Sentences with phrase «start of the decade»

As I put it at the very start of the decade, one could define Postmodernism as Modernism pressed for time.

It would be the start of a decades - long decline of the Oil Age itself — an uncharted world in which, in a phrase gaining currency at Shell, oil prices might be «lower forever.»

Levi's timing seemed equally fortuitous when he, along with six B.C. trade unions, set up GrowthWorks in 1991, at the start of a decade - long tech boom.

Only the Toyota Corolla, an affordable bread - and - butter compact that's unlike anything Jeep offers, averaged that much global volume since the start of the decade, according to IHS Markit.

Although Australia avoided the recession that engulfed many developed countries at the start of this decade, it was not totally unaffected by world events, and the Bank found it necessary in 2001 to cut the cash rate to 4.25 per cent in a series of steps.

In that vein, Italy liberalized its financial markets and privatized about 15 percent of its economy in the period leading up to monetary union at the start of this decade.

Indeed, since the start of the decade, the Chinese economy, now the world's second - largest, has more than doubled in size when measured in current dollars.

By the start of this decade, however, the company's business started on a steep decline as the PlayStation 3 initially failed to gain traction, the Walkman was a distant memory, and everything from digital cameras to mobile devices were getting hit hard by competitors.

Those aren't very good odds for a project that was conceived at the start of the decade.

While there has been a modest recovery in export volumes from the trough reached in mid 2003, this has so far only lifted exports back to around their level at the start of the decade.

With rising values, many rental property owners who were underwater at the start of the decade now have substantial equity.

I also took things a step further to see how things would have looked going out another 10 years from the start of each decade:

Since the start of this decade the rate of growth of what was perceived to be low risk assets at many banks, was significantly higher than the rate of growth of capital, a trend that played a great part in the collapse of many financial institutions.

Even the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde has recently stated that «the long - awaited global recovery is taking root» and» the global economy is enjoying it's best growth spurt since the start of the decade.»

That may sound like a lot, but at the start of the decade that number was more than 500 million people — and it's been falling ever since.

Another interesting thing to notice about the last 10 years is that Red Bull doesn't go after the headline - grabbing times, even when it was winning everything at the start of the decade.

The rebuilding job Schneider undertook with Pete Carroll at the start of this decade should be taught to aspiring executives.

In fact, Klopp has sanctioned just three January deals since the start of the decade, and none of them made a particularly big splash.

This enabled the Pensioners to invest more heavily in the team and having bought their first # 1m players at the start of the decade (Andy Townsend for # 1.2 m in 1990 and Denis Wise # 1.6 m the same summer, both club records at the time) they brought in Glen Hoddle as manager in 1993, replacing Ian Porterfield.

The earliest forms of disposable diapers were made available in Sweden at the start of this decade.

Even further back to the start of the decade in April, Republicans had an enrollment of 2.7 million, with unaffiliated voters cresting at just over 2 million registrations.

He added: «Since the start of this decade we have seen a revitalised commitment to infrastructure investment and its transformative power.

It wants the measures to be the start of a decade - long drive to reposition the Tories as the workers» party.

Consider 2004, when the state economy was only sluggishly emerging from the recession, the 9/11 attacks and the Wall Street downturn at the start of the decade.

The company, which went public in 1993, has flirted with penny - stock status (less than $ 1 a share), and its cash levels are much depleted from what they were at the start of the decade.

«This is just the start of a decade of research,» he says.

Between the late 1960's and the start of this decade it declined by about a third, and without new Federal initiatives the future health of mathematics is at risk.

Temperatures at the start of the decade were about 10.5 degrees centigrade — high but not remarkably so.

2010, the start of the decade of success!

Right at the start of the decade, the studio made a leap from the wartime «package movies» that dominated the second half of the»40s, to Cinderella - the triumphant return to full - length motion pictures devoted to telling single stories.

After all, when one thinks back on the start of this decade — when Race to the Top - era reforms and the Common Core surged ahead on a wave of high hopes — it's kind of astonishing that it all could have amounted to so little.

At the start of the decade, students were routinely assigned to their zoned high schools, which often had thousands of students and were overcrowded and low - performing.

In Michigan, for example, 14.4 percent of the workforce belonged to a union in 2016 — down from about 20 percent at the start of the decade.

Though the Hiroshima - based global automaker was keen on the Indian car market at the start of the decade, plans have not moved beyond the discussion phase.

The start of this decade, as you will recall, was all about fuel economy amid predictions of»70s - style downsizing of everything, and mandatory hybrids for everyone.

There are many things General Motors got right at the start of this decade, with one of the best decisions being to work with their European arm to bring over the Opel Insignia as the new Buick Regal.

There are many things General Motors got right at the start of this decade, with one of the best decisions being to work with their European arm to bring over...

In fact, the trim level has been seen on past models since at least the start of the decade.

The Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition represented the last of the LFAs that Lexus developed at the start of the decade.

Of course, we acknowledge that the perky Mazda Miata reignited (or perhaps answered a long pent - up demand for) the two - seat, convertible sports car market at the start of that decade.

Back at the start of this decade the dogma was that querying agents was the only option for authors.

At the start of this decade publishers feared the death of the paperback.

For some observers, a cautious optimism has replaced the mood of uncertainty that greeted ebooks in Mexico at the start of the decade.

Up until the start of this decade, the World Wide Web was something only the lucky few could actually participate in.

With rising values, many rental property owners who were underwater at the start of the decade now have substantial equity.

This type of debt has bloated from $ 100 billion five years ago and less than $ 50 billion at the start of the decade.

There are fewer publishers, and on average those remaining publishers are bringing fewer games to retail than they were at the start of the decade.

At the start of the decade, then - Director Linda L. Cathcart established Perspectives in the Museum's lower gallery.