The Irish Consumer Market (ICM) is showing a year on
year decline approaching 10 % according to the latest data from Nielsen Bookscan.
Not exact matches
After 25
years of recruiting and talent development for strategy consulting, I now see clear signs that the traditional MBA is
approaching the last phase of its product life cycle, the phase of
decline.
Despite the previously overstated metrics and 4 %
decline in ad revenue from this time last
year, Twitter's growth results and signs of
approaching profitability sent shares soaring 12 % in premarket trading on Thursday.
The Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, to a lesser degree George Soros (since his political giving does not
approach the scale of these men and has
declined in recent
years) are massively influential players in our political process.
In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one
year earlier than targeted, but also to show a
declining debt ratio, rapidly
approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s
Volume has been low during the recent price
decline and one would expect it to remain there as Chinese New
Year approaches.
Shanghai stocks have
approached double - digit
declines twice this
year — both times in May — but quickly regained their footing to continue their ascent.
This
year, with memories of the sad
decline of Jackie Robinson last season, with realization that the average age of the six is rapidly
approaching a tired, creaking 33, the feeling persists that the five - game gap by which the Dodgers lost last
year was a signpost to oblivion, and that this
year the Dodgers will come apart, perhaps not quite so thoroughly as the one - horse shay, but sufficiently so that they will run now with the pack rather than with the leaders.
«We can reverse the 30
year decline of the upstate economy and keep our families together, but it is going to take a fresh
approach and new ideas that focus on investing in our communities,» Babinec said.
We believe a long term asset management
approach, allied to increased levels of funding, is required to bring our road network up to an acceptable standard and arrest the
decline caused by
years of under investment.»
On dwindling standard of education, Ezekwesili said the ministry under her, adopted a proxy
approach to find out the
declining performance of students in the annual WASSCE examinations in the last 10
years before 2006.
As he nears the end of his first four -
year term as NYC mayor, de Blasio has not changed his core philosophy or his
approach to Wall Street leaders,
declining to foster close relationships with the city's business giants.
Two
years ago, Carey said party leaders
approached him about running for the seat and he
declined.
«
Declines in self - reported adolescent sleep across the last 20
years are concerning and suggest that there is potentially a significant public health concern that warrants health education and literacy
approaches.»
THE MOTLEY FOOL - Aug 25 - It's been a pretty rough 2017 for The Meet Group's shareholders, as the stock's
year - to - date
decline approaches 30 %.
SEATTLE — After
years of
declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching
approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.
Under that
approach, a teacher's effectiveness is measured by looking at how his or her students» performance on standardized tests improves or
declines from one
year to the next.
The fund's contrarian
approach proved particularly effective last
year, when it gained 7.3 %, versus an 0.81 %
decline for its benchmark, the MSCI EAFE index.
Could it be this
approach to pet care is why veterinary visits have steadily
declined in recent
years?
Global coal demand dropped for a second
year in a row in 2016,
approaching the previous record for two -
year declines set in the early 1990s.
There are other
approaches to «[P] hasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100
years» that would involve working with the Industrial Revolution, avoiding serious impacts to the important goal of cheap energy: continually
declining energy prices.
Independent analysts have been questioning this
approach for
years, and warn that a
decline in world energy supplies — mostly resulting from depletion of fossil fuels — may be fairly imminent, possibly set to commence within the next decade.
Kids» social, emotional, and academic functioning has been
declining for
years, which suggests we need a new
approach to parenting.
Incidentally, the ABA has actually taken this
approach, with a $ 225 membership for solos of ten
years or more, and
declining for solos with less experience (though by the time you add up section memberships, you're still looking at a bill of close to $ 400).
All Things D also reported on the project, with an interesting nugget that Google (NSDQ: GOOG)
approached Flipboard last
year about potentially buying the company and promised to build such an app after Flipboard
declined Google's advances.
Despite fierce competition from Apple and Xiaomi and warnings of
declining profits and revenue earlier this
year, Samsung continues to forge ahead with a more sustainable
approach to its smartphone strategy.