Not exact matches
When all was said and done, the 10 years ending 2010
saw an average of
less than 2 % GDP
growth per year.
By comparison, the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers would
see after - tax income
growth of roughly 1.5 percent or
less, according to the study.
Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now
seen by Wall Street as a
less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger
growth potential than Exxon.
It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much
less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has
seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep
growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.
Less conventional locations
seeing growth in Chinese visitors include Morocco, Turkey and the UAE
We certainly try to make the travel industry that much
less painful for consumers, that's why we've
seen so much
growth.
If business
growth continues to keep up with what we've
seen here in the first quarter, that... may be
less of a concern.»
Ken Doctor, a media analyst for consulting company Outsell, said Verizon is becoming
less of a utility that merely provides access to online services and more of a player in the digital arena as it
sees growth in the likes of Apple, Google and Facebook.
Also expected to
see 6 %
growth, it's a
less mature market than Indonesia, which means, longer - term, it could add more kick to a portfolio.
That's an all - time high, and 6 % higher than last year's fall season, but it's
less of an uptick than the pumpkin products
saw the year before (10 %
growth).
«Although we've now
seen two consecutive quarters of strong market
growth, we believe the strong market performance has
less to do with strengthening demand and more to do with increased appetite from the channel for inventory,» added Linn Huang, research director, Devices & Displays.
Add to this the disappointing ISM report, weakening automobile sales and slightly lower - than - hoped - for GDP
growth in the second quarter, and it seems
less and
less likely we'll
see more than one additional rate hike in 2017.
In our view, many other markets are
less expensive, but more fairly valued on a historical basis and will need to
see a significant pickup in earnings
growth to continue their run.
Where these balance sheet improvements are most advanced, future financial distress will look more like what we typically
see in instances of financial stress in the major economies — substantial asset price volatility and the potential for substantial financial losses, but
less in the way of a significant disruption to either short - run or long - run real economic
growth.
Highly - aligned organizations achieved an average of 32 % year - over-year revenue
growth - while their
less aligned competitors
saw a 7 % decrease in revenue.
When you look over the whole recovery / expansion period, the swings in inventories more or
less cancel out, and you can
see from the second chart that up until recently, investment
growth has played a larger - than - usual role in driving GDP
growth.
We do
see less scope for upside
growth surprises as consensus expectations have mostly caught up with our GPS for G7 economies over the past year.
However, the volume
growth was
less than half of what the Brewers Association
saw in years past when craft beer volume increased by 17.6 % and dollars sales surged by 20 % between 2012 and 2013, according to IRI data.
As you can
see in the following chart, VF's price
growth has more or
less mirrored its dividend
growth over the past 10 years.
Marijuana Penny Stock Scams With the proliferation of legal marijuana companies and the massive
growth we've
seen in the industry, it's no surprise that
less - than - savory characters have tried to make a dollar off the boom through, shall we say,
less honest means.
In a study by Aberdeen Group, highly - aligned organizations achieved an average of 32 % year - over-year revenue
growth - while their
less aligned competitors
saw a 7 % decrease in revenue.
As such, over the past 15 years, we've
seen considerably faster jobs
growth in skilled positions than in
lesser skilled ones, as shown in the chart above.
Having faced such violent persecution at the militant atheist hands of the Communist regime, it is a blessing to
see the
growth of the Church in Russia, especially in an era when religion is becoming
less and
less relevant in the Western part of the world.
As we shall
see in due course, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have witnessed a
growth of atheistic Communism and of a secularism which is
less overtly hostile but is eroding the foundations of all religions.
They found that brands with a demonstrated commitment to sustainability
saw more than 4 % sales
growth, while those without grew
less than 1 %.
The slowing population
growth in the U.S. mirrors to a
lesser extent the situation in other developed nations, including Russia, Japan and France which are
seeing reduced
growth or population losses due to declining birth rates and limited immigration.
«The link between economic freedom and prosperity is clear — states that support low taxation, limited government and flexible labor markets
see greater economic
growth, while states with lower levels of economic freedom
see lower living standards and
less economic opportunity,» said Fred McMahon, co-author of the study.
In the
less common, wet form of the disease, rogue blood vessels escape normal
growth control and leak fluid into the macula, the area at the center of the retina that enables a person to
see fine detail.
Those children who took zinc were
less likely to suffer a bout of diarrhea, and when the researchers looked at
growth differences, they
saw that children who were given zinc were slightly taller by the end of the trials compared to those who did not.
«We
saw less muscle degeneration, more muscle
growth and better muscle strength, and improvement in overall movement,» says Gangwani.
The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid
growth in the number of cars on the roads (
see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from
less than 140 million tons in 2008.
As
seen through a microscope, the leg bone of a normal mouse (left) makes considerably
less new bone than a mouse that produces high levels of a signaling protein, WNT7B, that stimulates new bone
growth (shown in pink on the right).
Remember: the more shallow a squat is, the
less the muscles in your legs have to do, so you aren't going to
see a big jump in both strength or muscle
growth.
Ever heard of the horrors of not being able to tone up and
see nice muscle
growth if you don't have your protein in
less than 30 minutes of finishing your workout?
It may even be possible to spend
less on L&D after a couple of years and still
see workforce
growth.
As the NQF shifts from its foundational phase into a
growth and refinement phase, we will no doubt
see less of the major, easy to identify, changes to guidelines and significantly more minor changes, tweaks and modifications to tighten safety and increase the quality of licenced services.
This process was constrained by a commitment to limit the total assessment burden on students to
less than 20 minutes each spring, and ultimately led them to settle on four skills: self - management, social awareness, self - efficacy, and
growth mindset (
see Table 1).
An analysis comparing the engaged reading time and reading scores of more than 2.2 million students found that students who read
less than five minutes per day
saw the lowest levels of
growth, well below the national average.2 Even students who read 5 — 14 minutes per day
saw sluggish gains that were below the national average.
On the
less anecdotal side, here in DC the first year of our IMPACT system that is born out of this ideology found that teachers with more affluent students
saw more
growth in their students test scores.
A program that was in danger of being eliminated
less than two years ago has
seen swift and sharp
growth thanks to the efforts of a nontraditional teacher.
In recent years, we have also
seen the
growth of competency - based learning, an approach within classrooms and schools that stresses specific skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork, and paired with
less reliance on seat - time, allows students to advance upon mastering competencies at their own pace.
That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog;
see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas
less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining
growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.
The remainder of Dodge's revamped lineup
saw impressive
growth during the month, with all active models improving by no
less than 15 percent.
After all, Samsung was presumably starting from (much)
less, so it didn't need to sell as many tablets to
see significant
growth.
The trend of more moderate
growth for ebooks in the U.S. in 2012 continued in Sept. as sales of adult trade ebooks were up 30.7 %, much
less than the triple - digit sales
growth seen in ebooks in previous years.
As for print sales in German, the market is more or
less stable, we don't
see a massive line of
growth or a dip... there is no particular movement, except publishers tell us there is some impact in the paperback market due to ebooks.
I
see a trend where «Uncategorized Single Author - Publisher» disminishes in subsequent reports, which more or
less is «compensated» by the
growth of Indie - Published.
There are plenty of reasons why the region struggled, including slowing
growth in China (the country
saw its GDP fall from about 11 % in 2010 to around 7.7 % in 2015), falling commodity prices and political instability, which caused investors to buy more American stocks and
less emerging market ones.
As you can
see in the following chart, Starbucks» price
growth has more or
less mirrored its dividend
growth since the dividend was initiated in 2010.
We do
see less scope for upside
growth surprises as consensus expectations have mostly caught up with our GPS for G7 economies over the past year.