Sentences with phrase «years in a quarter century»

It's had two down years in a quarter century, losing about 2 % in 1994 and 9 % in 2008.

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China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

The consumer brand that Schultz has built over a quarter - century — stepping out of the CEO job in 2000, only to return eight years later — has never been stronger.

It reported over $ 22 billion in worldwide revenue last year and its CEO, Daniel Amos, has been heading the company for over a quarter of a century.

Franklin Templeton pioneered international investing over 60 years ago, and our expertise in emerging markets spans more than a quarter of a century.

With 25 years of experience, the Publicis Media chairman says people, empowerment and trust are essential This year marks a milestone in what has been an exciting and fulfilling career for me: a quarter of a century as an industry veteran.

The S&P 500 Buyback Index, which covers the 100 companies that are the busiest buying back shares, rose 48.3 % in 2013, trumping a 33.3 % return for even the S&P Dividend Aristocrat Index brimming with companies that have hiked dividends every year for a quarter - century.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the world's first exchange - traded fund debuted right here in Canada, and over the years those of us in the industry have got pretty adept at rhyming off the benefits of ETFs.

His influence has grown with the passing of the years and has never been so powerful as in the past century and a quarter.

It took me nineteen years of research and three books (The Final Revolution, Witness to Hope, and The End and the Beginning) to do what executive producer Carl Anderson and writer / director David Naglieri have done in ninety - three minutes of gripping videography and marvelous graphics: explain how and why John Paul played a pivotal, indeed indispensable, role in the greatest drama of the last quarter of the twentieth century, the collapse of European communism.

Plutarch records «grind» used as a sexual metaphor in the last quarter of the first century A.D., overlapping the probable years when Luke was composed.

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

This year promises To the Wonder, only the fourth film in the last quarter of a century from director Terrence Malick.

Of particular importance in this process were the steps taken in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for these had the consequence of the introduction of a new conception of nature, which appeared in a number of books about the year 1620, by Daniel Sennert in Germany, David van Goorle in Holland, Galileo in Italy, Francis Bacon in England, and most fully developed by the Frenchman Sebastian Basso in his Philosophia Naturalis, 1621.

And, as the company marks a quarter - century in business this year, it continues to solidify its place in the Massachusetts craft beer landscape thanks to its new facility and full - service restaurant.

«The British Empire in India lasted the better part of two hundred years,» wrote Peter Chapman (no relation to Pat) in Bon Appetit in 1992,» but it's only in the past quarter century that curry houses have established themselves in the British culinary imagination.

A year ago, the Wolves nearly became the first Northern California team to beat the Spartans in a quarter - century, falling just short 28 - 27.

In what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next yeaIn what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next yeain order to compete next year.

Indeed, interest in «the Great Charter of Liberties» of 1215 had grown over the previous quarter of a century, fuelled by an explosion of radical reform publishing during the Regency years.

Richard Tollner, a 57 - year - old real estate agent and town assessor in the Capital Region, has lived with his wife for the past quarter - century in a cozy country bungalow filled with family antiques.

After 50 years in politics, from militant protester to cabinet minister, including a quarter of a century an MP, it was not something I had imagined doing.

Flush with campaign cash, McKinley beat his Democratic opponent William Jennings Bryan by a landslide in 1896 — the greatest electoral sweep in a quarter - century — and by an even wider margin four years later.

I'm a civic - minded working mom who has lived in Ulster County for nearly a quarter century, and I have known Richard for many years.

In addition to the quarter century milestone, many eyes were trained on this year's convention due to appearances by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who addressed black voters in advance of the New York primary on April 1In addition to the quarter century milestone, many eyes were trained on this year's convention due to appearances by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who addressed black voters in advance of the New York primary on April 1in advance of the New York primary on April 19.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

The Pioneer 10 space probe — the farthest - traveling man - made object in the universe — came to the end of its mission this past year, after a quarter of a century of scientific exploration.

