounding Inglourious Basterds, an ultimate cinematic package filled with enigmatic performances, ultra-violent imagery, and a revisionist World War II narrative created over the course of a decade by director Quentin Tarantino.

Alan was named one of the nation's fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Technology and Learning Magazine.

Named as one of the top 50 trucks of the decade by Street Trucks Magazine, Goodguys Truck of the Year 2002 - 2003, six magazine appearances to its name, a Boyds Pro Pick in Scottsdale, and laying claim to a handful of other awards, $ 132,000 almost seems like a steal.

Its popularity was eclipsed, however briefly, near the end of the decade by the rise of horror fiction, all of it seemingly written by R. L. Stine and Christopher Pike, whom Time called «the Beavis and Butthead of young adult literature.»

We appear to have compensated for our stagnant paycheques over the past couple of decades by borrowing to make up for the raises we missed.

The mutual fund manager was named the U.S. stock manager of the decade by Morningstar in 2010, but saw huge losses in 2011 due to his big bet on financials.

KingsIsle's first game, Wizard101, was named Best MMO of 2010 by Beckett Massive Online Gamer Magazine, Best Family MMO of the Decade by Massively.com and the # 1 Best Family Game of 2009 by MMORPG.com.

Paintings of this decade by Pablo Picasso, Philip Guston, and Faith Ringgold reflect how artists began to confront the relationship between their identities, their studio practices, and the tumultuous times in which they lived.

The album has since been named # 1 Australian Album of all time in a Triple J industry poll, as well as the # 10 album of the decade by Pitchfork media.

The theoretical underpinnings of the study of the dynamical behavior of open systems — which are in contact with their surroundings and thus may exhibit time dependence in their forcing or coefficients — were laid within the last couple of decades by L. Arnold, G. Sell, and L. - S.

Yes, it's true — skeptical, legitimate climate scientists like the ones who run this site have been very frustrated by the deliberately deceitful pseudoscience, outright lies — and most recently vicious personal attacks against them — that have been cranked out for the last couple of decades by fossil fuel industry - funded frauds and cranks and given unwarranted legitimacy by the mass media, and regurgitated ad nauseum on blogs everywhere by Ditto - Heads who unquestioningly believe whatever drivel is spoon - fed to them by the phony «conservative» media, and call themselves «skeptics» for doing so.

Having spent years toiling in the shadow of feature - phone leaders like Nokia and Sony Ericsson, Samsung's mobile division rose to prominence at the turn of the decade by embracing the Android platform aggressively.

Not exact matches

A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

It also estimated that the loss of those workers could cost the country $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, with Medicare and Social Security contributions dropping by $ 24.6 billion.

With decades of experience, she can tell if they'll fit into her program by the way their rigs are kept and the way they handle horses.

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce expects the TPP to increase U.S. exports by $ 125 billion over the next decade.

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

The sales growth got a boost by its 2015 purchase of Interline Brands the company's biggest acquisition in nearly a decade.

Indeed, this story of intrigue might be just a salacious distraction were it not taking place at the top of the ruling class of China, which will likely be the world's largest economy by the end of the decade and a place upon which Canada's fortunes increasingly hinge.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

Despite decades of work by public - health researchers hoping to prove their case on a scientific basis, conclusive evidence is nowhere to be seen.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

According to town officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and documents obtained by Business Insider, AMC has kept the Celebration theater empty for close to a decade because it's cheaper to take the loss on the theater than to pay staff and operate it.

Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)

Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

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.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

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.

Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

By the beginning of this decade (as Fortune wrote at the time), tech executives were calling the area «Silicon Slopes.»

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

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.

The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

Developed through the knowledge gained by operating thousands of salons for decades, the Supercuts Franchise Platform has developed the optimal model in how to setup and manage salons down to the last detail.

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

For almost two decades he'd worked in the lawn - care industry, first for a company bought out by TruGreen, and later with his own business, Lawn Dawg, which grew to seven branches that maintained 25,000 lawns throughout his home base of New Hampshire.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

The decline in the formation of new businesses (with one to four employees) in areas where student debt increased by 2.7 percent over a decade, according to 2015 research by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.