Sentences with phrase «points decade after decade»

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At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

The key turning point came a decade ago, when Smith made significant changes to Winters» management structure after reading Jim Collins» bestselling business book Good to Great.

Now as economic indicators like low unemployment and increased consumer spending tick toward the positive, many economists are pointing to a limited rate hike as a way to move the economy towards normalcy after the volatility of the past decade.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

After decades of double - digit, export - fueled growth, signs point to a slower, more balanced expansion for the mainland.

The point is that after decades of touting his business acumen, his ability to negotiate tough deals and spot good investments, and after spending this entire campaign season arguing that he's qualified for the presidency based on his skills in the market, Trump nonetheless has an investment record that at best roughly matches and at worst underperforms the market.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan could say that it «was morning in America again,» and more substantially, by decade's end, other center - right politicians and pundits could point to something of an American return, after the «Great Disruptions» of the 1960s and 1970s, to patriotism, to aversion to socialism, to more moderated personal mores, and to religion.

After a decade of creative chair arrangements, attractive power point, relevant movie clips, and of course, the gamut of «praise music» (Hosanna, Hillsong, Passion, Tomlin), I decided to test the waters of true worship (as opposed to vicarious worship) by having a Sunday service (just one!)

My point is that after literally decades of intense mental / intellectual / theological angst, a very real, tangible peace of mind settled in.

When I moved into a house last year, the abundant cabinet space that had been such a selling point after a decade of shoebox apartments quickly became a source of anxiety.

After getting spanked 5 - 1 here last year you'd think they would be rearing to go with a point to prove but instead this group of cowards turn up and put in the worse arsenal performance in a decade, if we were playing the liverpool of last year it would have been 7 - 1 this time.

After the game, Parker was asked about Curry and the other point guards in the NBA getting more attention — heck, Derrick Rose isn't even playing and he's comparatively dominating the news cycle — and Parker gave an answer he's been giving for almost a decade.

It's easy to paint a road map to the league's demise — let's say, a critical mass of players leaves the sport because of health concerns, fans likewise lose interest in a sport they know is ruining men, and the game itself becomes a terrible slog to watch — but the end point may be several decades from now, well after the people who could have acted have sold out or died.

Trapattoni will have a bit of a point to prove after managing Italy a decade ago.

This problem isn't going away, and it might seem a little unfair to pick on this point now, while Leeds is top of the table and playing some of the best football that's been seen at Elland Road in almost a decade and a half, it is worrying that Ipswich almost got a result going after Anita just like Millwall did.

Swansea their collective chests puffed out at making the big stage after decades treading the boards in the provinces came to show off their talent whilst the Blues — without top scorer Carlos Tevez — were determined to begin the season with a maximum points haul and show why they reside in the top three in the betting for the title.

Perhaps, if a decade after the start of the financial crisis avowed free marketeers still have no convincing rebuttal to these arguments, it's because the left has some solid points.

After a decade of dealing with the state, Indian Point Nuclear Plant has agreed to a four - year plan to shut down.

Antonia Lasicki, director of the state Association For Community Living, says housing programs face a financial breaking point after decades of underfunding.

After a high point earlier this decade when the two governments agreed on a city - friendly sales tax distribution formula, relations between the two governments turned sour.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says he is «shocked and saddened» after the former cabinet minister Chris Huhne admitted perverting the course of justice over claims his ex-wife took speeding points for him a decade ago.

He formed an alliance with Chuka Umunna at shadow BIS to block Labour from going into the election supporting a referendum (it feels relevant at this point to note that this was because Alexander believed that Labour was not in the right shape to win a referendum after decades of built - up anti-immigration sentiment).

That pales in comparison to when agriculture's share of U.S. jobs fell by almost four percentage points per decade in the first 40 years after World War II.

More than eight decades after its discovery, Pluto became much more than a nondescript point of light.

After getting my MBA from Stanford and spending almost a decade working in finance, I got to a point in my career where I was «successful» by all...

After getting my MBA from Stanford and spending almost a decade working in finance, I got to a point in my career where I was «successful» by all external standards; yet, I felt lost and unfulfilled.

