Sentences with phrase «of decades in»

We found that 84 % of all wildfires were started by people over the last couple of decades in the U.S.

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, gave his view of the next couple of decades in the evolution of TV - watching at the re: publica 15 digital culture conference in Berlin on May 5

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

The pair are expected to serve a minimum of a decade in jail and their sentencing will be delivered in April 2018.

We've all spent a minimum of a decade in formal education, so you'd think that in all that time, we'd have at least mastered the most basic principles of how to study efficiently.

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune's editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009.

PIMCO's Bill Gross, the big dog in the fixed income space and to whom Gundlach lost the title of Morningstar's Fixed Income Manager of the Decade in 2010, earned an average of 7.6 % during the same period in his much larger $ 281 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX).

The very cost of mounting and moving so comprehensive a show (having closed in Chicago, it is now in Philadelphia and from there goes to Los Angeles and New York) makes it all the more remarkable that an artist who had generated so much hostility among so many critics at the beginning of the decade in both the United States and Germany would have survived the firestorm of criticism and receive solid support from such establishment stalwarts as the Lannan Foundation and the Ford Motor Company.

Indeed in a century where irrationalities and horrors of all sorts — mass executions, mass imprisonments, wars of annihilation, revolutions, rebellions and depressions — have been common, the events of that decade in America:

It's a mindset problem that gives me pause on my formerly staunch belief that Durant leaving was the most turncoat move of the decade in the NBA.

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

The sudden retirement of Dario Franchitti may be the biggest story of the decade in the IndyCar Series.

Also, Lampard was named Player of the decade in the Premier League.

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Even further back to the start of the decade in April, Republicans had an enrollment of 2.7 million, with unaffiliated voters cresting at just over 2 million registrations.

His thematically organized memoir is a folksy, well - paced, and at times cinematic rendering of a decade in office begun in exhilaration and finished in a hearty good riddance shared both by the leader and his country.

These data were compiled over the course of a decade in the lab of late co-corresponding author Dali Guo, a professor at CAS» Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research.

Not exact matches

After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, he says: «Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur.

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 %.

Dr. Bernard Luskin, a psychotherapist with nearly five decades of experience profiling complex minds, boiled down the traits of a typical whistleblower, which he published as an editorial in Work Style Magazine.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

The service is also getting ready to debut multiple original shows developed specifically for CBS All Access, including a spin - off of the hit drama The Good Wife and the first new Star Trek series in more than a decade, called Star Trek: Discovery, which is expected to premiere in 2017.

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.

Our understanding of the nature of creativity has undergone a revolution in the past few decades.

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 awrIn 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 awrin 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.

A downgrade is also often interpreted as a condemnation of the current political leadership, even if the underlying problems occasioning the downgrade have been decades in the making.

The past decade has seen a rising demand for «music supervision» of the type Grayson Matthews provides — companies and individuals dedicated to creating or finding the right song for the right moment in a piece of film.

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.

Games have consequently ballooned in scope over the decades to the point where they typically require $ 100 - million budgets, teams of hundreds and several years to produce.

Mr. Trump said he created the university in 2005 to impart decades» worth of his business acumen to the general public.

What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

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

He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

The slump in demand for the precious metal also coincided with prices holding within their narrowest range of any quarter in more than a decade.

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Sure, dozens of Chinese state - owned behemoths have joined the global corporate aristocracy in the past two decades.

Saudi's Attorney General said in November that the government estimated that «at least $ 100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades» and said 208 individuals had been arrested as part of the crackdown, with seven released without charge.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Design trends change quickly, and in the span of a decade or two, the fonts, colors and shapes that seemed cool at the time could be laughed at in the modern era as nostalgic leftovers.

Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers — called Joy - Cons — that let you play anywhere.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

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.

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

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.

In America and abroad, the condition (and other dementia and cognitive decline conditions) are expected to balloon in the coming decades — an ironic side effect of growing life expectancy across the globIn America and abroad, the condition (and other dementia and cognitive decline conditions) are expected to balloon in the coming decades — an ironic side effect of growing life expectancy across the globin the coming decades — an ironic side effect of growing life expectancy across the globe.

The bid emphasizes the importance of gaining a greater foothold in online sales in India, a market expected to be worth $ 200 billion a year within a decade.

And in May, France's Emmanuel Macron (No. 1 on our list) swept aside decades of political precedent to ascend to power with an entirely new party.

I spent over a decade of my professional career in the great sport of NASCAR.