Sentences with phrase «years and decades ago»

It is tempting to submit to the mob rule of #MeToo, of a tweet, a news story, even a rumour to immediately terminate the employment of an employee or manager for an indiscretion alleged by one or more accusers (with unproven motives) to have occurred many years and decades ago.

What educators need to emphasize is not that the colon stores junk from years and decades ago (i.e. a scare tactic) but that a vital component of a successful detox — and life!

His recollection of details from years and decades ago: nearly perfect.

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These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

And Toronto's culture of entrepreneurship has evolved light - years ahead of where it was just a decade ago.

Dropping «Donuts» from the brand name has been a strategic no - brainer for over a decade, and ideally should have been fully completed at least five years ago.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18 years before being allowed to legally marry in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two years or two decades ago is not legally clear.

That's why corporations started outsourcing labor to foreign countries a decade ago, and while they'll begin in - sourcing work to robots over the next 10 years.

While Kohl's business has held steadier than the likes of J.C. Penney (jcp) and Macy's (m) in recent quarters, its top line is roughly where it was six years ago, a big contrast to the retailer's torrid growth for decades prior to that.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

eHarmony is a business that would likely have gone public 5 + years ago under the last decade's «rules,» yet is still privately held in 2010 notwithstanding years of growth, profitability and household name recognition.

Although most analysts at the time considered my forecasts to be shockingly low and wholly implausible, and thought so even two to three years ago, I have always said that before the end of the decade it will have become the consensus.

Wealthy Chinese are snapping up gold, Rolls - Royces and yachts, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci faster than ever before, with increases registering not in baby steps, as a decade ago, but in giant leaps — 20, 50, even 80 percent, year on year.

A decade ago, author Scott Shane estimated that only 30 % of startups live longer than 10 years, fewer than 10 % ever grow, and just 3 % grow substantially.

Two years ago I posted my first guest blog focused on income inequality, specifically how changes in Canada's redistribution over the last three decades have increased after - tax income inequality, and how these changes compared to OECD trends.

This was more than double its record loss a year ago, and its largest net loss ever in its history now spanning over a decade.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

For the three months ended September, 2012, 35 per cent of new housing construction in Australia was in multiple units, up from 29 per cent five years early and 21 per cent two decades ago.

Ingraham had obviously seen this story played out before, almost one year ago, via her friend and former co-worker Bill O'Reilly, a cable - news icon who eventually saw too many advertisers flee his program, forcing the network to dispose of the popular prime - time figure who had been with it for decades as the industry's top - rated host.

There is $ 2.5 trillion in outstanding U.S. debt rated triple - B, according to Morgan Stanley, up from $ 1.3 trillion five years ago and $ 686 billion a decade ago.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

I am just the opposite of you Barb; I started investing in mutual funds decades ago and only started buying individual stocks a couple of years ago.

The median price in the Baltimore metro area was $ 259,000, up 5.7 percent or $ 14,000, from a year ago and was the highest sales price in March of the decade, according to data...

For more than a decade, the yellow metal reached record highs and climbed to nearly $ 2,000 an ounce a couple of years ago.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy God.

First is the growth of friendly GUI (Graphic User Interfaces) started at Xerox Parc twenty years ago, used by Apple for the past decade, and now coming to the PC world through NT Windows & trade; and its successor, called for now Chicago.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

Decades ago, or even years ago, names like #MikeBrown would have been buried in news briefs and death notices, if even mentioned...

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Civil liberties are still quite high (though W tried to do them in), medical science has allowed people to live longer and better, crime has generally been trending downwards for decades, and the average American lives far, far better than his predecessors 70 years ago.

Yeah, thats why there are fewer catholics now then there were a decade ago, and so on back 30 years.

I had the privilege a few years ago of meeting Dr. Cornel West, a man who has been engaged in activism and justice work for decades.

Church and State, the journal of Americans United, has year after year recorded a succession of triumphs for a totally secular (not «neutral») school; it was in its pages a decade ago that Leo Pfeffer, perhaps the most distinguished of the separationist attorneys, announced «the triumph of secular humanism.»

Neuhaus, I think, implicitly concedes that the danger of recidivism, and not the doctrine of redemption, is the real issue when he acknowledges the need to argue that «there is not a scintilla of evidence that a person who did a stupidly wicked thing many years ago and is repentant and has rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion poses any threat whatever to children.»

No matter that it was thirty years ago, that he had repented, that by the grace of God his life was put back in order, that he has been for decades a faithful, effective, and beloved priest.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

Driving about today's Budapest, one is constantly reminded of what are still felt to be this former imperial city's greatest days in the modern period» what the French call La Belle Epoque» the decades about one hundred years ago, when Budapest was the fastest growing city in Europe, and one of the largest and richest cities in the world.