Sentences with phrase «at up to a decade»

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That operating wizardry has allowed the sports - apparel Goliath to push its dividend up steadily, at 18 % a year over the past decade, an «astonishingly good number,» says Kilbride.

This reached a fever pitch at the beginning of the decade when we saw many integrated oil companies get broken up in a bid to «unlock» hidden value.

Its value soared with the expansion of U.S. money supply in the decade leading up to 2011, when it peaked at US$ 1,918 an ounce.

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.

The most recent estimates provided at the two - day meeting that started Tuesday suggest that up to 15 per cent of jobs in the G7 could disappear because of automation over the next two decades.

«Essentially, it doesn't matter what region or decade you grew up, at some point you probably acquired an email address and you can use it to contact any other email address out there.»

At the time that was a record number — but it's about to be broken, more than a decade later, because those passports are now up for renewal.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

Many start - up companies don't have the resources to throw at security nor the many decades of history in trying to keep client money safe, said Westby.

Many companies at the beginning of this decade were throwing up half - hearted blog posts on their company websites, just to say they were participating in content marketing.

According to Statistics Canada, last year nearly 30 % of fathers took at least some leave to be with their new baby — up from 3 % a decade earlier.

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.

Another up cycle will arrive at some point, but you may have to wait a decade, says Watson.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

The veteran senior exec, who's clocked up a decade at the company, also as its VP of engineering, is the latest stand - in for CEO Mark Zuckerberg who keeps eschewing repeat requests to appear.

Newly released city data shows over the past two decades African - Americans have been arrested for pot at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents, even though the two groups make up a similar percentage of the population.

And that seems worthwhile, given that regardless of how intense the protest, there is an operation up and running to produce this stuff at nearly three million barrels a day, and that's going to be there for decades.

You can never bankrupt student loans, and no one tells you when you sign up for them at the ripe old age of 18 that you are going to be paying more than your mortgage for your education for at least a decade after...

In that vein, Italy liberalized its financial markets and privatized about 15 percent of its economy in the period leading up to monetary union at the start of this decade.

As a result, I observed at the time that most of the productivity «miracle» in the decade leading up to 2003 could be explained by import growth in excess of consumption growth:

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

At the event in San Francisco last week, Hosain Rahman, chief executive of Jawbone, the maker of the Up, a wrist device that tracks people's energy and sleep, said that «a decade from now we won't be able to imagine life without the wearables that we use to access information, unlock our doors, pay for goods and most importantly track our health.»

With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

On the plus side, backlogs were at their highest in over a decade and delivery times continued to stretch, suggesting manufacturers were having a hard time keeping up with orders.

For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement, of the last few decades, why gold has not fulfilled its function of hedging against inflation.

For at least a decade and a half before the appointment of Tietjen to the presidency of Concordia Seminary, some of its faculty had begun to turn away from such understandings — though without claiming that this turn meant giving up biblical inerrancy.

And they worried continually at what he might come up with, as in his remark in 1981 that «trees cause more pollution than automobiles» (a claim that scientists more than two decades later discovered to be not entirely off - base).

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

Writing more than five decades ago in Sports Illustrated, Catholic moral theologian Richard McCormick stated: «Regardless of what answer we come up with, it is both a sign and guarantee of abiding spiritual health to face issues at their moral root.

Though this labor of love was never a money - maker, thousands of Earth Flags were sold over the decades, and to this day, if you show up at an environmental rally, you are bound to see one flapping in the breeze.

Once bumped out of the groove in which we have been stuck for decades, it will be easier for parish priests to take up some of the reforms which have been encouraged gently by Pope Benedict, to be frightened no longer by traditional vestments and vessels for Mass, by the possibility of at least some celebrations of Mass being ad orientem, or by gently moving away fromanti - liturgical informality.

Although Kim tried, in essays written over the course of more than a decade, to reconcile these three assumptions, he confessed at the end of this period that he seemed «to be up against a dead end,» with the problem of the mind appearing «intractable» (SM 367).

Planners sit at desks and conference with one another endlessly in Washington and Brussels, working up grand schemes to be announced with much fanfare at international meetings of the rich before imposing the same old thing they've been imposing for decades on poor countries, whether the schemes help the poor or not.

I had studied with the Eastern Orthodox church for some decades, and visited its monasteries on Mount Athos, in Constantinople, in the Balkans, and in Russia from Kiev up to the Valamo Monastery at Lake Ladoga.

The earlier disillusionment gathered weight as it stretched over several decades, beginning with the purges of the 1930s and extending, at different rates among different individuals, all the way up to the crushing of the Hungarian uprising and to Khruschev's «secret speech» in the 1950s.

I so do understand the questions of «why» and «what's the point» and and and... It's still a struggle at times to pick myself up and serve the «churched» as I've been doing for more than a decade now in two different countries to three different cultures, in three different languages... yet I'm also grateful that it's providing me with platform to promote a bigger vision and dream God might have for us as we find in the life of Jesus.

Bill Martin, who lived on Oahu for nearly three decades and is now a Big Island resident, summed it up best when he told me, «As you might imagine, going to a hotel luau is like looking for real barbecue at Tony Roma's.»

For decades, seeing a quality stand - up comedy show meant getting fancied up, going to a local comedy club, seeing a nationally touring headliner and buying at least two menu items.

He joined following a decade working for Gallo, at first in Southern California, later opening up sales operations across Eastern Europe, eventually rising to the position of Regional Director for Sales, Eastern Europe and the Nordics.

for me thats a good spread, it'll allow a Cf to step up each time a CF «retires / leaves» for at least the next decade...

It's hard to imagine Coach O would've been a serious candidate for LSU if his career record as a head coach was still basically just the 10 - 25 he'd rang up at Ole Miss a decade earlier.

The rebuild was a reload at the same time, and it set the Tigers up to contend for most of the next decade.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

He was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for abusing gymnasts and other athletes at Michigan State under the guise of medical treatment for two decades.