Complex sentence: The MTA's CMT (Chartered Market Technician) program, the industry's gold standard in technical analysis, took years to get off the ground and many people worked hard to make it happen in the second half of the 1980's.
Split into simpler sentences: The MTA's CMT (Chartered Market Technician) program, took years to get off the ground. Many people worked hard to make it happen in the second half of the 1980's.