Sentences with phrase «years of decline as»

And a society in which each of us is invited to treat our years of decline as less valuable than our more vigorous, productive years may find it difficult to get away from the comparative judgments between human beings that Daniels himself is eager to avoid.

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Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

Its shares declined 9 % in 2017 and 5.9 % year over year, though revenues were still up 9 % as of August.

The introduction in October of around - the - clock Egg McMuffins and hash browns helped the Golden Arches enjoy its best quarter in nearly four years as it comes off two years of declines.

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.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Nor is core as hot as it looks on paper, he said; the decline in the value of the dollar from a year ago is making imports more expensive.

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.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

On Friday, the dollar index was up 4 % from its lows of the year hit on February 16, as traders found it increasingly expensive to bet against the dollar's decline.

A poorly managed expansion plan had resulted in five consecutive years of declining revenues, even as the larger market grew.

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

Ironically, five years later, the company that fired me has never rebounded from the massive decline that occurred as a result of sacking the rainmaker.

As most of us know, viewership has declined for local news stations over the past few years.

Many of these suppliers also sell to the defence sector, where spending is likely to decline in coming years as countries, especially the U.S., try to reduce their deficits.

The former finds inspiration from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight years of sales declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.

We already had some signs in the middle of 2016 that it was going to be a rough year for Apple: In the second and third quarters of the year, shipments of Apple's Macs were declining way faster than industry average, as people waited impatiently for the company to release a new MacBook Pro.

We have definitely seen some suburbs such as Fremantle and Scarborough that have been stable for the past 5 years - so not all suburbs have declined in property values - but we are in agreement that the bottom of the cycle has been reached.

The PC market itself has gone straight down the toilet in the nine years since the acquisition, with 2013 seeing the worst decline in its history, but Lenovo emerged as the king of the whole stinky pile.

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

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.

Though 2009 proved a bright spot for Gottschalk — Buffett listed her as one of the execs who increased profits despite declining sales in Berkshire's annual report — Pampered Chef's more recent years were bumpy.

McDonald's sees mobile as a way to win back customers after four straight years of traffic declines, but the project is not without risks.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

Inflation peaked at 3.8 % last year and has declined significantly as the Czechs, like the rest of Europe, dealt with declining wages and rising prices for goods like gas, imported clothing and pharmaceuticals.

The more plausible explanation for the stock market's success this year has less to do with Trump, and more to do with the woman he just declined to reappoint as chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen.

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.

As of early November, shares were up almost 37 % since the beginning of the year (compared with the S&P 500's (SPX) 0.4 % decline).

If the Fed raises rates this year, as most of his colleagues expect, «things could go okay, but you are creating a risk of further declines in where market - based inflation expectations are, basically to the credibility of our inflation target, and I think you are creating downside risks our pursuit of our employment mandate.»

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.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

This is known as email churn and statistics show that it can lead to a decline of around 25 percent of your subscribers each year.

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

Slumping demand for diet sodas sold by PepsiCo and Coca Cola propelled a decline for the broader industry, as overall sales of carbonated soft drinks dropped for the 11th consecutive year in the U.S.

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

Weisler explained to analysts that the troubled personal computer and printer market is still continuing its decline, but he sees some hope for PCs in the «back half of this year» as technology improves.

But while the decline of our mental faculties as we get older is widely accepted as fact and inevitability, what actually happens to the brain as we age through our middle years is much more complicated than simple deterioration.

The Kauffman Foundation, citing its own research and drawing on U.S. Census data, concluded that the number of companies less than a year old had declined as a share of all businesses by nearly 44 percent between 1978 and 2012.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

Under Previous Standards, Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter declined (2.2) % -LRB-(6.1) % excluding the impact of FX movements) versus prior year, primarily as a result of a decrease in Total Revenues, partially offset by a favorable impact of FX movements.

As a percentage of home sales, buying by foreigners in Singapore declined to just over 6 percent last year from 18 percent in 2011, Citigroup said in a report.

«All year this reading has been in focus as activity in the US manufacturing sector, particularly driven by a decline in oil - related activity and the strengthening of the US dollar, has slowed,» Business Insider markets editor Myles Udland reports.

The company, which reports its second quarter results Wednesday, has faced years of declining sales, as well as tough competition from discounters and online stores.

«The current bull market is not going to end simply because «stocks have gone up too much»... The buyside is fairly cautious, seeing downside stemming from: (i) deflationary pressures of the 40 % year - over-year oil decline, deceleration in China, Eurozone weakness, and the fall in 5 - year inflation breakevens; and (ii) Fed monetary tightening... Capital stock is again showing signs of pent - up demand, and as a consequence, companies and households will have to invest.

The U.S. tech group, which suffered from the inclusion of notable casualties from the internet stock bust of the early 2000s, such as Palm, Viasystems Group, Genuity, and Infonet, had a median decline of 17.2 % in their first year.

As of Monday morning in Asia, the dollar index was down around 2.07 percent so far this year and had declined 10.05 percent compared to one year ago.