Sentences with phrase «recent years and a decade»

His detailed responses to complex questions on issues of economy, foreign policy, etc., reflect his excellent ability to make sound policy that can help get this country back on track and fix some of the flawed policies and spending sprees of «normal» politics in recent years and decades.

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;

Not exact matches

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

While Kohl's business has held steadier than the likes of J.C. Penney (jcp) and Macy's (m) in recent quarters, its top line is roughly where it was six years ago, a big contrast to the retailer's torrid growth for decades prior to that.

And while many, like Gurney, have worked in this field for decades, interest in investor psychology has skyrocketed in recent years.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

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 1985, the most recent year for which statistics are available, employers paid $ 21 billion in compensation claims, excluding administrative and litigation costs, compared with $ 5 billion a decade earlier.

Asset managers have been using MSCI risk models for years — the vendor has been in this game for four decades — and according to the most recent P&I rankings, 97 of the top 100 largest money managers are MSCI clients.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

The latest numbers signal that dangerously low inflation — which Japan struggled with for two decades and the U.S. central bank has labored in recent years to avoid — is at Europe's front door.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

In recent years enrolment has shrunk to just 68,000, and in the past decade nearly 40 schools have already beenclosed.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

The Jewish «Christian dialogue of recent decades is a new thing that stands in sharp contrast to the terribly complicated relationship between Jews and Christians over the past two thousand years.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

Wheat production in Russia and Ukraine has come from a low base to dominate world markets in recent years and is forecast to continue growing well into the next decade.

BS like what DA was saying is just more of the Circus Crapshow the media have put on all year with the Spurs and Kawhi, the media's attempt at revenge on the team that has by and large kept them out during their recent two decades of success (if not from Timmy's deadpan silence then Kawhi's, then it was Pop insulting their intelligence to their faces on a nightly basis).

The more recent years have seen increased investment in the team, with the likes of Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez and Petr Cech coming in, while three FA Cup triumphs and a top two finish in the League for the first time in over a decade, has constituted into small steps of improvement again.

In recent years they have produced some moments of sheer exhilaration and I am talking just about games in the last decade.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

Until recent years, husbands hitting their spouses in the US was considered «reasonable chastisement of wives» and «a private family matter» by the courts and by law enforcement even though it has technically been against the law in all fifty states for decades.

In recent years, China and India have similarities in that they both have huge populations and have experienced extraordinary economic growth over the past decades.

Most years Liberals and Liberal Democrats can be heard predicting that a political realignment is imminent, but this narrative has been disrupted in recent times, as decades of Liberal Democrat progress were reversed by catastrophic losses during the party's five years in government.

The Senate has been its only presence in Albany in recent years, but the party's majorities there have dwindled and occasionally disappeared after four decades of unassailable control.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

A report from Policy Exchange has calculated that new allowances and subsidies for politics - that have grown up over recent decades - costthe taxpayer # 1.75 bn over the course of a five year Parliament.

He said the county is «constantly looking for cost - saving initiatives,» and cited a recent reduction in social service caseloads and elimination of the decades - old practice of borrowing for tax refunds a year earlier than expected.

Building out the full renewable energy system in New York in the next 15 years will create 4.5 million jobs while lowering electric rates to half of what fossil and nuclear fuels will cost in the next decade, according to a recent study by Cornell and Stanford researchers.

In recent years research has shown that the mélange of strains in each year's flu shot and exposure to previous flus can provide some immunity decades later to people exposed to closely related influenza iterations.

The onlooker, Chen Yunji, a 34 - year - old computer scientist and founding technical adviser of Cambricon Technologies here, explains that traditional processors, designed decades before the recent tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) research, «are slow and energy inefficient» at processing the reams of data required for AI.

The staggering loss of biodiversity in recent decades prompted researchers in 2015 to argue that the Anthropocene marks the third stage in the evolution of Earth's biosphere, following on from the microbial stage 3.5 billion years ago and the Cambrian explosion 650 million years ago.

Heat waves like the one that hit Russia in summer 2010, the strongest on record in recent decades, will occur as often as every two years in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa and Indonesia.

It has spread northward in recent years and the scientists found the weed in areas where it had not been found in previous decades.

Two of the most recent human - to - monkey transmission events appear to have taken place around three decades ago, and roughly seven years ago, respectively.

Notable recent quakes include the one in Haiti earlier this year and a series of quakes in San Francisco two decades ago.

And then you look at a place like China, which is just now — despite it's phenomenal growth in recent decades at 9 or 10 percent per year — is just now reaching about the per capita world average on all those factors, energy consumption, wealth and CO2 emissions, and they clearly want to do moAnd then you look at a place like China, which is just now — despite it's phenomenal growth in recent decades at 9 or 10 percent per year — is just now reaching about the per capita world average on all those factors, energy consumption, wealth and CO2 emissions, and they clearly want to do moand CO2 emissions, and they clearly want to do moand they clearly want to do more.

Comparing data from the 2001 - 2002 and 2012 - 2013 NESARC waves, the researchers found that the prevalence of drinking at levels two and three times or more the standard binge thresholds in the past year was significantly higher in the most recent NESARC wave, suggesting that more adults are engaging in extreme binge drinking now than a decade earlier.

In the case of NIH, for example, the 2 recent decades include two sharp rises — a 5 - year doubling between 1998 to 2003 and a one - time bolus of money in 2009 that increased NIH's budget by roughly one - third.

«While binge drinking among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students remains well below the levels seen a decade ago, the downward trend in binge drinking appears to have slowed somewhat in recent years,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

«The noteworthy increase in the annual rate of heroin abuse or dependence among non-Hispanic Whites parallels the significant increase in nonmedical opioid use during the last decade and the growing number of heroin overdose deaths described for this race and ethnic group in recent years,» said Martins.

It has been a part of OER since 2008, and in recent years has limped along on drastically reduced funding — going from a high of $ 18 million nearly a decade ago to its current $ 4 million budget.