Sentences with phrase «been in the past decade»

The U.S. is more heterogeneous now than it was in past decades, but the key to business success lies in the details.

Derby, however, are closer to a return to the Premier League than they ever have been in the past decade.

In north America the rates of teen pregnancy have fallen over the years, but, interestingly, teen mothers are much more obvious in communities than they were in the past decades.

But why aren't there more good teachers - or at least as many as there were in past decades?

The study analyzed hospital data to determine how many suicide attempts among children and young adults there have been in the past decade.

While the artist has been working in film for years, it has only been in the past decade that these personalities have jumped from paper to video performance.

Remember too that nine of the 10 hottest years since 1880 have been in the past decade.

I do believe global warming is making Australian weather conditions hotter than they have been in past decades.

We don't often see whole life used the way it was in past decades as products like universal life have made it somewhat obsolete for the masses; whole life is good for a small percentage of Americans.

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This is particularly true in business, where unpredictably has been at an all - time high in the past decade.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

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.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Horner is a three - time entrepreneur who has been featured in Inc. magazine, on KABC and Extra and in other publications highlighting her successes in the Silicon Beach community over the past decade.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

The provision has been credited with the financial boom in college sports over the past three decades, and the rhetoric around the change has been foreboding.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

In the past decade, this commitment increasingly means being in the citIn the past decade, this commitment increasingly means being in the citin the city.

A 95 cent loonie is nothing to scoff at either, given that it's still well above the 70 - to - 80 cent range seen in decades past.

With online apparel retailer American Giant, Bayard Winthrop is trying to do what few have done in the past several decades: produce high - quality clothing entirely in the United States.

In the meantime, the Canadian market is losing steam, and that will curb the blockbuster earnings growth that all of the banks have enjoyed over the past decade.

In the past two decades, Lubetzky has learned a lot about what it means to run a business that is both profitable and gives back to the community.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

Connecticut has raised income taxes three times in the past decade, but now, struggling to meet its pension and healthcare obligations, it's going after hedge funds in Greenwich, the Financial Times reports.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

The dodo, «a once powerful bird,» was hit with a change in its environment and «was unable to respond,» warns the plaque, which has been handed down from one Shell scenarios head to another for the past four decades.

In Canada, the opportunity to improve is immense — the number of people with inadequate literacy skills has increased to almost one in two the past decadIn Canada, the opportunity to improve is immense — the number of people with inadequate literacy skills has increased to almost one in two the past decadin two the past decade.

To be fair, though, medical marijuana has been legal in California for nearly two decades, but past Coachella festivals also have prohibited attendees with medical clearance to use the drug or bring it onto the festival grounds.

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«We are solving problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence that were in the realm of science fiction for the past several decades,» he said.

The bee population has been declining in the past few decades — 700 bee species are heading toward extinction — due to changes in agricultural processes, habitat loss, and pesticides.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three 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.

As a neutral observer with no stake in this issue either way, I can't say I particularly care whether Google or Apple is the more influential and important company of the past decade.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

The past decade was not so kind, to Levi or to the venture capital business in general.

It would have been understandable had people just thrown their hands up in disgust and given up on branded consumerism after the mess over the past decade, and we'd be screwed if they had.

Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

«Canada's middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades based on a host of indicators,» Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, two from Fraser's stable of experts, wrote in an op - ed published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 17.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

Traditionally, transference is described as refinding problems with your father or mother in your partner, but Dr. Carveth says in the past decade, analysts have increasingly focused on the effects of sibling rivalry.