Sentences with phrase «increases earlier this decade»

After a couple of small increases earlier this decade, BA dividend increases have shot straight up.

Not exact matches

Earlier this decade, for example, Southwest priced its sale fares at $ 49 each way for flights of 500 miles or less and prices increased from there.

That's a stark increase from 1.4 million just a decade earlier.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

In the early 1990's, approximately 250,000 ounces of gold were discovered which has now significantly increased to over 31 million ounces of gold in just over two decades, in large part to David Jones» exploration model.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

This bill could ultimately be as costly as the ill - advised tax cuts passed earlier this year, setting the stage for more than $ 1.5 trillion in debt if the increased cap levels are extended through the decade.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

Income inequality has significantly increased since the early 1970s, and the changes are even more dramatic over the past three decades among the very highest income levels.

As a consequence of this research the past two decades (1989 - 2009) have witnessed a) a renewed recognition of the importance of contact and touch for babies in the context of improving breastfeeding initiation and duration [17]; b) an increased awareness of the role that close parental proximity and monitoring of babies plays in reducing SIDS and neglect [18][19]; and c) the impact of early mother - infant separation on long - term mental health [20]-- all leading to a resurgence of interest in parent - infant contact, particularly sleep contact.

Net migration turned negative in the early 1990s due to high unemployment but gradually increased through the decade as job opportunities improved.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

For the most part, the farming industry has been reasonably healthy and stable with increased productivity and decreased employment almost every decade since the 1790s and earlier (new organic farms finally broke the trend in 2010).

There were nearly 39,980 private - sector jobs in 2016, an increase of one - third from a decade earlier.

He says the four year extension of the tax cap represents billions of dollars in savings over the years, and he predicts it will change the culture — away from double digit speeding growth increases of earlier decades.

The 40,588 S&E doctorates awarded in 2014 represent a 47 % increase over the 27,680 awarded a decade earlier.

Yet these environments are hard to find in science, and because increasing the representation of women in male environments takes time — decades earlier than years — this is more of a long term option.

The Claim: Time to Change the Message It's been known for decades that stopping antibiotics early doesn't cause resistance, says Martin Llewelyn, author of The BMJ paper and an infectious diseases professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the U.K.. For most of the bacteria posing threats today, it's just the opposite: Longer exposure to antibiotics increases the risk they'll develop a resistance.

During the past several decades, the number of live births to women in their early 40s in the United States has increased steadily.

The latest iteration of the National Climate Assessment, released earlier this year, notes that the risk of waterborne illnesses in the Great Lakes region is likely to increase in the coming decades due to these factors.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see «Early signs»).

«This is a lifelong disease that often strikes people in their early years, leading to decades of suffering, an increased risk of colorectal cancer, and an increased risk of premature death,» said Brian Coombes, senior author of the study.

Female first authorship in high - impact medical journals increased «significantly» over the 2 decades preceding 2014, according to a paper published earlier this month in The BMJ.

The scientific committee of ICCAT reported earlier this month that the populations in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean appear to be increasing for the first time in a decade, which led to calls for the limits to be increased.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

Some of the risks of heat - related sickness and death have diminished in recent decades, possibly due to better forecasting, heat - health early warning systems, and / or increased access to air conditioning for the U.S. population.182, 183 However, extreme heat events remain a cause of preventable death nationwide.

Dr. Romero emphasized that the cost of preeclampsia goes beyond the short - term health care expenditures as women affected by this disorder are at an increased risk for early onset cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and hypertension, years and decades after delivery.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

Since the early days of multi-proxy reconstructions a decade ago the amount of suitable data has definitely increased, and so many of the issues related to specific proxies are becoming increasingly unimportant.

And, she added that, «because research indicates that Alzheimer's and other dementias develop over several decades, increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior beginning in early adulthood may have a significant public health impact.»

The number of employees, teachers, administrators, and others has continually increased for four decades, except for the early 1980s period of declining enrollment and recession.

Early childhood experts and advocates have long called for increasing the education and training of U.S. early childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K progEarly childhood experts and advocates have long called for increasing the education and training of U.S. early childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K progearly childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K programs.

In the 2003 — 2004 school year, 5.5 million school - age children were English language learners (Leos, 2004)-- up nearly 100 percent from a decade earlier, although total enrollment increased only slightly more than 10 percent during that time (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, 2002).

Thanks to a series of deals Philadelphia struck with the AFT local, along with increases in pension contributions, led to a 53 percent increase in spending on teachers» benefits between 2002 - 2002 and 2011 - 2012, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau; benefits accounted for 27 cents of every dollar spent on teacher salaries in 2012, versus 21 cents a decade earlier.

Unlike early education, the state's after - school programs did not receive an increase in the reimbursement rate, even though the programs, serving 859,000 low - income students, have been flat - funded for more than a decade.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

There's incentive money for teacher merit - pay systems, as well as the proposed Early Learning Challenge Fund to increase access and quality of preK education, which includes $ 9.3 billion available in competitive grants over the next decade.

Rosselló delivered a televised address in early February announcing a package of educational reforms he'd like to bring to the island — including charters, vouchers for private schools, and the first pay increase for teachers in a decade.

All this contributes to increasing calls for an early end to the trade embargo that has plagued our two countries for decades and remains the biggest barrier to any kind of meaningful commercial relationship.

Decades of research have demonstrated that the cost of changes in the S&P 500 Index is significant and increasing.1 Consistent with earlier academic findings, Chen, Noronha, and Singal (2004) determined that, from announcement day to the effective date, the additional cost of a new index holding rose from 3 % in the 1976 — 1989 period to about 9 % in the 1989 — 2000 period.

A central connective figure in Abstract Expressionism Carone has gained increasing recognition as an uncompromising and creative artist during a seven - decade career, culminating in a creative burst in his late eighties and early nineties.

So Semiletov was, apparently, doing research in ESAS in 1999 (if not earlier) and the rate seems to be increasing by a factor of ten per decade.

If we look over the charts for predicted vs real temperatures over the span of a decade or more, this is much of what we see: drift, but drift that largely cancels itself out such that the distance between the real and the predicted increases only gradually with the real and the predicted crossing over at various points, particularly early on.

If the new report Rose is talking about says the increase since 1951 is 0.12 °C per decade, then it's off by only 8 percent from the earlier measurement of 0.13 °.

Consistent with earlier research, six of the top 10 states with the biggest increases in number of days with heavy downpours are in the Northeast, including Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire, which have seen the number of heavy rain events in the last decade increase by at least 50 percent compared to the 1950s.

Early 20th century warming was around.4 oC in three decades The global average temperature experienced an increase of +0.57 C between 1910 and 1944: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual Early 20th century was also about half anthropogenic I'm very curious about where you get this estimate from.

The climate shift in the early 2000's produced a shift from steadily increasing surface temperatures that characterized the preceding decades.