Sentences with phrase «by decade as»

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

Speaking of Fonda, it's a bittersweet pleasure that deepens as you get older, I suppose, but nothing is quite the equivalent of watching an actor you admire age decade by decade as you walk alongside them as a spectator.

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

According to him, the President and the All Progressives Congress have set the country backwards by decades as long as Democratic norms were concerned.

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That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

By the beginning of this decade (as Fortune wrote at the time), tech executives were calling the area «Silicon Slopes.»

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

The U.K., Canada and most developed economies have implemented EMV over the last decade and have seen counterfeit fraud, as well as lost / stolen fraud where PIN was implemented, fall by as much as 54 percent between 2008 and 2013, according to a 2014 Aite Group report.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

But around the turn of the decade Alcoa led a producer shift to pricing alumina on the basis of spot market indices compiled by price assessors such as Platts, Metal Bulletin and CRU.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

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.

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

The predominant concept known as «interval training» used by top athletes and Olympic medalists for decades can now help busy entrepreneurs and ordinary folk do a lot more in less time.

By the time the fourth generation iPad hits shelves, we'll already have a good grasp as to whether the next decade of game development will belong to Canada — or someone else

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

His corporate maneuvering over the past decade has been guided by his belief that Dell can dominate as a one - stop tech shop for corporations facing profound technological change.

Known as «the Fifth Beatle» Martin was named by Guinness World Records as the most successful music producer ever, with more than 50 No. 1 hit records over five decades.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Early this month, a report commissioned by Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis, who sought a review of how the federation regulates supply, found that Quebec's share of global supply has dropped by 10 % in a decade — even as demand and output rose.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Here's a look at the donations of at least $ 1 billion announced during the past decade, as tracked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy:

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

After nearly a decade in film, Martin was recruited by Viacom as head of programming for MTVU.

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Founded by a food science professor, the Swedish oat milk company spent decades as a niche player in the plant - based beverage industry.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

The shipyards employed as many as 70,000 people during World War 2 and were shuttered a couple of decades later by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

«When I joined the company in 1992, we used to talk about our mission as putting a PC in every home, and by the end of the decade we have done that, at least in the developed world,» said Nadella.

Decades ago, Congress made a terrible mistake by listening to Trump as he described the «catastrophe» of 1986.

Trump's plan to tax pass - through income at 15 % could cut tax revenue by as much as $ 1.95 trillion over a decade, a report said.

University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Described by observers as the most powerful Chinese official in decades, Xi last year was recognized as only the fourth person to earn the designation of «core» leader.

The difference can not be explained by an outbreak of Dutch Disease in Canada, as the Australian dollar has appreciated faster than the Canadian dollar over the last decade.

As a matter of fact, a report by Bankrate.com revealed that almost 40 percent of people under 30 years old preferred cash for their investment of choice in money they won't need for at least the following decade.