With the new regimen, called Seasonale, women would take the pill for 84 consecutive days and have four periods a year.
We identified four periods, highlighted in yellow, which experienced clear rate increases.
In those areas that have had three or four periods of experimental burning only half the number of species of tree seedlings originally found are still there.
In these four periods of rising rates, managers had the acumen to navigate troubled waters by various techniques of managing bond types, sector allocation, duration, maturity, credit quality, country, and currency.
During the prior four reporting periods, the company has bested the consensus estimate three times.
In fact, the company has only topped the consensus estimate once in past four reporting periods.
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Fundamentally, the company has bested Wall Street's earnings expectations in three of the past four reporting periods.
During the prior four reporting periods, the company has topped the consensus estimate three times and matched once.
Mr Joshi says the four previous periods of triple strength since 1980 were all followed by falls in Treasury-bond prices.
Specifically, SNDK has missed Wall Street's expectations in three of the past four reporting periods by an average of 85%.
Historically, QCOM has bested the consensus estimate in each of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of 5.5%.
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Specifically, Activision has bested the consensus earnings estimate in three of the past four reporting periods by an average of nearly 70%.
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Historically, Wynn has bested these expectations in three of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of about 40%.
Historically, Apollo has bested the consensus estimate in each of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of nearly 14%.
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He further identified four previous periods when the ratio was at similarly high levels and notes that stocks did not fare well afterward.
Historically, NFXL has bested the consensus estimate in three of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of nearly 11%.
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Historically, Mattel has bested the consensus estimate in three of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of more than 16%.
In fact, Ciena has bested the consensus estimate in three of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of nearly 25%.
Across the state at Eastern Virginia Medical School, researchers are studying a birth control pill that would give women just four menstrual periods a year.
During the prior four reporting periods, GLW has topped the consensus twice and missed expectations twice, resulting in an average upside surprise of only about 7.3%.
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While the year-over-year decline could be a concern for many OVTI investors, traders should take heart in the fact that the company has topped the consensus estimate in each of the prior four reporting periods, with an average upside surprise of roughly 19.5%.
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As in four recent periods when share prices rose even as inflation increased, the pick-up in prices should be welcomed as a sign that an economy that was showing worrying signs of weakness is recovering, and not of the central bank losing its grip.
It then compared the performance of the best 30 funds in each of those four-year periods with their performance over the next four-year period.
We built a screen to find funds with long-tenured managers who have beaten their peer groups in each of four distinct time periods--ten years, five, three and one.
Remarkably, this surge occurred amid four lockup expiration periods.
This includes a guarantee for the league as a whole to spend no less than 99% of the cap in 2011 and 2012, and no less than 95% in consecutive four-year periods thereafter.
To find the best, we looked for funds with long manager tenures that have outperformed their peer groups in each of four distinct trailing periods--ten years, five years, three years and one year.
Such is the variety of shapes and types, present through at least four mountain building periods, that visitors and locals alike cannot but marvel at the magnificient colours and structures visible around the coast of the Global Geopark.
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