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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.