The ratio of debt to personal disposable income has doubled since the late 1980s, to over 100%.
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For much of the time since the late 1980s, bonds and shares have risen and fallen in tandem.
According to the General Social Survey, the public has grown increasingly accepting of gay relationships since the late 1980s.
Olga Kryshtanovskaya, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has studied the country's centres of power since the late 1980s.
The two had been rivals since the late 1980s, when Carnahan served as lieutenant governor during Ashcroft's second term as governor.
The reality is that since the late 1980s the political administrations of Guyana have parceled out those forests to loggers and miners.
This explosion of civic pride has been made possible by an economy that has been on a roll since the late 1980s.
Since the late 1980s successive governments of Trinidad and Tobago have welcomed private investors willing to develop the country's offshore natural gas.
Donations to private universities fell last year for the first time since the late 1980s, according to the Rand Corporation's Council for Aid to Education.
According to the Halifax, a big mortgage lender, house prices rose by 13.6% in the year to December, the fastest increase since the late 1980s boom.
Earlier this year, the Commissioners pointed out, the agency unveiled its largest insider trading case since the late 1980s, starring an array of bankers and hedge fund traders.
Japan has been on a similar track--periodically raising taxes to save the national pension system--which has contributed to the virtual stagnation of its economy since the late 1980s.
He's been working on the cars since the late 1980s, and he checked in on Kathryn's build a couple times per week after seeing it in the forum.
Mr Hall has created many works for the open air since the late 1980s and has been commissioned to make sculpture by institutions around the world said the council.
Fatah has supported the peaceful two-state principle since the late 1980s, but half the 11-member Central Council opposed the terms of the agreement with Israel negotiated secretly in the Norwegian capital.
There have been several war rug exhibits since the late 1980s in Italy and Germany, and a show of 17 rugs debuts next February at the Australian National University in Adelaide.
There have been several war rug exhibits since the late 1980s in Italy and Germany, and a show of 17 rugs sponsored by the Australian National University debuts next February in Adelaide, Australia.
"It was the equivalent of an indie film winning the Oscar for best picture, " jokes Mr. Hautemont, 47, who was born in France but has lived in California since the late 1980s.
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In existence since the late 1980s, these firms exploded in popularity over the past decade and, according to a survey taken by Integrity Research, were consulted by some 36% of investment-management firms in 2009.
The case is taking place in Minnesota because the federal courts there have overseen the NFL's labor cases since the late 1980s, when a group of players sued the league there to win the right to free agency.
In the case of toy guns, manufacturers since the late 1980s have been required by federal law to use distinctive "blaze orange" barrel plugs or markings to ensure that the toys are not mistaken for the real thing.
"It is shaping up to be the most profitable year for the cotton producer in my career, " said Bud Holmes, an executive vice president of PlainsCapital Bank in Lubbock who has been lending to farmers since the late 1980s.
And while Nokia and Tapwave may be setting themselves up for the handheld gaming battle of the year, both will still have to contend with Nintendo 's Game Boy devices, which have been around in some form or another since the late 1980s.
The manufacturing sector has added jobs in 30 of the last 35 months, gaining half a million jobs over that period, the most for any such period since the late-1980s.
Deutsche Bank analysts said that threat hasn't been this severe since the late 1970s and early 1980s, the time of the Iranian revolution and a war between Iran and Iraq that disrupted oil supplies.
Maulana Hyderi was the fourth chief of the SSP to be killed since it was formed in the late 1980s by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.
Regulators came out swinging Thursday, announcing what they billed as one of the biggest insider trading cases since the Ivan Boesky scandal of the late-1980s.
Since the first outbreaks in Britain in the late 1980s, the European Commission in Brussels has issued almost 50 directives, aimed at beating off the disease.
The arrests are proof, say Vietnam's rulers, that they are serious about fighting corruption, which has spread since the introduction of market reforms in the late 1980s.
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