The phrase
"early decades" refers to the first 20, 30, or 40 years of a certain time period or century. It indicates the beginning years or the initial stage of that particular era.
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After a high point
earlier this decade when the two governments agreed on a city - friendly sales tax distribution formula, relations between the two governments turned sour.
When gold prices hit new
highs earlier this decade, gold had a positive correlation to stocks, meaning when stocks rose, so did gold prices.
And both refer to the massive flow of funds into the equity
markets earlier this decade and warn viewers not to think of it as an intelligent leading indicator.
In recent years she has mounted significant exhibitions of work by artists of
earlier decades who had been overlooked.
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.
This risk caused the duo to take huge positions in the derivatives market, and was at the centre of an accounting
scandal earlier this decade.
The Spotlight section of the fair is filled with work by women — many overlooked
in earlier decades but receiving acclaim now.
New research suggests today's college students aren't engaging in more sex and aren't more open to the idea of sex before marriage than those
from earlier decades.
Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense,
early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the war.
CSIR is reporting that water levels in many rivers already are lower than expected according to the water level fluctuations
during earlier decades.
While getting into the landlord business will require a lot of capital up front (usually at least 25 % down as opposed to the wild west
days earlier this decade), REITs and ETFs are an optimal way to participate in the sector.
Research suggests that many adults over 50 can enjoy a fitness level as good or better than they had in
earlier decades by working just as hard, but may need more rest to enjoy a better fitness level.
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.
Also, looking back
on earlier decades in the U.S., we may have had an epidemic of pre-term births that we are just now discovering.»
A series of headline - grabbing results in the late 1990s and
early this decade suggested that specific adult stem cells such as those from the blood seemed able to exceed expectations and transform themselves into other organs and tissues.
Net tropical deforestation may have decreased in the past decade [179], but because of extensive deforestation in earlier decades [170], [172]--[173], [180]--[181] there is a large amount of land suitable for reforestation [182].
Reporters Jeff Jeffrey, Marisa McQuilken, and Brian Katkin provide an in - depth look at Black Thursday with a piece that begins: «Even in the darkest days of the dot - com
bust earlier this decade or in the recession of the early 1990s, there was never a day like Thursday Feb. 12 in the world of law firms.»
A
study earlier this decade by SEI, the asset manager, found investors paid a heavy price if they missed the start of the bull market by staying in cash too long.
LIPA
earlier this decade began filing tax challenges to lower the payments, but the cases have been slow to move through the courts.
An experimental study conducted by Mathematica has determined that new teachers who joined Teach for America during a
period earlier this decade when the organization was rapidly expanding performed at a level similar to that of the teachers already working in the schools where they were assigned.
Private equity funds have hoarded companies in just about every industry in a frenzied leveraged buyout spree that
started early this decade and has yet to subside.
Department store stalwart Macy's tried and
failed earlier this decade to establish its own e-commerce presence in China; now it has a «storefront» on Tmall Global.
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.
In Europe, the market's development has been hampered by a hodgepodge of national bankruptcy laws, and investor sentiment that has not fully recovered from the sovereign debt
crises early this decade, according to Oh.
This is partly because the interviews were
conducted earlier this decade, before Anvari arrived on the scene, and partly because Rahbaran focuses on filmmakers who chose to work in the country despite the prevailing censorship.
To some extent, this seems to be a phenomenon in which people with low levels of religious commitment are now more likely to identify as religiously unaffiliated, whereas in
earlier decades such people would have identified as Christian, Jewish or as part of some other religious group.
That's what got them Roy Hibbert, Lance Stephenson, George Hill, and that amazing, all - too - brief run at the Miami
Heat earlier this decade.
Having joined the club from Hertha Berlin in summer 2010, he was a key
player earlier this decade during Dortmund's golden years under Jurgen Klopp.
In his video, Cuomo spoke openly about his difficult
times earlier this decade: «A few years ago I ran for governor and I lost and I then went through a very difficult time in my personal life.
A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing
CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.
Koonin, an accomplished physicist who was a longtime provost at the California Institute of Technology before becoming chief scientist at
BP earlier this decade, came to DOE with apparently modest expectations.
First pioneered by cattle
scientists earlier this decade — there is an actual field called «bovine functional genomics» — genomic selection capitalizes on computing power and the large number of markers now available to rapidly make breeding decisions based on every gene influencing a trait, not just a few.»
Serving the latter is Driving Lessons, the most significant film project to come from any of the three leading Potter kids since they began their Hogwarts
run early this decade.
That domain was not new for the actor; he became a devout Christian at the height of his popularity and
earlier this decade starred in the Left Behind trilogy of post-Rapture films.
When it was announced that Jessica Chastain would be starring in A24's weighty biopic Woman Walks Ahead, which centers on wealthy widow and portrait painter Catherine Weldon who leaves New York City in the 1890s and becomes allies with the famous Sitting Bull and the fight for his Lakota people, many fans believed this could be the breakthrough role she needed to finally win an Academy Award after two
nominations earlier this decade.
Allen's aforementioned two Oscar - winning
hits earlier this decade may have introduced him to a new generation of fans, but he still speaks most directly to those who were old enough to be seeing his movies four decades ago.
A pair of colossal
misfires earlier this decade nearly curdled his legacy, however: 2013's Lindsay Lohan - starring The Canyons was a fiasco, and 2014's Dying Of The Light was mangled by studios before being, in Schrader's words, «dumped.»
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