Sentences with phrase «years of history as»

Gold also offers investors 4,000 years of history as a store of value, and that's looking quite appealing right now,» a gold trader told Bloomberg.

Or maybe you have several years of history as a safe driver?

«We will be working to extend our appeal here in the UK, highlighting Tunisia's 3,000 years of history as well as our Thalassotherapy centres and unique dars, which are set in amazing landscapes,» continued Jaiet.

I have never used marijuana nor have any plans to do so, but for the first 150 years of our history as a nation, it was legal and used in nearly 80 % of the medicines of the 19th c. George Washington grew it on Mt. Vernon.

Not exact matches

For much of its 40 - year history, the medium has been ruled by huge console makers and mega-publishers, such as Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts and Activision.

That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

The letter will formally notify the EU of Britain's exit and trigger a two - year negotiation that will lay the foundations for a new chapter of British history — as a European nation no longer in the EU.

He is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (Bloomsbury Press, 2009); it was released in paperback as Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years.

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

More recently, Super Mario Odyssey has become the fastest - selling title in the Super Mario franchise's history in the U.S.. On Metacritic, Odyssey is also nearly tied with Breath of the Wild as the best - reviewed game of the year.

The upset came just a day after the ten - year anniversary of Appalachian State's wild upset over Michigan in Ann Arbor, but as ESPN notes, that game did not have a spread archived at the time it was played, making Howard's win the biggest upset in history in the context of Vegas lines.

Comments: «Our economists see growth disappointing in 2013 with added risk as a result of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff... Political uncertainty is also high and history tells us that the US underperforms in the first year of a presidential cycle.»

, now a professor of military history at Ohio State University, served 26 years in the Army with two tours in Iraq, to include duty as Petraeus» executive officer in 2007.

A former top Fox News reporter left the bureau at the end of last year as rumors swirled about his history of alleged harassment.

The PC market itself has gone straight down the toilet in the nine years since the acquisition, with 2013 seeing the worst decline in its history, but Lenovo emerged as the king of the whole stinky pile.

When, by a quirk of history, France installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico in 1867, Maximilian's three years of clumsy rule ended here — you can still see where he was executed.

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.

Despite his having one of the most successful starts in coaching history (including two NBA championships for the Warriors in his first three years as a head coach), the team has struggled of late.

Patron, facing an onslaught of competition from celebrity - endorsed tequilas, is fighting back this summer with a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

«This album pulls some of the most important learnings from my years at the helm of one of the fastest growing businesses in history, and packages them as music,» Mason wrote in a blog post announcing «Hardly Workin.»»

Patron this year is launching a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

As Mother Jones and the Food and Environment Reporting Network reported earlier this year, Rafael oversaw one of the «biggest fisheries frauds in American history.»

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

As America turns once again to our perennial celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a full year of Donald Trump on full Technicolor display has cast its inimitable shadow over the legacy of one of the greatest American citizens in this nation's history.

It has taken years to digest this material and make sense of it, but new and striking findings have made it possible to rewrite the history of what has come to be know as the Terror, or the Great Purge.

For example, across nineteen Techstars classes in its four year history, over 70 % of all Techstars graduates have raised capital (Techstars publishes an amazing chart that lists every company in every class and their fundraising status as well as employee count).

Lula leaves office on Dec. 31, his legacy as a transformative figure in Brazilian history all but assured thanks to massive social programs like the Bolsa Familia that have lifted millions out of poverty, the securing of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, and a rapidly growing economy that's expected to become the world's fifth largest in the next six years and pay for it all.

During our 23 - year history as a public company, we have experienced — and successfully navigated through — several periods of extreme stock market volatility.

«As the market for natural and organic foods and nutritional supplements continues to grow, having a story based on a set of founding principles that have guided us throughout our 60 year history... helps when talking to investors,» Kemper Isley, co-president of the company, and son of the founders Margaret and Philip Isley, said in an email.

Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, where he served for 12 years as a professor of history.

The social network is undergoing its worst crisis in its 14 - year history as it faces a torrent of criticism about its privacy practices and the way it handles user data.

Anyone with a vague recollection of the history of Facebook will recognize the Cambridge Analytica situation as a violent symptom of something that's plagued Facebook and its users for years: apathy.

The report, as of March 31, 2018, is now available and will be updated quarterly for U.S. - domiciled, actively managed funds that are primarily invested in equities and have at least one year of history.

Gold has 5000 years of history behind it as currency, blink and you might miss the reversion to the mean of Gold being money again.

As we commit 2016 to the annals of history and usher in a brand new year, APF Canada's dedicated research team has compiled a list of key stories to watch in Canada - Asia relations, news, and current events in 2017.

Over the years, his study of monetary history and current economic events has convinced him that it would be prudent to hold some gold as crisis insurance.

So Mr. Khosrowshahi, who was appointed Uber C.E.O. late last year, leaned on his history with Google from his previous job as chief executive of the travel site Expedia.

Late Wednesday, detectives were digging into the past of the 19 - year - old who had no previous arrests but had displayed plenty of troubling behavior before officers took him into custody after what ranks as the third - deadliest school shooting in American history.

«History says that in the subsequent years, a narrow range should not be thought of as a coiled spring, ready to jump but rather when you have a narrow range, it usually ends up with a pretty small advance,» he said.

Unfortunately, as part of the credit history portion of certifying you for a loan, certain lenders won't accept your income numbers unless you have at least two years of employment history.

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

Simply Safe Dividends gives ALL of the criteria items I need in just one place in both numerical as well as graphical format for each stock: dividend yield, P / E ratio, Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, and more.

Anything But Miserable As various media outlets report on the tool, Fundstrat's head of research outlined how recent price dips have given a rare decisive «buy» signal — one of only five in Bitcoin's entire nine - year history.

If history is any guide, there is a high probability that the Fed will start raising rates at the end of 2015, and for the next several years as inflationary pressure builds up.

«Our first quarter revenue represented the strongest first quarter performance in Stifel's history, as net revenue of $ 750 million increased by 11 % from the same quarter a year ago.

-[March / 2017]- Subscribe to RSS feed My goal is to achieve Financial Independence in just ten years by investing in solid dividend companies that have a history of paying out dividends as well as increasing annual dividend payouts.

Over its now 40 - year history, the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM marks have emerged as the dominant professional standard in the United States and, through the Financial Planning Board of Standards (FPSB), in 22 other countries as well.

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

Some aspects of a negative payment history, such as accounts sent to collections, tax liens and bankruptcy, will fall off your record in seven to ten years.