Sentences with phrase «about a decade longer»

Last year the company admitted it would take until 2030 to halve its greenhouse gases, about a decade longer than it had hoped.

My previous post was about how it takes about a decade longer to exit in companies with venture capital investors.

Paul, Your totally correct comment about our decade long lack of top quality CB's, Kos apart (but not today) is the key reason we do not fulfill our obvious quality.

The contract not only revealed Bungie's new game, but also a string of details about a decade long plan that included information that the title would launch first on Xbox 360, coming to PlayStation 3 a year later.

The answer, Izen, is of course that when Obama held his «5 to 10 years global warming acceleration» speech, he had not the faintest idea that 5 years is a totally irrelevant interval when talking about decades long climate trends; and he doesn't have the faintest idea about that because he wouldn't know a physical unit if it crawled up his nose and died there.A trend over 5 years is not much better than noise, and detecting an ACCELERATION with such a noisy trend is entirely impossible.

Not exact matches

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

The FCC's decades - long commitment to and enforcement of this basic principle — that ISPs don't get to pick winners and losers on the Internet — means Internet users in the U.S. haven't had to worry about whether ISPs might block or discriminate against certain kinds of content or applications.

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

But it does say something about the evolution of real estate marketing as a discipline distinct from development and sales during the city's decade - long housing boom, and its symbiotic relationship with the media.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

However, in my three decades of experience coupled with reading about markets before my time, the only strategy that I see standing the test of time is to buy solid blue chip dividend - paying stocks from diverse industries, hold them for the long term, and diversify them properly with a judicious allocation to bonds and cash.

But keep in mind that I've already had a long, accomplished career, so I'm not nearly as concerned about how people see me as I was decades ago.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

I doubt it, but reputable forecasters such as Harry Dent believe that gold will drop to about $ 750 during the long term commodity bear market that he sees this decade.

Rubin's curious point in the OpEd is that it wasn't «courses in economics or finance» from his days at Harvard that prepared him «for working at Goldman Sachs and in the government» (notice the almost decade - long stretch at Citigroup is completely missing) but instead «the key was Professor Demos's philosophy course and the conversations about existentialism in coffee shops around campus.»

While we have been conditioned over decades to focus on a single target buyer, or as I have written about often, a target buyer persona, we are beginning to see that this will no longer be adequate for B2B Marketers.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

Daniels's story about her sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier would remain under wraps long past Election Day.

Forbes, in turn, notes that Trump has a long history of trying to inflate his Forbes valuation and decades ago editors even joked about having a «Trump rule» when assessing Trump's net worth - consider the amount Trump claims and then divide it by three to get the real worth.

It's been reported that China has even approached Saudi Arabia about yuan - based oil sales — a direct threat to the decades - long monopoly of the U.S. petrodollar.

That said, the long - term implications of bailouts, tax shortfalls and lack of budget discipline is likely to be significant inflation pressure beginning about 4 years or so out, and continuing for the remainder of the decade.

Investing is about finding a company that will be around for decades and longer, not one that will shoot higher and then fizzle out.

While this is a longer term story about decades - long trends in the economy, it does lead to some implications for investors in the shorter term.

Much has been made recently about slowing productivity growth, but the longer - term view in Figure 2 shows that the U.S. has become radically more productive over the past several decades.

A San Diego woman who said she was raped by the «Golden State Killer» as a young teen spoke out about the relief she felt after hearing a suspect was arrested in the decades - long hunt for the perpetrator.

Over the coming two decades, people are likely to stay in the workforce much longer — by about five years — according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

And so, we bring you RELEVANT's top televised marriages of the past 50 years, one from each decade, and what it teaches us about having and holding, for as long as you both shall be syndicated.

Writing the Confessions about a decade after the cataclysmic event that altered the rest of his long and productive life, Augustine gave his readers a detailed account of his conversion — an event intimately intertwined with hearing and reading.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

Many of the religious conflicts we read about in the newspapers have prehistories and antecedents that need to be traced over a period of several decades or longer, and many represent reactions and counterreactions to other movements both in the same society and in the larger international system.

It was last summer that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams committed suicide after a decades - long battle with depression and addiction, and this weekend, his 26 - year - old daughter Zelda spoke out about her own struggle.

In the most anticipated speech of his week - long trip to Burma and Bangladesh, Francis expressed support for Ms Suu Kyi's efforts to bring about reconciliation among different groups after decades of military dictatorship, and insisted that religious differences in must never be a cause for division or distrust.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

After about a decade of doubt, study, and frustration, I made a resolution: to pursue the truth about the Bible without compromising my intellectual integrity, regardless of whether that pursuit led me to affirm my long - held presuppositions or whether it forced me to change my mind.

There is no way to summarize a long life of learning about these issues in a few lines, but, after decades of discussing this issue, I have to say that the Bible does indeed teach that faith and repentance are gifts from God.

The long prelude is over — the nearly two decades when those of us who knew about global warming felt like prisoners in a bad dream, unable to convince anyone else that the bear was real, the poison deadly.

Food is the most powerful medicine... reading this started a decade - long journey of learning about food and nutrition.

Nothing about that has changed but the sharing of it, either at a friend or relatives», or just spontaneously going out to eat, has shifted dramatically in the last decade as I began to develop more tactics for avoiding eating with others, or later, when I realized many of my health problems were attributed to food intolerances, and most friends and family no longer knew how to prepare food that was gluten, dairy, and for the most part meat - free.

It took me about two decades to discover figs for the first time and I feel like I missed out for so long.

What should have been presented is decade long trends about: farm and processor bank debt; return on equity; full and part - time employment trends; farm and processor business numbers; domestic versus overseas value adding to commodities; volume and value of imported ingredients and products; international versus Australian processing costs comparisons for major foods like meats, flour, oils, milk products; and the farm gate price share of the consumer dollar for fresh foods like fruit and vegetables, milk, meats, bread, juice, eggs.

Smokers can last as long as 50 years, but the average service life of these units is about a decade.

He's been at the club a decade, one of our longest serving players and is about to enter his prime.

Sacking Arsene is long overdue, we have been regressing for about a decade now.