Sentences with phrase «several decades past»

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While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, he says: «Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur.

With online apparel retailer American Giant, Bayard Winthrop is trying to do what few have done in the past several decades: produce high - quality clothing entirely in the United States.

«We are solving problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence that were in the realm of science fiction for the past several decades,» he said.

Last year's prize in the category went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the past several decades of awards in the category have largely gone to instrumental LPs.

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.

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.

Detroit has been pummeled over the past several decades, and it is still in for a long, hard climb.

To verify that it was still valid, the researchers recently compared it with several other personality tests of the past decade.

Other companies have released versions over the past decade, but none has seen mainstream success, and several have gone belly - up.

NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam reports in a segment aired Wednesday that the odds of a publicly traded company going under have increased significantly over the past several decades.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

But its runway the next several years could rival the huge growth in the U.S. over the past half - decade.

The late Steve Sabol, who died this week at the age of 69, not only affected those who knew him personally but most anyone who's been watching football over the past several decades.

It has waded through several legal scandals, job cuts and asset sales over the past decade.

I think the simplest explanation is that over the past several decades we've gone from a nation of savers who paid cash for things including homes and cars to a nation of spenders who use debt like mortgages, car loans and credit cards to pay for things.

Western Canadian production is discounted somewhat both by quality and transportation costs, but has spiked several times in the past decade as pipeline space runs tight.

According to a Gallup poll, 74 % of employees feel that they are missing out on company news and information, which is shocking considering how hard human resource teams have worked to increase employee engagement over the past several decades.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

One of the chief problems, Sykes said, was that it had become impossible to prove to listeners that Trump was telling falsehoods because over the past several decades, the conservative news media had «basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers.»

We identified companies that paid little income tax relative to their profits over the past decade, and selected several for further investigation.

Augmented reality is a trillion - dollar industry that has growth potential unlike anything we've seen over the past several decades.

However, over the past two decades, several companies have defied the odds, garnering sky - high valuations in as little as two years.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

Over the course of the past several decades, the term «investor» has been used for anyone who owns a share of stock.

While GDP growth in China has skyrocketed over the past several decades, it would seem difficult to argue that this has benefited the U.S. from a geopolitically.

Over the past decade, several high - profile 401 (k) fee lawsuits and DOL efforts to implement a fiduciary standard for professional investment advice have put 401 (k) fiduciary responsibility in the national spotlight.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Of course, there have been several rallies during the past few decades.

After reviewing the award winners over the past several years, Clint expressed surprise to see awards given for «new and ground - breaking» products that were things that Black & Veatch had been doing for decades.

There have been a number of recent articles pointing out that despite having to compete with several giant beer companies, the craft brewing industry has dramatically expanded over the past decade.

For the past several decades, Asia Pacific has been a region of remarkable growth, economic dynamism and rising living standards.

If there is one lesson that investors should learn from market history over the past several decades, it's that the best time to buy stocks is when the market is tanking.

As I have written about several times of late, research in the past four decades has shown that the predominant largest factor influencing decisions on the part of buyers are their goals and their associated goal - directed behaviors.

Over the past several decades, the concept of brand in B2B has essentially been one of identity, positioning, and messaging.

Fortunately, over the past several decades, non-bank (or «alternative») lending has exploded.

First and foremost, the top banks are big because the Federal Reserve and other regulators have over the past several decades allowed and even encouraged a series of mergers between strong banks and weak.

We've seen booms and busts in new housing starts over the past several decades, but homeownership rates in the U.S. took a huge blow as a result of the Great Recession.

In the past several weeks, the Canadian dollar has hovered between 69 and 75 cents U.S., in its lowest exchange rate in over a decade.

Several Fortune 100 companies, such as Intel, have moved in this direction in the past decade.

The good news is that the payout ratio of the S&P 500 constituents has come down over the past several decades.

While it's impossible to predict exactly what the stock market will do, investing pros over the past several months have been reducing their expectations for what they think the stock market will return, not only in the next year, but potentially over the next couple of decades.

Our Investment Philosophy is built on the belief that we have been in a secular bear market for the past decade and it may last several more years.

Much has been made recently about slowing productivity growth, but the longer - term view in Figure 2 shows that the U.S. has become radically more productive over the past several decades.

Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion & Democracy has responded to my take on the rise of Protestant perfectionism in the past several decades with a plea for help from Reformed Christians.

Over the past several decades the theological assumptions taken for granted by Barth — designated by some as the «Lutheran perspective» on Romans — have been dismantled.

Yet Catholic leaders over the past several decades have cooperated in a similar slander against Israel.

During the past several decades there has probably been more writing on the problem of evil...

The openly conservative Sinarquista party («without anarchy») flourished briefly in the lg4os, and the second largest political party during the past several decades (PAN) is generally recognized as a «Christian Democratic» party.

Several characteristics that come under the heading of «methodology» seem to be shared by all the churches, and they show that the emphasis on dialogue and interpersonal relations during the past decade has had a profound effect.

You probably haven't an inkling of history for the past several hundred years, or even of the past few decades.