Sentences with phrase «spent up to a decade»

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Macy's new CEO Jeff Gennette has spent a busy first nine months on the job he spent three decades building up to.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

This matters because Canada has already spent nearly three decades burnishing a nasty reputation as a place that doesn't live up to its climate change commitments.

And if Trump sticks to his campaign promises, his administration may very well end up swimming in red ink: according to reputable estimates, if carried out, Trump's spending and tax plans, including his plans for infrastructure spending and wall - building, and his promise to retain some of the most expensive parts of Obamacare, will boost government borrowing by roughly a third within a decade, and could double it by 2036.

Even less did it take account of the till longer predisposing factors for which the U.S. is more to blame than Saddam Hussein: the decade spent competing with the U.S.S.R. in building up Hussein's forces, and the explicit statements made in July to the effect that what Hussein might choose to do with border problems was not our concern.

Bill how can anyone post the data when the Catholic Church has spent decades and millions of dollars trying to cover it all up?

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job.

I spent decades giving the stink eye to happiness and waiting for joy to take up residence in my life.

After many decades of spending money to eradicate marijuana in the ever - failing War on Drugs, we're waking up.

We are on the cusp of greatness again and if this opportunity is ignored due to the Board and AW's financial reluctance and timidity, then we may just have to spend another ten years as the runners up or the «nearly but not quite» team we have been over the last decade.

Though he loves his country and spends up to $ 15,000 a month on telephone calls to his mother, Dalma Franco, his father, Diego, and his four siblings still in Argentina (two others live in Europe), he has not lived in his native land full - time for nearly a decade.

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!!

Perrin has spent his whole career at St. Etienne, but surely if he was very talented he would have snapped up by a top French team at any time in the last decade, and because of his age he is unlikely to be expected to improve any more.

Chelsea and Man City, with all the wealth at their disposal up to FFP were not able to guarantee victory all the time, and Man U, the richest club in England prior to the oil money influx, spent decades trying to find someone who could generate success.

I also don't want to be in a position that I spend another decade like this and end up separating anyway at the end.

Whether you end up making it «until death» or not, the intention to spend decades with someone — no matter how well you may know him or her — can be daunting.

Whether you end up making it «until death» or not, the intention to spend decades with someone — no matter how well you may know him or her — seems somewhat daunting.

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.

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

«Phillip is one of the foremost experts on how to better serve and lift up low - income neighborhoods, and has spent decades fighting in the trenches for progressive causes.

He also referenced a «rampant waste and lack of accountability» related to DOE spending, and said that DOC's spending has gone up in the past decade, despite a 30 percent decline in the inmate population.

In a 2002 report, the Department of Energy laid out a plan to get rid of the nation's spent nuclear power plants» waste, which has been piling up for several decades.

In the governor's statement issued Sunday, Mr. Cuomo kept up his strong words in trying to address what he described as «decades of leading the nation in education spending but lagging in results.»

Regardless of who ends up in Gracie Mansion, an administration change means a strategy adjustment for developers, who have spent more than a decade getting used to Bloomberg's taste in real estate projects as well as how his key appointees — from City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden to Department of Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri — operate.

Initiatives such as Start - Up New York have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and untold amounts in future tax revenues for a decade, to entice new small businesses to come to New York — while established mature businesses exit the State.

New York (CNNMoney.com)- Congressional budget scorekeepers said that a grab - bag bill of spending and tax measures to be taken up this week would increase federal deficits by $ 134 billion over a decade.

For decades, researchers instead chalked up the vast variability between light and heavy sleepers to differences in sleep stage; sound sleepers were thought to spend more of their repose in the deeper stages of sleep.

Typically, stability measurements can only be carried out on a single, purified protein, but Fitzgerald's group has spent the last decade perfecting a technique that can determine the stabilities of complex mixtures of proteins — up to hundreds or even thousands of proteins at once.

Fillon wants total spending on research to increase from 160 billion francs (# 20 billion) to 200 billion francs over the next decade, so that France can catch up with Japan and the US.

