Sentences with phrase «decades past when»

As such, most family dogs are more approachable now than they have been in decades past when they may have been less comfortable with unknown people and were more encouraged to actively guard houses and property.

Perhaps Ravitch, as a historian, should be spending more of her time talking about American schools of decades past when there were health professionals on hand to help treat the health challenges that poor students have.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

Not exact matches

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.

D&O begins to matter when companies have outside investors — according to one survey, nearly a third of private companies reported D&O claims from shareholders in the past decade.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

Hyundai and Kia both increased their shares of the U.S. new - vehicle market in the past decade, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 to 2010 when consumers sought out fuel - efficient and relatively low - priced vehicles.

Over the past decade, regulators have been forced to ensure that professional advisors retain their independence when working for boards.

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.

I've been in venture capital for the past decade, and it still amazes me the different approaches and behaviors I get when I meet founders.

Every aspect of business has changed in the past decade, and that is especially true when it comes workplace culture.

When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label for such corporate creatures in a November 2013 TechCrunch blog post, just 39 of the past decade's VC - backed U.S. software startups had topped the $ 1 billion valuation mark.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

Over the past two decades, this has amounted to a trove of data on what employees experience when their company is a Great Place to Work for All — and how leaders can build one.

But anyone hoping for the kind of stock growth Shoppers enjoyed over the past decade — when its share price climbed from less than $ 18 to, at one point, over $ 55 — will be disappointed.

While gun violence and homicides have generally declined over the past couple of decades, America is still a big outlier among developed nations when it comes to both.

Over the past decade, there have been times (such as in 1988) when higher interest rates have pushed up the exchange rate (i.e. a positive relationship between the two), but there have also been episodes (such as in 1985 and 1986) when a weakening exchange rate caused the Bank to raise interest rates (a negative relationship).

While growth can certainly be faster when measured from trough - to - peak, even the past decade or two of growth has been contained by a 6 % channel.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

There haven't been many major gold discoveries recently, when compared to decades past.

The lack of new rental supply in the past few decades means that when most Canadians think of rentals, they think first of Brutalist 1960s apartment blocks or questionable condo - rentals.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

That's when Koch snapped into full salesman mode, enthusiastically talking about Brewing the American Dream, his brewery's micro-lending program which has helped over 300 food and beverage startups over the past half - decade.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

If there is one lesson that investors should learn from market history over the past several decades, it's that the best time to buy stocks is when the market is tanking.

The recent decline in the dollar is coming off those lofty levels; the U.S. Dollar Index is still trading more than 10 % above where it was when the post-QE3 run began in 2014, and more than 25 % above the low of the past decade (set in 2008).

The function of HR, or «Personnel» as it was called way back when, has changed a ton over the past few decades.

Explained Fake, «Over the past decade, when you looked at the social environment online and the great hegemony of Facebook and kind of owning your social existence, that was frankly very discouraging for a lot of us [who helped build early online communities].

While the lagged effects of the increases in interest rates in November and December are yet to flow through, the continuing rapid pace of credit growth is prima facie evidence that financial conditions remain expansionary, especially when viewed in the context of lending rates that are still below the average of the past decade.

Over the past two decades, non-US stocks have tended to outperform US stocks when value starts to work.

Points I raised in the address include the following: - Canada's economy has been growing quite steadily over the past three decades, even when one adjusts -LSB-...]

Young people today could, if we had taken a wise past for the last few decades, think «anti-poverty,» or «pro-environment» or «pro-fidelity» or anti-violence» when they hear «Christian» or «evangelical.»

In general, American process theology is consciously dependent upon the process philosophy of either Whitehead or Hartshorne or both; and Hartshorne deserves a large amount of credit for doggedly advocating Whiteheadian - Hartshornian process philosophy during the past four decades when such advocacy was not popular among either philosophers or theologians.

When you realize that millions of people have left the institution over the past decade (Barna research) you wonder how long it can continue to carry on.

While I can never recall another instance when Egyptian Christians were so full of rage that they became so bold as to shed decades of fear taught to us by the various and numerous terrors inflicted upon us by members of the Muslim community, I can recall dozens of dozens of instances of Christians being killed by this same community over the past three or four decades.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

There have been times in the past decade when, in the heat of polemics, I too have sometimes fallen into name - calling and motivation - questioning.

While a 1.9 % average annual increase is lower than the market has seen over the past decade, when it stood at 2.1 % on average, it is expected to support an increase of dairy deliveries of approximately 1 % per year to 164m tons in 2025.

Arsene Wenger brought an end to a lengthy silverware drought when his side defeated Hull City to win the FA Cup in May but the lack of major success over the past decade has certainly led to a fair amount of the Arsenal faithful demanding the former AS Monaco manager step down or be axed.

The Cotton Bowl has seen more than its share of suspect losses in the past three decades, with Oklahoma suffering five of the seven: 1989 and 1991 (both under Gary Gibbs, when the Shootout was a non-conference game), as well as 2006, 2008, and 2015 under Bob Stoops.

In recent months I've been recalling what most irritated Arsenal fans over the past decade and one that springs to mind is the excuse Wenger always used when fans questioned why we never made major signings.

LVG has been managing Man utd for two years now, but Wenger has been managing Arsenal for two decades and people has been seeing th same mistake from wenger for the past 10 years doing the same thing.How many years has it been when so many people say Arsenal need striker, since RVP left but still you don't see WC striker at Arsenal.So I think thats why people are more gives stronger opinion about Wenger.

The prem teams get so much money now they can afford the best managers in the world and then buy the best players and if u think about what arsenal have done it's obvious we have stagnated with the same manager, spending the same amount of money playing the same tactics which never won the league in the first place (not including wengers first decade or so) so the past does not represent the present when every other team has improved so much!

When you consider that in the past decade we have competed yet still built a stadium and stayed within our means, it will now be very interesting to see what happens to those teams that want to build new stadiums but stay within the FFP constraints and buy new players.

On Wednesday, which is my day off from the store, when I'm through writing for the day, I tromp down to the basement and find two big boxes of newspapers and magazines I've carried with me as I've moved from place to place over the past two decades.

Despite the disappointing results of the past decade it appears fans of Arsenal FC, including myself, are powerless when it comes to being able to force through desperately needed changes because of Arsene Wenger's entrenched position within the Arsenal FC hierarchy.

Arsenal has been the same for the past decade and probably this season gonna be same all same old stories — to make my story short, right now we are way behind teams say Real Madrid they way they dominated Bercelona on those three games i do nt know about Arsenal if we can stand a chance and biggest problem facing Arsenal has been recruitment of quality players — when we need atleast 5 new players we always brings in 1 or 2 and starting convincing ourselves we gonna win championship if we loose those two of our new players is the same old Arsenal i just do nt know what to say any more

In fact, over the past decade there has only been one season in which bettors would have lost money by taking all favorites — 2012 when favorites went just 40 - 46 with -15.17 units lost.