The history of the last 30 years is a history of debt accumulation.
Operating in a country with a history of thousands of years -- and ways of doing business that go back as far -- it is valuable to develop insight into China's business culture and social etiquette to avoid misunderstandings that could scuttle deals and harm working relationships.
"This is not a turnaround from the history of years of sliding Olympics ratings, " he says.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
Next, he brought out a 6, 000 year old statue of a little woman. 11, 000 years of history on stage.
This year the Rockville, Maryland-based REIT celebrates its 50th year as a publicly traded shopping center REIT with an exceptional history of maintaining and increasing its dividend for a record of 45 straight years.
You have a history that reaches back thousands of years, and the ability to help determine the destiny of the fastest growing region of the world.
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But with a planetary history of over four billion years, the Earth has likely suffered the slings and arrows of exploding stars more than once in past eons.
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She takes a look at the factors that move a blue-chip stock these days--in this case, Starbucks--while weaving in the fascinating history of a company that 20 years ago experts would have said couldn't exist.
Shorter-term seasonal patterns include that September tends to be the worst month of the year, and has a history of being more negative in years when August was already down, and when the market was down for the year-to-date as of the end of August, which were the conditions at the end of August this year.
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From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Overleaf, we follow the fortunes of Homo sapiens sapiens around the Black and Mediterranean Seas through 30 000 years of a tumultuous history marked by sporadic earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, as well as more insidious hazards tied to a changing climate, such as flooding from glacier melt, gradual sea-level rise or prolonged drought.
Its 2, 500 years of documented history (and 1500 years of Christian observance) has been ruled by a dramatic progression of warlords, emperors, and kings.
For instance, many more children placed for adoption today have birth parents with a history of substance abuse compared with 50 years ago, says Albers.
Winehouse "had a history of excessive alcohol ingestion for some years and was under the care of a number of physicians, " Radcliffe told the court, according to a summary provided by Camden Council.
Much like the Reduced Shakespeare Company's performances of all the bard's plays in one evening, in 90 action-packed minutes units and display teams from the three armed services parachuted, charged, marched and drummed their way through a thousand years of imperial history.
Ireland is a first-world country, but one whose history of conflict and sectarian violence is only a few years in the past.
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Modern Holy Week is a pale shadow of celebrations of 500 years ago, said Thomas Cohen, a history professor at York University in Toronto.
Given how thickly trafficked this corridor of English literary history has been in recent years, a writer like Hollinghurst can spin yards of this soft stuff practically in his sleep.
And, of course, the required reference to Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2, 000 Years (1995).
But despite that storied history and a number of renovations throughout the years, by the 80s it was feeling a bit tired.
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As I slid off the water board in pain, I thought that I'm a prisoner of economic history absorbed these past 50 years.
Considering that Pol Pot was about 73 and had a history of ill health -- in recent years, he suffered a minor stroke and had cardiac problems -- a heart failure is perfectly feasible.
Even HSBC, a British bank with a sterling reputation, ingrained prudence and a history of astute acquisitions has stumbled in recent years when entering markets where unfamiliarity prevented it from bringing these traits to bear.
It seemed a reasonable assumption given that the two clubs have a combined 24 years of Premier League history, but ahead of their meeting on Monday, Leicester's hopes have already fizzled out been extinguished, while West Ham looks to have missed out on the two automatic promotion berths.
England are always assured of a fiery reception when they face Wales in Cardiff with 130 years of history between the two nations, both on and off the field.
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Syria is the cradle of civilization, with a history of human settlement stretching back 5, 000 years.
China, a country with over 4500 years of recorded history, gave the world, gunpowder, paper, compasses, movable type, and even the seismological detector.
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But the key moment, in the history of the mule, came a few years later, when there was a strike of cotton workers.
"Despite Barnet FC having more than 120 years of history as a community club in the area, they seem to want to clear us away, " said Mr Kleanthous.
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