Sentences with phrase «year tour of»

After a four - year tour of duty with the U.S. Marines — he enlisted when it looked like he was about to be drafted, he says — he bought into a struggling business that made precast concrete pieces.

The University of Virginia Art Museum is the final venue of a two - year tour of «Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University,» an exhibition organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University.

02 Nov 2001 Irish Art Now at the Irish Museum of Modern Art An exhibition of works drawn primarily from the Irish Museum of Modern Art's own Collection, which has recently completed a successful two - year tour of the USA and Canada, opens to the public at IMMA on Wednesday 14 November.

Turner Contemporary is the first stop on the self - portrait's three - year tour of the UK.

The Figure in 20th Century Sculpture August 27 - November 29, 1998 Returning to the Ulrich Museum after a three - year tour of the United States, this exhibition features work by such artists at Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Doris Caesar and Jan Arp.

He's currently on his second three - year tour of Cambodia, where his partner is the U.S. Deputy Ambassador — and where local artists learn to be profoundly resourceful.

I did my, sort of, two or three - year tour of duty as an analyst and then left and started up my own fund investing in public equities.

Unpredictable Uranus finally wraps its seven - year tour of your career house in May (making one last pit stop in before moving on for good).

We all would have been wise to keep our off - the - rails commentary to ourselves, and we should continue to temper our honesty with mindfulness while Saturn wraps up its three - year tour of Sagittarius between now and December 19.

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close Friday (Sept. 15, 2017), as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13 - year tour of the ringed planet.

She just finished up a 12 - year tour of duty in District 2 (Mendez faced term limits this past election cycle).

Take a year - by - year tour of just how beautiful he must appear to Indians fans.

Gary put the finishing touches on a tremendously successful 15 - year tour of duty as Chairman by giving me complete access and every opportunity to contribute, prepare and transition into the role of chairman.»

Would these lawmakers be comfortable with having a seventeen - year - old son billeted in a three - man barracks room with two homosexuals for a four - year tour of duty?

The facility was staffed by United States Coast Guard 6 - man crews serving 2 - year tours of duty from 1939 onwards.

Not exact matches

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

CASE: The fund came out of our work around Rise of the Rest over the last four years where we've visited 33 cities, completed six different tours, and met a lot of entrepreneurs and regional investors.

The entrepreneurs I have interviewed over the past 20 years and the ones we met on our «Main Street Entrepreneur» tour are masters of efficiency.

«I just believe that I've been given a platform,» the 17 - year - old shrugs in a YouTube video announcing a slew of new business ventures, including a national tour, a line of merchandise and forays into acting and singing.

Initiated by Keith's and then Mick's books, and followed by suspenseful talk of a tour, the public's seduction has stretched over a year.

Born: 06/16/79 Year the maple leaf first appeared in Canadian Olympic Team iconography: 1908 Number of colours in Hulse's maple leaf mosaic: 28 Kilometres logged on Canadian roads while touring with Run the Red Light: 150,000 Oddest application of the new maple leaf mosaic: A life - size moose sculpture

For example, pretend you started a small business a few years back giving aerial tours of the Grand Canyon.

But this year has reminded us that some of the most coveted things and experiences are ones that are, well, hard to get: the Tragically Hip's farewell tour, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pirelli's über - exclusive limited - edition promo calendar.

, now a professor of military history at Ohio State University, served 26 years in the Army with two tours in Iraq, to include duty as Petraeus» executive officer in 2007.

DESIGN and architecture tour Open House Perth returns for a second season in the first week of November after a successful inaugural event last year.

In mid-March, as part of a world tour to promote the company's new menu of «experiences,» Chesky stopped in on New York City for a sit down interview in front of the Economic Club of New York, the 110 - year - old organization whose membership spans the top leaders from across the business world.

In July 1989, Cohl first made international headlines, and it was hard to say what was more stunning: that, after years of feuding, the Rolling Stones would tour the world to promote a new album; or that the man behind the deal was a relative unknown from Canada.

After years of legal battles, we began touring again as «John Kay and Steppenwolf.»

During his two - year tour, Parsons received the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and Purple Heart Medal.

Many travel agencies and tour operators discourage bookings this time of year because of the disruption, but luckily for its tourism sector, March is typically already low - demand season.

Today Lauren owns Ciclismo Classico, an award - winning cycling tour company based in Boston that has won Outside magazine and National Geographic trip - of - the - year awards.

She's one of the most consistent golfers on the tour, currently ranked in the number one spot after finishing in the top ten at nine of the 11 tournaments she's entered this year, including two wins.

Johnson is the top - ranked player currently on the tour, having won three of the 13 tournaments he's entered this year and come in second or third in three others.

A recent informal poll he conducted of his 150 tour - operator partners indicated that 80 percent will expand in the next year, he says.

Back in February, five - year - old Arabella got a tour of the Supreme Court and listened in on a hearing.

He has gotten the same sort of feedback when selling tours in the Dominican Republic and Australia: «Eighteen - to 24 - year - olds are consuming the same videos, the same magazines and the same websites.

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

Major Brian de Leon, a 15 - year veteran of the Army with three tours of duty in Iraq, arrived at Wexley's Seattle offices in April and has been spending three days a week with the company's creative team.

«The best profile is someone who has a really deep discipline — they're excellent at sales or engineering — but they're OK doing a tour of duty for a couple of years where they do all this other crazy stuff and they don't get insulted by it,» Vernon concludes.

Professional gold events in Asia are now held 50 weeks out of the year with interest from other tours in Europe and the U.S. strong, says Josh Burack, CEO, Asian Tour.

Last year, EllisDon president and CEO Geoff Smith went on a listening tour, visiting each of the construction company's 11 offices to meet with every employee in small groups.

Buffett says that when his 5 - year - old grandson took a tour years ago and gorged on samples, «he was with a couple little buddies, and [after the tour] he gets out of the car and just throws up all of it.»

Since launching a few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster film Hidden Figures.

Several early video answers became online phenomena: director of marketing Hope Baggozi's guided tour of a photo shoot to explain why the food looks better in the ads has been viewed 9.7 million times since being posted on YouTube two years ago.

One of the most successful things we did last year was sponsor British comedian Eddie Izzard's U.S. tour.

The tour will also hustle to promote a new generation of stars, like 21 - year - old Justin Bieber lookalike Rickie Fowler, without overemphasizing any one player and repeating its mistakes.

After a year, however, she discovered that the mechanized browsing system was undercutting one of her company's greatest potential assets: the image of SkiMall as the skier's genial friend and tour guide.

Even had Woods» peccadilloes remained unreported, the tour would be scrambling to deal with the fallout from the past few years of chaos in the financial system.

I've been traveling the country for the last four years on a series of Rise of the Rest bus tours to shine a spotlight on regional entrepreneurship.

The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is supporting Roosegaarde's venture, and has asked him to take the tower on a tour of four other cities in the coming year.