Sentences with phrase «year experiment for»

«Sadiq Khan is Jeremy Corbyn's man in London, and would use the city as a 4 - year experiment for Labour's radical policies.

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Add the opportunity for customization — last year the chain experimented with allowing diners to add 22 different toppings, including guacamole and chili - lime tortilla strips, to their burgers — and wait times have pushed past seven minutes.

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Except for our experiment in democracy, each of our plans lasted for at least two to five years.

Twitter will also experiment with linking to AMP articles next year for users of the social messaging service, explained Michael Ducker, head of publisher products for Twitter (TWTR).

Every year, hundreds of them submit the results of their experiments for judging and a winner is chosen.

«We did a bit of an experiment eight years ago when a number of airlines came to us back during a GDS negotiation, and they said, «You do our shopping for us.

The original plan was for us to spend the first year establishing the brand and experimenting with different types of reporting techniques.

But for all the «crazy experiments» from central banks, it's interesting that global GDP has been either very stable or steadily declining in recent years, he said.

Interest in LG's modularity experiment, meanwhile, was low enough for the company to drop it within a year.

According to the Independent, it used wheat for this experiment that geneticists at Tel Aviv University say is the strain that was used to make beer in that same region about two thousand years ago.

The experiment had a surprising dividend: offering key lessons for Whole Foods» new «365» chain — smaller, lower - priced versions of the flagship brand that will begin rolling out next year.

The company has been experimenting in old - fashioned bricks - and - mortar retail for years.

That's a consolation to professor Rod Savidge, who struggled for years to arrange a tree growth experiment aboard the International Space Station.

The search giant and its partners, NASA and the non-profit Universities Space Research Association, have been experimenting with the cutting edge technology for the past two years.

This idea isn't a new one — Nordstrom has experimented with interactive mirrors in its fitting rooms, and designer Rebecca Minkoff's flagship store in New York City has employed nearly identical technology for about a year, to huge results.

For him it's a straightforward thought experiment: For people living 100 years from now, «what are they going to see that seems barbaric or abhorrent or just completely wrong?»

The team working on Go has been experimenting with these ideas for as long as four years.

For instance, last year the company defied California state regulators to run a self - driving car experiment in San Francisco.

For years, Twitch.tv has been the web's go - to for gaming live streams, crowd - sourced experiments like Pokémon playthroughs and commenter - controlled investment portfolios, and other bits of acceptably time - killing conteFor years, Twitch.tv has been the web's go - to for gaming live streams, crowd - sourced experiments like Pokémon playthroughs and commenter - controlled investment portfolios, and other bits of acceptably time - killing contefor gaming live streams, crowd - sourced experiments like Pokémon playthroughs and commenter - controlled investment portfolios, and other bits of acceptably time - killing content.

Ford Motor Co. is experimenting with its own ride - sharing initiatives: the company last year started offering a network of shared cars in London to tap the growing market for on - demand driving.

For nearly 50 years, scientists from around the world have used 58 lakes in northern Ontario for real, in - the - field experimenFor nearly 50 years, scientists from around the world have used 58 lakes in northern Ontario for real, in - the - field experimenfor real, in - the - field experiments.

Biosphere 2, a massive science facility tucked away in the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, was built originally for controversial space exploration experiments (such as whether astronauts could survive in a closed environment for two years).

After all, the virtual currency was an experiment in everything he had been writing about for years.

Long story short, with 2009 under my belt as a bounded tentpole of a worse case real world experiment, I envisage a 1 - year bonded income equivalent tranche of emergency funds backed by a 2 - yr income equivalent tranche dividend fund (Vanguard's low - cost dividend growth, for ex.).

Consider this experiment, in which researchers looked at forecasts from the 22 Chief Market Strategists of the top banks on Wall Street, issued each January, predicting the closing price of the S&P 500 for that year.

Last week I shared two such examples, including Scottish gambler John Law's four - year experiment with paper money in the early eighteenth century, which ruined France's economy and laid the groundwork for the French Revolution.

The move is also inconvenient for Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve, which has strongly signalled its intent to end its seven - year zero rate experiment with an interest rate hike in September.

(Colby Cosh tells me the Dauphin experiment did run for 4 years.)

You might need to run the experiment for three score and ten years to get some idea of the life - cycle effects.

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

After a troublesome few years for Bitcoin within the headlines when it comes to its funds weak point, consideration may lastly be turning to Litecoin — which admittedly has existed below the shadows of the trendy ICO craze and even the Bitcoin Cash experiment.

STOCKTON — A consortium of policy experts, researchers and academics has awarded $ 1 million to Stockton to fund an experiment that aims to assess the social benefits of providing a guaranteed monthly income for one or more years to a tiny segment of the city's residents, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday...

Chung recommends that leaders experiment strategically to determine what works best for their team, employing a balance between year - end incentives and quarterly, and even monthly and weekly, quotas and goals.

this is a stupid experiment u either believe or u do nt u cant pretend not to believe for a year, now people do loose faith but its a genuine loss of faith not an experiement ---- It may be for you or me, but it's pretty good stuff from a cult member.

this is a stupid experiment u either believe or u do nt u cant pretend not to believe for a year, now people do loose faith but its a genuine loss of faith not an experiement

Experimenting for a year to stay away from such abstractions and declaring your beliefs (mystical or fundamental), could only help a person feel the moments through the layers abstract beliefs.

I don't understand how one can switch beliefs as an experiment for a year.

A famous rat psychologist has been trying for years to conduct experiments which would show him how to raise the 1.

But Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, The Year of Biblical Womanhood, the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire yYear of Biblical Womanhood, the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire yearyear.

We have had thousands of years to prove ourselves and failed — time to make room for another evolutionary experiment!

We need to know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which was also a federally run and endowed study, where African American men — mostly illiterate and impoverished — were experimented upon like laboratory animals for 40 years.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

What started off as an experiment six years ago, when the company bought 100 Huffys for employees to use to get around the sprawling campus, has since exploded into its own subculture.

Evolution is based on over 150 years of observable facts, and experiments with DNA being the biochemical mechanism for evolution.

I am still utterly terrified - if not by the thought experiment, then by the prospect (wait a few years) of performing the experiment for real, not only to construct human beings, but completely artificial spiritual beings, not machines, designed de novo.

Could an atheist go on a «Christianity experiment» for a year?

Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development published a final report last month on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, after five years of experiments and studies.

For some the «hyper literalism» of the new translation, with its unfamiliar words and complex sentence structures, put an end to a brave experiment in inculturation which, it is claimed, had been envisioned and inaugurated by Sacrosanctum Concilium and which had shaped much of the Church's liturgy in the years after the Council.