Sentences with phrase «spent centuries working»

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So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

Allen Klevens, CEO of Los Angeles - based Prescriptive Music, which works with companies such as The Cheesecake Factory and Century 21 to create music playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them return.

But if such people are actually out there, I suppose that reading the works of a life - affirming thinker from the eighteenth century is far from the worst way that they could spend their time.

The rest of his career — the other work for which he is most remembered, his bizarre, occasionally moving falconry memoir The Goshawk, had already been written — was spent attending to this fourteenth - century romance, a «perfect tragedy» populated with real «glorious people — not pre-raphaelite prigs.»

That question is easy: Any three - term governor of New York with a beating heart and a working brain should automatically qualify as a presidential contender, even if half that time was spent in the 20th Century.

He spent 10 painstaking years working out how our blood really circulates: 17th - century physician William Harvey deserves his own London exhibition

If you spot a blue cornflower this summer, spare a thought for the dedicated chemists who have spent most of this century trying to work out what makes it so blue.

Life in the 21st century is fast - paced, with endless distractions, plus we spend most of our days working indoors.

Nearly all so - called classic sports movies are about white men beating the odds, as if white men have spent the past few centuries working from behind.

The latest effort from Rodrigo Garcia, Albert Nobbs follows the title character (Glenn Close), a turn - of - the - century woman who has spent years working as a male butler, as her orderly existence is threatened by the arrival of a scrappy newcomer (Aaron Johnson's Joe).

Prior to joining the Partnership, Jennifer spent eight years as an appointee of President Bill Clinton at the U.S. Department of Education, where she supported implementation of numerous initiatives including student loan reform, School - to - Work, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Even Brean Hammond, the Shakespearean scholar who spent 10 years studying the play and editor of the Arden Shakespeare Edition, believes that the 18th century publisher of the play, Theobald, significantly «cut and altered the work to suit his 18th century audience» though in an interview with the BBC, he says he is certain that Shakespeare «had a strong hand in» the first act, the second act, and at least part of Act III.

Wente and McLeod, who both work in Toronto, now spend almost every weekend rambling around their faux turn - of - the - century farmhouse, chopping wood, raising bees, bottling honey and birdwatching.

He spent the next quarter century working for the Hudson's Bay Company in the northern territory of inhabited Quebec and Labrador.

Witty, erudite and principled, he spent more than half a century promoting the work of artists ranging from the St Ives School to American Abstract Expressionists, as well as Picasso, Matisse and the Pop artists.

Contesting the progress - and - mastery saga of twentieth - century modernism, Chicago - based artist Tony Tasset spent much of the 1980s and»90s meticulously crafting insolent, critical objects, and the nine works represented in this ten - year survey (1986 — 96) unambiguously assert his past affinity for blunt deconstructionist strategies.

Mr. Elderfield spent the next two years negotiating loans of 51 works from across four centuries, drawn predominantly from museums and foundations, and brought in Mr. Galassi to organize a photography counterpart for the «In the Studio» show.

Brodhead is best - known for her mid-20th century abstract works, but as Bold Strokes demonstrates, she was adept at painting figures and landscapes as well... [Brodhead] studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1919 — 25, spent time painting in Paris at the Académie Julian, and left PAFA in 1925 to study under her mentor Arthur B. Carles.

Shown alongside the paintings and drawings are three items which are designed to re-orientate the reading of the work: an early 19th century Indian miniature (Rhodes spent her childhood in Bengal and has an affinity with Indian court painting); an aerial photograph from 1926 of the site of Woodhenge in Wiltshire — drawing attention to the artist's interest in what becomes visible though distance; and a photograph by Luigi Ghirri of an avenue of trees disappearing into the mist.

Vyacheslav Kantor, one of Russia's richest businessmen with interests in fertilisers and real estate, has spent the past decade building up a collection of 20th - century artists, including works by modernists Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as post-war legends such as Mark Rothko and Ilya Kabakov.

The third in a series of systematic catalogues of the collection of the National Gallery of Art, British Paintings includes paintings that were produced from the 16th to the 19th century by British artists or foreign artists who spent the greater part of their working lives in Britain.

British Paintings includes paintings that were produced from the 16th to the 19th century by British artists or foreign artists who spent the greater part of their working lives in Britain.

Artist Statement After spending seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meat industry, Upton Sinclair wrote this 1906 novel in which he exposed early 20th Century conditions in...

She spent the next half - century working steadily at her art and exhibiting frequently, but she never developed a marketable artistic signature.

Re: TESLA As someone who red about Nikola Tesla from age of six, spent hours and hours as a teenager in the museum devoted to his work, and as student every morning was greeted by gaze of his bronze statue, I believe that article written by M.J. Egan, and you recommend as a further reading is at best, misuse of the name of one the greatest inventors of the 19th & early 20th century.

He also will spend significant time in the Firm's Century City office working with members of O'Melveny's Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice Group.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

He was voted as one of the top 10 Most Influential Therapists of the past quarter century by the Psychotherapy Networker and has spent more than 40 years working with thousands of couples.