Sentences with phrase «more recent increases»

She referred to all that had changed since the last executive director recruitment — including Cuomo's controversial closure of his Moreland Commission on Public Corruption and a more recent increase in JCOPE's resources and responsibilities.

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The spokesman said the more recent investment comes as the company expects demand to increase again.

And with supplies from Iraq threatened with disruption — in recent years, Iraq was the only major producer increasing its output faster than the U.S. and Canada — that American oil is only going to get more competitive in the marketplace.

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, said in May that it expects exploration spending to increase by no more than 10 percent from the recent historic lows.

In recent years, however, Lewis has missed his goal more often, most likely due to the poor economy, but possibly also due in part to the public's loss of interest in televised variety shows, and the telethon's increasing inability to attract big name talent, forcing it to lean on D - list celebrities like Tony Orlando and Charo.

Bøe said the increasing presence was linked to increasing Russian submarine activity, which in recent years includes more frequent trips between the Barents, Baltic, and Mediterranean seas.

And their skepticism may have been increased by the recent news that The Huffington Post — which says it gets more than 200 million unique visitors a month and produces close to 2,000 articles every day — is reportedly only breaking even on its editorial operations.

Though 2009 proved a bright spot for Gottschalk — Buffett listed her as one of the execs who increased profits despite declining sales in Berkshire's annual report — Pampered Chef's more recent years were bumpy.

There's been a recent trend in biopharma where some companies, led by Allergan (agn) CEO Brent Saunders» new «social contract» with patients, are voluntarily pledging to limit drug price hikes and being more transparent about which products have seen price increases.

Recent cyber attacks that disrupted business operations and hospital services in many countries across the world have, however, increased fears that assailants motivated by money or ideology could cripple even more strategic targets such as power and water networks.

Mylan, one of the 10 most heavily weighted stocks in the ETF, traded more than 1.5 percent higher despite recent political pressure over the stark price increases of its life - saving EpiPen device.

Apple has improved the iPhone's LED screen somewhat in recent years by increasing the range of colors it can show, making photos appear more lifelike for example.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

Already a popular practice in the beverage industry, the pace of endorsements and investments by famous names has accelerated in recent years as more celebs look to make money from the increasing popularity of liquor and wine.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

The pressure to decentralize has increased in recent years as the shadow of military downsizing has forced the marines to further differentiate themselves from the army to stave off steep cuts — and that means gearing up for even faster, more - effective responses to an ever - wider range of scenarios.

In recent years, the Affordable Care Act and the bipartisan tax negotiations in late 2012 have led to large increases in tax rates on high salaries and capital income, making the tax code significantly more progressive.

The recent slowdown in economic growth and job creation has put the government under increased pressure to become more active on stimulating growth.

The CIA in recent years underwent a restructuring to focus more on cyber warfare to keep pace with the increasing digital sophistication of foreign adversaries.

And, recent stats show that marketers who consistently create high - quality content through blogging generate 126 % more leads, 97 % more inbound links and substantially increased revenue.

More broadly, global trade has slowed and financial stability risks have increased — with the recent market turmoil partly reflecting lower confidence in the effectiveness of policies.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

That factor, along with above - trend GDP growth, could fuel an increase in total employee compensation by slightly more than 2 % in 2017 and 2018 — in line with nominal GDP growth — while growth in average hourly earnings could accelerate to around 3 % in 2018, according to Morgan Stanley Chief Japan Economist Takeshi Yamaguchi, in a recent report.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

During a recent livestream Dorsey expressed a desire to allow more Twitter users to achieve the blue checkmark giving to verified profile, as part of a goal to increase openness through the firm's health metrics proposal.

More than 44 percent of survey respondents reported a worsening work ethic among recent graduates, and nearly 38 percent reported an increase in the number of unfocused employees.

A substantial part of the increase appears to come from advisors at insurance firms, based on a recent WealthManagement.com and FUSE Research Network survey of more than 520 advisors and financial professionals.

One of the more interesting aspects of Apple's R&D expense trajectory in recent years is that the increase has been outpacing revenue growth.

One of the elements of that process, as I observed approaching the 2000 and 2007 peaks, and again during the extended range - bound period of recent quarters, is that deterioration in broad market internals — particularly following an extended period of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions — is a sign of increasing risk - aversion that typically precedes more extensive losses in the capitalization - weighted averages.

A more recent attempt, following the botched singing of the South African national anthem by Ard Matthews, was featured in a Memeburn piece on how viral marketing is about increasing positive brand presence by Jonathan Houston.

Hertz told Sixth Tone in a statement that in recent years, the company has catered more and more to «the increasing number of general tourists who tend to choose more independent ways of traveling overseas.»

The 18.1 % growth expected this year for US display advertising is down somewhat from more robust rates of increase in 2011 and 2012, but eMarketer continues to be bullish on the prospects for digital display advertising — especially at social media properties like Facebook and Twitter, as well as at Google, which has dramatically increased its overall share of the display market in recent years.

«I think it is important to note that the underlying reason ramp time is increasing so significantly is that SaaS companies are trending to hiring more and more recent college grads.

Here, we take a look at the more recent June «Bond Market Group» minutes; the main concern was that, despite a functioning JGB market, there has been a notable increase in bid - ask spreads and general decrease in liquidity since the start of aggressive «QQE» last October.

Based on recent corporate leverage, this decline in the cost of debt would increase the typical company's return on equity by more than four percentage points.

(The price of ether, for instance, has increased by more than 3,000 % since the end of 2016, even despite a recent price dip.)

While these data are only for one month, we have not seen so many increases in default rates in a year or more, and more recent data on both consumer confidence and the economy in general are good reasons to watch these data over the next few months.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

While such a rate of expansion will clearly not be sustainable in the longer run, there is little sign at this stage that the appetite for borrowing has been restrained by the recent increases in interest rates, even though the higher debt burden of households might be expected to make them more responsive to interest rate changes.

To date, the Federal Reserve has increased the Federal funds rate by 175 basis points in this tightening phase, and recent evidence from the Federal Reserve's survey of senior loan officers suggests that lenders are also becoming somewhat more cautious about extending credit to businesses.

U.S. government bond yields and the dollar rose, while U.S. stocks fell on Sept. 20 after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to increase interest rates one more time by the end of the year despite a recent bout of low inflation.

These prices continue to rise more rapidly than building - materials prices, suggesting that profit margins and / or labour costs in the residential construction sector have increased in response to the recent strength in demand for residential construction work and the rise in prices of established houses.

More recent dividend increases have been a bit muted, but the new structure would seemingly put the company in a position to resume to more historical dividend groMore recent dividend increases have been a bit muted, but the new structure would seemingly put the company in a position to resume to more historical dividend gromore historical dividend growth.

Due to recent increased market volatility, we'll be paying more attention to the technical side of crypto over the coming weeks, especially in our Crypto Asset Strategies service.

Port capacity is estimated to have increased by 19 per cent since 2003, more than sufficient to support recent growth in iron ore exports.

«A 10 % increase on the same show last year is a clear sign more people want to buy overseas, tax changes on second homes in the UK announced in the recent budget is one factor contributing to buyers looking abroad.»

Most indicators of inflation expectations have increased in recent quarters, with the increases being more pronounced for consumers and financial market participants.

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