Sentences with phrase «highest in about a decade»

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The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Yet, in the retail lending market in Australia, interest margins remained high for about a decade after the reforms.

While CBO projects higher projections for wages and taxable corporate profits will boost revenues by about $ 195 billion over the next decade, it also expects changes in interest rates and inflation will increase spending by $ 302 billion over the same period.

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.

Hartley felt compelled to speak out against the trafficking to some of the highest - ranking officials in the country and ended up being permanently expelled from the country about a decade ago.

Maselka says the price of beef is at its highest in about two decades, which makes it difficult to maintain price points for quality products.

According to Sabia, the high - end segment could add about 500 million more cases of beer in the next decade.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Still, as we saw in 2016 and most of the decade previous, Solich's teams are as much about high floors as ceilings.

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

She has been in the fertility field for over a decade, and is passionate about sustaining a high level of service professionally in addition to being an active member in her local community.

«The last time the state imposed rates this high was in the 1970's — a decade in which the city lost half its Fortune 500 companies, about a million residents, and nearly went bankrupt.

It however has been high on the political agenda in recent decades, with continuing debates about when the technology should be phased out.

Erdmann has the kind of charisma you'd expect from someone who has coached high school football — and has had remarkable success in that role for more than two decades in a state that cares deeply about the sport.

And while the representation of women in the professoriate increased at all levels between 2002 and 2010,» [t] his positive progress is nevertheless slow and should not mask the fact that, in the absence of proactive policies, it will take decades to close the gender gap and bring about a higher degree of gender equality.»

About 15 % of the world's land areas — and more than half of the world's cities with at least 3 million people — face what Shedlock calls «high to very high risk» of severe shaking in the next few decades.

Almost 80 percent of the communities the team examined showed substantial changes in species composition, averaging about 10 percent change per decade — significantly higher than the rate of change predicted by models.

«Our evidence suggests that the first levees were built to be about 6 - 7 feet high, but within a decade the one at Anshang was doubled in height and width,» Kidder said.

If you were to take a group of people who were at higher risk of breaking a bone — so had about a 15 per cent chance of breaking a bone over the next 10 years — and treated all of them with a reasonable dose of vitamin D for a decade, you'd prevent a fracture in around one in 50 of them over that time.»

Researchers from the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies on Endometrial Cancer estimate that in the past 50 years (1965 - 2014) about 400000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented by oral contraceptive use in high - income countries, including about 200000 in the last decade (2005 - 2014).

The high density of DU helps shells pierce armour and about 270 tonnes of it have been fired during wars in the Gulf and the Balkans in the last decade.

Meanwhile, another new study published in the Writing in the Journal of Climate suggests that the level of warming was about a third higher at 0.174 °C elsius per decade between 1976 and 2016 compared to 0.134 °C elsius per decade.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

The rule of thumb in those who don't maintain high level of training over time is that max aerobic capacity appears to decline about 10 % per decade.

Having spent over a decade working in a high street opticians, I've heard many myths about contact lenses.

As a matchmaker for almost two decades, Samantha has heard some common complaints about online dating from high - profile singles — whether it's the lack of available matches, lack of things in common, or lack of honesty.

About Blog A blog which offers book reviews for young people of preschool to high school ages by a children's librarian with decades of experience in reading guidance.

Even now, two and a half decades later, I've learned a lot more about the undertaking from watching «Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit,» a making - of documentary imported from the DVD (and not upgraded to high definition), which includes pre-production test footage and shots of Charles Fleischer (the voice of and on - set stand - in for Roger) performing in a rabbit costume alongside his non-animated costars.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

The decade after provided us with several entries in this vein of high concept romance — Stranger Than Fiction, Lars and the Real Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks, 2013's About Time — all films I enjoy and admire.

Over the course of her six - decade acting career, Mirren has both been in a high - class porno (1979's Caligula, although she did not participate in the XXX scenes) and played the Queen Of England (2006's The Queen), and you can't acquire that kind of curriculum vitae without a healthy sense of humor about yourself.

The former will be especially high in - demand, having been one of the most requested back catalogue titles for years now (In fact, I was trying to help Madman, back when it was The AV Channel, acquire the rights to the cult 1992 flick about a decade agin - demand, having been one of the most requested back catalogue titles for years now (In fact, I was trying to help Madman, back when it was The AV Channel, acquire the rights to the cult 1992 flick about a decade agIn fact, I was trying to help Madman, back when it was The AV Channel, acquire the rights to the cult 1992 flick about a decade ago.

Milk, Gus Van Sant's labor of love biopic about civil rights leader Harvey Milk (the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the United States and later gunned down, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, three decades ago this month), is mainstream filmmaking at its finest and a perfect wedding of subject matter to director.

High - school students in the 1980's are more concerned about future employment than were students of two decades ago, and they are frustrated by guidance - counseling programs that do not help them address their job concerns, according to the findings of a recent study of adolescent problems.

Mayor Bloomberg is justifiably proud of the big gains New York City made in boosting the high - school graduation rate on his watch, with about two - thirds of students now graduating in four years, up from half a decade ago.

While higher education has made necessary strides in the past few decades, as Jack recently wrote in The New York Times, «they have thought less about what the inclusion means for academic life, or how colleges themselves might need to change to help the least advantaged on their road to success.»

Since HGSE's work with higher education administrators is about to enter its fifth decade, college and university leaders throughout the U.S. and abroad are keenly aware of the expertise the Ed School possesses in educational leadership.

The U.S. Department of Education last compiled data on extracurricular activities a decade ago, when it reported that more than half the country's high - school sophomores participated in sports, that one - fifth were in a school - sponsored music group, and that cheerleading and drill teams, hobby, academic, and vocational clubs each involved about 10 percent of kids.

With U.S. schools needing to hire about 2 million teachers in the next decade, the push is on to make sure that the people who take those jobs are qualified to teach to the higher academic standards now expected of students.

Today, hundreds of inquisitive visitors travel to Kettle Moraine, some 30 miles west of Milwaukee, to learn about the district's decade - long journey into personalized learning — one in which teachers choose or create their own microcredentials to advance their careers, students have multiple options about what they will learn and how within state standards, and their results on international tests meet or exceed those of students from the highest - performing countries in the world.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

Unfortunately, this belief about setting high standards and expectations for poor children and children of color, upon which decades of research is based, is being systematically discarded by Educrats throughout the country to make the system more fair to the adults working in schools.

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.

More importantly, the lack of strong statements from Rhee and Henderson about the alleged test cheating also casts a dark cloud on what both can claim to be successes in crafting policies and practices that will help D.C. children get high - quality teachers and strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula for decades to come.

Furthermore, Warren expressed skepticism about DeVos» ability to oversee for - profit colleges, noting that «the very policies you have spent decades advocating for in elementary and secondary education — more free taxpayer money for private and for - profit education operators with virtually no strings attached — are the exact policies that have caused so many problems and harmed so many students in higher education.»

Budget cuts, increased class sizes, high - stakes testing — small wonder that teachers are more concerned about their jobs than they have been in decades.

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Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.