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Haiti and Zimbabwe have both explored how much ruin there is in a nation over the past decade and show little sign of improving.

As you've no doubt noticed, there has been a revolution in communications technology over the past decade or so.

Much of Microsoft's activities over the past decade can be seen in the context of trying to diversify away from them.

It's part of a special lexicon that has emerged, over the past decade, as a sort of shorthand for men's fashion.

E-commerce has ridden the ups and downs of the general economy over the past decade, but it has continued to grow throughout.

Over the past decade, Amazon. com and eBay have continued to dominate the online retail market in the United States.

I was one of those journalists who tried to point out over the past decade that house prices and stock values were getting out of control.

But I have good news: My study of this phenomenon over the past decade has taught me that stage fright really is curable.

The forces that helped to push some of the poor out of poverty over the past decade of rapid growth have shifted into reverse.

Over the past decade or two, there has been a major change in the way that managers do their jobs.

Over the past decade, the UN records, nearly 8m hectares of forest a year were allowed to re-grow or were planted anew.

A recent CGS survey shows strong growth in the enrollment of every minority group in U. S. graduate schools over the past decade.

The fortunes of illegal enterprises over the past decade have been helped by the fact that they were low on the law-and-order agenda.

Over the past decade or so, it had moved a lot of its production to China. It also had outsourced back-office computer operations to India.

But a look at how the economics have changed over the past decade sheds some light on why companies like Wham-O are deciding to return.

China's exports have grown by an average of 21% a year over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the relative position of the U. S. has shifted. It is no longer a creditor to the world but rather a large debtor.

The amount of biological data generated over the past decade by new technologies has completely overwhelmed our ability to understand it.

As the number of patent applications almost tripled over the past decade, the office has not kept up.

Over the past decade there have been occasional funding crunches as the site has grappled with its rapid growth.

China's domestic vehicle sales have risen about fivefold over the past decade to more than 8 million a year as economic growth boosts sales.

Up to 19 U. S. crash deaths over the past decade may be linked to accelerator-related problems at Toyota, congressional officials have said.

Over the past decade, authorities stepped up monitoring and the enforcement of laws, leading to a significant drop in the rate of clearance.

Immigrants also tend to have more children, one reason why the British birth rate has rebounded over the past decade.

Although U. S. exports have grown, their share in key markets has dropped over the past decade, he said.

Over the past decade, Americans were able to outspend their incomes by easily rolling their debts forward through serial home refinancing.

There is no doubt China has achieved impressive growth over the past decade.

Robert Gates described America's defence spending over the past decade as a gusher, and one that had to be turned off.

Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged.

Over the past decade, the market has flowered into a tourist attraction -- a development that many say is a mixed blessing.

Mr Prahalad's book, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" , has been hugely influential over the past decade.

Mr. Aida said the skills of Chinese engineers had improved over the past decade.

In each of his four previous trips to China over the past decade, no one confirmed his presence until after he returned home.

But over the past decade, third-generation artificial turfs that perform every bit as well as natural grasses have begun to sprout.

Finally, we encourage you to issue an overview or white paper on China's policies toward the Sudan over the past decade.

Production of the crop is rebounding after having sharply dropped during implementation of the land reform program over the past decade.

To understand this, one must understand how the world economy has worked over the past decade.

Other reliable reports over the past decade have placed him in the Waziristans.

The cost of providing pensions has risen over the past decade; investment returns have been poor and interest rates have fallen.

Co- branding has seen a dramatic increase in its use as a strategic marketing tool by enterprises worldwide over the past decade.

Though one of the first women deans in Europe, Prof Cox has seen the number grow dramatically over the past decade.

They compared the price bankers forecast for oil at the end of each year with the actual outcome over the past decade.

Question: What changes took place in education in your country over the past decade?

Over the past decade, Australia's exports to Asia have climbed from around 40 per cent of the total to no less than 72 per cent.

Although Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in the region, its economy has pushed forward over the past decade.

Vietnam has been a poster-child of South-East Asian development over the past decade.

The country's growth has been fuelled over the past decade by an ever-growing trade surplus that has reached unsustainable levels.

A number of products have been recalled over the past decade due to actual or potential penicillin cross-contamination.

Private equity in the Alpine republic is still in its infancy, but has become big business in neighbouring Germany over the past decade.

If McGrady and Kobe were somehow able to switch places over the past decade, how would we perceive each player today?

An alarming surge in the practice over the past decade has surfaced in Latin America, the long-running leader in kidnapping.

