Sentences with phrase «stories of years of»

He, a young Black male, from a family who also graduated from this New York City high school, told me about low expectations, poor quality lessons, and countless stories of years of inadequate teaching.

Within its stitching, there are stories of years of wear — a history of a past life.

Vintage Levi's denim carries, within its stitching, stories of years of wear - a history of a past life.

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The combination of Musk's renown, stories comparing Tesla's acceleration to a Ferrari's, and intrigue over the new technology sent preorders above 5,000 by the end of the year.

The gesture is fitting — Bouchard's transformation of Alimentation Couche - Tard from a single convenience store into a $ 35 - billion retail empire is one of the country's more successful business stories of the past 40 years — but 2016 has not been without its trials.

In addition to these imminent issues, a number of other geopolitical stories have the potential to put added upside pressure on the market this year.

To get started, here's the story of East Coast Equine Transport, which Pat Thompson started more than 20 years ago.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

That kind of stasis would turn the good economic news of President Trump's first year into a short story.

Turcke related a story of how her 15 - year - old daughter was using a virtual private network to do just that.

Its impressive earnings and revenue trajectory — following its major acquisition of Softgate Systems this summer, it's on track to exceed $ 100 million in revenue this year — could have something to do with the fact Tio is a classic 20 - year «overnight» success story.

It's a different story in the U.S., where, after a five - year delay, transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee meetings — where U.S. interest rates are set — are released to the public.

The company prints about a million business cards a day.It is a similar story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.

IBMers interviewed for this story who worked there starting in the 1960s,»70s, and»80s are still intensely loyal, even when they criticize some of the changes in recent years.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

I sat down and wrote all of my stories from a 30 year time span.

«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

Over the summer, Gordon and Stanford separately devoted columns to the most under - reported Canadian business story of 2016: within a few months, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz will agree on the parameters the central bank will follow for the next five years.

We think it's a pretty compelling story, and, it turns out, it's one that is consistent with the pitch we made a year and a half ago, when we raised our seed round of funding.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Although it sounds like this story is still far from over, here are some of the key moments in the rise, fall, and pivot Theranos has gone through in the past year.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

«Year after year, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says SmYear after year, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says Smyear, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says Smith.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

A way for users to collect and share photos and videos related to an event or a theme, Stories is also similar to a feature launched by Facebook - owned Instagram earlier this year, when co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted it was a virtual carbon copy of Snapchat's feature, right down to the name.

Having had the sublime pleasure of riding in a robot car a few years ago (and writing about it again recently), it was with great interest that I read the cover story in the latest issue of Wired.

The early years of the company were a story of bootstrapping: sales and collection calls, and finding distributors willing to take a risk.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

Writer Max Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

If Microsoft does the same, we could wind up writing this story again with different names — or maybe some of the same ones — a few years from now.

«Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers,» asserts the project's website, promising year - round food production without pesticides.

An excerpt on The Berghoff's official website says its history is the «quintessential American success story of an immigrant who built a hugely successful business that has stayed in one family for more than a hundred years.»

Yes, the year's biggest story was Serena Williams and her push to become the fourth woman ever to complete a calendar grand slam (win all four of the sport's Majors in one year) by winning this Open — a push that ended Friday in a crushing defeat that did not take away from the achievement of how close she came.

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

This year Canadian Business decided to tell some of those stories.

Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

When Uber appeared in Inc.'s Company of the Year package in 2015, the story was international expansion.

Hiring stories like that one illustrate how employers need to stop focusing minutely on details like education pedigrees or years of experience a candidate has and instead focus on the candidate's true capacity to create, innovate and learn.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Read on for seven stories from this year's Oscar contenders to inspire you in the pursuit of your dream.

«We've all heard lots of talk over the years about the fear that analytics will drive the types of stories you do in a bad way.

Too many entrepreneurs and experts make the mistake of assuming that just because their product or service is one that's useful throughout the year or «evergreen», it's automatically interesting as a story at any time.

She has spent years studying the science (research, studies, physiology, etc.) of how body language tells the story of what is going on inside someone's brain.

However, before entrepreneurs in the tech space try to figure out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another of the many PR fakes Apple has pulled over the years.

The retired Carty, among the most respected men in the airline industry, tells this story with the energy and infection of a 21 - year - old app developer.

But the REAL private dining experience is downstairs in the wine cellar: legend has it that Edgar Allan Poe used to visit, and was inspired by the 200 - year - old wine cellar for his story «The Cask of Amontillado.»

Yet to my withered hippocampus, a story I wrote two years earlier often seems the work of some other person; the knowledge I gathered in authoring it has ebbed away.

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

Branson pulled in other examples such as Nelson Mandela's story of forgiving the people who imprisoned him for 27 years.