Sentences with phrase «spent about a decade»

Yes we have spent about a Decade at our new stadium.

She spent about a decade working at Columbia's Center for Core Curriculum — the office that oversees the school's undergraduate liberal arts program.

Youngerman and Kelly both spent about a decade studying in Paris after their U.S. military service, and were clearly already thinking about landscapes in the abstract.

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Frank Giustra has spent roughly two decades giving money away, but every year teaches him something fresh about philanthropy.

Over the decades he spent in law enforcement, Frank Muscato talked to lots of his fellow cops about starting a business.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

Newspapers and magazines have spent more than a decade now hemorrhaging revenue, staff, and reach thanks to the collapse of print advertising, but recent outcry about the spread of «fake news» may have motivated Google and Facebook to provide more support to trusted publishers.

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.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

Nassar spent nearly three decades at USA Gymnastics before being fired in 2015 after complaints about his behavior.

In an exclusive interview, Ms. Holmes talks to Medscape Editor - in - Chief Eric J. Topol, MD, about the decade she spent building her company; plans for the present and the future, including a recent deal with Walgreens drugstores; and whether she's on the path to the creative destruction of laboratory medicine.

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 the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

While CBO projects higher projections for wages and taxable corporate profits will boost revenues by about $ 195 billion over the next decade, it also expects changes in interest rates and inflation will increase spending by $ 302 billion over the same period.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

Passionate about foreign affairs, entrepreneurship, and writing, Elmira has spent the past two decades working on foreign policy, international development, and with startups worldwide.

Founded in 2006, Canada 2020 has spent more than a decade hosting events, producing original research and starting conversations about Canada's future.

The deepening recession and spreading financial crisis is the beginning of the unwinding of about three decades of financial leverage and spending excesses.

We've spent decades thinking about those things, investing in those things and we should think more.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

I spent the 1990s and the first half of the previous decade thinking way too much about cutting taxes and way too little about labor - force participation and family structure among America's low - skilled workforce.

She spent a decade on the school board in our hometown, and another decade speaking bravely and publicly about her battle with Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder.

Solomon is a stylish, stunning woman herself; I spend half of our interview trying to figure out how someone this young could be this successful before she mentions her actual age — and it turns out I was under by about a decade.

The 6 Most Important Tech Trends, According to Eric Schmidt Alphabet's Executive Chairman Has Spent Decades Preaching About How Tech Can Help Improve Lives.

New Mexico head coach Bob Davie, who spent a decade as an ESPN color commentator after a five - year stint as the head man at Notre Dame: «I had a lot of time to reflect on this and think about it.

Arsenal make # 150m extra, we spend # 30m and talk about how great it is to have a nice philosophy that hasn't won anything major in over a decade.

A lot of Arsenal fans would gladly take a bit of the trophy success that Chelsea have enjoyed over the last decade or so, with Premier League titles, domestic cups and both the Champions League and Europa League to celebrate, but I am not so sure about the way that their big spending billionaire owner Roman Abramovich gets through managers.

A walk - on from Tony, Wisc., he was a three - time All - American and Wisconsin hall of fame inductee, and despite his 5» 8 stature, he spent a decade in the pros, starting for about four seasons and picking off 14 passes.

The prem teams get so much money now they can afford the best managers in the world and then buy the best players and if u think about what arsenal have done it's obvious we have stagnated with the same manager, spending the same amount of money playing the same tactics which never won the league in the first place (not including wengers first decade or so) so the past does not represent the present when every other team has improved so much!

I mean if you guys think that we do nt have the quality to be the champions then this year you can say that we could have had the quality if we had spend... yeah thats for this year but then why were you unhappy about the last decade?

Nor do players complain about their roles, of particular note in the case of fading 36 - year - old star Vincent Damphousse, who has played wing after spending almost a decade at center.

You'll spend the next decade dreaming about the big - armed, erratic young pitcher in your favorite team's system because of Arrieta, and he'll never be Arrieta.

For your information frustrated gunner Diaby was unlucky with his injuries if he wasn't so injury prone he would have been a better player than either granit or Ramsey, if you ever saw him play or the few times he did he was vieraesque, hope I'm allowed to make up my own word, but injuries destroyed his career so to me you are just someone who is clueless about football... to all you guys asking for dm and Maherz basically you are saying we need to spend another 85 mil min to get those two, we also need to swich to four at the back, ok yeah let's regress we found that 3 at the back Suits our team we have been more solid defensively but no let's revert to the old system that hasn't won us anything major in a decade even tough we won a trophy beating the pl champions with the new system, a system that Many top teams are using for your information!!

So, Shaquille O'Neal was a guest on Jimmy Fallon's show recently, and spent some time hanging out with Fallon's house band, The Roots, only to find out about some decades - old sabotage.

If he played for everton or Southampton we would have been talking about spending # 50 million on a young CB that can play for us for the next decade.

«In fact, now I think about it, if a formula one team devised a car specifically for me and really took the time, spending hundreds of millions upskilling me and devoting all their R&D to my development for as long as it took, decades if necessary, I have every confidence I could become a highly successful Grand Prix driver.

Today's parents spend eleven hours less a week (about 90 minutes a day) with their teenagers than they did two decades ago.

She spent a decade in academia and was about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures.

Mr. Hackett spent his career with the Park District, from the 1950s through the early 1990s, and was recreation department director for about a decade starting in the mid-1970s.

After giving a little more history about his family, Dr. K says to Jake, «I have spent five decades delivering babies.

Alvarez, who spent a decade leading healthcare and clinical research teams, interviewed about 5,000 women about what their pumping experiences and worked with her husband, a mechanical engineer who specializes in medical devices, to create a prototype out of a surgical glove, washer, syringe and duct tape.

In fact, she's spent decades teaching writing to others, amid her own struggles around identity, brokenness, self - destructive habits, and conflicting emotions about her own mother (it's mere coincidence that my last post was on the Happy / Sad of adoption).

Our experts are passionate about the topics they speak about and have spent years, in most cases decades, researching them and working with parents and kids.

Whereas for the last decade or so, voters flocked to the internet to find out more about their candidates or contribute to campaigns, they now spend five hours a day online.

Administration costs of central government represented about three per cent of total public spending over most of the last three decades.

«George Osborne can not now be serious about plans to rip ever bigger chunks out of national spending well into this decade.

Our experience here on Long Island is that for decades arbitrators have sided heavily with unions and ignored municipalities» concerns about controlling taxes and spending.

«New York has spent a decade talking, studying, and meeting about how to replace this vital bridge,» said Commissioner McDonald.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.