Anyone who has been in primary care practice for more than a few years is very familiar with people who have struggled for years or decades with intractable insomnia and / or anxiety and / or fatigue after all the standard lab tests fail to pin - point the root cause of their suffering.

After a decade of stress from life issues my body reached a point of chronic pain, digestive issues, hormone imbalance, stress & chemical intolerance.

At some point she worked for Charles Keating, he made all the women in his office wear skirts (no pants allowed), fiercely protested pornography and would eventually go on be convicted of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy about a decade after my mom stopped working for him — interesting guy to say the least.

The people who date and date again, year after year — sometimes decade after decade — and never form a lasting relationship may be missing this important point.

After studying communication at Tulane University, Talia worked as a TV producer at E! True Sex: We really need to talk about the «three date rule» At some point over the last decade, it's become the norm for new couples to have sex

After a decade of dominating the worldwide box office with offerings ranging from the superlative to the so - so; it seems that all roads taken by the Marvel Cinematic Universe point us to the beginning of the end of the series as we've known it with AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.

Case in point: Netflix has revealed plans to bring back Gilmore Girls for a new season, nearly a decade after the last episode aired.

The game was a turning point for the Donkey Kong series, reintroducing it (alongside the 1994 Game Boy game released a few months prior) after a nearly decade - long hiatus and cementing Donkey Kong as a franchise in its ownright introducing Donkey Kong's modern design as well as his supporting cast and enemies, musical cues, and gameplay mechanics that would form the basis of most following Donkey Kong games as well as Donkey Kong's appearances in Mario spinoff titles.

A summer movie event that has literally been a decade in the making, Avengers: Infinity War is the new capstone of Marvel Studios» ambitious master plan to bring the majority of their comic book heroes to cinematic life — not in separate, stand - alone films, but rather in an intricate web of interlocking narratives, each of which features various plot points and isolated moments (some buried within or after the closing credits) that have laid the groundwork for the events depicted here.

Exactly a decade after Al Gore delivered a blistering (and yes, incontrovertible) wake - up call about global warming and climate change in the Oscar - winning power - point documentary An Inconvenient Truth, he's back (not that he ever took a break) with this hopeful travelogue tracking his tireless globe - trotting crusade to help save the planet.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

After decades of endless empty promises to take care of educators, West Virginia's teachers and education support professionals have reached the breaking point.

In point of fact, the decades after 1983 were not the scene of a collapsing economy as A Nation at Risk would have predicted, but rather of a thriving one.

In the decade after the reforms, the city's standardized test scores have increased by eight to 15 percentile points and moved the district from the bottom to almost the state average on many measures.

Though we can easily blame the shrapnel problem on Takata's poor design and / or neglect, the bottom line is that after nearly three decades, we still can't count on an airbag to be as safe and effective as a simple, three - point seatbelt.

Dominating the F1 circuits until 1995, at which point the team retired from racing after decades of instilling innovative practices and designs into the racing world.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.

It is supposed to be 1951 or»52 at this point in the book, and it wasn't until 1958 that this sexually - transmitted disease (which is now a silent epidemic in the USA) was discovered to be a bacteria rather than a virus; it also was not until a couple of decades after that when women's magazines began to warn about this possibly asymptomatic STD.

A point I brought up over at the Diehards is I didn't find a significant period of time (like a few years to a decade) where the Permanent Portfolio ever had a negative after - inflation return.

The largest Canadian stock underperformed by 17.7 percentage points a year, on average, during the decade after purchase.

It has been possible only after decades of careful selective breeding to reach a point in time where some morphs are as commonplace as normal animals of the same species.

August 26th 2016, after many decades, marked the first inaugural climb up to the highest lookout point of the California Lighthouse.

But the point is that after nearly a decade of not having watched these films and half - a-decade of not giving a damn about the franchise, that I can recall these visuals better than nearly everything in a movie I saw less than 3 weeks ago speaks to the power of Lucas and co.'s craftsmanship as well as the hollowness of TFA.