Sentences with phrase «of decades of trying»

«In spite of decades of trying,» asserted Chester E. Finn Jr., the department's assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, «our field has not yet succeeded in persuading many people, save for our own fraternity members, of course, that education research is valuable or worthwhile except in situations where its work is palpably joined, in ways that any layman can understand, to real life issues, problems, and...

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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.

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.

That's a major global program where they're spending trillions of dollars a year and trying to build this program out for the next decade.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

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.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

If social media today, a decade after Facebook's founding, presents a warped, cracked reflection of the world around us, RelSci is trying to map that world, especially the professional part of it, with increasing detail, precision, and context.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

OTTAWA — The Conference Board says Canada has been spinning its wheels in the critical area of business innovation despite a decade of trying.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

The deal is among the biggest health - care mergers of the past decade and would create a behemoth that will try to shift some of Aetna customers» care away from doctors and hospitals and into thousands of CVS stores.

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

They're leaving countries, particularly the tri-border region — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — Mexico now has its worst murder rate in over a decade, and many people are just trying to get out of there.

Philip Morris International has tried to force the University of Stirling to hand over secret data into teenage smoking and cigarette packaging gathered over more than a decade.

Think of food companies» plight this way: The finest scientists in industry have spent decades trying to find or invent a no - calorie sweetener that tastes and feels as good as the stuff extracted from pure cane.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

For decades, businesses have spent considerable resources trying to discover ways to maximize the productivity of employees in the office.

Many start - up companies don't have the resources to throw at security nor the many decades of history in trying to keep client money safe, said Westby.

With Musk's vision of the next decade unveiled, his Valley peers are eager to see him try again for round two.

It so happens that Dennis Hopper, the director, star, and cowriter of «Easy Rider,» has an idea for a movie he's been trying to make for the last decade called «The Last Movie.»

«And particularly when you're trying to push the state - of - the - art and be a decade ahead of all the other people in the world, you have to take some chances.»

In fact, decades down the road from that first stock, he's surprised more people don't recognize the wisdom in investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuations.

When the movie came out in 1999, almost two decades ago, the world was still trying to figure out how to address the Y2K bug, and people didn't have most of the technology in their houses that we use today.

Decades later, Quinn decided to try to locate his child, and went to Ho Chi Minh City in search of the boy he left behind in 1973.

The city of Detroit has faced serious economic challenges in the past decade, with a shrinking population and tax base while trying to maintain essential services.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

For the last two decades, we had been trying to work out the fundamental science of quantum computing, and right now, a lot of the scientific advances are done.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Researchers have been trying to create a treatment that could be used for any type of virus for decades, and there are several promising possibilities in the works.

Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life series.

About a decade ago, two clients of Kevin Meehan, CFP and regional president, Chicago, at Wealth Enhancement Group, presented themselves as a responsible couple in their 30s trying to build their wealth.

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

An earlier try in 2001 was dropped following almost a decade of losses.

Senior Israeli sources told Israel's Channel 10 News that Iran chose the nondescript warehouse because it was trying to conceal over a decade of evidence of its nuclear activity from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

Likewise, despite decades of tries, there's still no cure for Parkinson's disease or even a drug that's been shown to slow its neurodegenerative progression.

In the ensuing decades, most infomercials came from the Vita - Mixes of the world: fledgling companies, often founded by former door - to - door salesmen and garage inventors, trying their hand at pitching viewers through TV.

The two Belgian academics are charter members of a global network of activists and thinkers who for decades have been trying to build the intellectual and political foundation for the idea.

Imagine trying to live the decades of your golden years on such a small nest egg.

Nearly a decade later, the entrepreneur secretly financed a lawsuit to try to put the media company out of business.

This season of In the Dark, back Tuesday, is about the prosecution of a Mississippi man who's been tried six times for the same crime and the prosecutor who's spent two decades trying to execute him.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

Trump is no stranger to trying to use the legal system to get his way: USA Today found during the 2016 campaign that Trump and his businesses had been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in state and federal courts over the course of three decades.

In an older issue of my blog, I tried to place the last 3 - 4 decades of Chinese growth in a historical context that recognizes four different stages of this growth process.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

Traditional retailers have spent more than a decade and billions of dollars trying to transform their brick - and - mortar businesses for the online shopper.

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Much of the decline has been self - imposed as communist leaders try to steer China to more sustainable growth driven by domestic consumption following the past decade's explosive expansion based on trade and investment.

Forbes, in turn, notes that Trump has a long history of trying to inflate his Forbes valuation and decades ago editors even joked about having a «Trump rule» when assessing Trump's net worth - consider the amount Trump claims and then divide it by three to get the real worth.