Sentences with phrase «lasting about another decade»

And even short - lived greenhouses gases — methane lasts about a decade — will still cause sea levels to rise for centuries.

The recent drought, thus far, pales hydrologically in comparison... Spatially, the mid-12th century drought covers all of the western U.S. and northern Mexico... whereas the 21st century drought has not impacted parts of the Pacific Northwest... The 21st century drought has lasted about a decade so far, whereas the 12th century medieval drought persisted with an extent and severity... for two decades, 1140 — 1159 [AD]... In both instrumental and paleoclimatic records, periods of sustained drought in the Southwest have often been concurrent with elevated temperatures.

Not exact matches

The median household income in Canada is about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures released last month.

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.

Over the last decade the newspapers have been full of stories about Ponzi schemes, crooked investment «advisers» and insider trading.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

«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.»

Mylan drew major flak last year after news broke that it had steadily increased the list price for an EpiPen two - pack from about $ 100 to more than $ 600 in less than a decade.

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.)

«Just about every good thing that's happened to me in the last decade of my career has been because of social media,» says Zapar, who claims to be «the most connected woman on LinkedIn.»

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

«Over last few decades society has gotten confused about who the real heroes are,» Yancopoulos said.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

Sears sales have dropped roughly 70 % in the last decade, but it's still on track to generate about $ 16 billion in sales in fiscal 2017, according to UBS.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Last year the company admitted it would take until 2030 to halve its greenhouse gases, about a decade longer than it had hoped.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

For the last decade, the corporate world has been very conscious about time management.

The percent of E&P equity rose to over 10 % of overall issuance from an average of about 4 - 5 % over the last decade.

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!

Now, in Creating Great Choices, Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel apply new learning about how to apply the theory of integrative thinking that they have learned over the last decade.

The sharp fall in unelectrified households in rural India over the last decade has brought about a silent...

Polite Canadians are easy prey for U.S. oil barons I've learned a lot about compromise over the last few decades.

Despite this attractive increase in exit valuations over the last three decades, once again, the implications for today's venture industry are clear: M&A is the most likely exit market for successful companies and the average valuation is about $ 110 million.

Microsoft, which closed Monday at $ 30.74, has traded around that level for much of the last decade, never coming close to its all - time peak of about $ 60 in late December 1999.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

So, after serial disappointments over the last decade about the unrealized potential of the Indian economy, how should we calibrate expectations about Indian growth prospects in today's rather gloomy global economy?

Given what we've all had to put up with from the Harper Conservatives over the last near - decade — cutbacks, anti-union legislation, contempt for the valuable work our members do — my own views about the current government are well - known.

During a raid last month, FBI agents seized records about Cohen's clients and personal finances — including documents related to money that Cohen paid adult - film star Stormy Daniels to remain silent about an alleged decade - old affair with Trump.

VANCOUVER — More than half a decade since the Vancouver Police Department last raised the alarm about the growing reliance on police and emergency rooms to fill gaps in mental health services, the problem continues to grow, says New Democrat mental...

That compared with about 25 at the start of the last decade, he said.

There is now a lot of soul - searching about the direction of the Republican Party and much doubting of its future viability if does not adapt itself in some way to an electorate that has (it is said) fundamentally shifted over the last few decades.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

With the emergence of social media and e-books over the last decade, the publishing industry has wrung its hands about the possible demise of reading.

With the disclosures out of the way, I can proceed to the judgment: There is no better book about William F. Buckley or National Review, and it is a good, quick sketch of the conservative movement's last few decades.

My main dissent, which I did not express, was that the discussants were treating the battles about worship as a relatively recent phenomenon — several references were made, for example, to «the last two decades.»

Questions might be raised about the restlessness within the church and the self - criticism it has directed against itself in the last decade.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

To make silly statements about people going to hell fails to recognize the fact that there is a lot of blame to go around for the craziness of the last decade.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

He's not completely wrong: The claim about American's capacity to project power is an empirical one, and it is informed by the experience of the last decade.

Rabbi Michael Broyde was outed last week for having created a fake identity that he reportedly used for about two decades.

«Over the last three decades I have had the pleasure of standing on a church stage and introducing women teachers, knowing that the congregation was about to hear a message inspired and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Moreover, Hartshorne himself in the last decade of his career, put much more emphasis on a particular table of options for thinking about God and the world as a way of displaying the advantages of his own metaphysics («The Aesthetic Dimensions» 17; «God, Necessary and Contingent» 296; «Can Philosophers» 17).

As I look over the last couple decades of my life, it is when I am studying, teaching, and writing about Scripture that I feel most content, most fulfilled, most at home, most connected with God and with who He made me to be.

It was last summer that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams committed suicide after a decades - long battle with depression and addiction, and this weekend, his 26 - year - old daughter Zelda spoke out about her own struggle.

i love the bs stats... how about the vatican saying there have been over 4000 complaints registered in the last decade???? and BTW, these are so called men of God....