Sentences with phrase «in years or decades»

b) Climate scientists have been computing forecasts for the short term — i.e. measured in years or decades.

The long, slow process of climate change may trigger «surprise» shifts that could threaten human communities in years or decades, researchers from the National Academy of Sciences warned Tuesday.

If one knows the first film, which openly doubted the need for reviving an old intellectual property (such as the television show upon which it was very loosely based) in the years or decades after it first appeared, this will come as no surprise.

In other words, your dollar's purchasing power today is almost guaranteed to be lower in a year or a decade from now.

However small the effect in any year or decade relative to natural magnitudes, doesn't simple addition get us to a dominant effect long before the bear is satisfied?

Not exact matches

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

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.

Invest in a warm coat that will outlast harsh winters for years, or even decades.

Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three decades, the funds in Chile have only been investing for the past five or six years.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.

As part of the spending plans for this year, UPS will open or retrofit 18 ground delivery facilities in the US, including three new major hubs, the first ones added to its ground network in two decades.

It's totally easy to wake up one day and feel like a year or even a decade has passed in a blur.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

This CEO of the Year award is a testament to a mind that thinks in decades, not months or years, and often defies industry trends.

Economists can debate precisely why so many people have taken it in the teeth in recent decades, but it's clear that years of stagnant or dropping incomes have taken a toll on their ability to get ahead.

Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18 years before being allowed to legally marry in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two years or two decades ago is not legally clear.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

It's unlikely, for instance, to encourage tardy claims from «people who know all relevant facts and fail to exercise their rights for years or even decades,» as the Chamber put it (pdf) in a letter to the Senate.

Whether they've been around for decades or were launched in the last two years, some companies just have a bit of magic when it comes to grabbing attention and establishing themselves as fan favorites...

She might as well be in the 1950s or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced in those decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 - year - old company's global sales.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

In legal filings, the four attorneys representing Redstone (including CBS board member David Andelman) called the claim over the 1972 transaction an «unprecedented abuse,» noting that Redstone was «now 90 years old; material witnesses have been dead for decades; documents have long since been discarded or have disintegrated; memories have unquestionably eroded.»

Instead of getting a better, updated therapy for a disease every decade or so, we might begin to see second - generation cell therapies in a few years.

The prospect of years or even decades in prison might be easier to swallow if Cohen believes a presidential pardon is possible.

By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

Each of the 3 had a decade or 15 years to build up to such a large valuation, since in the start they all had small valuations.

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Regardless of whether they were founded decades before the digital age or have only been in operation for a few years, any branding agency worth its salt will have a deep understanding of, and respect for, digital marketing.

Despite what's going on in much of the rest of the world, Panama's economy — one of the fastest - growing in the Americas — is steadily chugging along, growing by nearly 6 % or more every year for nearly a decade now.

Depending on where you live, $ 1 million in savings could last you less than 10 years or over two decades.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

The new threshold in 2016 would be $ 970 a week, or $ 50,440 a year, about where it would be if it had kept pace with inflation over the decades.

Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession in the years ahead, along with a continued decline in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %, or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed in recent decades.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

While the appreciation of the Australian dollar over the past year or so has restrained commodity prices in Australian dollar terms, they remain close to their average of the past decade.

For a two year old he's got a pretty good start and I can only imagine what the next decade or two or three even will generate in terms of passive income.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

The median age in India is 25 and a staggering 13 million young people are expected to enter the workforce every year for the next decade or more.

With a just four years of the total market presence company is making few smartphone giants run for their money and has beaten many of smartphone vendors who are in the market for almost a decade or more now.

In Berkshire's property & casualty (P&C) insurance businesses, premiums are collected up front, but claims are paid out often years or decades later, allowing the float to be used for investments.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Gerardo D.: I've been involved in the resource space in one way or another for just a little over a decade, about 11 years now.

This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting dividend growth companies that have large and durable economic advantages, or «moats», that protect their business operations and allow years or decades of strong profitability.

Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for years or even decades to a state of overvaluation in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.

Some of the retiring politicians have spent a decade or more in office, so before the writ is dropped I thought it would be fun to take a look at what some of them looked like in their younger years in office.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

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.

Leaving aside taxes, costs, inflation, etc., I ran the numbers by decade going back to the 1930s to see how much money an investor would have ended up with by investing $ 10,000 each year on a monthly basis (or $ 833 / month) in the S&P 500.