Sentences with phrase «year labor of»

Join us for a talk and book signing with Judith Stein, whose 20 - year labor of love, «Eye of the Sixties,» follows the life of enigmatic gallerist, Richard Bellamy, from his rise from college dropout / lost boy / self - taught poet and art lover in the 1950s to the global tastemaker he had become in the 1960s and 70s to his death in 1998 at age 70.

Journey was a three year labor of love from thatgamecompany, but its true origins began considerably earlier.

In fact, though it was a five year labor of love, Roger built his current home by hand from digging the foundation to putting the last shingle on the roof.

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That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

Bezos described his team's mentality as «a dogged focus on improving the shopping experience,» and the fruits of their labor can be seen clearly today, 20 years later.

«Employees are more and more connected during hours outside of the office,» said Myriam el Khomri, France's Minister of Labor, when she proposed the law last year.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

Bureau of Labor Statistics economist Megan Dunn explained the scheduling rules to Business Insider last year when a similar phenomenon occurred (emphasis ours):

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

The square was declared off limits to demonstrations for a third year running and police blocked points of entry, allowing only small groups of labor union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

The French government is to unveil final details of proposed labor reforms Thursday in what is seen as a key plank of President Emmanuel Macron's political and economic strategy for the next five years.

Twenty years later, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2012 alone there were over 17,000 U.S. mass layoff events.

The number of job openings in the U.S. hit a seven - year high in April, reflecting a labor market drawing strength from the nation's economic recovery.

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He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the fraction of the civilian, non-institutionalized population that is self - employed and running a corporation (incorporated self - employment) was 5.1 percent below its level five years ago, when the current economic recovery was getting underway.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Despite a mixed Friday jobs report — the US economy added only 156,000 jobs against expectations of 175,000 — the labor market has come on strong over the past few years after the financial crisis.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 25 highest - paying jobs that you don't need a four - year degree to pursue.

Ahead of the Fed's announcement, the Labor Department released its latest reading of the Consumer Price Index, which rose 0.5 % in November from a year earlier.

Since the Department of Labor finalized its fiduciary rule (now in limbo) last year, annuity sales have fallen dramatically as brokerage firms and advisors anticipate that the products may not pass muster under a tighter regulatory standard.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American spends more than $ 4,000 a year on food for the home.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Comparing state - by - state flight searches for travel over the end - of - summer holiday to last year's Labor Day searches, Kayak's data crunchers found that online searchers in Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee have been checking out vacations in the U.K. — now more affordable thanks to a deep swoon in the British pound.

After years of struggling with infertility and 27 hours of labor, Eric David and Alexis Rae arrived stillborn.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

Last year, 2014, ended with five million job openings ---- the highest number since 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This weekend, and in particular Sunday night's race (the Bojangles» Southern 500 airs Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN) marks the third year of NASCAR Throwback Weekend, an idea hatched in 2015 by track officials to commemorate the race's return to its traditional Labor Day slot on the NASCAR calendar.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

It also stated that a «range of range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources has diminished since early this year.»

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

Fullerton Jr., Howard N. «Labor Force Participation: 75 Years of Change, 1950 — 98 and 1998 — 2025.»

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 50 percent will fail within their first four years.

For Chromalloy, Foster was the right deal at the right time — a certified public accountant who, for several summers during his college years, had labored as one of the gang in a Cleveland foundry and later served briefly as its controller.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.

«Faster economic growth over most of the past year has tightened labor and product markets and helped to boost prices at a faster pace,» David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide, said in a note.

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

But the third and final year of the term will be important for Mr Shorten and Labor, not only to set out a credible alternative plan for the economy and national security, but to tell voters what sort of a prime minister he would be.

After studying and testing the use of freelancers (called «agile talent» and «contingent labor» by corporations) for several years, 2017 will see the corporate use of agile talent increase and become mainstream.

Labor: U.S. job growth surged in January and the unemployment rate of 4.1 percent is at a 17 - year low.