Sentences with phrase «early years of the expansion»

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Gross domestic product grew 1.1 % in the third quarter from a year earlier, the latest government estimate showed, higher than the advance estimate of 0.6 % growth and a 1.0 % expansion in the Reuters survey.

Earlier this year, CEI issued an opinion article criticizing the expansion of EPA's authority to regulate toxic chemicals and questioning the need for an asbestos ban.

Vietnam's gross domestic product grew 6.81 percent last year, faster than an expansion of 6.21 percent a year earlier.

Canadian Natural production averaged a record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the year - earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.

Economic activity is gaining momentum, and despite a bumpy start earlier in the year, we expect an expansion of 3.6 percent in 2014 and 3.9 percent in 2015.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

Earlier this year, OT reported on ABCN's expansion with the appointment of Ramon ten Tije, founder of the successful Netherlands - based virtual office provider Flexado.

And just this week in its Quarterly Review, the Bank of International Settlement is again sending an early warning signal about the potential vulnerabilities related to the sharp expansion of credit in Canada in recent years.

Earlier this week, it was reported that the 19 - member eurozone economy expanded by 2.5 % in 2017, the fastest rate since 2007, and ahead of the 2.3 % expansion the U.S. saw last year.

While the U.S. economy is entering its ninth year of expansion, economies in the rest of the world are much earlier in their cycle and may have room to grow.

I earlier cited (of all things) the theme song to The Big Bang Theory (tv sitcom)... «Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.

So that now, even when the same assertion is made today as was made a thousand, or fifteen hundred years ago, it is made subject to limitations or expansions of meaning, which were not contemplated at the earlier epoch.

Gravitational waves result from «inflation» of the early universe, an exponential expansion of space in the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago.

The expansion into China marks the latest major announcement in the brand's growth following the introduction of new stores into the territory of Japan earlier this year.

Designed to attract franchisees with an appetite for multi-unit expansion, the incentives include discounted initial franchise fees and offers reduced royalties for up to three years, driving unit level profitability early on in the initial entrance phase of development in a new market.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

In earlier years, my husband shared that vision, but the addition of our third boy in less than 5 years brought family expansion discussions to a grinding halt.

To promote ice hockey as a lifelong recreational pursuit for boys, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the expansion of nonchecking programs and the restriction of body checking to elite levels of boys» youth ice hockey, starting no earlier than 15 years of age.

The Democrats collided on a variety of issues in 2014 and earlier this year, including funding for Mr. de Blasio's universal prekindergarten expansion, affordable housing at Sunnyside Yards and how high New York City's minimum wage should be.

Stringer also announced that the official public review of the West Harlem rezoning project for the Columbia University expansion will begin this fall and that it is expected to be complete by early next year.

Earlier in the month the Government postponed an announcement of its decision over what to do at Heathrow until the New Year, prompting accusations that it was planning to bow to increasing Labour backbench opposition to the expansion.

One New York politician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of antagonizing Cuomo, discussed receiving a call earlier this year from a top Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, after publicly endorsing de Blasio's proposal, which calls for a tax increase on wealthy city residents to fund a pre-K expansion.

But Cuomo, who is up for re-election next year, strongly suggested at an editorial board meeting with the Daily News that he won't go along anytime soon with de Blasio's plan to pay for the expansion of early childhood programs by increasing taxes on the wealthy.

The previous record - holder for earliest moth - butterfly fossils came from about 130 million years ago, a bit after a major expansion of flowering plants.

When they corrected for this bias, they found that instead of mirroring the evolutionary expansion of angiosperms, dinosaur diversity peaked 85 million to 55 million years earlier, during the early Jurassic period.

Earlier this year, Laurance and his colleagues issued a warning that this unprecedented expansion of infrastructure would come at a great cost.

An eight - year - long expansion project of the Panama Canal is scheduled for completion early this year.

The ancient Mota genome allows researchers to jump to before another major African migration: the Bantu expansion, when speakers of an early Bantu language flowed out of West Africa and into central and southern areas around 3,000 years ago.

