Sentences with phrase «about this decade so»

The recent drought, thus far, pales hydrologically in comparison... Spatially, the mid-12th century drought covers all of the western U.S. and northern Mexico... whereas the 21st century drought has not impacted parts of the Pacific Northwest... The 21st century drought has lasted about a decade so far, whereas the 12th century medieval drought persisted with an extent and severity... for two decades, 1140 — 1159 [AD]... In both instrumental and paleoclimatic records, periods of sustained drought in the Southwest have often been concurrent with elevated temperatures.

Not exact matches

Happily working decades beyond the magical age of 65, here are his words about how anybody can follow suit, and thrive doing so.

«There's only so many people who want to Twitter about Gossip Girl or whatever,» says Shelley Smit, Universal McCann Canada's managing director who also served as Labatt's director of media and sponsorships for a decade.

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

But I've now used both systems for about two decades each, so I feel I have a pretty good handle on the main contrasts.

I was excited to get to chat with him about how he grew his operations so successfully in under a decade.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

Stanley Kubrick's classic movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film for decades.

«Although China will be switching over to renewables by 2039, concerns about unhealthy air will be so intense after two decades of respiratory diseases that they could likely pioneer buildings with filtered air, oxygen supplements and artificial light to replace lost sunlight,» said Jacques Gordon, LaSalle's head of global research and strategy.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Most have been there for decades, and they get so delighted talking about working there that they make Google (GOOG) employees look like detainees.

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.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

«The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries both friendly and not so friendly for many, many decades,» he said, complaining about what he said was the United States» $ 800 billion trade deficit.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

The so - called benchmark revision, which takes place about twice a decade, also showed the economy grew faster in 2012 than previously estimated: 2.8 % vs. 2.2 %.

Decisions we make today won't be felt for decades, so we have to be fairly certain about what we're doing now.

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.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

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?

In the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the U.S. and UK both reduced their debt burden by about 30 % to 40 % of GDP per decade by taking advantage of negative real interest rates, but there is no guarantee that government debt rates will continue to stay so low.

When Tokyo sought to purchase a fleet of F - 22s a decade ago, U.S. lawmakers barred the Japanese government from doing so due to concerns about sending information on sensitive military technology abroad.

Despite having been in the investment business for over a decade at that point, most of my reading had been about other value managers, so I was excited about learning from traders who used completely different investment philosophies than we used at Oakmark.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

So when we think about where we're at with financial markets here in 2017 things are strange and not like they used to be if you'd go back a decade earlier.

So, after serial disappointments over the last decade about the unrealized potential of the Indian economy, how should we calibrate expectations about Indian growth prospects in today's rather gloomy global economy?

With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

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.

Maybe you don't feel comfortable about a permanent commitment to an energy company, so a firm like General Mills, Anheuser Busch, Kraft, Hershey, or Berkshire Hathaway (which presumably will get around to paying a dividend sometime in the next decade or so) would be a better fit on your permanent list given your risk profile.

- Greg — So are you saying that I should be ashamed of not wasting decades of my life learning all there is to know about religions I consider to be utter nonsense in the first place?

It is quite possible that today's excitements about «the gay nineties» will, in ten years or so, seem as puzzling as the enthusiasm for «open marriage» two decades ago.

Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the «electromagnetic force,» the «weak nuclear force,» the «strong nuclear force,» and so - called «force of gravity and they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force.

They kept this horrible crime under wraps for decades so why are they making such a huge deal about women receiving contraception?

I can't help but wonder if all the devout religioners screaming that Hoffman doesn't merit a church funeral were quite so adamant about the Church's protection of all the child molesters and all their decades of masquerading in clerical costumes?

First, about how to read the trajectory these past three decades or so of magisterial teaching on judicial execution.

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.

If so then what about it changed in a decade?

So he was wondering why no one reported Sandusky... hmmmm did he ever wonder about the DECADES that the Catholic Church has covered up abuse, transferring abusers, destroying evidence.

But I hadn't thought about God or anything for decades, and so I realized in that moment that I had a prejudice that I needed to let go of.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

If there's one thing I've learned over this past decade of parenting, it's that questions about religion demand my attention, and all the more so if they inadvertently reference a history of discrimination.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

Yah, it's cheesy and often overworked — especially when I remember that so much of my decades of ministry were about being a friend to those who needed one.

So I took about 6 seconds to find out what this massive evangelical teen event was that I've somehow never heard of while traveling and speaking across the country at hundreds of events over the past couple of decades.

We have no record of Jesus for about 33 years so wonder what he did for 3 decades...

i love the bs stats... how about the vatican saying there have been over 4000 complaints registered in the last decade???? and BTW, these are so called men of God....