Sentences with phrase «decades since risk»

Any fair assessment of the events of the two decades since Risk must conclude that we are well on our way to high and rigorous standards and accountability.

Not exact matches

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

Currently, BBB - rated bonds are equal to 45 % of the entire outstanding high - yield market, which has increased from 30 % a decade ago.3 Since BBB is the lowest investment - grade bond rating, the risk is that many poor credits will fall, like angels, from the investment - grade into the high - yield universe.

Since the start of this decade the rate of growth of what was perceived to be low risk assets at many banks, was significantly higher than the rate of growth of capital, a trend that played a great part in the collapse of many financial institutions.

The risk to teens is greater than ever since selective breeding of plants to produce higher levels of THC over the past several decades has substantially increased exposure to the compound.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

In the past two decades since A Nation at Risk, local and national organizations have become key players in school reform.

Since the rule was established decades ago, the state education department has notified districts that they were at risk of losing state aid if any of their schools fail to meet the desegregation criteria.

These encompass the most important lessons we have learned about American K - 12 education over the two decades since A Nation at Risk.

I admit to a level of cynicism, fueled by nearly three decades of lofty and ultimately unproductive rhetoric since A Nation At Risk.

Now that these bonds have fared so much better than stocks this past decade, we'd expect to have lower allocations to bonds than we had on average since we started these portfolios in early 2002, but we'll still use bond funds to reduce total risk of a crash, and as a parking place to have something to add to stocks when stocks tank again, as they eventually will.

As in previous editions, a major exhibition establishes a dialogue with the Southern circuit: besides the Southern Panoramas competitive show, this year the highlight is the three decades of experimentation and risk assumed by Videobrasil since 1983, brought together in the exhibition 30 Years.

The United Nations has been making the case for more proactive efforts under the rubic of «disaster - risk reduction» since the world's nations proclaimed the 1990's the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

ExxonMobil, now also the subject of U.S. congressional and activist group calls for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation, knew about the risks of climate change since the 1970s and studied those risks internally for decades.

Three decades since the GREENHOUSE 87 conference, credited as kickstarting public awareness of climate change in Australia, how far have we come, and how far do we have left to go in appreciating the risks?

Although there have been significant changes to the criminal law over the decades since, Patterson's focus on the offender rather than the offence continues to resonate today and finds a modern echo in risk - based approaches to sentencing and conditions of incarceration.

For example, at Love Canal, in Western New York, toxic pollution had been accumulating for decades (since well before the 1940s), but average citizens only started to understand that it was putting them at risk in the 1960s, and the true extent of the environmental disaster was not recognized until a New York State agency organized a large scale scientific investigation in 1977 using newly developed forensic chemistry techniques to quantify the extent to which people were exposed to toxic chemicals.

It's been a decade since the US housing bust and now academics in California say there's a new rising risk to the mortgage industry