Sentences with phrase «spend first several years»

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.»

She spent the first several years in New York pursuing an acting career until she realized that the teaching profession was calling to her and telling her to go back to school.

Chloe spent the first several years as a breeding dog, trapped in a wire cage, bred at every heat cycle, her puppies whisked away and sold by brokers to pet stores or internet dog sellers.

I spent my first several years in practice at Jenner & Block LLP as an associate in the commercial litigation department.

Kathryn spent the first several years of her career working in public tax accounting, helping high - net worth individuals and small businesses accomplish their financial goals.

I spent my first several years in the recruiting industry hiding away, avoiding other recruiters, never networking, no sharing of ideas or information -.

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When I started First Insight in 2007, I had been a retail merchant for 15 years and then spent several years working in retail technology.

He then spent several years in product management and early market development for first - in - class technologies at Guidant, Edwards Lifesciences, and Evalve (acquired by Abbott Laboratories).

The Liberal government took several important steps during its first year in office, but its bold feminist rhetoric has not yet translated into policy and spending decisions that push the needle forward on gender equality.

In 2004, I moved to Chicago and spent several years as a real estate broker before opening my first restaurant, Porkchop, in the West Loop at 941 W. Randolph St. Porkchop opened in May 2011 and it was something of a self - made American dream come true.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

The thing that really bothers me is the thing we've disagreed on in the past and that's imo Wengers apparent lack of Urgency and decisiveness when moving into the transfer window I know that Scheweinsteiger would be a great addition but He is somewhat over the hill in comparison to the others that are being toted about and while I know that we are not the cash Rich Man Poo or Man Sh!tty or Chelski I do know that we are at a point for the first time in ten years where we don't need to replace many players or are being frced to sell the quality ones we have, we are for the first time in a spot where we only need to add two or three players and we are there in terms of being able to compete, Id hate for the financial Exuberance to stop us taking that final stride forward into the competitive team we nearly are IMO spend the money now, get the striker, get the DM and we wont need to look at transfers in a big way again for several seasons and with that in mind Id rather have the likes of Benzema or Lacazetta or even Cavanni than a nearly over the hill Scheweinsteiger.

Guidetti found first - team opportunities limited at the Etihad after moving from Sweden as a 16 - year - old and has spent several spells out on loan with Burnley, Stoke and most notably Feyenoord where he scored 20 goals in 23 games.

Laura and her husband spent several years taking care of rescue dogs - transport, intakes, fostering, etc. and had to step away a bit once they had their first child.

When, for example, he attracts criticism for saying he admires Vladimir Putin in a magazine interview, Alastair Campbell is blamed for having «trapped» him into saying it; when he loses the first TV debate it's because he allowed himself «to be persuaded to act out of character»; and when it comes to the declining value of Brent crude Salmond writes breezily that «no - one really knows what the price of oil is going to be in the short term», despite having spent several years arguing precisely the contrary.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has worked over the last several years to shore up support from the left after a first term accomplishments that include caps on spending in the budget, limits to local property tax increases and other methods of fiscal restraint following the recession.

In some departments, particularly in the life sciences, this advice is formalized into «rotations,» in which each grad student spends most of their first year in several different labs.

First author Ipek Kulahci spent several years studying ring - tailed lemurs housed at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina and the St. Catherines Island Lemur Program in Georgia.

I strongly recommend that young Chinese life scientists spend some time in China first, get familiar with general research work, then come to Germany to be trained for several years.

My first half of senior year was spent interviewing and attending recruiting events for several accounting firms.

It was the first of many such roles for Tyner, who spent the next several years playing a variety of tight - lipped, vicious rural authority figures.

After years spent working on several undercooked drafts of the story — the most infamous involving a wooden planet home to a sect of space monks — Ripley's further adventures battling the xenomorph eventually got the greenlight with then first - time director Fincher, having made his name on music videos, became attached to the project.

In response, it was decided that instead of launching straight into their LOTE subject Japanese, the South Australian students would instead spend their first year of school learning about several different countries of importance and their culturally significant stories, songs and aspects of daily life.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Nationally, state spending per child fell since 2015 - 2016, adjusted for inflation, the first decrease in several years.

A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a corporate and communications strategy consultant, and then as an at - home producer of small persons.

Prior to that she spent several years working as a high school English teacher in first New Hampshire and later in Vermont.

During the several years he spent in traditional and self - publishing, he developed campaigns for bestselling books and was able to secure major media breaks for first time self - published authors.

Because I was one of the first to buy the piece of crap blackberry storm and have spent the last several years hating it and blackberry.

I've learned several financial lessons over the years (spend less than you earn, pay yourself first and optimize your savings so you can invest) but the greatest lesson I learned was to be happy today.

Following his time at Wheat First Butcher Singer, Kevin spent several years at Sterling Financial before establishing Capital Wealth Planning.

Current Offers Just out of curiosity, on August 23, 2013 I checked which offers are currently on it and found several special Amex offers including one 45,000 SkyMiles for the Gold Delta SkyMiles Amex when you spend $ 5,000 in 6 months with the $ 95 annual fee waived the first year versus the public offer of just 30,000 SkyMiles after $ 500 in spend - a 50 % difference!

After several years spent getting to know this breed, we got our first corsi in 2014.

I've spent the last several years writing strategy guides for Prima Games, and in all of that time, Pikmin 3 is the first title I specifically requested.

So we blew the dust off his PS2 and inserted FFX, and after I spent the first several hours whining and moaning (mostly just in spite of my friend) about how horrendous looking Tidus» outfit is and how the last ten years have taken a serious toll on the game's voice acting (Sorry all you FF fans who thought the voice work was revolutionary for the series, but go back.

The two curators had spent several hours in Stovall's Detroit studio earlier in the year — enough for them to make the decision to invite her to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the first since the museum moved into its Meatpacking District building in 2015.

As a young girl, she spent several years with her mother and sister in Japan, where she first experimented with calligraphy and painting.

Marx Foods may be the first, but Rebecca has since spent five years creating living walls, and ran a business maintaining gardens for several years before that.

Prior to corporate, Jamie spent several years in government service, first as a trial attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., and later, as Assistant General Counsel and Head of e-Discovery for the Agency.

I spent the first few weeks of this year on a business trip across several countries in the region and a couple of things struck me.

Several major goals that need to be settled the first year include how to allocate and handle money, who is going to do what chores, ways to spend free time, finding time to have sex, dealing with in - laws, understanding differences in spirituality or religion, learning how to deal with conflict, and discussing expectations.