Sentences with phrase «world by the year»

The Fund is anchored on the SDG 15.3 target that aims to achieve a land degradation - neutral world by the year 2030.

In doing so, target 15.3 specifically aims to achieve a Land Degradation Neutral World by the year 2030.

In a time of curriculum reform and a national goal of becoming Number One in the world by the year 2000, movement on this issue should be compelling to all educators.

What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World By the year 2000, the term «working class» had fallen into disuse in the United States, and «proletariat» was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter old Marxist academics with wire hair sprouting out of their ears.

These new tools are arriving in the «coming months» for businesses in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, and will reach the rest of the world by year - end.

Lagarde devoted a third of her talk, which envisioned how financial tech may reshape the world by the year 2040, to the subject of cryptocurrency.

Ver said that Mow's Bitcoin Core team, ``... shattered the Bitcoin ecosystem into a thousand and one different altcoins and delayed the adoption of cryptocurrencies around the world by years.»

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A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as sWorld in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as sworld — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Prices on the London Metal Exchange soared by a third, lifting the metal to its highest in nearly seven years, after the United States imposed sanctions this month against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his company Rusal, the world's No. 2 aluminium producer.

With Pokemon GO still taking the world by storm and Nintendo's new Switch console flying off the shelves, 2017 looks set to become another bumper year for the resurgent games company.

The Taiwanese company, with revenues of more than $ 8 billion, was founded by the Wharton grad's father almost 50 years ago and now claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of athletic and casual footwear.

This year, that's best personified by the world premier of Pee - wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens» return to his most famous character after more than two decades.

Perhaps few entrepreneurs in the world today revel in the impossible as much as Walter De Brouwer, the 55 - year - old Belgian self - described anarchist with a Ph.D. in semiotics who believes he can disrupt the entire health care industry with a tiny device inspired by Star Trek.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Retailers seem to be pulling out of their years - long malaise, helped by a strong economy and their own efforts to finally adapt to the Amazon.com (amzn) world.

Over the past two years, chatbots — or technology - fueled virtual assistants — have taken the world by storm.

Over the next two years, White worked to gain an intimate knowledge of gait analysis, and by his mid-20s, he was straddling two very different shoe worlds.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

Facebook's CEO highlighted 23 books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.

Much has been said about the possible impact of automation: A Forrester study estimates that 6 percent of jobs will be replaced by robots within four years; others say half the world's jobs will be gone by 2035.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

Global growth is still too slow — the planet's GDP is expected to grow by 2.4 % this year, according to the World Bank, which is actually below its 2.8 % growth in 2011.

For more than a year, Chuck Jeannes, CEO of Vancouver - based Goldcorp — the world's largest gold miner by market value — has posited his «peak gold supply» theory.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

If the Jay approval comes through — and O'Keefe is one of several analysts who believe it will — it would extend Ekati's life by another 10 years and firm up Dominion's consolidation of an area that has some of the richest and highest - value diamond deposits in the world.

Now in its sixth year, the World Happiness Report is produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Singapore's Changi Airport has been named «world's best airport» for the sixth consecutive year by Skytrax.

Sales people, managers, programmers, and people all over the world are practicing the Pomodoro Technique, the time management method developed by Francisco Cirillo many years ago.

He was recently named # 3 on Top 50 Online Influencers in the World by Entrepreneur Magazine and has been one of the Top 10 Most Influential PPC Experts in the World for the past three years.

«In the next five to 10 years, it's going to be very difficult to see any data - oriented piece of the world not fundamentally transformed by this technology,» predicts Shivon Zilis, an investor at Bloomberg Beta, based in San Francisco and New York.

And Jan Piercy, who led the charge for a student speaker at Wellesley's 1969 commencement, was appointed to the World Bank by President Clinton and served seven years as U.S. executive director during his administration.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

Funded chiefly by the founding partners, World Orphans opened two or three homes a year through 1998; by 2005, it was opening 100 new facilities a year.

It was 2007, and Ross, who was by then the head of his nine - year - old company, Starvox Entertainment, decided to set up a booth at the Arts Presenters Conference, an influential New York trade show where the world's top theatre producers, promoters and venues converge.

Unless there is some unlikely action on this issue by the end of the year, his inability to get AMPs established — and thereby get supposedly world - leading net neutrality rules to be taken seriously by ISPs — will easily go down as his biggest failure at the CRTC.

Deutsche Bank is no longer one of the world's top 15 private banks after a difficult year for the German lender, a study by Scorpio Partnership showed Monday.

According to U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Jobs data, the best - paying jobs in this field will carry the highest salary this year, followed by careers in engineering and business.

Revenue for virtual worlds has been doubling year over year and the market could be as big as $ 10 billion by 2015.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

Several hundred marched near Disney World in October and in December Orlando workers rejected a company proposal to boost the lowest wage by $ 1 over two years to $ 11 an hour because it would still leave new hires at $ 10, according to Jeremy Haicken, president of Unite Here Local 737, which represents food and housekeeping workers.

There is good reason why the United States, by far the world's largest economy, has been the dominant force in all things political and military for the past 60 years.

And De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, saw sales during the first half of the year fall by more than 50 %, to US$ 1.7 billion.

Consider Putzmeister, a cement - pump maker in southern Germany, that was purchased last year by China's Sany Group, one of the world's largest heavy - equipment manufacturers.

Tourism contributed 12 percent, or $ 2.4 billion to Cambodia's economy in 2016, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, a number that is expected to grow by 7 percent a year over the next 10 years.

The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

Throw into the mix the proximity of so many major cities to the coast and it's no surprise that climate change - related flooding is estimated to cost the world's 136 largest coastal cities US$ 52billion per year by 2050.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

Manley contends the explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.

A year ago, Keflezighi, then 38, stunned the racing world by defeating a slew of younger and higher - ranked runners to win the event with a personal - best time of 2:08:37.