Sentences with phrase «than the decade prior»

The 2010 Census found 30,000 fewer black residents in the district than a decade prior; blacks now make up only 26.5 percent of the area's population.

The findings on DR Congo reveals that education slowed in the 1980's and stagnated for more than a decade prior to the protracted conflict more so in the Eastern region of the country since 1990.

Brought on behalf of Patricia Mincey, the lawsuit charges that the companies concealed the defective nature of their airbag systems — including potential overpowered deployment — from consumers for more than a decade prior to the woman's June 2014 accident.

Not exact matches

With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the biggest stories across Asia and the U.S. Prior to joining CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo - based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

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.

Yet, millennials are holding more cash than prior generations, despite the past decade of unprecedented stock market growth.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

In the period immediately prior to the global financial crisis, the unemployment rate in Australia had fallen to its lowest level in more than three decades and there was considerable pressure on capacity in the economy.

Prior to that, she spent more than a decade as a business editor, writer, and journalist for (among others things) the Boston Globe.

The abstract nature of mathematics had occupied Whitehead more than two decades prior to IM, and had found an exact establishment in UA and PM.

Prior to joining Intelligentsia, Michael spent more than a decade leading coffee projects for the international aid organization CRS, living and working extensively in Mexico, Central America and South America.

Prior to joining TFG, she served as COO and President of Ruby Tuesday for more than a decade, leading the company's $ 1.2 billion flagship; as well as its fast - casual concept, Lime Fresh.

In 2000, couples were 36 per cent less likely to socialize together, 29 per cent less likely to share leisure time and 15 per cent less likely to eat side by side than two decades prior.

Prior to Camp Judaea, Tom spent more than two decades with Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, most of those years as a director.

Sixteen of their members (48 percent of their conference) have been in the chamber for more than a decade, with several others having served in the Assembly prior to their senatorial service.

In the decade prior to the APF's creation, the initial $ 900 million windfall from oil exploration licences — equivalent to more than five times the entire Alaskan budget at the time — had flowed into and out of state coffers.

It sounds to me like Skelos is trying to undercut Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson's argument that he and his conference can't be blamed for the mess in Albany because they've only been in power since January 2009, while the GOP ruled the chamber for more than four decades prior to that.

Prior to becoming lieutenant governor in 2007, Paterson served as a state senator from Harlem for more than two decades, the last four years as the Democratic minority leader.

In an interview that will air on CapTon this evening, Sen. Roy McDonald seemed unconcerned about a potential primary challenge from his fellow Republican, Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who was endorsed last night by the GOP of Wilton — the town where McDonald served as supervisor for more than two decades prior to his election to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's old seat in 2008.

Richard Tisei is hoping to be the first Republican congressman to represent Massachusetts in more than a decade, and should he beat incumbent Democrat John Tierney, he'd also be the first openly gay Republican to come out prior to an election.

Paladino was largely unknown outside western New York prior to the spring of 2010, while Trump has been a national media figure for more than three decades.

They concluded that the upper levels of the planet's oceans — those of the northern and southern hemispheres combined — had been warming during several decades prior to 2005 at rates that were 24 to 58 percent faster than had previously been realized.

Prior to CRI, Jun spent more than a decade as a scientist in immunology and biomedical engineering.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

And though I've been more physically active in the last seven years than I'd been for two decades prior, I am beginning to see the chronic - ness that goes along with aging.

In Strong Island, still another Sundance jury prize — winner and a standout of this year's True / False Film Fest slate, director Yance Ford employs direct address and first - person voice - over for an investigation and consideration of both his brother's murder, which took place more than two decades prior, and the ongoing fallout from a failure of justice for Ford's family and friends.

With this, directors Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck undermine the more than a decade of animation work they have put in prior to this, Bell on shows like «The Simpsons» and «Rugrats» and Gluck on movies like The Emperor's New Groove and 9.

February 5, 2018 • What has changed in our minds and in our culture so that allegations of sexual harassment and assault are being taken so much more seriously than they were in prior decades?

Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade.

Prior to this appointment, Tony held a variety of positions at Harvard University for more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab and the founder and co-director, for more than a decade, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Some teachers might conclude that the modern digital era of universal internet and video - based information might indicate that writing skills are less important than in prior decades.

A decade ago, researchers identified ninth grade course completion as the strongest predictor of high school graduation — stronger than race, gender, poverty, or prior achievement combined.

Prior to joining AUTOMOBILE, I spent more than a decade as Editor at Large for our sister publication, Motor Trend (and the extraordinary but now - deceased Motor Trend Classic).

It's always changing, in fact — but perhaps faster in the past ten years than in the decades prior.

Those who live in apartments are much more likely today to damage the units than in prior decades, and increasingly landlords require it.

Others point out that because interest rates are so low, the debt service payment on the national debt (about $ 250 billion) relative to the size of the economy is less than it was throughout most of the past three decades — 1.6 percent of American output vs. 3 percent or more during the four administrations prior to Obama.

While some exceptions might exist (Infinity Ward is credited for the Modern Warfare games rather than one individual), a slew of names have emerged around the most innovative and seminal games of this decade and the two prior ones: The Sims is Will Wright; Metal Gear Solid belongs to Hideo Kojima; Jordan Mechner is responsible for bringing us the Prince of Persia.

Prior to joining the Barnes in January 2016 as Deputy Director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator, Patry had served as Chief Curator of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings at the Musée d'Orsay for more than a decade.

For more than a decade Osorio has been presenting work in unconventional places prior to showing it in a museum setting, thus exploring the subjectivity of meaning in art and the nuance that these installations achieve depending on their location.

(ii) The same as (i) except that over the past two decades (1984 - 2004, say) the rate of record - setting for July conditions is higher than for the two decades prior to that (as opposed to the expectation that records should be harder to attain).

However, if you compare the data from the two decades prior, then it is rising much faster than the long term trend.

There is also considerable observational evidence that arctic sea ice extent over the last few decades is much lower than it has been for at least a century prior to modern times.

If anything, we see from the research that the ocean heat content increases were higher during the past decade than it was prior to 1998.

A resident of Cobb Hill Cohousing in Hartland, Vermont, Tom has more than a decade of successful leadership experience in Upper Valley nonprofits, including as a Senior Philanthropic Advisor at the Vermont Community Foundation, and prior to that as Executive Director at the Ottauquechee Health Foundation in Woodstock.

A slower growth rate of the net climate forcing may have contributed to the standstill of global temperature in the past decade, but it can not explain the standstill, because it is known that the planet has been out of energy balance, more energy coming in from the sun than energy being radiated to space.10 The planetary energy imbalance is due largely to the increase of climate forcings in prior decades and the great thermal inertia of the ocean.

«However, 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades because of the underlying extent of anthropogenic warming due to the increasing atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases,» he said.

Prior to entering graduate school, Julie worked for more than a decade as an award - winning science filmmaker and media producer for major broadcast partners (National Geographic, PBS, the Discovery Channel, and Jean - Michel Cousteau).

However, from the truth is stranger than fiction dept comes the news that we do actually have the climate records of the Byzantine empire from its establishment by Constantine through to a couple of decades prior to its fall in the 15 th century.