However, lacking global observations of surface mass and ocean heat content capable of resolving year to year variations with sufficient accuracy, comprehensive diagnosis of the events early in the altimetry record (e.g. such as determining the relative roles of thermal expansion versus mass changes) has remained elusive.

This paper was chosen as a feature highlight because it explores one of the early questions in the field of human population genetics: the whereabouts of the expansion out of Africa that brought modern humans to colonize the rest of the world in the last ~ 60,000 years.

This finding provides evidence for an early, distinct wave of human expansion out of Africa, approximately 120,000 years ago, that led to the peopling of Papua New Guinea.

Federal, state and community agencies across the nation are working on an aspirational and ambitious agenda for dramatic expansion of high - quality early learning opportunities in the years before kindergarten, including pre-K.

In Washington, this is the second year legislators have tackled the teacher shortage, which has been exacerbated by the expansion of full - day kindergarten and class size reduction in the early elementary grades.

Evers earlier this year praised Walker's budget proposal, but until now the two have been at odds over how much money the state and property taxpayers should send to schools, the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers and on Walker's signature piece of legislation known as Act 10, which nearly eliminated collective bargaining for public school teachers and resulted in massive membership losses for the state's largest teachers union, which has heavily backed Evers.

Moreover, during the early years of charter school expansion in LAUSD, most charters — especially affiliated conversion charters serving the most advantaged students — struggled to improve student outcomes.

The stated goal of the Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program is to «increase the availability of inclusive early education and care for children aged 0 to 5 years old» in order to boost school readiness and improve academic outcomes for children from low - income families and children with exceptional nEarly Education Expansion Program is to «increase the availability of inclusive early education and care for children aged 0 to 5 years old» in order to boost school readiness and improve academic outcomes for children from low - income families and children with exceptional nearly education and care for children aged 0 to 5 years old» in order to boost school readiness and improve academic outcomes for children from low - income families and children with exceptional needs.

Earlier this year, Florida's largest teachers union filed a legal challenge to prevent the expansion of school choice.

Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and the CfBT Schools Trust (CST) are both on the government's «pause list» — meaning they can not sponsor new schools — after running into trouble following quick expansion in the early years of the academy programme.

Mayor Elorza announced the expansion of Providence's Summer Learning Initiative earlier this year partnering with Providence Public Schools and community organizations: BELL, Breakthrough Providence, the Providence After School Alliance and Generation Teach.

The expansion of Grand Caravan market share from the early part of the year is stalling.

It launched earlier this year in Miami and San Diego as Lincoln Chauffeur, but will be renamed Lincoln Personal Driver ahead of an expansion to Dallas.

Starbucks is in the early stages of a major international expansion, with plans to open more than 9,000 locations internationally in the next four years.

And just this week in its Quarterly Review, the Bank of International Settlement is again sending an early warning signal about the potential vulnerabilities related to the sharp expansion of credit in Canada in recent years.

Amex completed a full renovation of the Centurion Lounge in Seattle earlier this year, and announced a major expansion of the Dallas - Fort Worth location last month.

After 3 years managing the Concierge team she went on to play a critical role in the company's early expansion, including the acquisition of Carimo in November 2011, as Project and Finance Manager.

Rhodes is a summer sun favourite whilst Biarritz, the historic Atlantic coastal town on France's south western coast add to easyJet's recent expansion of French routes from the airport, having added Nantes and Marseille earlier this year.

Following the launch of the first ever branded Worldhotel early this year, this milestone launch of Worldhotel Grand Juna Wuxi launches a promising expansion of the Worldhotel brand in China, as well as Asia», added Robert Hornman, Managing Director of Worldhotels.

Southwest continues to expand its international schedule from Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood Airport, where earlier this year it opened an expansion of Terminal 1 to accommodate those flights.

These new signings extend the global footprint of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to Asia, following its expansion to Europe, with the opening of Kimpton De Witt Amsterdam and the signing of Kimpton Paris, earlier this year.