Sentences with phrase «growth in a single year»

The record for net population growth in a single year is 3.1 million, set in the baby boom year of 1956, the bureau notes.

Pearson's iLit is a comprehensive literacy solution designed to produce two or more years of reading growth in a single year.

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Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Huber of T. Rowe Price foresees high - single - digit earnings - per - share growth, and 15 % share - price upside in the next couple of years, even before factoring in yield.

But that follows nearly two years of single digit growth, which was kept in check due to the fallout from Sandy and the need to invest in the upgrades.

SR: Eighty - five percent of our growth in next five years will come from our own stores and online, while wholesale [department and other big - box stores] will grow single digits [percentage].

In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

The company, which did not disclose earnings figures, said it still expected mid single - digit organic growth in operating profit this year.

«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

Looking ahead, Chipotle says it expects sales in established locations to rise in the low - to mid-single digits for the year, up from its previous forecast of growth in the low single digits.

For full year 2018, management forecasts 130 - 150 new restaurant openings and same store sales growth in the low - single digits.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

For now, single - serve coffee has the biggest presence in Western Europe and the United States, but after years of growth there, the category leaders are moving into new markets.

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) attributing that growth not to single hit show but to a portfolio, serving its subscribers «advance tastes, and the advantage of being included in bundles, one with Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA)(NYSE: CCS) in the U.S. currently rolling out, and then another package with Sky beginning later this year.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

Starbucks reiterated its 2018 outlook but said the guidance excludes the yet - to - be determined impact on its previously announced plan to close more than 8,000 company - owned stores for half a day to conduct racial - bias training for its employees in the U.S. Comparable - store sales are seen up 3 % to 5 % globally for the year, and revenue growth is seen in the high single digits, Starbucks said.

The company had previously told investors to expect profit growth in the high - single digits over the course of the 2013 to 2016 fiscal years.

Factor in what might be high - single - digit business growth over the next year, as well as what's currently a yield of just over 2.25 %, and you could easily make a case for what might be a total return of ~ 25 % for 2018.

But even if the ECB does bend to the will of the bond markets this year, and begins to buy sovereign debt directly, the single currency is left with all of the same weaknesses that existed prior to the crisis: the inability to tailor interest rate policy for each individual economy, the lack of foreign currency adjustment needed to offset differences in competitiveness, and growth - limiting trade dynamics throughout the area.

Combined with modest growth from its Fios segment — where increases in Fios Internet customers have more than offset losses in Fios Video connections — as well as sales from its Oath subsidiary, which encompasses more than 50 media and tech brands including Yahoo!, tumblr, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and AOL, management says investors can safely expect Verizon to deliver solid low - single - digit percent growth in both revenue and adjusted earnings this year.

At year - end 1999, having turned the portfolio over 174 %, the manager said they had moved away from «stable growth companies» such as supermarket and financial companies, and into tech and leisure stocks, singling out in the year - end report Cisco and Sun Microsystems — each selling at the time at about 100 X earnings — for their «reasonable stock valuation.»

With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.

Overall, the company's strategic plans to improve organic growth and regain market share will take time to play out, but this blue chip dividend king should continue delivering rock solid income and low single - digit payout growth in the years ahead.

Single family offices (SFO), external asset managers (EAM) and financial intermediaries (FIM) have become a growing force in Asia's wealth management industry, with significant growth expected over the next few years.

Instagram was one of the largest single avenues for growth, with a 90.7 % year - over-year growth in mobile ad revenue totalling to $ 3.08 billion in 2017.

In the past two or so years, we have noticed a shift away from donor - advised funds at Single - Issue Charities, with fewer reporting overall, a decline in the amount of new contributions made in 2016, and a high growth in the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of theIn the past two or so years, we have noticed a shift away from donor - advised funds at Single - Issue Charities, with fewer reporting overall, a decline in the amount of new contributions made in 2016, and a high growth in the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of thein the amount of new contributions made in 2016, and a high growth in the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of thein 2016, and a high growth in the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of thein the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of them.

Its solid performance over the three months to June helped to push year - on - year growth in the single - currency bloc up to 2.1 %, the highest level since 2011.

The year - over-year growth in existing single - family home sales has contracted from 15.7 % last November to 1.6 % in April, while growth in building permits for new single - family homes — a forward - looking proxy for housing starts — has fallen from over 13 % in February to 6.9 % in April.

Business and consumer surveys pointed to continued momentum in the third quarter, keeping the single - currency bloc on course to potentially deliver its strongest calendar year of growth in a decade.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

TWE's renewed success in China comes at a time when the likes of Coke and Unilever are reporting single - digit growth in China, while beverage group Diageo saw its full year sales fall 2 per cent across the Asia - Pacific.

The combination of those two factors has allowed the company to improve its pod growth from the low - single digits to mid-single digits in the second half of calendar year 2017, it states.

The combination of those two factors has allowed the company to improve its pod growth from the low - single digits to mid-single digits in the second half of calendar year 2017.

Inflation, the President added, has declined from 15.6 % at the end of 2016 to 10.4 % at the end of March this year, and is expected to decline even further to an end - of - year single digit target of 8.9 %; with economic growth increasing from 3.6 % in 2016 to 8.5 % in 2017.

The # 2.6 bn pot, spread over five years, is also the same amount that the old Regional Development Agencies had at their disposal in a single year, at a time when growth and confidence were not in such short supply.

On the economy the manifesto says the next NDC government will pursued in the next four years: an average GDP growth rate of at least 8 per cent per annum and a single digit rate of inflation;

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

«I promise, as I did two years ago, that I will work my hardest every single day bringing fresh energy, innovative ideas, working in every corner of this very large district, focusing on economic growth and creating jobs, setting the standard for transparency, and always standing up for our troops,» she said.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

But that single - year growth paled in comparison with the 4.4 percent average annual increase in global coal consumption recorded in the last decade as the United States cut its coal consumption by nearly 12 percent, according to the report.

She has already found a large increase in soil carbon two years after a single application of compost, probably due to enhanced vegetation growth.

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In one case, a 28 - year - old woman presented with acne, but not a single website asked about excessive hair growth or irregular menstrual periods, symptoms that would have led to the correct diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Abstract: Using the first nationally representative survey to focus on internet dating, we identify those «at risk» of using internet dating, i.e., one must have internet access and have been single in the past five years during the technology's growth.

New data suggests that there has been a 57 % increase in online dating revenues in the past year, and there's plenty of room for growth too given that only one tenth of singles currently use online dating sites.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

Fifty years ago the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report that identified a surprising rate of growth in the percentage of African American children born into single - parent families.

In 2002 and 2003 no single choice received more than half of the responses, but the fact that fewer than half of the teachers surveyed selected the first choice, none, is remarkable; it means that for two years» running more than half of the union members surveyed believe that some portion of their pay should be based on accurately measured student growth.