This not only surprised me, it inspired me to focus my research on
the causes of these lost decades and possible defensive strategies that could be used to dampen them.
Really, the clear identification of the real
cause of the lost decade as the desire to pay down debt allows us to then clearly orient to find a definite solution for the US that will really work, and prevent our own lost decade.
Not exact matches
The terrorist attacks set the stage for a
decade of setbacks that have led many people to regard the stock market as a
lost cause.
Whatever moral capital U.S. bishops have in the wake
of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the nation for
decades will be insufficient to win over lay Catholics to what has been for at least a half a century a
lost cause.
Obviously, although he's genius and won a number
of titles throughout last
decade, but recently he has
caused too many troubles, he
lost the media praise and probably, his colleagues respect as well.
Kye Kolar (Camp Name «Big Bird») became involved with Kesem as a cabin counselor at the University
of Virginia in 2007 and his heart has stayed close to the
cause as he and his wife have
lost 3 grandfathers, an aunt, and many friends in the
decade since.
The things that would be really important like household products that might
cause harm, it gets
lost in the shuffle because there's almost too much information... \ [Biotech foods \] have been used for 20 years in 29 countries and consumed by millions and millions
of people including pregnant women and children over nearly two
decades.»
A past study that Kravitz helped run at GeoMIP found that the abrupt termination
of radiative forcing would
cause global warming to effectively speed up to make up for all the time it
lost, cramming five
decades of warming into five or 10 years (ClimateWire, Nov. 27).
This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy
of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple
of decades, because
of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all
of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some
of the physical sciences; we are
losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [
of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise
of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts
of Southeast Asia, are
cause for long - term concern.
Researchers feared that the reintroduction
of wolves to the area more than a
decade ago was stressing out pregnant mothers,
causing them to
lose their babies and contributing to a declining elk population.
Cause and effect soon
lose track
of each other in this tail - chasing, brain - stretching time - travel thriller, which zips around the
decades on a terrorist manhunt.
For a deeper look see the NBER report: The
Causes of Japan's «
Lost Decade»: The Role
of Household Consumption.
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Don't show me temperature
of the air — that can change because
of energy that arrived
decades ago and ended up in the oceans and was, «for
causes unknown», released to the air which it heated and which heat is being
lost to space, there being no other place for it to go.