Sentences with phrase «rate in a quarter century»

And what's shocking is that maternal deaths here in the United States are at the highest rate in a quarter century.

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China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Foremost is the significant decline in the natural rate of interest, or r * (r - star), over the past quarter - century to historically low levels.

The current commodity - induced profits recession may be short lived, but the real secular trend growth rate in EPS should be much slower than the past quarter - century.

Over the past quarter century the level of the fed funds rate has explained nearly 50 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

A clear result of the upward trend in consumers» share of GDP (Chart 4) and declining saving rate for a quarter - century has been the downtrend in the foreign trade and current account balances.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter - century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K - 12 and postsecondary schools in the United States.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

When I was sick, and verging on obesity, half my life ago, I could never have imagined that a quarter - century later, after raising four children, that I'd have climbed the ratings throughout my 40's, in a competitive sport I never played in high school.

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Michaels and Saturday Night Live came out swinging during the 2016 election to take back the crown as the most influential voice in political comedy — and earn its highest ratings in nearly a quarter of a century.

If increases in high school graduation requirements during the last quarter of the 20th century contributed to the stagnation in graduation rates, why did rates rise during the first decade of the 21st century, a period in which high school graduation requirements were not reduced and in some states were increased?

Over the past quarter century the level of the e BoC overnight rate has explained nearly 29 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

Over the past quarter century the level of the fed funds rate has explained nearly 50 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

In Catholic and democratic Brazil, women have reduced their fertility rate by half over the same quarter century.

Why, even after the numerous questionable adjustments to the surface temperature datasets, has the rate of warming over the past quarter of a century been only one - third to one - half of the central prediction made by the UN's climate panel in its 1990 First Assessment Report?

Nor can it be credibly asserted that the Center was until recently unaware of the manner in which Dr Soon had declared his affiliation in his scientific papers over the past quarter of a century: for a member of senior management (a botanist) has seen fit to pass judgment on the quality of Dr Soon's research (in astrophysics), from which it may legitimately be inferred that he had read — or at any rate ought to have read — at least one of Dr Soon's 60 published papers in order to come to a view on the quality of his research.

If a linear increase in the first half of the century is «natural variation», then there is no way to decide whether an equal rate of linear increase in the last quarter of the century is or isn't «natural variation».

The average rate of sea - level rise in the 20th century was 15 cm / century, but in the quarter - century since 1990 it has been 30 cm / century and is showing signs of further acceleration in more recent measurements.

«If you think about the thicknesses of the ice - 200 - 300m thicknesses, in some cases up to 400m thick - and if you're losing ice at the rate of a metre a year, or let's say double it to two metres a year, you're not going to get rid of 200m of ice in a quarter of a century.»

At that rate, almost a quarter of a century of global zero - carbon activity would be needed in order to forestall just one Fahrenheit degree of «global warming.»

I hope that we may well be nearing the brink of having within humanity's grasp, not only strong inferences about the recent, relative decadal reduction in the rate of surface warming (compared with the final quarter of Century 20), but also with a more compelling story about the true pause which stretched across the middle of that cCentury 20), but also with a more compelling story about the true pause which stretched across the middle of that centurycentury.

Over the last century, the average surface temperature of the globe has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, and the rate of warming has accelerated in the last quarter - century.

«Later, I moved back to Utah, read about the teen pregnancy rate, started to ask questions, got involved with the local Planned Parenthood, and have been working with Planned Parenthood in one capacity or another for almost a quarter - century.