Sentences with phrase «of decades of decline»

The legacy of decades of decline and parents» own memories of disappointing dinners in the school hall isn't easily shaken off.

And it is yet another blow on top of a decade of declining budgets for the $ 29 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) and last year's 5.5 % cut due to across - the - board cuts known as sequestration, they added.

Not exact matches

In America and abroad, the condition (and other dementia and cognitive decline conditions) are expected to balloon in the coming decades — an ironic side effect of growing life expectancy across the globe.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Hiring qualified people may also be a challenge, given that many of these industries have been in decline for the last decade.

Chriss pegs growth in the contingent work force to structural changes in employment over the past decades, including a decline in enrollment in defined - benefit pension plans and growth in the average duration of unemployment.

The decline in the formation of new businesses (with one to four employees) in areas where student debt increased by 2.7 percent over a decade, according to 2015 research by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Job reallocation — «a broad measure of labor market churning resulting from the underlying business dynamism of firm expansions, contractions, births, and closures» — has also been declining for decades.

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Over the past decade, as the value of the average Canadian home doubled, and tripled in some areas, rents remained stable or even declined.

In a recent report analyzing the impact of digital media on paper demand, publishing industry consultancy MediaIdeas forecasts that most grades of paper will decline by 50 % this decade.

While its RND sector is quite strong, the decline of the auto industry in the last decade has affected its economy.

After decades of software dominance — a reign unmatched in the history of the technology industry — Microsoft was viewed by many to be in permanent decline.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

Instead of providing massive giveaways to the wealthy and well - connected, Trump and Congress should be taking bold steps to raise the wages of hard - working Americans whose real wages have been stagnant or in decline for decades.

It's a for - profit company that talks like a non-profit, consistently declines opportunities to make tons of cash, and yet somehow has managed to disrupt an industry that for decades enjoyed near - monopoly status and double digit profit margins.

«From 2010 we've traced a beautiful five - wave decline down in gold, we've rallied back and all of a suddenly everybody was very bullish on gold,» said Gordon, tracing the precious metal's path since the turn of the decade.

The China's share of EU trade has almost tripled so far this decade to 15.3 percent, slightly below America's steadily declining share of 16.9 percent.

The bankruptcy filing follows a decades - long decline of a city that prospered through much of the last century as the capital of U.S. manufacturing.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

Figures published by the non-partisan think tank Pew Research Center estimates that annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have steadily declined over the past decade.

The price drop is an unexpected turn of events for an industry that for decades has operated under the assumption of Peak Oil — geophysicist M. King Hubbert's theory, first proposed in 1956, that the United States» then soaring oil production would peak and begin to decline around 1970.

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

While it's true that manufacturing employment in the United States has been on the decline for decades, and that this trend has cause real economic suffering in parts of America, the simple fact is that too few Americans are employed in manufacturing for it to be an issue that really animates the electorate.

For three decades, B.C. has been growing its share of a static pie, as declining numbers of participants put in more days on the slopes.

The Passmark recent uptick — AMD has increased its share of the tests on the site for four quarters in a row — marks substantial progress after a decade of declining market share.

Sadly, the number of U.S. locations has steadily declined for a decade, but that doesn't mean there isn't still room for growth.

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

«The decline in employment quality over the past two decades does not mean that we have turned into a nation of «hamburger flippers,»» Tal wrote.

For most of the past decade, in fact, the number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on North American roads has been declining.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

Second, while the health care industry accounts for a large part of the U.S. economy, labor productivity within the space has been declining by 0.6 percent annually for the last two decades.

So goes it in southern California: lots of financial engineering and a press that has declined in quality and quantity each successive year, for now almost a decade.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

In terms of our transportation infrastructure, according to the most recent World Economic Forum rankings, the U.S. fell from 7th to 18th in the quality of our roads over the past decade, as our investments in this space have declined by half as a share of GDP since the 1960s.

While gun violence and homicides have generally declined over the past couple of decades, America is still a big outlier among developed nations when it comes to both.

Although the household debt to net worth ratio has declined considerably from its peak, it is still around 26 percent, well above the already elevated average of the past decade (Chart 19).

Betsy Graseck, a Morgan Stanley analyst, estimates Goldman Sachs will say operating expenses declined 29 percent to $ 4.76 billion — the lowest for the start of a fiscal year in a decade.

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graph 3).

Second, the debt burden of the government will continue to decline over the coming decade, barring any unforeseen economic disruptions.

From 2000 to 2007, local economies that had seen the most growth in their exposure to competition from Chinese imports over the preceding decade (1990 to 2000)-- that is, those in the top 25 percent of all US communities in terms of exposure — saw larger declines in employment.

A look at industrial centers of the North and the East over decades of decline finds that investments, geography and sheer serendipity make a difference.

Between the island's decade - long economic decline and the impact of Hurricane Maria, things continue to worsen in Puerto Rico by the day.

That combination of features has encouraged my adoption of a constructive or even leveraged investment stance after every bear market decline in three decades as a professional investor.

Even if current NOPAT margins (10 %) revert to the ten - year average of 7 % and NOPAT declines by 5 % compounded annually for the next decade, the stock is still worth $ 63 / share today — a 30 % upside.