Sentences with phrase «for decades followed»

Fat is one of your body's main building blocks, yet for decades we followed a low - fat diet according to U.S. dietary guidelines, which became a high - sugar, high - refined - carb diet — contributing to an epidemic of insulin resistance, obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and many other serious health problems.

Finding money for state road projects has for decades followed a relatively simple formula.

According to the city's own data, when Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada banned «pit bulls» in 1990, there were 214 reported dog bites that year. For the decade following Winnipeg's «pit bull» ban, there were an average of close to 50 more dog bites per year.

For the decade following Winnipeg's «pit bull» ban, there were an average of close to 50 more dog bites per year.

For decades following the establishment of the IWC, hundreds of thousands of whales were slaughtered, seriously depleting all whale stocks.

Not exact matches

Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers — called Joy - Cons — that let you play anywhere.

After following the lives of 268 Harvard undergraduate males from the classes of 1938 to 1940 for decades, psychiatrist George Vaillant concluded something you probably already know: Love is the key to happiness.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

She is following a succession of fiscally impaired, torn - mainsail governments (Stelmach, Redford, Prentice) under a PC party that had become nearly as fossilized as the resource that kept it in power for over four decades.

This goes beyond creating a different way to conduct business — it's a new ideology for people to follow, says Art Mesher, a Waterloo, Ont., tech investor who ran Descartes Systems, a logistics technology firm, for a decade.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

Buffett, a widely followed investor who is chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), scorned Trump's 1995 move to list Trump hotels and casino resorts on the New York Stock Exchange, saying it lost money for the next decade and that «a monkey» would have outperformed Trump's company.

Plus, today's 15 - year - olds are just years away from potentially taking out student loans, a debt decision that could follow them for decades.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

He chugged along for the following decade, reaching $ 4.4 billion in 2007, gradually rising to $ 18.4 billion by 2012, ranking him 26th on the list.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

For men, lifetime earnings are on track to increase for the cohort born between 1980 and 1989, but that increase follows decades of earnings stagnatiFor men, lifetime earnings are on track to increase for the cohort born between 1980 and 1989, but that increase follows decades of earnings stagnatifor the cohort born between 1980 and 1989, but that increase follows decades of earnings stagnation.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

As a matter of fact, a report by Bankrate.com revealed that almost 40 percent of people under 30 years old preferred cash for their investment of choice in money they won't need for at least the following decade.

After the two big stock drops of the 2000s, the market basically went nowhere for the following decade.

The Fed has been suggesting it could raise rates in 2016 since it tightened policy in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but investors have doubts the central bank will follow through on that guidance.

I'd been following the diamond - growing science for more than a decade.

The decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks is commonly referred to as the «lost decade» for the U.S. travel industry.

Shell shareholders are set to cast their votes on the deal on Jan. 27, followed by BG investors the next day, the final hurdles to be cleared for the deal to proceed, one of the biggest energy sector acquisitions in the past decade.

After some years of Cuban hostility following the Soviet Union's collapse and Russia's withdrawal of the vast subsidies it had provided for decades, the Kremlin has made new efforts to solidify the two countries» strategic bond.

Travel photography, which had been slowly emerging for decades, really burst onto the scene following technological improvements in the early 2000s.

Park was an authoritarian leader who imposed economic policies that paved the way for continued economic growth in the decades following his assassination in 1979.

The brand's keen following among millennials - consumers who are hard to reach through traditional marketing channels but who are highly valued for their spending power - has explained its rise as one of the media sector's fastest - growing companies of the last decade.

So on Thursday, when the New York Times published a story alleging that Hollywood mega-mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sexually harassing women for decades — essentially confirming what has long been described as an «open secret» among those who follow the entertainment industry — I knew that no one would understand the story better than Lui.

For decades, most French companies have had to follow restrictive union labor agreements based on their sectors.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

Not only have mortgage rates jumped to more than four percent following the November election results, but the Federal Reserve recently opted to raise its rates for the second time in almost a decade.

That undershoot created a point of enormous undervaluation for the market (resulting in projected and actual total returns for the S&P 500 above 15 % annually over the following decade).

Following the reintroduction of wolves, each wolf was averaging 22 elk kills per year, far exceeded the 12 elk per wolf projection as the existing herds were not prepared for the «sudden appearance» of the century - old apex predator after decades of tranquility.

Wells Fargo has run into problems of late following a scandal, revealed last September, in which thousands of its employees opened millions of fake accounts for unwitting customers over a decade and a half, if not longer.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix issued the following statement on the death of Chief Ernie Campbell, who led the Musqueam First Nation for over decade until last fall: «New Democrats are greatly saddened over the passing of Chief...

On the monetary side, the inflation targeting framework the Reserve Bank has been following for a decade and a half will guide adjustments to interest rates.

SEO has been around for decades, but only since the early 2000s has the search engine giant, Google, taken measures to make SEO more about the web user's experience than following specific formulas to make one's website rank high in search results.

If these numbers are realistic, the portfolio balance model would suggest that the exchange rate has to appreciate initially by some 30 per cent (and will appear seriously and persistently uncompetitive for trade in goods and services), before depreciating by 3 per cent per year over the following decade.

Following an attempt by the Abu Dhabi government to purchase major US port facilities a decade ago, CFIUS was reformed to include, for example, review of sovereign foreign investment or a purchase that would involve foreign investment in critical infrastructure.

Geothermal energy development has followed the same storyline for many decades: a low - carbon energy source that can offer reliable and sustainable...

While the VIX Index itself is a gauge and is not investable, Cboe offers the following VIX - related benchmark indexes (all shown in image above) that are designed to serve as benchmarks for hypothetical investable performance over more than a decade.

After a decade or so of following small to mid sized banks for our broader products, the timing was right to launch this offering.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Four U.S. industry sources who follow China policy closely said they were unsettled by any suggestion of abandoning the «one China» policy, which they said had served the business community well for several decades.

Given that adoption of the TPP by the partner countries will likely take at least two years, followed by the five annual stage reductions of the tariff on imports from Japan, we will continue to be placed at a competitive disadvantage for over half a decade.

It is one of the bets performing financial instruments of the past decade, for starters, and traditionally big losses have been followed by big gains.

The two became best friends and sales tag - team partners, and after approximately three years, the pair moved over to VCA together, where they reigned supreme for nearly two decades to follow.

During the last decade, a resurgence in feminist activism has inspired a new generation of women to fight for equality following a relatively quiet few years for feminist campaigns.