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Fixing Climate gives a colorful history of a few of the theories and some of the people that have identified the course of catastrophic climate change.

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For the EU, the next few years represent one of the most crucial chapters in its history.

Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.

For this section of Hartnett's bearish playbook, he highlights a few stock market dynamics he finds anomalous, particularly compared to recent history.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

So with this in mind, let's take a look at a few of history's costliest haircuts, and whether they were the bearer of good or bad fortune for their recipients.

In essence, at a bifurcation in history, civilizations could be capped at a few thousand years or, alternatively, last for hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of years.

Yahoo is expected to reap an enormous windfall from its ownership stake in Alibaba, following its public offering, one of the largest in history, which will take place in the next few months.

«Very few books today are ambitious enough to take on a topic as complex as the history of consumer financial services, and make it vividly interesting.

No complicated device has ever beaten a simple one — and history is full of examples where the machine with fewer options (iPod, iPhone, Google, Gmail, Sonos, Wii) wiped the floor with their more complex rivals.»

During the last few years of the program's history, there has been $ 5 billion in direct investment and 85,500 directly - created full - time jobs.

So, if you find yourself struggling with your creativity, consider the advice below from a few of the most prolifically creative minds throughout history.

As histories of this subject go, few are deeper or more provocative.

Few would have thought Zellers of all companies would end up in the history books as a case study for how to wind down a business successfully.

And when you're a history major, going on to teach history is one of the few linear career paths you've got.

However, if I were to pick someone from this list to bring into any company in any industry and make a high - level, lasting impact, there are few executives in the history of American business with a better track record than Lou Gerstner.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

A salary structure in which you (the owner) and maybe a few top executives monopolize most of the goodies will count as a serious negative, as will a history of workplace - safety violations, employee - discrimination lawsuits, or a disgruntled - employee Web site that details significant worker discontent among your ranks.

And yet despite — or maybe because of — his uncommon directness, there are few designers in U.S. history more successful.

A few weeks later, Intel issued corrected patches and the fixes for one of the most serious security incidents in computing history have gone smoothly since then.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

But on Twitter, Mr. Gurley of Benchmark, one of the earliest supporters of Mr. Kalanick at Uber, said of the executive, «There will be many pages in the history books devoted to @travisk — very few entrepreneurs have had such a lasting impact on the world.»

«The last few years have been the most volatile for all of recorded history,» said Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

The founders of a startup generally purchase shares at the time of incorporating the company at a nominal price per share, such as $ 0.0001 per share, paid in cash, since at that time the company will have no operating history, few assets and thus little value.

With a long - standing cultural history and housing a few thousand students, there is a perfect mix of young and old.

This seems very counterintuitive at first, even if the history behind it is quite abundant, and very few economists seem aware of the problem (which is why most economic forecasts mistakenly focus on the pace with which reforms are likely to be implemented, and are always disappointed), but in fact the reasons are not so hard to understand.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in hHistory of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in historyhistory.

The numbers bear this out: «89.4 % of the companies with more than 100 years of history are businesses employing fewer than 300 people.»

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

Although a number of factors led to this decision, a few worth noting are a modest level of debt (22 % of the capital structure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistical Array).

Lending Club uses a somewhat complex formula that takes into account various factors that appear on a borrower's credit report, such as FICO score, number of recent credit inquiries, length of credit history, the total number of open credit accounts and revolving credit, to name a few.

Two of the most important developments in the history of money have recently emerged over the last few years — the Blockchain, and Peer - to - Peer (P2P) platforms.

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

Our best estimate is that potential output will rise by an average of 1 1/2 per cent per year over the next few years — that is not very impressive relative to history.2 We are counting on gains in productivity to deliver fully two - thirds of that growth.

If the history of this presidency is a guide, then the latest rendition will last only a few news cycles before it too is clarified into some new version.

However, the Roomba line of robot vacs has a long history of being very effective at the cleaning itself, with few complaints from its many purchasers.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

With Japan's stock and property markets the envy of the world, I exploited one of the only times in history where a mere mortal could moonlight through a few wacky years of over-the-top TV commercials, exotic location shoots, spotlights with beautiful women and encounters with the famous.

This means having a few years of credit history, a variety of account types (i.e., credit cards, mortgages, installment loans, etc.), liquid savings and assets and a low debt - to - income ratio.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

With banks employing more conservative lending policies (fewer than 20 % of all business bank loan applications are approved, and that percentage is even lower for new businesses without an established financial history) business owners are relegated to finding working capital elsewhere.

For the sector analysis, we took the current six - month price patterns for each of the nine major sectors (Morningstar Sector classifications) and searched through a few decades of history for the most similar instances.

If history is any guide, Buffett and his team of analysts at Berkshire are getting close to making some sort of major move: Every few years, the company makes a major acquisition that deepens the foundation of cash flow.

In the history of investment management, there have been few individuals as revered as Sir John Templeton.

The bank looks for borrowers with strong credit history, which means a few or more years of credit history and a credit score of at least 680.

Many lenders require you to have steady income or employment, good or excellent credit and a few years of credit history.

The first few months of 2016 also saw the third and fourth most expensive retail condo sales in the city's history — 139 Spring Street to Invesco for $ 25,843 per square foot and 106 Spring Street to the Carlyle Group for $ 17,559 per square foot, according to RCA.

Those investors who have been with us for most of our six year history can tell you about a few.