Sentences with phrase «of decades of my life»

Now, however, obesity in the U.S. is poised to overtake cigarettes in deadliness, with one major recent study concluding that, on average, obesity robs people of a decade of life.

Responsible for protecting humanity, the Colonial Defense Force doesn't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living.

I had built up my savings from odd jobs, internships, gift money and allowance money I'd received up to that point and it took all of the first couple of decades of my life to get there.

Not exact matches

... to say nothing of an African, or someone living decades ago.

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.

«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.

After following the lives of 268 Harvard undergraduate males from the classes of 1938 to 1940 for decades, psychiatrist George Vaillant concluded something you probably already know: Love is the key to happiness.

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 globe.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Meanwhile, Behan, 48, and Jaime Gifford, 51, who are in their 10th year of living aboard Totem, a Stevens 47, logged decades of sailing experience prior to setting off on their journey in 2008.

The tennis player has undoubtedly earned her charmed life, thanks to decades of relentless training and unwavering discipline.

After decades engaged in fulfilling, challenging work, a life of leisure isn't necessarily appealing.

Canadians are living longer — life expectancy is increasing at the rate of roughly one year per decade.

The event immediately killed dozens and scarred the lives of tens of thousands of people over the ensuing decades.

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Two decades after the bloodshed that tore apart communist Yugoslavia, the men convicted for their destructive roles are increasingly present in public life, especially in Serbia, where many of them remain popular.

But, Jason said, for the next decade they plan to restrict themselves to just living on the cash flowing from investments and ignore any capital or market increases in the value of properties, pensions, and shares.

Wilson is the author of The Pittsburgh Cycle, 10 plays set in each decade of the 20th century depicting the lives of African Americans.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $ 67 billion.

It took her a couple of minutes to get over the shock and start recognizing faces, says Ezon, but the crowd included family and friends from all walks of life, some of whom she hadn't seen in decades.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

In other words, after decades of free spending, we've hit the reset button and are living the new norm.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

The real - life and fictional lives of entrepreneurs have been the subjects of major Hollywood movies for decades.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

In a decade of Formula One racing, Lewis Hamilton has established himself as one of the best drivers to have ever lived.

The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade - long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.

In the past couple of decades, the world has been racked with wars and other conflicts that have dislocated the lives of 60 million people, making them refugees.

Over the past few decades in the U.S., wages have remained stagnant while the costs of building and living in housing has steadily risen.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

The potential for artificial intelligence has, for decades, been mostly relegated to the larger - than - life imaginations of Hollywood directors.

Musicians have survived decades of upheaval by labels, producers, retailers, Ticketmaster and Spotify by selling a live experience that you can't get from an illegal download.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Ma Bell was so wrapped up in the paradigm of the telegraph — an expensive technology used mostly for business and life - and - death announcements — that for decades it discouraged customers from using the phone for socializing.

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.

For decades, we lived within Moore's Law, which predicted that the number of transistors packed into a processor would double every two years, providing a steady gallop of technology improvement.

Much of the truly negative sentiment toward the building has dissipated over the last several decades, but it continues to strike a chord with many Poles, especially the older generation that lived under Soviet rule.

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.

Over the past two decades — since the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fall of communism — the twin forces of rapidly advancing technology and globalization have been reshaping every aspect of life.

An individual has the potential to impact the lives of a billion people in a decade.

During his three decades as CEO of Starbucks, Schultz launched several initiatives aimed at bettering the lives of employees.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements from private industry, and frustration with elements of Air Force life.

But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside at least — like one big party.

Since 1950, life expectancies at birth have ticked upward at a rate of roughly two years per decade, from an average 68.2 for a newborn in 1950 to 76.8 for one in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.