Sentences with phrase «started by decades»

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Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

In his own memo, Allbritton opened by talking about how, «A decade ago, early in 2006, I made a decision to start a new newspaper focused on Capitol Hill.»

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

CBS Corp's board is set to discuss a merger with Viacom Inc on Thursday, sources have told Reuters, possibly starting the process of reuniting the two media companies split by mogul Sumner Redstone more than a decade ago.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil fell last week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.

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Venture capitalist Mark Suster explains that the cost of starting a company has fallen by 90 % in the past decade, one reason investors — who also have heard of Zuckerberg and Mason — are more willing to fund more companies, with younger founders, ever earlier in their life cycle.

Not surprisingly, Oliver, in his speech, started by targeting Justin Trudeau for the «fiscal sins» of his father during the «pierre Trudeau Decade».

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

The S&P 500 turned $ 10,000 invested at the start of the 1990s into $ 53,300 by the end of decade.

Although Australia avoided the recession that engulfed many developed countries at the start of this decade, it was not totally unaffected by world events, and the Bank found it necessary in 2001 to cut the cash rate to 4.25 per cent in a series of steps.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

By the start of this decade, however, the company's business started on a steep decline as the PlayStation 3 initially failed to gain traction, the Walkman was a distant memory, and everything from digital cameras to mobile devices were getting hit hard by competitorBy the start of this decade, however, the company's business started on a steep decline as the PlayStation 3 initially failed to gain traction, the Walkman was a distant memory, and everything from digital cameras to mobile devices were getting hit hard by competitorby competitors.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Of all the start - up initiatives over the last decade that can technically be classed under the FinTech (financial technology) umbrella, the one that has received the most attention — and the one that has been surrounded by the most controversy — is

Of all the start - up initiatives over the last decade that can technically be classed under the FinTech (financial technology) umbrella, the one that has received the most attention — and the one that has been surrounded by the most controversy — is bitcoin.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

However, beginning in late - 2006, the housing market began to soften and by the start of 2007, last decade's housing market downturn had commenced.

As a result, the price of gold tripled, the dollar started its decline to being worth one - sixth of what it was prior to decoupling, and inflation was running at 15 percent by the end of the decade.

In the decade starting 1945, U.S. benchmark yields averaged about 2.46 percent, according to «A History of Interest Rates» by Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla.

Time was not on our side — after being cash flow positive for almost a decade we had been hit hard by the junk bond credit crisis that started in mid 1990.

Started in 1920 by a former AP economics reporter, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. is a closely held company managed for more than eight decades by three generations of the Kiplinger family.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

First is the growth of friendly GUI (Graphic User Interfaces) started at Xerox Parc twenty years ago, used by Apple for the past decade, and now coming to the PC world through NT Windows & trade; and its successor, called for now Chicago.

I think that what we must do is to start running as fast as possible toward that light, working to increase the probability of our survival through the next decade by some measurable amount.

In any case it seems necessary to start by trying to say what there was of me when the decade began.

In a career that has spanned over three decades, he has risen through the ranks, starting as a trainee at the Mandarin Oriental in Singapore followed by The Oriental in Bangkok.

The Giants drew well in the»60s, but started their toilet - spiral by the end of the decade.

Berger is one of the up - and - coming talents often cited as a candidate to start turning over the U.S. roster and getting new blood on a team that's been whupped by the Euros for the better part of two decades.

Not only that but this our only shot I starting a streak of at least a trophy each season... it's not the EPL or CL trophy but I think it's important to show that we have progressed on that regard after our decade long drought more so against one of our bitter rivals: It doesn't matter by how much or well we win the game but that ww WIN period!!

But more likely that will be a footnote to the start of Shiffrin's Olympic career, which, barring major injuries (as much an issue with ski racers as with football players; Vonn has been either out or compromised by injury in two of her three prime Olympic Games), could produce medal records that will last decades.

I would remark to you all that wenger best years were when he was only a coach in the 1st decade at the club then dein left / forced out by the greedy bastards of board members, wenger took up dein responsiblities and we started our descent from top of table to also - rans.

The graph below displays the number of dedicated pinch hitters — defined as hitters with at least 75 PA in a season who made at least half of those PA as pinch hitters — per team grouped by decade, going back to 1953, when Baseball Prospectus's complete pinch - hit splits start.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Unfortunately, my optimism about the start of school has waned year by year for the past decade or so.

These sojourns certainly are not unusual: Cassey studied a decade - long period starting in the mid-1990s and found about 500 trade missions led by governors nationwide, with more than 40 states launching at least one.

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

Long before it started feeling the fury of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico had already been hit by a decade - long economic disaster that led this year to a form of bankruptcy for the US territory.

The New York State legislature should start fighting corruption by capping outside income, as Congress did decades ago.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

Widely known in her neighborhood as «The Ice Cream Girl,» Campanella drives an ice cream truck, continuing a legacy started by her father decades past.

Isabella had to flee Colombia, a beautiful country with more than 40 million people, which sadly continues to endure internal conflicts started decades ago by foreign interests.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

Charles Myers, an investment banker in the city, who struck up a friendship with him a decade ago, recalled Mr. Cuomo's enthusiasm — and calls of congratulations — when he learned that Mr. Myers and his partner planned to start a family by adopting children.

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago, as the renowned broadcaster's path to this centre - right camp we find him in now started on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.

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It took the Conservatives a decade to start to catch up, not least due to the work done by Theresa May.

Despite Pataki campaigning against the New York State practice of not adopting an ontime budget by the start of the April 1 state fiscal year for over a decade, Pataki's first 10 years in office did not see the adoption of an ontime budget.