Harvard's Edward Glasser and former Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar Matthew Kahn found in their research that «holding family income and size constant, petrol consumption per family per
year declines by 106 gallons as the number of residents per square mile doubles.»
Consider that the share of electricity the world gets from clean sources of energy over the last 10
years declined by the equivalent of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount of electricity as 900 Topaz solar farms.
The total number of active cases declined by 1.5 % from 921,328 to 907,206 and the number of active cases with a disposition within the fiscal
year declined by 2.8 % from 553,597 to 537.909.
Not exact matches
Frazier's resignation comes in the wake of a violent rally
by neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, where a 32 -
year - old woman was killed
by a home - grown terrorist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors — an act of hate - filled savagery that President Trump
declined to squarely condemn.
Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia
decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three
years.
Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen
by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after
years of
declining advertising and viewership.
If you're planning to go the coupon route yourself, a primer on trends from Inmar's report: The clip - and - save renaissance forced companies to keep face values down — they
declined by a penny to $ 1.44, a reversal of
years of increase.
In May, Musk said Tesla would more clearly define its plans for China production
by the end of this
year; a spokesman
declined to give further details.
As of the end of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies filed
by Canadians this
year, a
decline of 1.2 per cent from the same period last
year.
Many residents of Norway politely
declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world
by GDP per capita, was last
year named the happiest nation on the planet.»
The Fed permitted the quantity of money to
decline by one - third from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent
years.
The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to
years of rapid growth fueled
by government incentives and
declines in the cost of their technologies.
With revenue continuing its long, steady
decline, Kmart teamed with ad agency FCB to reenergize its much - maligned brand, promoting its product - delivery program
by appealing to the giggly 12 -
year - old in all of us.
The new round brings the total capital raised
by the eight -
year - old company to $ 250 million, but Tzuo
declined to discuss the valuation.
Battered
by nearly a
year of off - and - on
declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four
years with
declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.
Their salaries and annual bonuses rose
by a median 7.8 %, up sharply from the previous
year's 1.2 % and a
decline in the
year before that.
21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down
by about 4 % since the beginning of the
year, or less than half Disney's
decline.
Instead, the focus was on Apple and its Apple Watch, which IDC said saw sales
decline by 71 %
year over
year.
An analysis
by Pivotal Research of Nielsen data showed Facebook usage
declining year - over-
year by 3 percent in August.
Analysts were looking for revenue of about $ 18.6 billion, according to analysts polled
by Bloomberg, which would represent a
decline from this quarter last
year.
In September, the department store, which has been beset
by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales
declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second
year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.
But while mall traffic is down and has been
declining for
years, Kniffen countered that «Walmart is a lot bigger than Amazon, but you would never know that
by listening to what's going on or the stock valuations, would you?»
This
year, we at Canadian Business decided to calculate our annual Worst Jobs list a little differently —
by income
decline.
Home ownership has experienced the biggest
decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing
by about 700,000 a
year since 2006.
Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled
declining enrolment in recent
years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise
by 1.5 %.
That overall
decline was led
by a 57 %
decline in baccarat volumes from the same period last
year.
Meanwhile, the report points out, federal funding for housing assistance programs has actually
declined by 3 percent in the last seven
years.
They're paying the lowest premium in nearly three
years to protect against a 10 %
decline in Nvidia's stock over the next three months, relative to bets on a 10 % increase, according to data compiled
by Bloomberg.
The NFL's regular season TV ratings were down 9 % last
year, and a fair amount of blame for the
decline went to the fact that younger viewers have become increasingly distracted
by the plethora of streaming entertainment options online and social media.
According to Acadata and LSL property services and reported
by Bloomberg, the average price of a house in London was down 2.7 % on the
year in September, the
decline accelerating from a rate of 0.7 % in August.
In those two
years, the S&P 500
declined by a combined 40 percent.
Representation of white women in leadership roles improved
by 17 % over the nine
year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages
declined across the board, according to research
by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.
«It's a courageous act to admit that a mistake was made — to cut bait and move on, as opposed to saving face and trying to make it work, and then three
years go
by while company performance continues to
decline.»
So, after a multi-year
decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested
by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five
years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.
Sales at Gap North America, owned
by Gap Inc., have
declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last
year.
The Adjusted consolidated pretax income for 1Q18 of $ 684 million
declined by $ 67 million, or 9 percent, versus $ 751 million in 1Q17 primarily due to the same factors impacting the GAAP
year - over-
year comparison, while excluding the impact of the items in the pretax table above.
In the last 10
years, the Bay store count
declined by nine, Zellers
by 51 and Sears
by three.
But as research
by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown,
by the time a venture is three
years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like
decline that continues to plummet
by upwards of 10 percent every
year thereafter.
Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has
declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30
years ago to a cause championed
by top public figures and companies around the world.
The news comes as TV viewing has
declined by an estimated 10 % from a
year previously in the third quarter, and
by 9 % for the fourth quarter
year - over-
year, according to the Journal, citing Nielsen data.
Households that spend $ 50,000 at age 65 tend to see a
decline by about 15 percent over the next 15
years and 20 percent
by age 85, according to Jonathan Guyton, a certified financial planner and principal at Cornerstone Wealth Advisors, in an article in the Journal of Financial Planning.
Microsoft's $ 20.5 billion in revenue is down more than $ 1 billion from the same period a
year before, depressed
by continued
decline in its Windows consumer licensing business.
The Trump golf course that was built and subsidized
by New York City saw as 12 percent
decline in revenues in the past
year, according to The Washington Post.
Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to
decline by 40 per cent over the course of the
year.
President Donald Trump's net worth has
declined by a whopping $ 600 million over the last
year, according to a new analysis
by Forbes, causing him to drop 92 spots on the magazine's list of the richest people in America.
Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal
year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required
by law, despite massive
declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.
This 150 -
year - old paper - printing giant has navigated the
decline and consolidation of the printing industry deftly,
by selling itself as a one - stop shop for large, corporate printing needs and
by purchasing smaller rivals.
Germany,
by comparison, has much less to complain about: Its goods trade deficit with China remains on a steeply
declining trend, falling last
year to 14.2 billion euro, a 21.5 percent drop from 2016.
From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased
by more than 50 percent, while the native - born startup rate
declined by 10 percent, to a 30 -
year low.
Data
by Dealogic showed a 12 percent
year - on -
year decline on the number of deals announced in the first nine months of 2017.