Over the past 150 to 200 years, the U.S. equity market has alternated between extended periods of growth and extended periods of flat.
And in Finland, the unusually low number of iPhone owners may have extended the growth of traditional text-messaging in 2011.
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This is especially true at large corporate firms that overestimated their growth and extended too many offers to associates last fall.
While emerging market economies including that of China have slowed more recently, they also enjoyed an extended run of impressive growth fueled in large degree by exports to Western countries.
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Although it prevented an acute credit crunch and a devastating sequence of banking collapses, instead there is an extended period of minimal growth in credit provision - which makes it very hard for the eurozone to climb out of recession.
The entire economy has been in an extended period of non-growth since then.
The planned growth of "extended schools" could be the opportunity to get more children involved in sport, outside the main school-day.
Highly successful companies get that way through extended periods of double-digit growth, and then markets and analysts come to expect that growth.
Gandhi helped return the party to power in early 2004, and since then she has extended the idea of "inclusive growth" to its logical, though contestable, conclusion.
One only has to consider the UK case in the 1983-87 period, when the public finances moved into surplus whilst the economy enjoyed an extended period of above trend economic growth.
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Despite an extended down cycle, significant ad spend growth at the end of the quarter led to quarter over quarter growth.
Chinese growth is in a broad and extended decline GDP expansion is expected to fall for the seventh consecutive period in the third quarter.
But coming out of deep contractions, the rate of growth was a point higher, some 4.5% per year, for extended runs. 1947-1953, for example, a period following a steep GDP trough, growth averaged 4.6% per year.
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After a very long, extended multi-year rally for small-cap growth stocks, millions of new retirees looking to generate current income are moving into dividend paying securities.
Currently, my read is blue chip art is extended in price and more a luxury while iconic growth stocks comparatively lay rumpled and discarded in the bargain bin.
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The growth and expansion of Mahabalipuram, Chennai are extended to major areas of the city, so home dreamers are looking to buy the residential apartments at an affordable cost.
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When the government extended its promises of pensions and health care, it was counting on growth.
We wanted to know why finding future growth was so difficult, so we read the research and extended it with our own analysis.
This growth deficit constitutes a real world repudiation of government spending, extended unemployment benefits, targeted tax credits, temporary tax cuts and easy money by the Fed as ways to stimulate economic activity and job creation.
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Other issues she will have to deal with include the implementation of the teachers' workload agreement for England and Wales, the growth of specialist schools and city academies, plans for optional extended school hours - and the government's repeated failure to meet its targets for England's test and exam performance.
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"Elevated borrowing costs persisting for an extended period would amplify the fiscal challenges the French government faces amid a deteriorating growth outlook, with negative credit implications, " the agency said.
To control for this fact, we looked at long-term compounded growth in earnings(2) in order to see how companies grow over extended periods of time.
Mr. Holtz-Eakin believes the combination of more immigrants with a tilt in immigration visas away from extended-family unification and in favor of those with greater skills or education would spur faster growth.
It anticipates an extended period of businesses and households paying off debts, or deleveraging, combined with only modest growth in deposits "as a result of the pressure on consumers' disposable incomes from ongoing high inflation and cuts in welfare benefits".
Paul Forrest, from the West Midlands Economic Forum, said having the runway extended would be "very significant" for the region's economy and could potentially boost regional growth by 3-4%.
Moreover, by controlling access to the insurance and setting the terms on which it was extended, it would provide another instrument to ensure that member states adhered consistently to the Stability and Growth Pact.
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In this case, he argued, middle- and lower-income families would benefit from the payroll-tax reduction, the extended jobless benefits and other elements of the deal, and that the package overall would stimulate job growth and the economy.
We are talking maybe, possibly an extended slowdown, something like what it was like in the late 1970's, an extended period that's not like the last 20 years, where there's just constant growth and everything's going up.
In many rich countries an extended bout of high unemployment could easily lead to policies such as protectionism that will further hurt long-term growth.
Just as leadership changed from growth in the late 1990s to value in the first part of the 21st century, followed by an extended period of leadership from foreign funds, our greatest conviction is that fund leadership will continue to change over time.
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