Sentences with phrase «year declines set»

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.

Not exact matches

The announcement comes on the heels of research indicating that after 13 years of declines, U.S. visitation to Canada is set to rebound this year.

Investment bank Jefferies called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half of this year.

However, profit margins slipped, with the average SETS yield declining to 1.32 pounds ($ 2.62) from 1.53 pounds in the prior year.

The trend also seems to mirror a phenomenon in entrepreneurship: while there has been some reversal in the last few years, entrepreneurship among the younger set has been on the decline.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted for one - offs, were set to decline by a low - single - digit percentage and not match the prior - year level, as previously forecast.

Further, I showed that Pharma's IRR has followed a rapid and steady linear decline over 20 years, which is consistent with recent estimates from BCG and Deloitte, and can be fully explained by the Law of Diminishing Returns as a natural and unavoidable consequence of prioritizing a limited set of investment opportunities while each new drug raises the bar for the next.

Redstone's declining health over the past two years has set off a power struggle in the Viacom board room and in his $ 20 million mansion.

Spanish home prices are still falling by up to 14.5 % a year and by 6.3 % on average and the decline looks set to continue, according to the latest data from the Sociedad de Tasación.

The US dollar is set to end 2017 recording the largest decline in its value since 2003, while Bitcoin is en route to ending the year with a 1,372 percent increase.

While Facebook remains more than 10 % below a record set earlier this year, it has sharply rebounded from recent weakness, when a scandal over how it handled its user data pushed it into bear - market territory, or a decline of at least 20 % from a peak.

In July of last year the stage was therefore set for a sizable multi-month price decline, which unfolded in fits and starts over the reminder of the year.

The company plans to apply for a production license later this year and set up a factory in eastern China, he said, declining to give more detail.

U.S. auto sales were expected to decline in April, compared with a year earlier, as the industry continues to cool off from a record pace set in 2016.

Rare - earth prices are set to extend their decline from records this year as buyers including Toyota and General Electric scale back using the materials in their cars and windmills.

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Veteran shows no sign of decline and depending on how Roma set up around him, he could easily continue his playing career for a few more years.

Despite the rhetoric of President Obama's «pivot,» U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces in the region will merely be restored to pre-Iraq-war levels — no new permanent deployments are being contemplated — while the overall U.S. defense budget is set to decline by $ 487 billion over the next 10 years.

North of the border, Labour's long - term decline looks set to continue, having lost control of Glasgow Council for the first time in 37 years.

After years of declining room revenues, hospitality players set their sights on a long - awaited rebound

Nearly 20 % of the industry's workforce is set to retire within the next 5 to 10 years, while enrolment in construction degree courses and apprenticeships is in decline.

After more than a year of resisting questions about when, if ever, the shelter census will start to decline, the new plan also sets an exceedingly modest target for reducing the number of homeless people living in shelter.

Early next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget, cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending — cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.

Within a few years after pastoralism is attempted, it is found that the vegetation becomes degraded, erosion sets in and carrying capacity declines.

Because border enforcement budgets are set two years in advance, this finding helps address concerns about whether the enforcement caused the decline in immigration, or a surge in immigration sparked increased enforcement, Pugatch said.

But the damage suffered during drought sets in motion a decline that can kill trees years later.

Swamps that were wet for 5 to 7 months of the year in the 1960s are now often dry for most of the year, and rainfall is set to decline further in the future.

Launched in 2005, the European Union's Emissions Trading System sets a limit on the combined emissions from Europe's power stations, which gradually declines each year.

To verify the effectiveness of aducanumab, a trial was set in place that involved 165 people receiving the drug and over the course of one year it was reported that the amyloid - beta levels in these people's brains had declined.

The high - carb low - fat diet actually sets in motion a pattern of physiological decline that leads to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, which have come to dominate modern life over the past 40 years since the low fat dietary guidelines were promoted.

The initial Vegetarian / Vegan «halo» can last as little as 3 - 4 months and as long as several years before performance and health declines set in.

FLORENCE, Italy — Last year, Gucci chief executive Marco Bizzarri and newly — installed designer Alessandro Michele set of a remarkable renaissance at the long - ailing luxury giant, revamping the brand's aesthetic codes with a timely injection of eclectic, bohemian glamour and reversing a two - year trend of declining sales.

The stage is set for the arrival of Lucy (Liv Tyler), a 19 - year - old American, who steps into this atmosphere of decline in search of her real father and of a lover who will rescue her from her lonely virginity.

In this sword - and - sandal movie set in the later years of the declining Roman Empire, she is featured in an adventure that finds the daughter of a wealthy patrician falling in love with a Christian slave.

Set 22 years after the events of the first film, this newest installment sees a fully functioning, but declining, dinosaur theme park.

Johns also suggests that the decline in the take - up of arts GCSEs is set to carry on declining in the coming years as provisional data relating to 2017 exam entries indicates the trend will continue.

It looks as if all possible strategies for savings in this area are exhausted and in this new academic year, after several years of decline, spending on general items and stationery is set to increase.

The declines and shortcomings so starkly set forth in A Nation at Risk had been accumulating for many years.

In New York, which first rolled out Common Core tests three years ago, a precipitous decline in pass rates set off protests.

When faced with the option to set up a «lead partnership» intervention at an Indianapolis high school last year, board members declined after district officials hired an outside school turnaround team.

By the time you count, by the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in funding.

The survey reveals that the financial condition of Pennsylvania's school districts continues to decline, setting off a third round of program and personnel cuts for the 2013 - 14 school year that will reduce course offerings, increase class size, reduce extra-curricular and athletic programs, and close school buildings across the state.

With pupil numbers set to rise modestly in coming years, the trend of declining teacher numbers must be reversed.

Fiscal 2017 full year revenues declined $ 10 million, or 1 %, compared to the prior year, as strong sales of both frontlist and backlist titles, such as Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines and Jesus Calling and Jesus Always by Sarah Young, as well as the continued expansion of HarperCollins» global footprint, were offset by the absence of sales of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, the negative impact from foreign currency fluctuations and the $ 19 million impact from the absence of the additional week in the prior year.

E-readers are still the main e-paper display application, and E Ink itself also says that the market is finally set to start growing after years of decline and stagnation.

This market research firm has released a new set of projections today that predict that there will be a 27 % decline next year.

«Parents who are saving for college continue to earmark approximately 10 percent of their total savings for college, but the amounts they are saving overall declined, and the amount they set aside for college dropped to the lowest level in three years.

Providence was a bit of fun last year — the latest set of O'Reilly muppets were suitably outraged by my call for a 41 % share price decline.

«The spring selling market will really set the tone for the next year,» he says, «and a continued decline in transactions will mean sellers will have to either settle for a lower sale price or pull out of the market.»

And just as this «advanced aging» burden is set to grow due to demographics (retirement now spans beyond age 85 for over half of retiring 65 - year - olds), the ability of family to carry it is declining.