Sentences with phrase «did over the past decade»

Research that I have done over the past decade suggests that a chemical messenger called oxytocin accounts for why some people give freely of themselves and others are coldhearted louts, why some people cheat and steal and others you can trust with your life, why some husbands are more faithful than others, and why women tend to be nicer and more generous than men.

Brazil, Russia, India and China are certainly not showing the same growth pattern now as they did over the past decade.

The company has been talking about engineering a strategic shift away from consumer PC sales — which still account for 70 % of its revenue — and toward business clients, as IBM has done over the past decade.

As it has done over the past decade, the sales value of Jameson grew faster -LSB-...]

Nobody cares about that, because he's rarely been given anything significant to do over the past decade and can't go 15 minutes without flipping from good guy to bad guy and back again.

Sacha said he feels a responsibility to reform the office and repair damage that he believes has been done over the past decade.

The Spiegel lab is following the same approach as the LysoSENS research program did over the past decade, which is to search for enzymes in bacteria capable of efficiently breaking down glucosepane.

The work done over the past decade by our two organizations — Foundations, Inc. and the Annie E. Casey Foundation — has taught us a few lessons about how thoughtful afterschool and summer experiences can make a difference in school success, especially in under - resourced communities and low - performing schools.

Research done over the past decade, as well as the perspective of Connecticut's public school educators on the use of the current teacher evaluation guidelines, has shown time and again how inappropriate it is to base the evaluation of a teacher on standardized test scores.

The impetus behind the decision is simple: in his view, cryptocurrencies will transform the investment world just like ETFs did over the past decade.

Not exact matches

It doesn't seem like much, but a succession of such increases over the past four decades has given Canada some of the highest prices in the world for cheese, yogurt and other products made from industrial milk.

It does not want to waste such resources, built up with tens of billions of euros of investment over the past two decades.

Brewers haven't done as good of a job marketing and developing products for women over the past decade, though the launch of hard sodas and seltzers can help.

«With almost 30 % of global M&A volume done cross-border over the past decade, the final quantitative thresholds associated with earnings stripping are likely to have a potentially meaningful impact on cross-border M&A appetite,» the note said.

The iron ore and gold mining industries have served Western Australia well during the past decade, but that does not mean they will do the same job over the next decade, especially if the switch to other minerals evident on world markets gathers pace.

There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.

«I don't think there are enough people now who believe we can continue these outsized price gains we've seen over the past decade,» he says.

The Bank of Canada issued a statement clarifying that Carney did not violate any conflict - of - interest rules, but even the appearance of politics mixing with monetary policy could damage the hard - won credibility and independence the central bank has established over the past couple of decades.

«The decline in employment quality over the past two decades does not mean that we have turned into a nation of «hamburger flippers,»» Tal wrote.

That's a downward revision of 0.1 percent, smaller than the 0.3 percent average adjustment over the past decade and much too small to change our understanding of how the economy as a whole is doing.

But what they didn't do was also noticeable: They didn't threaten to take back the president's authority to set tariffs that Congress had ceded to the White House over the past few decades (regardless of the Constitution's stipulation that the Congress set tariffs).

The increase in the flexibility and resilience of the U.S. economy over the past two decades has a lot to do with the increased openness of the U.S. economy.

What I do think is that over the past decade, investors (including people who hold themselves out as investment professionals) have become far more susceptible to reckless myopia than I would have liked to believe.

So far, the S&P TSX is among the worst performing markets in the world this year; over a longer horizon, it doesn't get much better, with Canadian equities having delivered a paltry 4 per cent annualized return over the past decade.»

After reviewing the award winners over the past several years, Clint expressed surprise to see awards given for «new and ground - breaking» products that were things that Black & Veatch had been doing for decades.

It doesn't matter whether one looks at basic measures such as median valuation multiples over the past (bull market) decade, or whether one uses a more complex discounted cash flow model.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

Again, getting back to Olive Garden, I mean obviously it's been discussed just the absolute average check of the brand, that the increases that have been taken in pricing over the past decade even to your own admission did begin to make you expensive relative to maybe what customers wanted to pay relative to the peers.

So one does prefer to manage cyclical risks within a secular uptrend, as opposed to what we've had to do in stocks over the past decade, which is to manage cyclical risks against a very poor secular background.

Has Modern Portfolio Theory failed to deliver over the past decade because users employ long - term averages for expected returns, volatilities and correlations that do not respond to changing market environments?

Does the rapid appreciation in gold price over the past decade represent a price bubble?

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

Over the past three decades we have seen an increase in insured damages, and it is up to all of us — the insurance industry, governments and citizens — to do our part in responding to the effects of climate change.»

Over the past two decades, China has become a «scapegoat» target for American candidates; such rhetoric might serve short - term election interests, but does much to harm to the U.S. reputation and credibility in China.

Our experience as one of the fastest growing companies in the country over the past decade gives us a unique perspective, and the TiLT training program is grounded in real - life, practical examples of what works and doesn't work in today's incredibly tough sales environment,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

Handelsblatt writes that «The former real - estate baron has done billions of dollars» worth of business with Deutsche Bank over the past two decades, and First Lady Melania, daughter Ivanka and son - in - law Jared Kushner are also clients.»»

While it's impossible to predict exactly what the stock market will do, investing pros over the past several months have been reducing their expectations for what they think the stock market will return, not only in the next year, but potentially over the next couple of decades.

Least of all do frank appraisals and suggestions for improvement seek to denigrate the sincere efforts of parish musicians over the past few decades.

The youtube video is just done with my ipnone, I am doing a series of them to tell my story through the songs I've written over the past decade.

How much do you want to bet that some Muslim did it, just like many of the other alleged hate crimes that have happened to Muslims over the past decade?

«This is evidence that Christians in America over the past decade have done a better job engaging in the persecution issue.»

I have realized over the past decade or so that one of the things I really enjoy doing is studying Scripture.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

It's a measure of how much things have changed in Russia over the past two and a half decades, following the collapse of Communism, that his statement did not seem particularly remarkable.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to....

While it is true that great strides have been taken in furthering the equality of men and women over the past decade, feminists believe there is much work yet to be done.

But there is much more to be done, and the FAITH Movement in this Spring of 2017 sees an increasing need for the specifc message of its New Synthesis of science and the Catholic Faith, with its dynamic of understanding that has fostered so many vocations to the priesthood and so much dedicated lay activity over the past decades.

Many breeds of dog alive today evolved over the past few decades and did not even exist as late as 1900.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to be.

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.