Sentences with phrase «works in about a decade»

I had no aspiration to write historical fiction and I hadn't read any of Flannery's work in about a decade.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

While some artists will continue to have reservations about having their work featured in ads, Gardner and Hayman say there is still a greater likelihood of people finding a new band or their favourite new song in a television show these days than there was a decade ago.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portIn his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

At the Goldman Sachs annual Private Internet Company Conference, we asked attendees about the technology trends that will define the way we live and work in the next decade.

Rubin's curious point in the OpEd is that it wasn't «courses in economics or finance» from his days at Harvard that prepared him «for working at Goldman Sachs and in the government» (notice the almost decade - long stretch at Citigroup is completely missing) but instead «the key was Professor Demos's philosophy course and the conversations about existentialism in coffee shops around campus.»

Jeffrey returned to Canada after living and working in the US for nearly a decade and is now very passionate about helping Canadian entities develop and thrive.

The purchase is a part of the Saudi Naval Expansion Program II which has been in the works for over a decade with a cost of about $ 20 billion.

GFI estimates that cultured meat could become cost - competitive with conventional meat in about a decade.42 The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) reports that one of two scientists they spoke with who work on tissue engineering gave a similar estimate — though Open Phil themselves remain much more pessimistic about the timeline for the widespread commercial availability of cultured meat.43 We are not certain whether it is realistic to expect cultured meat to become cost - competitive with conventional meat within a decade.

In the case of American Water Works, the return on equity has averaged about 10 % annually over the past decade.

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

He is a British writer and cultural commentator who lives and works in Washington, D.C.. For decades now, he has been observing the political / societal scene and writing about it in a particularly insightful, witty and acerbic manner.

There are miserable thirty and fortysomethings in jobs they stopped caring about a decade ago — and it shows all over their work.

In recent decades, theoretical developments and widespread availability of powerful computers have drastically changed the sorts of problems that scientists and technologists can tackle, greatly altered the methods they use, and brought about major upheaval in rather fundamental concepts used in scientific worIn recent decades, theoretical developments and widespread availability of powerful computers have drastically changed the sorts of problems that scientists and technologists can tackle, greatly altered the methods they use, and brought about major upheaval in rather fundamental concepts used in scientific worin rather fundamental concepts used in scientific worin scientific work.

BT: In the nearly two decades I've worked as or with prosecutors, I never get asked about false allegations of burglary, robbery, arson or a host of other offenses.

Having worked in church and culture research for over a decade, I can tell you that one of the most - asked questions is about the category of Evangelicals.

It has been largely through the work of philosophers that thought about the methods of science has affected religious thought in recent decades.

In the first decades of his remarkably busy career, Greeley did serious academic work in sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United StateIn the first decades of his remarkably busy career, Greeley did serious academic work in sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United Statein sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United Statein the United States.

We somehow got on the topic of dream jobs now that we've all been working in the real world for about a decade, and I wasn't surprised to hear that we all had visions of creative and passionate careers that gave us the freedom to travel and explore regularly.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

Honestly, think about it, after all these years, of wenger sticking to his stubborn ways and belief's, Wouldn't a change in his style of play, contradict his last decade of work?

Careerbuilder.com has conducted an annual survey of working dads throughout this decade, and consistently about four out of 10 of them have said they would be a stay - at - home dad if their families were in the right situation.

Alvarez, who spent a decade leading healthcare and clinical research teams, interviewed about 5,000 women about what their pumping experiences and worked with her husband, a mechanical engineer who specializes in medical devices, to create a prototype out of a surgical glove, washer, syringe and duct tape.

American families have undergone dramatic changes in the past five decades, as the share of adults who are married has declined from 72 % in 1960 to about 50 % today.18 Compared with single fathers and fathers who live with a partner, married fathers work longer hours in their job and have the least amount of leisure time.

For over a decade, BSM Media has been working to help companies speak to moms about products and brands in a relevant and valuable manner.

When she was 60, she went to work as a telephone marketer for an insurance company in Chicago and retired about a decade later.

I worked in TV news for about a decade, most notably at WCBS in New York, covering the entertainment, fashion and beauty news.

Our experts are passionate about the topics they speak about and have spent years, in most cases decades, researching them and working with parents and kids.

«We're all talking about the political situation and the political tumult: I believe it comes down to the fact that you have working men and women in this country who believe they have been given a raw deal in this country and have been given a raw deal for decades, and I believe it's true,» Cuomo said Saturday, before marching in a labor parade.

Another check examined in the case was a $ 1,000 donation that Wormuth's campaign account received that month from Edward Robertshaw, a Ballston Lake resident who has worked for Tanski for about a decade.

Mr Shapps said: «One of the cruelest things about this welfare system, which had developed over decades... is that it traps people who want to work hard and get on in life with no other option but to be trapped into a life on welfare.

I think in some parts of the country we've had discontent building up for decades about the way the country has been run and about the way our economy works and people feeling that the country just doesn't work for them.

In spite of all the talk about so - called «boom years» we saw a situation where almost a million and a half people spent the last decade out of work — and the number of households where no one had ever worked doubled.

Miller sometimes got headaches after a few hours in the same environments the workers had worked in for decades, but she didn't think much about those headaches at the time.

«About the year 2000, after we'd worked on aquaporins for almost a decade, we'd answered the questions we felt were most important,» Agre said in an interview in July at the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Turin, Italy.

Copelli's frustration — about the difficulty of getting things done in a system that, despite a recent infusion of cash, remains unwieldy and impoverished by decades of neglect — seems common among scientists working to create or overhaul research programs, especially in the country's less - developed northeast.

In addition, scientists working on the JDEM designs have not presented a unified front, owing to disagreements over the best observational method to use (see «Hunting for dark energy»)-- at a time when an influential astrophysics panel is about to prioritize the next decade's best and most organized missions.

About two decades ago, Close was working nearly exclusively on dehydrins — a family of proteins that all plants make in response to drought stress or low temperature.

Working under the guidance of molecular anthropologist Ripan Malhi, she hopes to answer questions about phylogeny, biogeography, and island dwarfism among long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Southeast Asia by sequencing decades - and even century - old mitochondrial DNA collected from the dried skulls of monkeys in museum collections.

But what has come to the fore in recent decades is that the technology is hopelessly uneconomic and has no business case anywhere that I can think of — I work in about 65 countries.

I always like asking people who've spent more than a decade working with functional medicine and complementary medicine because you have a menu of things that you know about that's unusual even in complementary medicine.

This practice was pioneered by Max Gerson, MD, about 100 years ago, and I personally have used it with astonishing results in my own detoxification experiments and working with 13,000 detoxers, over two decades.

At some point she worked for Charles Keating, he made all the women in his office wear skirts (no pants allowed), fiercely protested pornography and would eventually go on be convicted of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy about a decade after my mom stopped working for him — interesting guy to say the least.