Sentences with phrase «of decades of time»

A meaningful response requires us to consider the effects of decades of time.

«Over the first couple of decades of my time in the business — the 1960s and 1970s — the sales department grew in importance and influence.

Not exact matches

After the Times wrote a story suggesting that Trump may have avoided paying taxes for close to two decades as a result of a large tax loss on his real estate investments, the candidate threatened to sue the newspaper.

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.

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.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

And herein lies the secret of turning ephemeral dreams into tangible outcomes, of launching that company that's been on the bucket list for decades, or publishing that novel that's been languishing in the bottom drawer since the dawn of time — it's being able to structure the dream into something that inspires action and momentum.

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

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.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

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.

CFOs are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy than they've been at any time this decade, according to a survey out this morning from Deloitte.

Rather than try to time the market or buy into the newest blockchain trend, MetaStable looks closely at the real - world use cases of various digital currencies, and aims to make at least decade - long bets on the most «credible candidates,» Seims tells Fortune.

So why did it take more than a decade and the rise of Donald Trump to convince the New York Times that it should call a lie what it is?

Amid a hail of gunfire the helicopter was able to take off from the prison after picking up three prisoners serving decades - long sentences for various violent crimes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Levi's timing seemed equally fortuitous when he, along with six B.C. trade unions, set up GrowthWorks in 1991, at the start of a decade - long tech boom.

NASA has wanted to study this region of space for decades, but each time it had the chance it opted out.

Unfortunately, despite decades of experience building new hire option plans, many start - ups still fail to put in place an equity compensation plan that adequately rewards long term employees over time.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

In the last decade, the length of time it takes companies to go public has essentially doubled, according to Greifeld.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

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.

The two - decade time horizon was significant because it captured transactions that occurred after legislation designed to discourage inversions by requiring stockholders to pay capital gains taxes on their shares at the time of the inversion.

Climate change requires cooperation between countries over a period of decades but we don't have much time to waste.»

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

The situation's not quite as good as it was at the end of the previous decade, but it's as good as it's been in a long time.

Decades of research show that working more than 40 hours a week is unsustainable and severely dents productivity per hour, and neuroscientists and others warn that failing to give your brain adequate time to rest and recuperate is a recipe for disaster (which you might guess that many people have grasped for themselves, given the current mania for «mindfulness»).

By the time the fourth generation iPad hits shelves, we'll already have a good grasp as to whether the next decade of game development will belong to Canada — or someone else

«At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing,» GE CEO John Flannery said in a release Tuesday.

Before devoting herself to her business full time in 2012, Katie Stack spent a decade working in the costume departments of regional theaters.

This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

[Hofstadter] might know what needs to be done for things to be intelligent, but it has taken someone, unfortunately me, the decades of time to drag that mattress out of the road so we can do the work.

Yellen is expected to chair the committee's next meeting on Jan. 30 - 31 for what will be her last FOMC gathering of her time on the committee spanning three decades as chair, vice chair, San Francisco Fed president and governor.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

As Fortune reports here for the first time, Dell's deals reflect a decade or more of meticulous planning, as well as some vital, long - lasting relationships — formed with a serendipitous boost from a Hawaiian vacation community.

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 one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin - a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters - delivers the first definitive blow - by - blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., «The Greatest of All Time» was a three - time world heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights champion who suffered a decades - long battle with Parkinson's diseTime» was a three - time world heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights champion who suffered a decades - long battle with Parkinson's disetime world heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights champion who suffered a decades - long battle with Parkinson's disease.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

One of Cantwell's co-founders, Elysian CEO Joe Bisacca, defends his decision to sell to AB InBev, noting that the small brewer nearly went out of business several times over the past decade.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

This marks the first time in over a decade that a Scottish whiskey hasn't claimed the top spot on Jim Murray's Whisky Bible — an annual compilation by one of the industry's most revered connoisseurs.

Further, with government approval at an all time low and an upcoming election with two of the most disliked candidates in decades, we may simply be no longer able to rely on the actions of our elected officials to regulate social goods.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

For the summer as a whole, on - time rates have improved from 75 % to 77 %, with only 10 out of the top 50 airports seeing a deterioration since the beginning of the decade.

The hollowed - out towns and cities in the northeastern corner of the state have fallen on hard times, as the manufacturing base dried up in recent decades, unemployment has climbed and jobs are hard to find.

Paul, a three - time presidential candidate and libertarian demigod, closes his three - decade career in the House of Representatives as its second-most conservative member.