The Third Pandemic in Asia early in the 20th century killed 10 million people, the medieval black death probably killed more than a quarter of Europeans, and Justinian's plague, which broke out in A.D. 542, raged for about 50 years, killing 100 million people.

The U.S. program that pays farmers to idle fragile cropland soon will protect the smallest amount of land in a quarter - century, the government said on Monday, the result of several years of sky - high commodity prices that have encouraged farmers to plant as much as possible.

Two years ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a competition to select a replacement for the aging Digital Encryption Standard, the national standard for a quarter - century, and arguably the most widely used encryption algorithm in the world.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

A new study by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures concludes that about half of the warming occurs within the first 10 years after an instantaneous step increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, but about one - quarter of the warming occurs more than a century after the step increase.

Time may blur, but the first quarter - century of the newly renamed Shiley Eye Institute — it celebrates that anniversary this year — remains sharply defined in its accomplishments and its focus on the future.

While you may read that frying foods in vegetable oils at high heat creates dangerous hidden trans fats, according to Mary Enig, PhD, a lipid researcher for 30 years, author of Know Your Fats and a primary voice for the dangers of trans fats for over a quarter of a century, that's not exactly true.

Earnings call — Last quarter, I announced American Century Investments had signed on as a new... channels where the fee - based assets are growing in the mid-single-digits per year, we're able to get more than 2 times that growth.

That losing streak is almost certain to be ended in February, this film and this year being the obvious vessels to recognize not just a fearless, committed, and physical performance full of snot and beard but a body of work over the past quarter - century seemingly unrivaled by any other actor.

The subject of this review, the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, reached stores this week (a year in advance of the movie's actual quarter - century milestone).

For twenty - five out of twenty - six years in the third quarter of the 20th century, John Wayne was voted one of Hollywood's top ten money - making stars in Quigley's annual poll of movie theater owners.

This year marks a quarter century of groundbreaking theater at Moisés Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project, and the celebrated theater - maker and friends are ringing it in with style at Tectonic at 25!

Despite hinting at a break from music following last year's 12 - month celebration of a quarter of a century in the biz, Kylie Minogue has seemingly played us all for fools and is gearing up to release a new album this year.

She has been chronicling affluence for a quarter - century and takes the chance to ruminate on her work and how the wealthy class has changed in the last 25 years, with an emphasis on how people often emulate the rich without actually being able to afford their lifestyle.

Kojima made an interesting comment relating to his quarter century career: Avi - san's speech yesterday reminded me of the days in 25 years ago.

As I prepare for my 25th college reunion, it occurs to me that I have spent 13 years of the past quarter - century as a public - school teacher and principal and 12 years in universities as an administrator and faculty member.

By the age of 35, the typical young lawyer has attained a level of compensation that can be expected for the next quarter century, with a few years of extra-high earnings in the late 40s.

Murnane: John and I have collaborated for nearly a quarter of a century, meeting almost every Tuesday for a few hours during the school year in Gutman Library.

Furthermore, the one large - scale study on the relationship between concrete operational thought and reading, reported by University of Northern Iowa professor of education Rheta DeVries more than a quarter of a century ago, found that measures of reading in children in the early school years were almost entirely unrelated to measures of concrete operational reasoning on Piagetian tasks.

Lueken found that the median «crossover point» of the fifty - one districts across the country he examined is 25 years, which means that teachers in more than half of these districts have to teach a quarter of a century before they reach the point where their retirement benefits are worth more than their contributions.

Even if you were to manage the difficult importation of a non-street legal car, the 22B would not see public roads for the next seven years until it turns 25 in 2023, per U.S. laws that only allow import of foreign cars that are over a quarter - century old.

The logical system that has been needed since the Range Rover appeared in 1970, and began with the adoption of Defender 20 years later, has at last reached maturity a further quarter of a century later.

TOKYO — This year's Tokyo Motor Show, set to run Dec. 3 - 11, returns to its namesake city for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century.