I've spent the past decade building up academic credentials, doing all the things a scientist needs to do to land a faculty appointment.

Wrong fish restocked U.S. conservationists spent two decades restoring the greenback cutthroat trout to its former glory in the mountain streams of Colorado, finally succeeding last year in bringing the endangered species back up to 20 self - sustaining populations.

(«Suitably informed» meaning, of course, that you'd need to spend the best part of a decade getting academically tooled up for life as a scientist).

To reach that point, they first had to spend a decade standardizing, optimizing and scaling up their procedures, which involved using targeted antibodies to stain proteins and then looking for those markers inside healthy and cancerous tissue cells with high - resolution microscopTo reach that point, they first had to spend a decade standardizing, optimizing and scaling up their procedures, which involved using targeted antibodies to stain proteins and then looking for those markers inside healthy and cancerous tissue cells with high - resolution microscopto spend a decade standardizing, optimizing and scaling up their procedures, which involved using targeted antibodies to stain proteins and then looking for those markers inside healthy and cancerous tissue cells with high - resolution microscopto stain proteins and then looking for those markers inside healthy and cancerous tissue cells with high - resolution microscopy.

Kristin Stark, who has spent two decades at Amblin (DreamWorks), has been upped to senior VP, marketing and communications for Amblin Partners and will now manage all aspects of Amblin's marketing efforts.

The Marvel movies have spent the better part of a decade building Thanos up to be the ultimate big bad.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Kathryn Hahn and Corey Stoll, the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper «s novel will follow a dysfunctional family in which the father's death forces the four grown siblings to spend a week together in the house where they grew up for the first time in a decade.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has spent the last decade building up a sprawling, interconnected world of comic book superheroes, an incredible experiment that has paid off to the tune of billions of dollars for Marvel and its parent company, Disney.

To document the equalizing effect of these reforms, Figure 1 compares the changes in spending in previously low - spending and high - spending districts during the 10 years leading up to a court - mandated SFR and the two decades that followeTo document the equalizing effect of these reforms, Figure 1 compares the changes in spending in previously low - spending and high - spending districts during the 10 years leading up to a court - mandated SFR and the two decades that followeto a court - mandated SFR and the two decades that followed.

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

At a bare minimum, our elected officials should commit to providing the $ 400 million that they pledged for school safety and security measures, which ate up all but 47 cents of the roughly $ 100 increase in per - pupil spending (and that still lags total inflation adjusted spending from a decade ago by nearly $ 1500).

These issues are frustrating, but frankly to be expected as it is the rare politician who is willing to admit that he has spent a decade with unchallenged control of a school system, sought test measured validation of his approach, and came up with belly button lint instead.

The K900 WILL SIT ON DEALER LOTS AND IN SHOWROOMS FOR QUITE SOME TIME before any takers actually lease one.The Equus, as nice a car it it is, sits in showrooms for a year or more... having sold HYUNDAI for 15 years and having gone thru all of their growth with them, they are a fine automobile and company as is KIA since the Hyundai purchase of them about a decade ago.I do feel that delving into this high end luxury car arena is a mistake for both Hyundai and Kia.They should have spent money and added a power passenger seat to the Sonata and they would have sold twice as many as they did, and that's no joke.There are not enough people in that tax bracket that will spend 60 + grand on any KIA.The dealership I was at for 15 years selling Hyundai recently gave up the EQUUS LINE FOR LACK OF SALES.I fear that eventually KIA dealers will do the same with the K900

The Canadian Press: Parliament's spending watchdog says Liberal changes to passive investment rules for small businesses could rake in up to $ 6 billion annually in new tax revenues after a decade.

Making minimum payments on a credit card seems like a way to spend the least amount possible, but interest charges pile up and it can take decades to pay off a credit card by making minimum payments.

Page by page, you'll learn how to create a portfolio with the widest diversification and lowest costs; one that can move up your financial freedom by a decade and dramatically increase your spending rate during retirement.

That can quickly eat up any savings or retirement nest egg that you have spent decades to accumulate.