Sentences with phrase «last years and decades»

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

And through the decade ended in 2015, (the last year for which such results are available) colleges also trailed a passive stock and bond indAnd through the decade ended in 2015, (the last year for which such results are available) colleges also trailed a passive stock and bond indand bond index.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

It's a concern that was highlighted in the Duetsche Bank report; they reported that building starts for detached, single family homes was stagnant over the last decade, while building starts for condos and townhomes had increased dramatically over the last 10 years.

Last year's prize in the category went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the past several decades of awards in the category have largely gone to instrumental LPs.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

The value of Canadian gas exports last year fell to $ 13.1 billion, from a peak of $ 35.6 billion in 2005, and analysts project the U.S. will become a net gas exporter within a decade.

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Somalia has been at war for decades and until the last few years it has struggled to attract foreign investment.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

IBM spent $ 4.6 billion in buybacks last year alone, and $ 125 billion in the decade prior, according to Reuters.

The Liberals took back Nova Scotia last year after a decade and a half, and this neighbourhood helped them on their way: 45 % vote Grit.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

«Last year, we successfully completed the transformation of our extensive Spraberry / Wolfcamp acreage position in the Permian Basin of West Texas from a vertical oil play into a horizontal oil play with a drilling inventory that will last decades,» chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield said in the company's 2014 annual repLast year, we successfully completed the transformation of our extensive Spraberry / Wolfcamp acreage position in the Permian Basin of West Texas from a vertical oil play into a horizontal oil play with a drilling inventory that will last decades,» chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield said in the company's 2014 annual replast decades,» chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield said in the company's 2014 annual report.

Nielson SoundScan reports that vinyl sales for the first half of 2013 are up 28 % over last year and higher than they've been in decades.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

The raw figures tell the tale: net migration to Ontario, for example, has averaged 82,000 annually over the past decade, and reached 141,000 last year.

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...

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

In the last decade, while other franchise chains have bounced in and out of the Top 10 like corn in an air popper, Subway has topped the Franchise 500Ã ¯ Â ¿ Â 1/2 list nine out of 10 years.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

The search for authenticity has led organic food sales to more than triple over the past decade and increase 11 % last year alone to $ 35.9 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

And late last year, the Republican tax cut was enacted that will add more than $ 1 trillion to federal budget deficits over a decade.

eHarmony is a business that would likely have gone public 5 + years ago under the last decade's «rules,» yet is still privately held in 2010 notwithstanding years of growth, profitability and household name recognition.

We have decades of experience with web compatibility and last year we released Firefox Quantum — a browser that was rebuilt for speed.

On top of that, the share of home sales made up by flips last year was the most in a decade, and the third most since 2000.

In the last year, however, this correlation has risen to its highest level in more than a decade and is almost positive.

And the current 2 % target has resulted in falling 10 year Treasury rates for the last several decades, so it is clearly below the steady state value.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

For a decade it has been seeking to develop half a dozen new «economic cities»; most have grown much more slowly than hoped, and Riyadh complained last year that some faced «challenges that threaten their viability».

Look at the table below, which shows 1, 3 and 5 - year returns following the bottom of the worst drawdowns of the last eight decades.

LeEco stretched from video streaming to TV sets, smartphones, sports and even electric vehicles in a little over a decade, although this rapid expansion spurred a cash shortfall last year that left the company scrambling for new funds.

China's economy grew by 10 % a year for the last three decades, but slowed to 7.8 % last year and risks a hard landing.

The tax hikes at the end of last year are projected to raise $ 600 billion over a decade, and the sequester is scheduled to save $ 1.2 trillion.

David served on Peter Drucker's Foundation Board in the United States for over a decade, the last few years as Vice Chairman and was Chair of Upper Canada College from 1992 - 97.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

Almost this exact time last year, the City ended it's decade - long red light camera program which funded things like the crossing guards, flashing lights for school zones and some police equipment.

Two years ago I posted my first guest blog focused on income inequality, specifically how changes in Canada's redistribution over the last three decades have increased after - tax income inequality, and how these changes compared to OECD trends.

This pan-European low cost airline, headquartered in London, has revolutionised European air travel over the last two decades and it is now flying over 75 million passengers per year across 31 countries with a fleet of more than 260 aircraft.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

Lower prices for base metals and oil today do not mean that long - term investments, which may take years to complete and last for decades, were somehow a mistake.

Western Canada retook its lead in the country's growth tables last year, with Alberta recording the fastest expansion among the 10 provinces and British Columbia posting its strongest pace in more than a decade.

The game has given out more than a billion in prizes over the past decade and, in 2016, the chain gave away «more individual cash prizes than any game in the last 10 years,» Bullington told Business Insider.

Venezuela's oil production plunged last year to the lowest in decades as Maduro's socialist government contended with quadruple - digit inflation, a contracting economy and social unrest.