Sentences with phrase «other growing trends»
The other growing trend was sharing on innovative learning environments, maker spaces or Self Organising Learning Environments (SOLE: see Prof Sugata Mitra or http://soleaustralianetwork.wikiispaces.com/).
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But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.
One is a trend report and the other a brand report — both highlighting the growing popularity and usage of apps for shopping.
Wozniak says he doesn't like the growing Silicon Valley trend of «engineers as rock stars,» a construct that didn't exist at the time he was helping build Apple: «Mostly it's because of how much money they have — and I went the other way.
These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.
Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.
[17] It is worth noting that medical benefits make up a sizeable and growing share of income in CBO's series, a fact that often accounts for the difference between trends in CBO's income data, which include these benefits, and other income series that do not.
Mr. Juenger said he expected the trend would only grow worse for the television groups as they made more content available across Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other streaming services.
It's also an acquisition that is tapping into another trend: we're living longer and getting more and more conscious of our health, and in some cases we're not actually getting healthier, with weight issues affecting a lot of our sedentary population, and other illnesses like diabetes growing in prevalence because of wider changes in our diets.
We give you and your teams real - time visibility into the health of your subscription revenue, customer health, risk factors, trends, and other key indicators that help you make the right decisions to remove roadblocks and grow your customer base.
It's an indication that regulators are catching up with trends in the cybersecurity industry — considering that cybersecurity practitioners have been increasingly emphasizing the growing risks related to vendors, business associates and other third parties.
Recent transactions also reflect the growing trend of co-investment by sovereign funds with other private - equity and institutional investors.
This near - term drive for growth, coupled with longer - term trends of increasing urbanization and a growing middle class, will require greater and greater quantities of the wood, metals and minerals and other goods and services that Canada has to offer.
If you own shares of McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson, an S&P 500 index fund, or any other countless security, when you glance over your reports, you should know exactly why you own them — how much you expect earnings per share to rise over the next decade, management's capital allocation policies (dividends vs. share repurchases vs. debt reduction vs. acquisitions, vs. growing organically), as well a legal and economic trends that might affect your position.
But a disquieting trend has emerged over the past two decades, as the gap between the richest Canadians and the rest has grown, faster here than in all but one other OECD country, the United States.
Obviously other cities have grown up around subways and trains to a much greater extent, but we all know that during recent decades the trend has been in the direction of Los Angeles.
On the other hand, we are dismayed when the children grow into trend - hungry, ravenous spenders, who ask more and more of their parents.
Yogurt consumption in Germany is growing almost twice as fast as other dairy products; a trend that is set to continue.
Other key trends include the growing use of sustainable packaging based on biodegradable polymers, bio-derived materials and recycled plastics, and down gauging films for cost reduction.»
Certainly the growing Hispanic population and the ever - increasing popularity of Mexican food have been a factors in the astounding tortilla sales growth, but one other trend must considered: the popularity of wraps.
In managing its own restaurant brands and consulting others on key ways to grow in non-traditional areas, Pool's Restaurant Group has made it its business to discern which business trends lead to lasting growth and which lead to a dead end.
Having extensive knowledge of growers and growing regions also comes in handy for Harvest Food Group because it allows the company to react quickly to emerging trends in the frozen food market, such as the popularity of quinoa and other whole grains.
Fatma Akalin - McGee, marketing and business development director, Petrow, added with the growing trend for free - from, customers are asking for more coconut flour, almond flour, walnut flours and other nut flours as alternative ingredients to meet the rising demands for high nutritional and gluten - free ingredients.
One of the trends seen at Pack Expo reflected the growing use of robotics as both integral and integrated into original equipment manufacturers» (OEMs) case packers and other machines and systems.
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These numbers reflect growing consumer trends of better - for - you, fresh products, among many other factors.
As with other clean label categories, calling out clean label claims — from simply using the term «natural» to highlighting specific ingredients — is a growing trend in confectionery.
The economy there looks likely to grow well above trend this year and, according to HSBC, should outperform all other OECD countries save for Chile, Israel and Mexico.
The conference will cover topics such as the growing trend of premiumisation, portfolio diversification, sugar reduction creating «better - for - you» drinks as well as other priorities which business are facing which include importing / exporting with distributors.
Other «hot» trends included locally grown produce, organic produce, small plates and specialty sandwiches.
The conference this year will cover topics such as the growing trend of premiumisation, portfolio diversification, sugar reduction, creating «better - for - you» drinks as well as other priorities which businesses are facing which include importing / exporting and working with distributors.
Berbere, harissa, dukkah, ras el hanout, tsire and other spice mixes and flavors are likely to gain wider use, as African flavors are a fast - growing trend.
While the authors note that the recession is a huge issue, there are other, more disturbing social trends facing men, including the rise of men having children outside of marriage, the increase in men having children with numerous women and the growing numbers of divorced fathers.
Major changes are needed to encourage the health of the nation's youth and to reverse the growing trends of obesity, early - onset diabetes, and hypertension, among other chronic diseases, in children and teens.
She is part of a growing trend of doctors, hospital nurses, and other health care professionals choosing to have out - of - hospital births in America.
Still, the trend in most other states has been away from ticket splitting, and there is the potential for a «growing and solidifying allegiance to the national Democratic Party» in Vermont, Mr. Johnson said.
Part EE is part of a growing trend of hidden energy taxes and assessments that provide funding for programs that should be considered with other General Fund expenses.
Among other findings, the report also revealed that while the total number of County residents on Medicaid has risen due to fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act («ACA»), Erie County's portion of Medicaid costs is projected to drop by more than $ 6.4 million from 2013 due to the Act's implementation and the state's Medicaid cap, and is approximately $ 340,000 less than 2012; the biggest increase in Medicaid recipients was seen among whites age 18 - 64, while other demographics remained consistent; and that the number of persons on Medicaid continues to grow at an average rate of more than 4 % each year, a trend noted by the Medicaid Inspector General's office in his September 2013 report.
Most macro trends show long - term and recent improvements; but this broad «broken society» claim simply misses the areas which should be of most concern in a more forensic and accurate account; there are important issues and pressures arising from growing inequality and other factors.
«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»
«Our population is growing and we are adding jobs faster than other parts of the City,» she stated, addressing the crowd of young Democrats, which ranged in ages from 21 - 36, «in order take advantage of these trends and maximize outcomes for those who have been left behind for far too long, we will need to engage you and uplift your voices.»
Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.
Although there was a general trend toward earlier flowering dates and a longer growing season, individual species» responses were distinct, and changes within a species in first, peak, and last flowering dates shifted independently of one other.
Other potential explanations for the reported trend in bloom susceptibility are increasingly calm summer weather conditions, which can also promote cyanobacteria dominance, and a growing reservoir of Microcystis seed colonies at the bottom of Lake Erie.
But other IPCC work — on trends in emissions of greenhouse gases, for instance — assumes poor nations will grow richer.
With its global connection, European culture grew with an all - inclusive urge to adopt, adapt, and ultimately influence other cultural trends around the world.
With the largest generation in American history now entering the prime years for dementia onset, the new results add to a growing number of recent studies in the United States and other countries that suggest a downward trend in dementia prevalence.
The growing trend to use other types of nanoparticles has revolutionized the food industry by enhancing flavors, improving supplement delivery, keeping food fresh longer and brightening the colors of food.
He cites high cost of housing, needing two incomes for living costs and not being able to take time out from work as other factors influencing this growing trend.
This trend is in response to growing consumer awareness of the dangers of other polyunsaturated oils such as soy, corn, and canola which are also usually of GMO origin.