b) Climate scientists have been computing forecasts for the short term — i.e. measured
in years or decades.
The long, slow process of climate change may trigger «surprise» shifts that could threaten human communities
in years or decades, researchers from the National Academy of Sciences warned Tuesday.
If one knows the first film, which openly doubted the need for reviving an old intellectual property (such as the television show upon which it was very loosely based)
in the years or decades after it first appeared, this will come as no surprise.
In other words, your dollar's purchasing power today is almost guaranteed to be lower
in a year or a decade from now.
However small the effect
in any year or decade relative to natural magnitudes, doesn't simple addition get us to a dominant effect long before the bear is satisfied?
Not exact matches
I'm not sure that
in the past
year or, honestly,
in the past
decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.
At various points
in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy,
or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating
or steadily declining incomes for
years or even
decades.
Invest
in a warm coat that will outlast harsh winters for
years,
or even
decades.
Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three
decades, the funds
in Chile have only been investing for the past five
or six
years.
The lines track more
or less
in sync until a
decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each
year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.
Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two
decades were not easy on his wife of 38
years, Lynne,
or their three sons, now
in their late 20s and early 30s.
As part of the spending plans for this
year, UPS will open
or retrofit 18 ground delivery facilities
in the US, including three new major hubs, the first ones added to its ground network
in two
decades.
It's totally easy to wake up one day and feel like a
year or even a
decade has passed
in a blur.
Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point
in his
or her life for every
year of age over the past few
decades:
This CEO of the
Year award is a testament to a mind that thinks
in decades, not months
or years, and often defies industry trends.
Economists can debate precisely why so many people have taken it
in the teeth
in recent
decades, but it's clear that
years of stagnant
or dropping incomes have taken a toll on their ability to get ahead.
Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18
years before being allowed to legally marry
in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two
years or two
decades ago is not legally clear.
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.
It's unlikely, for instance, to encourage tardy claims from «people who know all relevant facts and fail to exercise their rights for
years or even
decades,» as the Chamber put it (pdf)
in a letter to the Senate.
Whether they've been around for
decades or were launched
in the last two
years, some companies just have a bit of magic when it comes to grabbing attention and establishing themselves as fan favorites...
She might as well be
in the 1950s
or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced
in those
decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 -
year - old company's global sales.
During the past two
decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four
or five vacations a
year, has flown
in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid
in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken
in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.
In legal filings, the four attorneys representing Redstone (including CBS board member David Andelman) called the claim over the 1972 transaction an «unprecedented abuse,» noting that Redstone was «now 90
years old; material witnesses have been dead for
decades; documents have long since been discarded
or have disintegrated; memories have unquestionably eroded.»
Instead of getting a better, updated therapy for a disease every
decade or so, we might begin to see second - generation cell therapies
in a few
years.
The prospect of
years or even
decades in prison might be easier to swallow if Cohen believes a presidential pardon is possible.
By the time that
decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were
in the single digits — but you had little
or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15
years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.
Each of the 3 had a
decade or 15
years to build up to such a large valuation, since
in the start they all had small valuations.
In recent years, analysts have increasingly assumed, in their models, that deficits resulting from tax cuts are ultimately paid for by tax increases or spending cuts several decades in the futur
In recent
years, analysts have increasingly assumed,
in their models, that deficits resulting from tax cuts are ultimately paid for by tax increases or spending cuts several decades in the futur
in their models, that deficits resulting from tax cuts are ultimately paid for by tax increases
or spending cuts several
decades in the futur
in the future.
Regardless of whether they were founded
decades before the digital age
or have only been
in operation for a few
years, any branding agency worth its salt will have a deep understanding of, and respect for, digital marketing.
Despite what's going on
in much of the rest of the world, Panama's economy — one of the fastest - growing
in the Americas — is steadily chugging along, growing by nearly 6 %
or more every
year for nearly a
decade now.
Depending on where you live, $ 1 million
in savings could last you less than 10
years or over two
decades.
While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion
in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming
decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase
in U.S. government liabilities
in recent
years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.
«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two
years after the worst point
in the crisis
in the 1930s; and why it took
decades, not months, quarters
or even
years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.
The new threshold
in 2016 would be $ 970 a week,
or $ 50,440 a
year, about where it would be if it had kept pace with inflation over the
decades.
Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession
in the
years ahead, along with a continued decline
in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %,
or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed
in recent
decades.
This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a
year through the rest of this
decade (and there has been increasing talk
in the past month
or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).
While the appreciation of the Australian dollar over the past
year or so has restrained commodity prices
in Australian dollar terms, they remain close to their average of the past
decade.
For a two
year old he's got a pretty good start and I can only imagine what the next
decade or two
or three even will generate
in terms of passive income.
But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the
year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (
or world) currency anytime
in the next few
decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.
The median age
in India is 25 and a staggering 13 million young people are expected to enter the workforce every
year for the next
decade or more.
With a just four
years of the total market presence company is making few smartphone giants run for their money and has beaten many of smartphone vendors who are
in the market for almost a
decade or more now.
In Berkshire's property & casualty (P&C) insurance businesses, premiums are collected up front, but claims are paid out often
years or decades later, allowing the float to be used for investments.
The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent
in its last six
years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent
in its first three
years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending,
in short,
in the space of a
decade, the government's notion of restraint is more
or less to leave it there.
Gerardo D.: I've been involved
in the resource space
in one way
or another for just a little over a
decade, about 11
years now.
This is the fourth
in a series of articles highlighting dividend growth companies that have large and durable economic advantages,
or «moats», that protect their business operations and allow
years or decades of strong profitability.
Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for
years or even
decades to a state of overvaluation
in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.
Some of the retiring politicians have spent a
decade or more
in office, so before the writ is dropped I thought it would be fun to take a look at what some of them looked like
in their younger
years in office.
Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate
in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a
year or two; over a
decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.
While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health
in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of
years (
or if we follow Japan's example,
decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.
Leaving aside taxes, costs, inflation, etc., I ran the numbers by
decade going back to the 1930s to see how much money an investor would have ended up with by investing $ 10,000 each
year on a monthly basis (
or $ 833 / month)
in the S&P 500.