Sentences with phrase «early as a decade»

«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.
As early as a decade ago, Oehlen set up a studio in a tower of the city walls of Segovia, where he began to work on computer generated images.
Gain - sharing clauses started appearing in outsourcing contracts at least as early as a decade ago.
As early as a decade ago, this was the only way to go about getting coverage.

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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.
Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.
But sh e said that she was interested in getting back to the kind of early - stage company that eBay was when she began a decade - long stint as its CEO in 1998.
To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.
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.
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.
After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.
That process is likely under way now with options, as top executives, who scored big with them earlier in the decade, have begun doling them out to workers.
You might be tired of your current career after decades of effort, wanting to part ways before you burn out entirely, or you might be a youngster looking to get out of the workforce as early as possible.
And if you understand the power of compounding, then you realize how a 50 % tax bite as opposed to a 20 % tax bite can mean the difference between achieving your financial goals a decade early or never achieving them at all.
As of Dec. 31, Omaha, Nebraska - based Berkshire also owned a 15.6 percent stake in American Express Co, having crossed the 10 percent threshold two decades earlier.
As of 2014, the average student graduating with debt had borrowed $ 28,950, up from $ 18,550 a decade earlier, according to The Institute for College Access and Success.
For fellow early retiree Jeremy Jacobson, who blogs at www.gocurrycracker.com, a vacation prompted him to rethink his priorities and decide he wanted to ditch his career as an electrical engineer decades early.
Early versions of ransomware have lurked for more than a decade, but the latest ones are increasingly sophisticated, as are the cyber crime gangs that assiduously update their malignant programs and find novel ways to elude cybersecurity experts and law enforcement.
In a bid to sustain the double - digit growth the company had enjoyed in the early part of the decade, the brand opened far too many retail stores, making their goods too widely available and reducing their status as a luxury label.
Early in the decade the company had been dogged by R&D failures, most notably of Vanlev, a high - profile hypertension drug that had been hailed as a can't - miss blockbuster but then fell short of even getting FDA approval.
As managing partner of Blumberg Capital, David Blumberg is a respected investor, with two decades of experience investing in early - stage tech startups.
Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.
Killing Fields follows that man, Rodie Sanchez, as he sifts through new evidence and tries to figure out what may have slipped through the cracks nearly two decades earlier.
Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.
«As alluded to earlier when discussing the long - term upward drift in CAPE, another related but distinct headwind for contrarian stock market timing in the second half of our sample has been the decades - long valuation drift in post-World War II equity markets, over which the CAPE gradually doubled.
The Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in a decade is expected as early as this fall, an action with far - reaching implications for every corner of the world economy — from your mortgage rate to emerging - market trade.
For someone who has been labeled both a «perma - bear» over the past decade, as well as a «one lonely raging bull» in the early 1990's (Los Angeles Times), I can't say that either description is fitting at the moment.
News and music are dominating user activity on smart speakers, just as they did in the early days of mobile devices a decade ago.
As Barry Eichengreen writes of the British economy, «Its performance compares less favorably with Europe's in the «twenties, when it persistently lagged its Continental rivals, than in the «thirties, when it closed much of the gap that had opened up in that earlier decade
Over the past decade immigrants have arrived in Canada better educated and at similar stages in their careers as those born in Canada, but evidence suggests that they have been less successful than earlier waves of immigrants.
After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.
But David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute was among those who questioned the extent of the «rank creep,» especially since the numbers continued to climb even as the Harper government cut the Forces earlier this decade.
The possibility that the stock market will quickly recover from its collapse, as it did earlier this decade, is perhaps the biggest uncertainty about the financial condition of the wealthy.
But economists say that the rich will probably not recover their losses immediately, as they did in the wake of the dot - com crash earlier this decade.
Prior to joining TFX, Kevin spent over a decade as a Managing Director for Stephens Capital Partners LLC and Stephens Inc. where he was responsible for originating, analyzing, managing and advising on transactions ranging from early stage opportunities to leveraged buyouts.
The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.
Richard spent his early career as a bonds fund manager and analyst with BZW but then spent close to two decades in The British Army.
Mortgage lenders are making new low - and no - downpayment loans available to today's home buyers; and purchase loan approval rates are markedly higher as compared to earlier this decade.
This bill could ultimately be as costly as the ill - advised tax cuts passed earlier this year, setting the stage for more than $ 1.5 trillion in debt if the increased cap levels are extended through the decade.
But just as the power of compounded interest can help small early - career contributions balloon over the decades, small losses due to taxes can snowball over a lifetime.
Earlier roles included acting as the head of Corporate Development and Planning for Canada and serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. for more than a decade.
The development may however still not have come soon enough to prevent a temporary downturn in export volumes from the gas export project as the current supply source, the Bayu - Undan field, is due to start declining early next decade.
«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.
Earlier in Asia, the Nikkei was in focus as it jumped to its highest close in more than five years after global finance leaders effectively backed the Bank of Japan's stimulus program as a legitimate attempt by the country to get out of its two - decade era of stagnation.
As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.
CNN: Rev. Moon, religious and political leader, dies in South Korea at 92 The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — founder of the Unification Church, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the church said.
The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.
While Odysseus on his return to Ithaca is exactly the same as when he left two decades earlier, «what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing and the old man whose favorite son has been torn to pieces by a wild beast!»
We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.
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