Sentences with phrase «quarter century at»

Well, after a quarter century at AAII (somehow that sounds a lot longer than 25 years), I will be retiring at the end of September.

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E.F. Schumacher, whose European roots give him extremely adept, objective insight into the precepts of an American free - market, argues that «most of the conspicuous developments of economics in the last quarter of a century are in the direction of quantification; at the expense of the understanding of qualitative differences.»

Brennan, 57, spent a quarter - century at the CIA.

Berkshire Hathaway sold all of its nearly 9 million shares of Twenty - First Century Fox (foxa) during the first quarter of 2017, a stake that would have been worth about $ 290 million at the end of March.

Look beyond his Columbia University professorship to his quarter - century at the Washington Post and articles in Harper's and The New Republic, and without opening his latest book, you'll figure the former Pulitzer Prize finalist for a liberal.

It had been almost $ 113,000 at its peak in 2007 and was $ 74,600 back in 1989, meaning that wealth for this group has declined by more than 40 % over the last quarter century.

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China — the world's second - largest economy — grew at its slowest annual pace in approximately a quarter - century in 2015, with China's stock market volatility spiking, and the renminbi sharply depreciating versus the U.S. dollar.

By at least one measure, corporate earnings are the best in nearly a quarter - century.

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

Business investment per worker in Canada is at its worst level compared to the United States in more than a quarter century, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

LOS ANGELES (TheStreet)-- The media stock swoon continued on Thursday as disappointing second - quarter earnings from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and Sumner Redstone's Viacom (VIAB) prolonged the downtown in television stocks that began earlier this week when Disney (DIS) acknowledged subscriber decline at its powerhouse sports network ESPN.

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Can a look at the complexion and character of US Treasury owners over the last quarter century help us in counting the cards of the current cycle?

While options traders initially scoffed at their ideas, this breakthrough was so ahead of its time that it took a quarter century to be fully appreciated.

Is it reasonable to speculate that perhaps mutual fund holdings of Treasuries as a percentage of the total outstanding has peaked at a high unseen for at least a quarter century?

Turning to any page at random, you will find gleefully sarcastic observations that ring at least as true today as they did three - quarters of a century ago.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the world's first exchange - traded fund debuted right here in Canada, and over the years those of us in the industry have got pretty adept at rhyming off the benefits of ETFs.

In the last quarter century, from the Republican Richard Nixon in 1969 to the Democratic Bill Clinton in 1993, the evangelist Billy Graham has often played a prominent role at inauguration services.

Rejoice with me Jesus paid my frightful price — Took me to Him — Into HIS Mystical Body — That we shared in life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for me -

behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

The northern segment of the severed monarchy suffers political execution at the hands of Assyria in the last quarter of the eighth century B.C., and Judah at the hands of resurgent Babylon in the first quarter of the sixth century B.C..

The issue was clearly focused at the three - quarter mark of the century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?»

We have been busy at that task with nuclear energy for a quarter of a century, and there is no reason to believe that the regulation of molecular manipulation will be any easier, or any less necessary.

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn't really occurred to me until a quarter - century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on pro-life and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting.

Apart from a couple of very obscure references, one would never guess that he served as president of the «Christian Union» (Inter-Varsity) at Edinburgh a quarter of a century ago.

It is relevant to our present interest that the date commonly assigned to the basic core of the book is late in the eighth century or sometime in the first three quarters of the seventh; consequently, it was aimed at ameliorating contemporary conditions of the sort sketched above.

We get some idea of what was happening towards the end of the first century, at least in some quarters, by examining the new way in which the Fourth Evangelist speaks about resurrection.

In rereading The Secular City after a quarter of a century I smiled occasionally at its audacity, the way a father might chuckle at the shenanigans of a rambunctious child.

A revised and expanded version of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures that Walzer gave at Yale University in 2013, his new book seeks to explain how secular national liberation movements, which built independent states in Algeria, India, and Israel following World War II, eventually spawned «religious movements that challenged the achievement roughly a quarter century later.»

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

A quarter of a century ago I spent three years at Bible College, which...

This has everything to do with strategic and pastoral planning, reflecting the fact that Latinos constitute at least a quarter of the more than sixty million Catholics in the U.S., and some expect they will be half the Catholic population by the middle of the century.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

Now, for a half century — the last quarter of the tenth and the first quarter of the ninth — the larger, stronger North and the smaller but more compactly integrated South know a relationship if not of war, at least of unceasing armed bickering over disputed common boundaries (14:30; 15:7,16).

Currently the Academic Dean at the University of Illinois in Chicago (where he cops an annual salary approaching a quarter of a million dollars, making him the highest paid dean in the country), he began his career as a scholar of seventeenth - century English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

If by the «primitive church» we mean the church of the first century and the first quarter, say, of the second — and such a period represents the approximate range of this chapter — we have at most only the New Testament documents and some of the Apostolic Fathers; and none of these documents is concerned to set forth in any full or systematic way the constitution of the church or the methods of its work.

The research, commissioned by Linda McCartney Foods to celebrate the famous vegetarian food brand's 25th birthday, looked back at food trends over the past quarter of a century and forward to the next quarter.

«The generosity of PACK EXPO attendees and exhibitors was truly inspirational,» says Chuck Yuska, at the conclusion of his last PACK EXPO after more than a quarter century as President and CEO of PMMI.

Peter King, an SI writer since 1989 and senior writer since 1990, has covered pro football at the magazine for a quarter - century.

But look at how our collective understanding of those issues has evolved over the last quarter - century.

The setting was genteel, but for a while last week at Mexico City's brick - red Chapultepec Sports Club the 4,000 feverish partisans crowding the awning - covered stands had heady visions of reliving the revolutionary days of a quarter of a century ago when Mexico threw off the Yanqui yoke.

Wenger has been at Arsenal nearly a quarter of a century.

Cueto is gone, and the Reds» best chance at a World Series in a quarter - century has officially passed them by.

A quarter century later, men who are themselves Hall of Fame pitchers have expressed awe at his performance.

From Men in Blazers: Rog and Davo relive MLS's Zlatan debut, Tottenham's first win at Stamford Bridge in more than a quarter century and City moving within a win of the title.

He became the 17th Red in the last quarter of a century to score on his debut, when he turned home Roberto Firmino's lob at Watford.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

Legendary Italian still going strong quarter of a century on from debut, SunSport takes a long at similar achievements