Sentences with phrase «years of history by»

Tallinn Old Town in Estonia is perfect for soaking up its 1,000 years of history by strolling aimlessly and letting your curiosity guide your feet.

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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.

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

Advanced Microgrid Solutions is a three - year - old startup led by co-founders Susan Kennedy and Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, each of whom have long histories in the energy industry.

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.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

By 2013, the most current year data is available, the percentage of single - person households soared to 27.4 percent, the highest in U.S. history.

The claim by many that Kim can not be deterred by military means is not merely hollow, but also ignores the history of more than 60 years of Kim family rule.

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.

On Thursday, the 23 - year - old model was bombarded at a meet - and - greet by a group of anti-fur protesters who had an issue with her history of wearing fur.

The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

History suggests that some 90 percent of rate hikes over the past 25 years already were highly anticipated by the market, with at least a 70 percent chance discounted in, according to research Goldman Sachs released this week.

«We no longer believe the odds are in our favor for the S&P 500 to reach our prior target of 2,350 by year - end, since history shows that recoveries from pullbacks / corrections have generally taken about two to four months to materialize,» Craig Johnson, technical market strategist, said in a note.

With 4.3 million millennials turning 30 this year and the number set to jump to 4.6 million by 2020, there will soon be more adults in their early 30s than at any other time in U.S. history, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by Wells Fargo.

In short, though, after that bankruptcy — which followed a fascinating 75 - year history of libertarian ownership by the Hoiles family — entrepreneur Aaron Kushner led a new group, taking over the paper.

Even the 4 % annual total return of the S&P 500 in the 15 years since the 2000 peak has been made possible only by driving current valuations to the second most extreme point in U.S. history.

«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 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.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Team spirit across campus was high Jan. 12 - 14 as hundreds of students, coaches and judges participated in JDC West 2018, hosted by the Haskayne School of Business for the first time in the competition's 13 - year history.

Our best estimate is that potential output will rise by an average of 1 1/2 per cent per year over the next few years — that is not very impressive relative to history.2 We are counting on gains in productivity to deliver fully two - thirds of that growth.

You can sometimes overcome a less than stellar credit score by having a low debt - to - income ratio, savings built up, several years of credit history and a good annual income.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

The 2017 awards will be extra special this year as winners will be announced in time to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, a momentous occasion in the history of a nation built by immigrants...

According to the International Shark Attack File, a database maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History that tracks shark - human incidents, there were only 72 «unprovoked» shark attacks last year globally.

Every year, certain methods are embraced by the SEO community as «must - have tactics,» while others get pushed to the brink of history thanks to Google's algorithm updates.

Amazon's $ 13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods is the biggest acquisition by far in the company's 23 - year history

The most recent monthly Index of Small Business Optimism, conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), came in at 107.6, the second - highest reading in the survey's 45 - year history.

Our focus was on arithmetic mean (average) household incomes by quintile (and the top 5 %) over the 50 - year history of this data series.

NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright One of the world's oldest insurance markets, Lloyd's of London, has appointed the first female CEO in its 325 - year history.

Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors, with a vote on a proposal the iPhone maker has tried to squelch.

Americans proudly think of their history as a long one, 242 years is indeed impressive by North American standards.

Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market peak and the beginning of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

If we draw Social Security benefits at FRA on the former spouse's earnings and postpone taking Social Security benefits based on our earnings history, we can take advantage of that 8 % per year benefit payout increase effectively increasing our lifetime payout by as much as $ 100,000 to $ 200,000!

They have only gotten more expensive over the last couple of years and now stand at valuations that are only exceeded by a couple of times in history, namely 1929 and 2000.

Binance earns more profit than Deutsche One of the largest exchanges by volume, Binance, which recently relocated to Malta, posted a record profit of $ 200m in the first quarter of this year and only the second quarter in the history of the company.

How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life - Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem by rod dreher regan, 320 pages, $ 29.95 In 2011, Rod Dreher returns to his hometown in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, after years living elsewhere in pursuit of a (highly successful) journalistic....

So what does Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, hope to accomplish by calling for a «Burn a Quran Day» this Saturday, September 11, the ninth anniversary of the worst sneak attack on American soil in our 234 - year history?

I opened my mail box today and happily found a package with Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, March 2010), a monumental work by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of The Reformation and Thomas Cranmer, both highly acclaimed....

They used the history of the mother country (England) as a model for what they DID NOT want... hundreds of years of war, murders, political intrigue, bigotry, and intolerance nearly all caused directly or indirectly by the Catholic church in Rome or later the Church of England (founded by Henry the VIII because he wanted a divorce... LOL)

From thousands and thousands of years of history, you are trying to make a case based on an incident that might have been little more than an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.

New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

When I blessed his house on December 16 of last year, I was struck by the decoration bearing witness to his faith and to his passion for history and the gendarmerie.

Christianity, like a lot of other religions that have been co-opted by governments as a means of manipulating the people, has a very long and very bloody history spanning about 1700 years.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the reports with a grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.

Offred's efforts to weave together the different stages of her life remake some crucial years of common history, while keeping alive the social idea by «testifying.»

Christians in Science website AND BEYOND • A book published by Noah J. Efron last year, entitled Judaism and Science, traces the history of the relationship between Judaism and science or «natural knowledge» from the time of the Israelites to the twentieth century.