Sentences with phrase «than a decade writing»

She has spent more than a decade writing and reporting on personal finance, real estate and business, and has received three journalism awards for her work.

After spending more than a decade writing about relationships and yacking about them on the radio, I've decided to try and make money doing something I've been doing for friends for years: writing and editing online dating profiles!

I know from experience, as I spent more than a decade writing a book — New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century — which takes in the studios and the streets, the artists and the audiences, the galleries and the museums, the ideas that had arrived from Europe and were transformed beneath the strong, clear light of this most modern metropolis.

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«Indicators of individualism,» she writes, «are all higher now in the U.S. than in previous decades.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Chris Umiastowski, a former technology analyst at TD Securities who recently left the industry after more than a decade, says he never hesitated to write a negative report.

The book was written more than two decades ago when Nepo went through cancer treatment.

As Tully writes, «the board's inaction helped Harvey Weinstein remain all - powerful for more than a decade, as directors from the vanguard of the business elite enabled him to stay atop the company.»

According to a Conference Board of Canada study, a BHP acquisition of Potash Corp. could cost provincial coffers $ 2 billion over a decade if the Melbourne - based company proceeds with a new $ 12 - billion mine proposal, which would create more than 2,000 jobs but generate capital write - offs.

Dodd - Frank wasn't perfect, and writing and implementation wasn't particularly pretty, but it has placed our markets and our economy in a much better and more secure place than we have been in decades.

«After more than a decade of our eating biotech foods, there has not been a single scientifically confirmed case of human illness that can be attributed to food biotechnology,» he writes.

«Though saddled with more debt and costlier homes, young people tend to be wealthier, have a little more spending power and enjoy better job opportunities than three decades ago,» wrote Guatieri.

I write as a technology journalist who first interviewed Jobs more than three decades ago, and who interacted with him several dozen times since.

Much has been written about how to manage this new generation of workers between the ages of 18 and 35, which will constitute more than 35 percent of the workforce by the end of 2013 and more than 50 percent of all workers by the end of the decade.

As Barry Eichengreen writes of the British economy, «Its performance compares less favorably with Europe's in the «twenties, when it persistently lagged its Continental rivals, than in the «thirties, when it closed much of the gap that had opened up in that earlier decade.»

Susan Delacourt is a former Toronto Star staff columnist who has written about federal politics for more than two decades as a reporter and bureau chief.

«It has been more than a decade since the commission has fully examined how best to regulate political spending on the Internet — an eternity in online years,» FEC commissioner Ellen Weintraub wrote in an Washington Post op - ed.

More than any event I've witnessed in two decades of living in and writing about this city, this snowstorm underscores the horrible history of suburban sprawl in the United States and the bad political decisions that drive it.

There have been times writing and editing this blog on that kind of insane schedule for more than a decade when I have wondered who this new frantic way of life would kill first.

Melanie Phillips pointed out that she had been writing for more than two decades «on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap» and so on.

One might think that an actual resurrection would have been captured immediately in a contemporaneous written record corroborated by many, many independent Jewish and Roman sources rather than a few vested 2nd hand accounts decades after the alleged event.

But the adulation that came Seeger's way in recent decades had less to do with his mastery of the five - string banjo and his song - writing than with his status in certain circles as a living martyr: the man who stiffed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), found himself blacklisted, and was reduced to performing on college campuses for a while.

Writing more than five decades ago in Sports Illustrated, Catholic moral theologian Richard McCormick stated: «Regardless of what answer we come up with, it is both a sign and guarantee of abiding spiritual health to face issues at their moral root.

It was written more than a decade ago, when theologians in different parts of the world were first realizing the depths of the crisis inflicted upon earth by...

I have wanted to write such an article for decades, but you did it much better than I could have.

As a result, more has been written on this topic in the last few decades than had been written in the previous two millennia.

Although Kim tried, in essays written over the course of more than a decade, to reconcile these three assumptions, he confessed at the end of this period that he seemed «to be up against a dead end,» with the problem of the mind appearing «intractable» (SM 367).

For the past decade E.J. Dionne has written a column on politics for the Washington Post that has been syndicated to more than 90 other newspapers.

[108] There are far fewer witnesses to cla ssical texts than to the Bible, and unlike the New Testament where the earliest witnesses are often within a couple decades of the original, the earliest existing manuscripts of most cla ssical texts were written about a millennium after their composition.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

It was written more than a decade ago, when theologians in different parts of the world were first realizing the depths of the crisis inflicted upon earth by human exploitation.

Writing out of more than a decade of experience as a mental hospital chaplain, Carroll A. Wise speaks to the importance of symbols in religion:

With a master's degree in art history from the University of Missouri - Columbia, Michelle Powell - Smith has been writing professionally for more than a decade.

I could literally write for days about the ineptitude of this club when it comes to their handling of player contracts, which seems so incredibly bizarre for a club that has had the same man in charge for more than two decades.

In my first book, Whatever it Takes, I wrote a lot about Baby College, a nine - week parenting program that the Harlem Children's Zone has been running for more than a decade.

Moe, who has been writing about education reform for more than two decades, argued last year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics of blocking [education accountability reform].

She was a larger than life presence who made all New Yorkers proud over her decades of service,» wrote Cuomo.

«The IP2 containment liner, in particular, has been subjected to a variety of unusual degradation events over more than four decades, including buckling in 1968, deformations caused by a jet of steam and hot water in 1973, and corrosion due to a flooding event in 1980,» state officials wrote in a petition for the hearing.

For more than two decades, he served in the Assembly, a firebrand liberal who wrote a remarkable 108 laws, followed by two terms as New York City's comptroller and one term — so far — as state comptroller.

The discrepancy was enough, researchers wrote, to suggest that the exercise mavens were on average as much as a decade biologically younger than the slackers.

After underperforming its competition throughout the last decade, Gheit wrote, BP was the only major oil company to perform better than the S&P 500 last year.

«If native species linearly decline at a rate similar to or greater than that of the past decade, then multiple extinctions are likely in the next decade,» the team writes.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

«Although we have learned a lot over the last two decades, all expeditions put together have probably investigated less than 1 percent of the seafloor,» writes Ballard.

Susan Gaidos has been writing about discoveries in areas ranging from biology and neuroscience to physics and technology for more than three decades.

Although a House of Representatives panel last week approved a lower figure, it seems the agency may be on track to its first significant increase in more than a decade,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote at ScienceInsider.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

«The majority of trainees will eventually choose to pursue those careers, but only after having made irreversible investments in what is often more than a decade in training for academic jobs that do not exist,» the presidents and chancellors wrote.

Although one of us, Marc Bekoff, has been writing about the importance of individual animals in conservation for more than two decades, it took an international meeting at the University of Oxford in September 2010 for compassionate conservation to get a big push.

The six - decade - long study on domesticating foxes in Siberia that we write about has everything from cutting - edge science to political intrigue to human / animal love stories, but perhaps more than anything else, it shows that when smart people with a passion for science pair that with almost superhuman perseverance, we can unwrap the mysteries of the world we live in.»