Sentences with phrase «years in the making by»

The new 900 MHz NMR machine, several years in the making by its German manufacturer, will give TSRI scientists a powerful new tool to solve biological problems.

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The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

And the Viacom CEO is caught in a Catch - 22 of his own making: Earlier this year, he maintained in a court case launched by the billionaire's former girlfriend that Redstone was fully capable of making decisions.

CBS says it is looking into recent allegations made by actress Ariane Bellamar that actor Jeremy Piven, who stars in its new drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, sexually assaulted her on the set of the HBO series Entourage several years ago.

So by making roughly $ 2,555 a year through mining (at the current price of bitcoin), I'm on track to pay off the extra parts I bought for mining in about 230 days.

Eighteen years in the making, the 360 Eye is taking aim at iRobot's leadership in a market that's growing by 15 per cent a year.

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

The issue stems, in part, from year - old changes to Canada's express entry system which makes it impossible for someone in the PGWPP program to gain express entry without a Labour Market Impact Assessment, as chronicled by Nicholas Keung:

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

The pension concessions made by workers that Rovinescu trumpeted in 2010 will expire next year, and the airline now faces a $ 4 - billion pension shortfall.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

The perennially underachieving Texas Rangers went from declaring bankruptcy last May to signing a 20 - year, US$ 1.6 - billion contract with Fox Sports Southwest in September, the largest deal ever made by a Major League Baseball club with an independent regional sports network.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Brookfield Multiplex will start work by the middle of the year on a $ 350 million expansion of Mandurah Forum, with the redevelopment to make the southern suburbs mall the sixth - biggest shopping centre in the state.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

Rio Tinto is reportedly reassessing its mining activities (in addition to its Diavik stake, its diamond assets include Australia's Argyle mine, the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe, and Bunder, an advanced project in India) and is expected to make a decision on them by the end of the year.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classeIn terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classein - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classein south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classein midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

Royal Dutch / Shell and BP on Tuesday joined peers in reporting higher than expected earnings by making further deep cuts in spending to cope with an oil price downturn now in its third year.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Dale Carnegie once said, «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

Yet before the holiday distractions take hold, donors use this time of the year to remember the sacrifices made by the men and women serving in the U.S. military, and to support causes that help them when they return home.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

In addition, it could make your investors more patient by extending their investment horizon to their retirement years, which is a huge benefit from your perspective.

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Kerr likes to deflect the attention and credit by saying he simply inherited a good team, but according to SI's Chris Ballard, Kerr's coaching philosophies have been two years in the making.

In 2006, the federal government made it even easier for citizens to buy homes by permitting the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. to insure 40 - year - long mortgages with no down payment required.

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.

Mexico - based KidZania plans to jump into the market soon, and shoppers should expect to see more experiential - play offerings across the U.S. KidZania currently runs 24 entertainment centers worldwide and will make its debut in America in Dallas, Chicago and New York by next year.

Five of the 10 largest megadeals made in the third quarter of this year were signed in the United States as investors shifted away from Europe, according to a report by Mergermarket.

By comparison, the last pick of the draft's first round will likely make less than 20 % of that total in his first year.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Or maybe Tim's was inspired by French's Food Company, the New Jersey - based condiment maker owned by Britain's Reckitt Benckiser Group, which got a jump on Heinz last year by making a show of using Canadian tomatoes to make its Canadian ketchup after Heinz shut its plant in Leamington, Ontario.

The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

The auctions were introduced by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai during Mobile World Congress in March this year with the aim of making the bandwidths available for tech and telecom companies.

Over the course of three - plus years, McQueen — who has appeared in the MTV reality show Nitro Circus and FuelTV's Thrillbillies — has won Monster Jam's Rising Star Award, a monster truck racing title in New Orleans, and in 2010 he made Monster Jam history by landing the first - ever back flip in competition.

Nationalist fervor in places as disparate as the U.S., Great Britain, and Germany made closed borders one of the most commonly recurring themes of the year — alarming to travelers who live by the credo of a borderless world.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

Led by an expert team with more than 25 years experience in fitness franchising, StretchLab is revolutionizing the stretching industry by offering franchise opportunities across all major markets - making the benefits of stretching accessible to all.

«We expect this combination to drive cash levels near $ 7.5 bn by the end of the fiscal year, which is roughly in - line with the level achieved when the 2015 payment was made.»

Someone in Atlanta, for example, will hit peak happiness by making roughly $ 42,000 a year, while a New Yorker will need to pull in $ 105,000.

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeaIn 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

Solares estimated at the time that he could make up the $ 1.5 million in eight years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his costs by now.