Sentences with phrase «prevailing during the past decade»

This was partly because low coffee prices prevailing during the past decade encouraged under - investment in infrastructure.

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The eagerness of investors to chase prevailing trends, and their unwillingness to concern themselves with predictable longer - term risks, drove a successive series of speculative advances and crashes during the past decade - the dot - com bubble, the tech bubble, the mortgage bubble, the private - equity bubble, and the commodities bubble.

Even during this past decade, that subtle form of racism prevails in some learning institutions, Blake said.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.