Sentences with phrase «year stories for»

Provocative, brutally honest, R - rated formative year stories for females are certainly in short supply, and so Heller's vividly drawn debut feature certainly delivers in this regard, with a rich and expressively effervescent bildungsroman story.

In compiling our Fall Athlete of the Year stories for each edition, I couldn't help but notice that both of the Bay Area winners — football standout Nsimba Webster of Deer Valley - Antioch, and water polo star Kat Klass of San Ramon Valley - Danville — had something unique in common.

Not exact matches

But Buari never stopped fighting for his freedom, and journalist Steve Fishman followed his story for seven years.

When I spoke with Levchin for Inc.'s «Audacious Company» story earlier this year, I asked him how he defines a company that's tackling important problems.

For residents, the big draw is the opportunity to be around other Indian immigrants, according to a story by NPR last year.

IBMers interviewed for this story who worked there starting in the 1960s,»70s, and»80s are still intensely loyal, even when they criticize some of the changes in recent years.

«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

Over the summer, Gordon and Stanford separately devoted columns to the most under - reported Canadian business story of 2016: within a few months, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz will agree on the parameters the central bank will follow for the next five years.

«I worked closely with the firm for many years while at CoLucid, and my hope is that we can repeat the CoLucid success story many times over in the coming years.»

Wired has a blockbuster cover story on Mark Zuckerberg's last two years, which have been rather testing for the Facebook CEO.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

A way for users to collect and share photos and videos related to an event or a theme, Stories is also similar to a feature launched by Facebook - owned Instagram earlier this year, when co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted it was a virtual carbon copy of Snapchat's feature, right down to the name.

An excerpt on The Berghoff's official website says its history is the «quintessential American success story of an immigrant who built a hugely successful business that has stayed in one family for more than a hundred years.»

He specifically referenced a recent Wall Street Journal story that said through April 6, physical store closures have been announced for 2,880 locations this year and the pace looks poised to exceed the closings that were notched during the Great Recession.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Read on for seven stories from this year's Oscar contenders to inspire you in the pursuit of your dream.

The streaming service won the bidding this year for «Ratched,» an origin story based on the «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» character.

But the REAL private dining experience is downstairs in the wine cellar: legend has it that Edgar Allan Poe used to visit, and was inspired by the 200 - year - old wine cellar for his story «The Cask of Amontillado.»

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

Branson pulled in other examples such as Nelson Mandela's story of forgiving the people who imprisoned him for 27 years.

In a story yesterday, the news agency reported that US oil imports form Africa were greater than those from the Middles East in 2006, for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

At the start of the year, a story from Business Insider cited a PrivCo analyst whose prognosis for the company had it failing before the year's end.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

For thousands of years, humans have told stories to impart information, explain the inexplicable, entertain an audience and forge social connections.

After years of snubs, Steven Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar for «Schindler's List,» based on the true story of a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Holly McKhann's podcast showcases stories of real estate investors whose savvy decisions made them achieve financial freedom, become «set for life» or even scale their efforts to hundreds of properties per year.

, which is a story on the rise of Samsung over the last two years from smartphone also - ran to powerhouse player giving iPhone a run for its money.

But plain old advertising is expected to power revenue for the company in the years to come: Sales jumped 69 % to $ 55 million last quarter, trumping Wall Street's expectations (see the feature story on Yelp).

As the Journal story points out, YES signed a deal with the Yankees to lock up TV rights for 30 years at a cost of about $ 1.5 billion.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

Inside the story of Molly Bloom, the 26 - year - old who ran a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood's biggest players.

Here — for your reading pleasure — is a countdown of the year's most - viewed stories about far - out technologies and the entrepreneurs who are dreaming them up.

The true history of net neutrality in the U.S. isn't that it magically showed up in 2015; it's the story of big broadband providers pushing back at net neutrality protections for 15 years.

OK, prepare to suspend your disbelief: The mystery - adventure drama is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and follows the character of Ichabod Crane, who has woken up after sleeping for 250 years and is now partnered with police Lt. Abbie Mills in modern day Sleepy Hollow, N.Y..

Instagram's Stories could well surpass Snapchat in active users by the middle of the year, while Facebook is already testing similar Story - like features for its Messenger and Facebook platforms.

His June 2014 Atlantic cover story, «The Case for Reparations,» won Coates the George Polk Award for Commentary earlier this year.

Stories like Sankhla's are the primary reason Silicon Valley has risen up in the past two years to lobby for immigration reform.

Says Janine Zacharia, who covered the State Department for four years until 2009: «Sometimes you'd be sad if you only got seven hits on a story.»

One year earlier, in 1961, Clarke also published Dial F for Frankenstein, a short story of an interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a newborn baby and leads to global chaos as it takes over financial, transportation, and military systems.

Major outlets have been using UGC content for a number of years now — but more and more, we're seeing consumers go directly to the source to see the full story rather than the edited version some mainstream media will co-opt and share.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

Udacity declined to comment for this story, so there's no word yet on how the company plans to avoid the mistakes it made at San Jose State this year.

In the past we've covered Demand Media, «the content farm» that brings in $ 200 million a year by paying writers low rates for search - engine - friendly stories.

When Fortune talked to them for this story, the two were fresh from their Black Corporate Directors Conference, which for 15 years has been an annual confab that's part power networking event and part activist training.

For 103 years, we've been naturally focused on creating cars, with the notable addition of motor racing as a core part of our brand story.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

In future years, the toy maker will make toys for the upcoming «Toy Story» and «Cars» sequels.

It's a great story, especially for people just starting out, since Eric focuses on his formative years.