Sentences with phrase «for years declined»

A popular author of Sci - fi action in the USA just emailed me to say from now on he's going the self - published ebook route, because the publisher he has been with for years declined his latest book... this despite his numerous fans around the world.

When the write - downs were stripped out, Treasury's underlying earnings for the year declined 14.6 per cent to $ 184.6 million and the wine group was forced to rely on currency adjustments to reach a previously projected profit guidance band of $ 190 million to $ 210 million.

Critics and industry insiders alike have lamented for years the decline of modestly budgeted movies aimed at grownups, the sort of film that was once the backbone of Hollywood.

Not exact matches

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

Only 36.12 % of employees using the program were male, with a decline in access for men 40 - 49 years of age.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Case in point: Soda sales declined in 2016 for the 12th consecutive year.

Campbell has been looking to offset such soup declines that have going on for years (and fell 7 % in the last quarter) with new product innovations, including plant - protein milk and a bigger push of its Garden Fresh Gourmet products.

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

In May, Musk said Tesla would more clearly define its plans for China production by the end of this year; a spokesman declined to give further details.

Its coal volumes have been falling for several years, and the combination of tougher environmental regulations and, in all probability, continued low natural - gas prices make it likely that the decline will persist.

Some are saying that this change isn't a big deal, as Facebook organic post reach has been declining for many years now.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

He noted that many commodities market forecasts for next year show a decline in oil prices.

According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6 years, which is a small but statistically significant decline of 0.1 percent.

The longer term declining trend in shipping rates for the last 3 years remains.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

In the most recent quarter, revenue from print ads fell a whopping 20 %, and the paper has seen similar double - digit declines every quarter for more than a year now.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

Those worried about Canada's declining manufacturing sector would find no hope in the Leaside Business Park — except for the brewery, which produces more than 300,000 cases each year with double - digit annual growth.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The company saw 2014 revenue of more than $ 100 million — 10 times its figure for the previous year — and Mullen says the service is profitable in some markets, though he declined to elaborate.

Investment bank Jefferies called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half of this year.

Canadian manufacturing jobs have been in steady decline for years.

After years of losses and share declines, base metals producers may have reached rock bottom and be poised for a rebound

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

Analyzing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, the authors determined that Uber is responsible for a 16.6 percent decline in vehicular fatalities each year.

Both network and cable TV viewership has been in steady decline for years.

Despite sharply declining sales to China and South Korea, these three countries still accounted last year for 32 percent of Japan's total exports.

Big tech M&A is on track to decline for the fourth year in a row.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

This year, the number was 78,900 for the same period, a decline of 1.7 %, according to the company.

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Analysts were looking for revenue of about $ 18.6 billion, according to analysts polled by Bloomberg, which would represent a decline from this quarter last year.

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In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

But while mall traffic is down and has been declining for years, Kniffen countered that «Walmart is a lot bigger than Amazon, but you would never know that by listening to what's going on or the stock valuations, would you?»

We compared the average viewership for each from January 1, 2016, to February 26, 2016, against the same dates in 2017 to see who had the most growth in viewership year - over-year (and who's been declining).

As most of us know, viewership has declined for local news stations over the past few years.

Household spending fell 0.4 % in October from a year earlier, less than the median estimate for a 0.6 % annual decline, as shoppers spent less on food and transport.

«Compensation went up for every single executive save one on a year - over-year basis and shareholders saw an 80 per cent decline.»

Both Hannover Re and Swiss Re, in a sign of optimism for the sector, said on Monday that they generally see reinsurance prices stabilizing after years of decline.

This update provides new ways for brands to boost engagement and could counter the decline in organic reach Facebook Page owners have been experiencing for the past few years.

Even more devastating, wages» share of GDP has been declining (with brief interruptions during asset bubbles) for 46 years.