Sentences with phrase «end of decades of»

With the announcement of the end of decades of hostilities between North and South Korea, it's as good as any segue into the action taking place in the... Read More»

To put all this in perspective, the growth spurt comes at the end of a decade of sub-par performance, when growth has been held back by some serious structural imbalances, especially in the form of excessive debt.

This crime, coming at the end of a decade of similar and worse atrocities finally compelled the U.S. government to pressure the Salvadoran government and military to come to the peace table.

As we approach the end of a decade of Harry Potter, it's clear how wisely (and luckily) the studio cast the series.

At the end of a decade of an extended drive to improve science learning, the scores of the nation's public school students remain essentially flat.

The release Thursday of the results on the state's Academic Performance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scores alone.

That show marked the end of a decade of moneyed art - world excess during which Schnabel achieved (with fellow neo-Expressionists Jean - Michel Basquiat, Eric Fischl and David Salle) astronomical success with collectors, as well as a controversial reputation for his outsize ego.

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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.

Indeed, this story of intrigue might be just a salacious distraction were it not taking place at the top of the ruling class of China, which will likely be the world's largest economy by the end of the decade and a place upon which Canada's fortunes increasingly hinge.

He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

The ending of fringe benefits like the golf course are symbols of a larger transition both at IBM and at most American corporations in recent decades.

The Federal Reserve Board voted Wednesday to raise interest rates, ending close to a decade of virtually free money — and that could mean financing challenges for startups and small businesses.

A commitment to offer premium - quality work boots to a marketplace crowded with low - end, cheap and uncomfortable footwear was the driving force behind the creation of theSteel Blue brand more than two decades ago.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

«When the daily habits of nearly 17,000 utility workers in France were monitored throughout the 1990s, researchers discovered that their degree of social involvement was a good way to predict who would still be alive at the end of the decade,» she claims, for example.

The first phase of the renovation at St. Elizabeth, which includes a town square, is slated to be completed by the end of 2017, but the entire expansion plan will take roughly a decade to finish.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank and an advocate of aggressive monetary easing, to become the new governor in a push for bolder efforts to end nearly two decades of deflation.

Last year, Congress in a show of bipartisan support agreed to extend the federal subsidies responsible for the renewable energy boom through the end of the decade.

Japan suffered an asset price bubble at the end of the 1980s and experienced a period that is referred to as «the lost two decades».

«The early 2010s could well turn out to mark the end of China's years of miraculous growth, with trend growth halving during this decade.»

According to Fidelity, the largest retirement - plan provider, workers who continued to invest in their plans throughout the financially volatile decade that ended Dec. 31, 2012, saw the size of their accounts quadruple!

«We believe that all successful companies, large and small, will be fully digital by the end of the decade.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

But the policy mix aimed at ending nearly two decades of deflation and dubbed «Abenomics» is already boosting corporate morale.

As the first decade of the 21st century ended, VW was enjoying accolades and healthy sales for its green diesels.

That would mean the first LNG by the end of the decade.»

What amazes me is that these hypothetical investors would be considered some of the smartest around, investing steadily every month no matter what the market was doing, for decades on end.

The situation's not quite as good as it was at the end of the previous decade, but it's as good as it's been in a long time.

This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade.

«When the decision to end a decades - long practice is made with so little warning and clear communication, it raises the likelihood of misunderstanding and miscalculation and sets the stage for a crisis between the United States and China over Taiwan.»

Like so many frauds, Sam Israel's big con — a decade - long deception that cost investors millions and ended with the hedge funder on the lam as one of America's Most Wanted — began with a small act of self - delusion.

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

But he concedes that Canada's share of North American manufacturing, which peaked at 17 %, will drop — likely to 11 % or 12 % by the end of the decade.

In 2005, he published The End of Poverty, a book that promised that, with sufficient investment, extreme deprivation in Africa could be conquered within decades.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

The announcement breaks with decades of U.S. diplomacy, and appears to end any role the U.S. may have sought to play as a neutral peace broker.

The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline, potentially ending a decade - long saga over the 1,700 - mile pipeline.

The euro zone economy expanded at its fastest rate in a decade in 2017 and European equities are set to end January with gains of around 3 percent.

Elsewhere in the talk, Musk also revealed that he hoped to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) himself by the end of the decade.

Prime Minister Theresa May is set to end decades of indecision by backing the expansion of Britain and Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow.

They were headed for $ 1.40 per litre back in 2012 when the author of The End of Growth published his warning that the high price of oil would soon halt the economic expansion we had taken for granted for decades.

Nikon was the Pepsi to Canon's Coke, or maybe the other way around, but the two companies had a lock on the high - end market of single - lens reflex, or SLR, cameras for decades.

It ended more than seven decades of monopoly of the oil sector by Pemex.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

In October the company's shares surged past their all - time high price of $ 59.56, recorded in the heady days of the dotcom bubble and at the tail end of a decade that the company unquestionably ruled.

More devices are expected to be connected at the end of the decade.