Sentences with phrase «year by that metric»

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By some metrics, houses are less affordable now than at any point over the past 30 years.

By that metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).

To see this year's list ranked by that metric, go to our new, sortable Fortune 500 database and filter by «Mkt Value.»

That's not to say that it is, at least by some metrics — according to market researcher Global Web Index, Tumblr is among the fastest - growing social media outlets on the Internet, with an uptick of 94 % in active users over the last year.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

«At over 20 GW of installed solar electric capacity, we now have enough solar in the U.S. to power 4.6 million homes, reducing harmful carbon emissions by more than 25 million metric tons a year.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

With upwards of 8 - year backlogs investors are paying close attention to on - time delivery numbers and, by this metric, one of the two takes the win.

By some key metrics, the labor market improved more in 2014 than it had in almost 20 years.

For years, organic search rankings have been the primary metric by which SEO campaigns are measured.

Although traditional high dividend payers (think the utilities and telecom sectors) have performed strongly in recent years, they've become quite expensive by most valuation metrics.

This is why experienced wealth managers focus on the metric that counts: The amount of risk - adjusted surplus generated each year, net of taxes and inflation, produced by your investments.

To determine who is winning when it comes to attracting loyal visitors, we define loyalty by four key metrics: visit frequency (the average number of visits per diner within a year,) market penetration (the regional percentage of all casual dining diners who visited the chain within a year), share of wallet (the percentage of the consumer's total visits that a particular chain captures within a year,) and fanaticism threshold (the number of visits within a year required for a customer to be within the top 1 % of customers who visit a particular chain, on a scale of 1 to 50.)

By virtually every metric, the U.S. and most of the major economies are accelerating for the first time in many years — and in a coordinated fashion.

The Initiative's activities are focused on: Mapping out a course to a stronger, cleaner economy by establishing a 10 - year vision for making Canada a clean growth leader, supported by specific goals, metrics, and policy road maps Bringing together a diverse group of Canadian leaders who provide a balanced, evidence - based voice for implementing this vision Demonstrating...

The Straus Dairy is projected to reduce carbon dioxide equivalent by about 2,000 metric tonnes per year through the program.

10 Apr 2018 — Butter consumption has increased by 1.7 million metric tons per annum over the last ten years.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Telesco usually leaves one gap on the roster with a view to filling it with a first - rounder — hence the panic trade for Gordon a couple of years back — and keeping Addae and signing Okung, both on chunky contracts, takes S and LT out of the equation by that metric.

Raw numbers Sixers score 107.4 ppg which is 9th in the league, vs opponents ppg of 105.7 which is 15th so by those metrics our offense is better than our D. And the D numbers have improved in calendar year 2018.

Laszlo Bock, the head of hiring for Google, has stated that, after all the years of looking for the «best and the brightest,» of recruiting from the Ivies and our most selective universities, that all that attention to accomplishment as measured by metrics, has proven «worthless.»

«Jumpstart is an initial launching pad based on the quality of the candidate and the viability of the district in races where off - year progress is critical to success, while Red to Blue remains a program candidates earn by hitting specific metrics for their campaigns,» Ward wrote in the memo.

«It's disappointing that the Comptroller's Office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» Conwall said.

«Further, the plant helps avoid millions of metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions each year and serves as a clean energy bridge to meeting the state's 50 % renewable energy goal by 2030.»

The Commissioner also expressed optimism that with the up - scaling of the Imota Rice Milling Plant from 2.5 metric tons to 16 metric tons per hour, expected to be up and running by next year, the production of LAKE RICE would be done in the State to ensure availability of the product all year round.

The conglomerate plans to increase its production of sugar to 1.5 million metric tons a year by 2020 from 100,000 tons now and is seeking to add 1 million tons of rice, Edwin Devakumar, executive director at Dangote's industries unit, said Tuesday in an interview in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

«It's disappointing that the comptroller's office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» said Jason Conwall, a spokesman for the agency.

With cooperative weather, the air can be cleaner, as proven by an experiment last year in which 1.3 million cars in the city were banned from driving and pollution levels dropped by 6,400 tons (5,800 metric tons), according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection.

That provision led to this year's federal rule requiring 54.5 mpg by 2025, a tremendous victory that will cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025 and reduce emissions by 6 billion metric tons.

The new interagency group will be tasked with creating a five - year action plan for attacking resistance by February 2015 and developing metrics to measure progress.

In the transportation sector, the new CAFÉ standards for model years 2017 - 2025 are expected to decrease greenhouse by 2 billion metric tons.

During the year of the project, quality metrics were carefully monitored to ensure that the quality of care delivered to neurosurgical patients was not compromised by the reduction in tests ordered.

Cutting electricity use by dishwashers and refrigerators could save 550 million metric tons of CO2 over the next 25 years

But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

In a conservative scenario — only 20 % of drivers drive a plug - in — the cars would reduce emission by at least 163 million metric tons per year.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

At Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria, a pilot plant run by CSIRO will capture 1,000 metric tons of CO2 a year; the Australian research organization has collaborated with China's Huaneng Group to use an amine scrubber to capture CO2 from a co-generation power plant in Beijing and then sell it.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

By 2020, the report projects China will produce 4.5 billion metric tons of coal annually, reflecting a 3.5 percent compounded annual growth rate over the next eight years.

Only about half of the more than 30 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted worldwide each year gets reabsorbed naturally by the planet's oceans and forests.

He announced to the House of Commons that Ottawa will impose a $ 7.62 per metric ton minimum tax on carbon commencing in 2018, which will rise by $ 7.62 each year until it reaches $ 38.11 per metric ton in 2022.

That's reducing to 427 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted per year; current emissions in the state are roughly 525 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and have been projected to exceed 600 million metric tons by 2020 without such efforts.

«We found that urban warming reduced carbon storage by all of Raleigh's willow oaks by 12 percent, or 27 metric tons per year,» Meineke says.