Not only that, but the situation is even crappier compared to a decade ago.
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And so, the country was stricken to a decade of deflation, high unemployment, and slow growth.
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The 10-year yield, which moves inversely to prices, dropped to a decade-low earlier in the week.
It will be up to a decade before replacement ships and aircraft come into service.
For close to a decade, social media has been upending industries, from journalism to entertainment.
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Indian applicants for some employment based green cards can take five years to a decade to be processed.
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It took Mr Cundall close to a decade to sign an actual contract to start digging for the planes.
In other words, compared to a decade ago, illegal entry to the United States has fallen by nearly 80 percent.
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Thanks to a decade-long renovation project overseen by Network Rail (2002-12) the Forth Bridge is now in the best condition it has ever been in.
The ceremony will testify primarily to a decade of squabbling and inertia, and the design is an unhappy compromise that satisfies no one.
Up to a decade ago, the country lurched from one crisis to another, with sky-high inflation and interest rates and a feeble currency.
Its federal government also devolved greater responsibility to provincial governments, leading to a decade of strong growth in employment, gross domestic product and investments.
Others depend upon whether researchers can crack the challenge of designing health-related sensors that can work flawlessly in a vehicle for up to a decade.
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Mr Kenny said he looked forward to a decade of centenaries.
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However, the one part that has always worried me (and I can point to a decade of making this same point) is that climate sensitivity.
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The heady days of the 1990s, when it appeared that freedom was on the march around the world, have given way to a decade of democracy recession.
Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.
Tsvangirai said that the problems in Zimbabwe began long before the recent election and that Mbeki had been part of the mediation discussion for close to a decade.
It is widely expected Arctic sea-ice will be totally lost in summer with a few years to a decade or so, perhaps at less than 1C or warming.
Because towers take so long to plan and construct, the current crop reflect a vision up to a decade old, reckons Nick Offer of Arup, an engineering firm.
Thanks to a decade without major natural disasters following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, property and casualty insurers were awash with capital and had little need to hunt for more.
Indeed, some call for a more dramatic and open-ended escalation of our war effort -- one that would commit us to a nation-building project of up to a decade.
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It allows for a cycle of bids to appear in the marketplace as the tide of buying moves between the various skittish groups that have been witness to a decade of perpetual fear.
And as to the specific thing that those technology company leaders were noting, that it can take up to a decade to get government owned spectrum reallocated and freed up for commercial usage.
And Belgium, France and - to a tiny extent - Luxembourg are also providing guarantees that lenders of up to 90bn euros to Dexia over the coming ten years would get their money back (they are guaranteeing up to 90bn euros of inter-bank and bond funding for up to a decade).
Like Skilling, Lay has heaped the blame for Enron's spectacular failure on skittish investors, a whipsaw market and "the deceit of Andy Fastow"--the former finance chief who pleaded guilty to in January 2004 to wire and securities fraud, two of the 98 counts he'd faced, and agreed to a decade in the slammer.
McKinsey makes the striking claim that "the ratio of UK household debt to disposable income would not return to its pre-bubble trend for up to a decade" - which implies that as we in the UK look for a return to more normal levels of economic growth, momentum is not going to be provided by consumer spending for perhaps up to 10 years.
However, skepticism about the safety of that drug has led to nearly a decade of failed attempts to get a gene therapy past regulatory hurdles in Western Countries.
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Adventurous Chinese looking for something new to do a decade ago pretty much had to settle for taking a trip across town to a McDonald's or a karaoke club, another spot that was exotic then.
England will need to build 2m new homes a decade to meet demand, a rate it has managed every decade since the 1930s (except for the war years).
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