Sentences with phrase «years in an environment»

Interest - only loans had grown very strongly for a number of years in an environment of low mortgage rates and heightened competitive pressures among lenders.

«We've survived for 60 years in an environment where companies are regularly cannibalized or bought out,» McCullagh says.

Neuroscientists have conclusively demonstrated in recent years that when children spend their early years in environments that subject them to toxic levels of stress, it can impair the development of certain mental capacities that matter a whole lot when they get to school — the ability to manage strong emotions, to process complex instructions, to bounce back from disappointments.

But first, before they set foot in preschool, they need to spend their first three years in an environment with plenty of responsive, warm, serve - and - return interaction with caring adults.

As for adults, a study this year in Environment International, conducted by researchers from eight institutions, tracked more than 45,000 African - American women across the United States.

In response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environment.

The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which currently persists for hundreds of years in the environment.

Or, Spelke puts it, «the negative thing that we learned» from the study is that lab work is not necessarily «sufficient to establish what actually causes knowledge to grow in the mind of a child, over timespans of years in the environments in which children live and learn.»

This virus is hardy and can live for months to years in the environment.

The eggs can survive for years in the environment.

They can survive for years in the environment.

This virus, which can live for months to years in the environment, causes fever, severe vomiting and diarrhea (often but not always containing blood), and life - threatening dehydration.

Organochlorines are less immediately toxic than organophosphates and carbamates and have largely replaced them, but these flea insecticides accumulate in tissues and persist for years in the environment.

However, they accumulate in animal tissues and persist for years in the environment.

Canine parvovirus can live for months to years in the environment.

Because the ringworm fungus can live for up to two years in the environment, your cat can contract ringworm from anyplace where other animals have been.

Females lay hundreds of thousands of eggs daily, which pass in their stool and survive for years in the environment.

The eggs, invisible to the naked eye, are the infective stage and can live for years in the environment just waiting for a dog or cat to slurp them up.

Saint Simeon's is a privately managed, not - for - profit, picturesque senior living community that is home to men and women of all faiths who wish to live their later years in an environment with dignity, individuality and the highest level of independence possible.

Having gone through their formative years in an environment in which the ability to add and subtract, or cooperate with their peers, were not particularly valuable skills, lawyers may be excused if they do not place a high value on those skills after graduating.

It's good to come together a few times a year in an environment that allows us to network, share best practices and benchmark with others.

I have worked for 17 years in environments including psychiatric hospitals, high school, residential co-occurring facilities, intensive outpatient, faith - based programs, and private practice.

Not exact matches

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

When you've been building apps for desktop and web environments for 10 years, you become embedded in your own methodologies and what you know as the best practices.

Adding to this «modest growth» environment is the fact that Canada's retail market has become much more competitive in the past year.

Kreiter said that in the last five years or so, Bridgewater has been focusing on developing better ways to recruit people who will excel in Bridgewater's environment.

However, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in January that a complete overhaul of the NEB is still years away.

Less than two years later however, AirAsia had turned itself around, having repaid its debt — even with the challenging travel environment it was in at the time.

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

Danone announced a cost - cutting plan of 1 billion euros ($ 1.1 billion) over the next three years, due to changes in Europe and a tough environment in China.

But she also stresses creating the environment for long - term economic growth, which is why a significant increase to the capital - gains tax for investments less than six years in duration is at the center of her plan.

Mr Hughes is an accountant with some twenty years» experience in both corporate, corporate secretarial and practice environments.

«After a challenging first half, the firm performed well for the remainder of the year as the operating environment improved,» CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

So if a guy living inside a giant, high - tech tin can floating in the most hostile environment imaginable for a year can find the funny in his everyday life, certainly most of us can do the same despite our mundane professional challenges and personal annoyances.

The companies selling them have made billions a year doing so, Wheeler said, but users have been locked into a captive and largely unfriendly environment in order to get service.

It's really interesting how the B2B environment is only now starting to take into account some of the B2C tactics that have been in use for years.

Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.

More than just toys, this year's drones will likely offer capabilities such as the ability to avoid crash landings and perhaps specialized features for using them in different types of environments.

For example, a 35 - year - old looking to generate $ 48,000 per year in retirement income beginning at age 65 would need to invest $ 178,000 today in a 5 % interest rate environment.

A critical R&D tool But as traffic in the Arctic increases in the years ahead, UAS will serve a more important function in helping researchers, engineers and commercial interests of all stripes fully characterize the environment there.

For years of consistency, you have to develop systems of things like saving your ideas in a file, creating an environment conducive to writing, and knowing how to tell people you can't do something so you can write.

But in an environment in which income inequality is becoming an important issue, and when Stumpf talks about the 5,300 employees who were fired from «good - paying jobs» were making $ 37,000 to $ 60,000 a year, the size of Tolstedt's compensation raises eyebrows.

«That great strength can be a weakness if you're not adapting to the environment that you're in,» says Jonathan Wellum, who worked side by side with Lee - Chin at AIC for almost 20 years.

Canada's oldest company returned to the public equity markets last year to finance its operations in an increasingly competitive retail environment.

In the past year, companies have paid more attention to improving their employee experience, paying attention to the ongoing interactions with their office environment, customers, supervisors, and peers that influence employees» behaviors and satisfaction at work.

, which has been used in [high - performance computing] environments for several years,» said Henry Baltazar, a senior analyst with Forrester Research.

People fail to realize that business - to - business (B2B) selling is a very different selling environment and that making buying decisions for businesses usually happen 10 years or more in a person's career.

OSL was created to address the increased pace of change in the retail and manufacturing environments, says Farren, who founded the activation and engagement agency Match Marketing Group in 1998 before stepping away from the company last year.

Despite having had a dual - headed Anglo - Dutch structure for 88 years, Dekkers said it was now a hindrance in a fast - changing retail and consumer environment.