The Bulldog is moving up the list with a 69 percent increase over the past decade, jumping two spots this year to number eight.

a more consistent pattern of flattish prices over the past decade. Real yields have thus been positive for much of the period.

Being placed into ESL is not a bad thing. Graduates from the ESL program over the past decade have entered excellent colleges.

The budget for border enforcement and immigration has quadrupled over the past decade; the Border Patrol is still hiring.

With no accidents reported over the past decade, it is considered one of the safest and most advanced mines in the province.

Rocketing fees far outstripped inflation over the past decade (see chart); the increase is now greater than for house prices.

But I do not accept that the huge bubbles in equities and housing over the past decade are normal.

China has built a strong presence in Zambia over the past decade, attracted by rich reserves of coal and copper.

Over the past decade, sampling of the Colorado shows the river is at its lowest point since measurement records were first kept in 1906.

All of his proceeds go towards the HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT, a fitting homage to the kids he visited over the past decade.

Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased at more than 25 percent a year.

Over the past decade there have been large variations in the projected increase in global temperatures and sea levels over the coming years.

Over the past decade, the trend growth rate has increased as a result of heavy investment and faster improvements in productivity.

Over the past decade the number of products it has inspected has tripled while its budget has remained flat.

Over the past decade, medical advances have resulted in better diagnostic tools and more effective treatments for diseases of the poor.

Developing country growth has accelerated over the past decade and is expected to remain strong both over the medium and longer terms.

Over the past decade, chain-store business has developing rapidly as one of mainstay industries in social economy.

Indeed, this equilibrium appears to have been restored to the sport over the past decade.

There have been notable successes in science for development over the past decade but still insufficient follow-through for key commitments.

Their actual return, of course, has mostly been negative. Over the past decade, equity investing hasn't offered much of a premium.

Still, over the past decade, emerging markets, and most developed markets, have outperformed the U. S.

Jobs are more plentiful, too: unemployment has averaged just over 4 per cent over the past decade, one-third the rate of Syria.

Having watched the breakneck expansion of foreign multinationals over the past decade, it wants to create its own global stars.

Moreover, the number of "Good" beaches has more than doubled over the past decade.

Over the past decade the number of schoolchildren in Northern Ireland has shrunk by 7% while grammar school places are down by less than 1%.

The number of Japanese restaurants around the world has exploded over the past decade.

That has prompted a scramble for Asian securities, revealing another large shift to have taken place over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the issue of improving the quality of health care has risen to the top of the agenda for many medical experts.

THERE is no more potent symbol of the relative decline of Western finance than the revolution in Chinese banking over the past decade.

Technologies for digital image compression have been the subject of much study over the past decade.

Their economies all performed worse than Italy's over the past decade in terms of growth per person.

Having moved around a lot over the past decade, it would be great to bring people back together to "hangout" from different periods of time.

Many vendors have implemented their LDAP solution to take advantage of directory services, which have matured over the past decade.

Everyone talks about how the insurance companies tripled their aggregate income over the past decade .

Across the U. S. , prices have surged 58% over the past decade, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Even before the recession GDP was barely crawling along, with growth averaging a miserly 0. 7% a year over the past decade (see chart).

China began expanding university enrolment in 1996 to meet growing personnel demands, leading to a surge of graduates over the past decade.

Over the past decade the number of vehicles on Indonesia's often inadequate roads has nearly quadrupled from 3m to at least 11. 3m.

OVER THE PAST decade Europe's troubled economies have lost competitiveness against Germany, as the charts on the previous page show.

Over the past decade the number of vehicles on Indonesia's often inadequate roads has nearly quadrupled from 3m to at least 11. 3m.

OVER THE PAST decade Europe's troubled economies have lost competitiveness against Germany, as the charts on the previous page show.

Over the past decade, China has been slowly building the capability to force the US Navy away from its coasts and deep in the Pacific.

Significant improvements in governance over the past decade occurred in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Tajikistan, Serbia, and Slovakia.

The twin engines of the economy over the past decade have been the booming property market and surging exports.

The 2010 census showed that population growth was even slower than expected, rising just 0. 57% a year over the past decade.

As a pop group that has seen members come and go over the past decade, Sugababes has gained a reputation for its revolving-door line-up.

Over the past decade, according to Deloitte, Premier League wages rose an average of 20% a year.

To cope with this formulation demand, a wide variety of novel particle technologies have emerged over the past decade.

Over the past decade or so, researchers have begun to focus on the special role dads take in child-rearing.

Over the past decade or so, researchers have begun to focus on the special role dads take in child-rearing.

