Sentences with phrase «on earlier decades»

Also, looking back on earlier decades in the U.S., we may have had an epidemic of pre-term births that we are just now discovering.»
It is the first gallery exhibition to focus exclusively on the early decades of the artist's career since his death in 2002.

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.
In his own memo, Allbritton opened by talking about how, «A decade ago, early in 2006, I made a decision to start a new newspaper focused on Capitol Hill.»
To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.
When the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced earlier this week that mortgage delinquency rates had fallen to the lowest level in decades during the fourth quarter, there was a rash of stories patting Canadians on the back for their financial prudence.
Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.
Department store stalwart Macy's tried and failed earlier this decade to establish its own e-commerce presence in China; now it has a «storefront» on Tmall Global.
Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.
Early on, when the need for that money is still a couple decades away, the fund will adopt a more growth - focused strategy.
After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.
In early July, Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential 2016 candidate for president, told the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security that he was seeking $ 500 million in reimbursement for a decade's worth of spending by the state on border security and enforcement.
Smoke on the Water is a prime example of the early 70s, guitar - driven sound that inspired countless bands for at least the next decade.
Their remedy on small - business taxation is similar to Jim Flaherty's remedy to income - trust taxation early in the Conservatives» decade in office: a previously innocuous accounting practice was exploding in popularity because the tax advantage was too great to ignore.
Clinton goes on to lament the plight of a woman standing nearby: «She has to take a brand - name drug, been taking it since the early 1980s,» the candidate says, explaining that the price of the drug has multiplied nearly 82 times in the decades since to $ 14,700 for a refill today.
While its presence has been known since the early 1700's, it was only in the last decade or so that production and development has picked up on a large scale, thrusting the Tar Sands into the national spotlight.
A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.
But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.
Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.
«BP is continuing to plan for a lower oil price world,» chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this month, adding that «I'm not expecting big shifts in prices anytime soon and a price of $ 50 a barrel looks like the right number to plan on for the rest of the decade
Following a collapse in its stock and real estate markets in the early 1990s, it took Japan the better part of a decade to get back on track.
Normally, solar panels are designed to last several decades on rooftops, but according to these sources, in early 2016, the Whitney panels failed internal tests that determined whether they met industry - standard longevity.
News and music are dominating user activity on smart speakers, just as they did in the early days of mobile devices a decade ago.
It also shows the incremental dollars invested by decade, and the compounding effect on those earlier contributions through age 65.
A couple smart choices early on will turn your nest egg into a tsunami in a couple decades.
Hamid has a proven track record of investing in many of the leading enterprise startups of the last decade — including early investments in Slack, Box, Yammer, Intercom and Netskope, where he also served on the board of directors.
On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.
Pepper's criteria on evaluating early - stage startups has evolved over the past decade.
Young Conservative staffers have, on balance, been likelier to marry off and start families at a young age than their Liberal predecessors a decade earlier.
Investor expectations for U.S. inflation over the next decade fell to barely 1.8 % on Friday from 1.95 % in early May.
Prior to joining TFX, Kevin spent over a decade as a Managing Director for Stephens Capital Partners LLC and Stephens Inc. where he was responsible for originating, analyzing, managing and advising on transactions ranging from early stage opportunities to leveraged buyouts.
On the one hand, the weak global environment in the early years of this decade formed a large cumulative drag on exportOn the one hand, the weak global environment in the early years of this decade formed a large cumulative drag on exporton exports.
One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.
Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.
The World's Work, an investment periodical published decades later, in the early 1900s, was beset by letters from investors asking for advice on mining stocks.
An accomplished specialist giving start ups what they need — vision and revenue, Tom has spent two decades successfully generating early growth on a large scale for analytics companies like Informatica and customer experience providers, Empirix and Avoke.
The monthly payment on a $ 250,000 mortgage taken out when five - year mortgage rates were four per cent would jump from $ 1,319 to nearly $ 2,000 if rates rose to just eight per cent, where they were earlier this decade.
In 2015, the average first - time bride in the U.S. was 28 and the groom was 30; just a decade earlier, brides were on average 25.5 and grooms were 27.
Fact: no one knows what Jesus said on the cross because the earliest writings about his murder were written decades later.
If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.
While Odysseus on his return to Ithaca is exactly the same as when he left two decades earlier, «what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing and the old man whose favorite son has been torn to pieces by a wild beast!»
This is partly because the interviews were conducted earlier this decade, before Anvari arrived on the scene, and partly because Rahbaran focuses on filmmakers who chose to work in the country despite the prevailing censorship.
Hybels recently announced that he was stepping down early (he'd planned on retiring in October), after the Chicago Tribune published an article detailing accusations by several women of inappropriate conduct over the course of several decades.
AFFIRM said this film has all the makings to be a hit, based on a business model they have honed over the past decade with movies targeted to Christians and early screenings of this film.
It's early, but it's hard to imagine any other show this decade transcending to the heights attained by Adam (Peter Krause) and Kristina Braverman (Monica Potter) on Parenthood.
For another instance, the massive, mainly Irish, immigration of an earlier time, joined to the virulent anti-Catholic bigotry of the Protestant majority, posed a crisis that went on for decades.
It is smaller than the gap discernible in the 1920s, and only slightly larger than those for the «40s and «50s (see Yearbook of Amen can and Canadian Churches for the years 1920 - 1984)(I have made these calculations without including one denomination on the Carroll graph — the Lutheran Church in America — whose antecedents in earlier decades are too complex for reliable figuring.
If only Justin Bieber had been born a few decades earlier, the pop jams on his latest album Purpose could have been yacht rock classics.
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