Given the headlines, I was not surprised to read in a recent report that over the past decade the level of trust consumers have in institutions, particularly brands, has slipped by almost 50%.
Part of the fear that drives investors to products such as variable annuities, equity-indexed annuities, and the false promises of active management (including absolute return funds) is the misplaced fear of the recent lost decade in the performance of stocks.
After Justice Breyer, this is the third incident maybe in a decade -- not too recent -- but it was a pretty serious incident.
Lord Macdonald blamed a "hiatus of investment" in the middle of the past decade for "much of the trouble of the railways in recent years".
Especially since Asia has matured as an NBA market in recent years after Yao began drawing fans in a decade ago.
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Over the last decade, it says in its most recent annual filing, consumption here has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 7%.
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It has only been in recent years Toyota has challenged GM's seven-decade reign as top automaker.
The stadium has seen considerable redevelopment in recent years with three stands being built in the past decade.
UV-blocking contact lenses have been around for more than a decade, but have gained in popularity in recent years.
India and China have seen high growth rates in the recent past so it makes sense why each of them has sent over 650, 000 immigrants in the last decade.
The successful development of Side Events over the last decade has led to high popularity among Parties in recent years.
Here it must be remembered that the wages and salaries of the solid American middle class have been relatively stagnant in recent years and are likely to remain so for the next decade.
Investors like the growth: thanks to a recent surge, Oracle shares are at their highest level in a decade.
Google has grown sales and earnings more than 80% annually for a decade now, though growth has slowed a bit in recent years.
This analysis says that it's not well established that food allergies are on the rise, although a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said that in the last decade, the number people with diagnosed food allergies had risen by 18 percent.
Second, a recent study by The New York Times found that stock swings in the current decade have become more volatile than ever.
Privately held companies in the U.S. are more profitable now than in the last decade despite slowing sales growth this year, according to a recent preliminary analysis of data from Sageworks Inc.
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Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
Worse yet, the German government has undertaken a strenuous effort in recent months to dismantle many of such export controls that have been imposed over the past decade.
Worse yet, the German government has undertaken a strenuous effort in recent months to dismantle many of those multilateral export controls that were imposed over the past decade.
This is without a doubt one of the categories that has just exploded with content in recent years, producing some of the best and most popular horror movies of the last decade.
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From almost 40% a decade ago, it fell to 27% in 2008, according to a recent paper by Soyoung Kim of Seoul National University, as well as Jong-Wha Lee and Cyn-Young Park of the Asian Development Bank.
While solar companies have used customer referral programs for over a decade, these programs are kicking into overdrive targeting potential customers in neighborhoods with recent installations, expanding customer referral programs and providing prominent signage paired with local PR and social media.
For the last decade, the stock has mirrored that performance, with one notable dip in the recent recession.
As a result, Japanese equities have shown more life in recent weeks (up more than their American counterparts are this year) than in the previous decade.
It also, just as importantly, represents a break from the recent past, setting up the first orderly transition of power at Ford in more than a decade.
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According to a recent 2010 New America Foundation report , the information industry shed 68, 000 jobs in the past decade.
Another interesting investment was property, which in general provided investors with highly attractive returns over the past decade, even after the sharp correction during the recent recession.
The mutual assistance network was established more than a decade ago, but it has not proven to be especially effective in keeping the lights on in recent years.
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It is possible that the increasing use of such technology may be partly responsible for the recent uptick in traumatic injuries noted in toddlers and children, which had previously been consistently declining over the past decade.
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