Sentences with phrase «level in a quarter of a century»

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

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Foremost is the significant decline in the natural rate of interest, or r * (r - star), over the past quarter - century to historically low levels.

Over the past quarter century the level of the fed funds rate has explained nearly 50 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

Indeed, the volunteers in this second study had been teaching college - level biology for a quarter of a century on average — and at two highly prestigious schools, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.

By the age of 35, the typical young lawyer has attained a level of compensation that can be expected for the next quarter century, with a few years of extra-high earnings in the late 40s.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Gallup asked Americans for their opinion on a federally funded school choice program, and there's plenty of discussion right now in the educational choice community about what role, if any, the federal government should have in an initiative that has been largely driven at the state level for the past quarter - century.

BookPage reviewer Iris Blasi writes that The Mercy of Thin Air, about a girl trapped in the «between» level that exists between life and the world that follows, tracks «an extraordinary love affair over nearly three - quarters of a century.»

Over the past quarter century the level of the e BoC overnight rate has explained nearly 29 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

Over the past quarter century the level of the fed funds rate has explained nearly 50 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

The Japanese asset bubble of the 1980s burst in late 1989 and a quarter century later, the Nikkei is still at only half the level it was.

the same natural internal variability (primarily PDO) that is responsible for the pause is a major and likely dominant cause (at least at the 50 % level) of the warming in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Our hostess writes «Once again, the emerging best explanations for the «pause» in global surface temperatures and the slow down in sea level rise bring into question the explanations for the rise in both in the last quarter of the 20th century.

The average rate of sea - level rise in the 20th century was 15 cm / century, but in the quarter - century since 1990 it has been 30 cm / century and is showing signs of further acceleration in more recent measurements.