Sentences with phrase «years and decades as»

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After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

After decades as an operations executive in the corporate world, including 15 years at Clorox, Tasner moved to Method in his late 50s and became immersed in the sustainability ethos.

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

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.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

It would take at least two years to negotiate the breakup and then as long as a decade to extricate the UK from Europe.

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.

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.

It is possible to keep a great team together for years or even decades so long as everyone feels they are treated well and fairly.

In my eight years as a financing consultant and two decades as a business borrower, no lender has ever required one — at least not the kind you learn to write in business school.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

After a four - year stint as CEO at 3M, Jim McNerney assumed the leadership of a highly scandalized Boeing and in a decade, has regained its global luster as well as delivering 228 % shareholder returns (annualized at 12 %).

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the businesAs a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the businesas he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

It's unlikely, for instance, to encourage tardy claims from «people who know all relevant facts and fail to exercise their rights for years or even decades,» as the Chamber put it (pdf) in a letter to the Senate.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

As you begin to think about a day when you might sell or delegate control of your business, you'll likely start projecting months, years, and even decades into the future.

Whether they've been around for decades or were launched in the last two years, some companies just have a bit of magic when it comes to grabbing attention and establishing themselves as fan favorites...

She might as well be in the 1950s or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced in those decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 - year - old company's global sales.

Ayer, who worked at the airline for over 30 years and spent roughly a decade as its CEO until his retirement in 2013, has joined the board of a relatively new drone startup called AirMap.

Blacktop politics are as old as the roads that led to Rome, but the time lag between a politician promising to improve public infrastructure and cutting the ribbon has grown longer — to years, and sometimes as much as a decade.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

The company's letter said long - term, patient investing has been its approach, citing its decade - plus of investment in Chrysler, its eight years as controlling shareholder of Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer and 20 years as controlling shareholder in MGM Mirage.

Now the installed base of personal computers has passed the 1 million mark and is forecast to grow as much as 50 % a year for the next decade.

«Over the next 10 years — come hell or high water — I fully expect that Lower Manhattan will continue to grow as a neighborhood, as a business district, as a creative community and as a destination for visitors,» he told a business audience a decade after the terrorist attacks.

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.

Brooks, president and CEO since August 2008, has accomplished many things in her three - plus years on the job — by the Bay's own accounting (and as a privately held company, there's no other kind), sales are stronger now than they've been in more than a decade, up 9 % in the second half of 2011 — but chief among them has been rebuilding the Bay brand in her own image.

CNN similarly referred to the pre-Nadella years as a «lost decade» and described his success in growing Microsoft's profitable cloud - services business.

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.

Toronto - Dominion Bank sees as many as 90,000 jobs lost by the end of the decade from the move and Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management, says higher minimum wages across Canada could boost consumer prices by 0.5 percent over two years.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

Similarly for stocks because they fare poorly as well in inflationary periods... Unfair though it may be, an investor should continue to expect an attempted inflationary solution in almost all developed economies over the next few years and even decades.»

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

David served on Peter Drucker's Foundation Board in the United States for over a decade, the last few years as Vice Chairman and was Chair of Upper Canada College from 1992 - 97.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the 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.

Venezuela's oil production plunged last year to the lowest in decades as Maduro's socialist government contended with quadruple - digit inflation, a contracting economy and social unrest.

40 - year fixed - rate mortgages are less popular as buyers end up paying a lot in interest and it takes four decades to pay off the loan (unless they decide to refinance).

If you are the kind of income investor who's happy with dividends that are steady and can grow year after year, or even decades, and don't care as much about yields — 3M yields 2.3 % currently — 3M is a right fit for your portfolio.

Obtaining a patent now takes as many as three years in Canada, 3 1/2 years in the U.S. and a decade in Europe.

As the S&P 500 index has advanced this year mostly through multiple expansion, the index is no longer cheap, particularly considering that we are now almost half a decade into an economic expansion and earnings growth is unexciting.