Sentences with phrase «decades of growth seem»

Among other things this confusion made China's nearly four decades of growth seem far more exceptional than it was, and so created the very lazy belief among analysts that there are no historical precedents that can guide us in understanding the strengths and the vulnerabilities of China's economic trajectory.

Not exact matches

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.

This expectation seems out of tune with reality given Wal - Mart's nearly two decades of profit growth.

This expectation seems overly pessimistic for a firm with a nearly two - decade track record of NOPAT growth.

This expectation seems too pessimistic considering the company has grown NOPAT 6 % compounded annually over the past decade and has experienced an acceleration of NOPAT growth since 2012.

This relationship broke down in the early part of this decade, when strong global growth coincided with an unexpected weakening in the Australian dollar, but seems to have reasserted itself lately.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

While some might see all of this as good news — or rather better news than what we have seen for nearly the last decade during which states, state departments of education, and practitioners have been grappling with and trying to make sense of student growth measures and VAMs — others are still (and likely forever will be) holding onto what now seems to be some of the now unclenched promises attached to such stronger accountability measures.

«The reason why the growth stocks do so much better is that they seem to show gains in value in the hundreds of percent each decade.

You know that China growth slowdown we've all been talking about... seems to me the Chinese market's actually been discounting it for the past couple of decades!

While Japans lost decade of virtually no growth seems bad it could have been a lot worse if it had not been able to ramp up exports and make a nice earning from the carry trade.

The scale and rate and increment of development that seemed normal in 2003 is over and gone for good,» warns author James Howard Kunstler, who has spent two decades chronicling the ravages of suburban sprawl and sees shrinkage, not growth, as the wave of the future.