Over the past decade, a remarkable number of laws, rules, regulations, and new ways of doing business have hit physicians.

Mr. Immelt counters that only two other companies, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell, have made more money over the past decade.

He has also written nine books, most of them over the past decade, dedicated to his pet theory of "reflexivity" .

Japan had a brief period of deflation in the mid-1990s, followed by a more consistent pattern of flattish prices over the past decade.

Over the past decade, both card companies have introduced smart cards widely around the world.

On the contrary, both sides have made sizeable mistakes in managing their economic interactions over the past decade.

Contrary to what the models say, he argues that the world has not warmed over the past decade.

The funding bonanza they have had over the past decade has been accompanied by falling productivity.

The state-encouraged revival of Confucianism over the past decade is part of Chinese efforts to fill an ideological and ethical void.

The state-encouraged revival of Confucianism over the past decade is part of Chinese efforts to fill an ideological and ethical void.

The frequency of a university education more than doubled over the past decade.

The big exceptions are China, where spending has been exponential over the past decade, and, to a lesser extent, India and Brazil.

Another emerging challenge is the soaring number of financial restatements over the past decade.

The proportion of married couples slipped below half over the past decade, but was first reported as a precise count by the 2010 census.

Signs that the Reagan revolution had drifted dangerously have been clear over the past decade.

Perhaps his work over the past decade may be expressed as the seeking of dreams through description of shimmering stars.

America's consumer boom and widening trade deficit, which powered much of Asia's growth over the past decade, has come to an end.

Over the past decade it has become clear that bacteria are already well disposed to the idea of interchangeable parts.

You could say Wenger has done a good selling job over the past decade on fans like me.

You could say Wenger has done a good selling job over the past decade on fans like me.

Official budgetary forecasts had lost credibility under Labour over the past decade by being generally overoptimistic.

Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero -- nothing, nada, zip.

Over the past decade many online journals and article repositories have emerged that are run on a shoestring.

The first was driven by the opening of the economy to foreign capital, the second by lending to the rising black elite over the past decade.

But overall, India's form of ownership has barely changed over the past decade.

Britain's balance of trade has sunk deeper and deeper into the red over the past decade as consumption has outstripped production.

Economically they more closely resemble Arizona, another state that has boomed over the past decade, than they do other Southern states.

Much of China's growth over the past decade has come from lending to the United States.

Zheng is one example of millions of Chinese farmers who have been granted urban hukou over the past decade.

Zheng is one example of millions of Chinese farmers who have been granted urban hukou over the past decade.

Over the past decade, ASC Fine Wines has built one of China's top wine import distribution company.

Over the past decade, economists have been divided about the great Indian boom.

Over the past decade, most aircraft makers have attempted to bolt sophisticated control-and-display systems on to their products.

Over the past decade, other Silicon Valley companies have quietly turned to the NSA for guidance in protecting their networks.

Over the past decade, Li Yu has emerged as one of China's most provocative art-house film directors.

Over the past decade, bulldozers and excavators have torn apart the banks of the White Jade River several times over.

The endless charts they use to track things show fighting seasons (the summers) becoming more intensive every year over the past decade.

THE surge in commodity prices over the past decade has revived an old debate.

The number of driving-school graduates has fallen 16% over the past decade, as consumers choose to spend their money elsewhere.

The number of driving-school graduates has fallen 16% over the past decade, as consumers choose to spend their money elsewhere.

Over the past decade, the issue of. . . . . . has risen to the top of the agenda.

Access to scholars at home and abroad over the past decade Basketball Guards training and training in research.

That would require that scientists have more genetic sequences of swine flu taken from sick pigs over the past decade.

They compared the results of a national soil survey taken in the 1980s with surveys conducted over the past decade.

Although the Dow has been flat, Bernhardt said, "a globally diversified portfolio would have doubled its value over the past decade. "

Over the past decade, Asia has had faster economic growth than Latin America, but Latin stocks have performed three times better. Why?

Over the past decade financial exchanges have changed out of all recognition.

Morocco faces challenges on human development outcomes despite progress over the past decade, in particular.

The advantages it once maintained in the air slipped away over the past decade as China modernized.

The advantages it once maintained in the air slipped away over the past decade as China modernized.

The proportion of graduate to undergraduate international students has fluctuated over the past decade.

In many ways this crisis has actually reaffirmed the policy advice we have provided in the financial sector over the past decade.

Over the past decade Sotheby's has seen the departure of several senior staff in its Chinese department.

And like the Chinese economy, these funds have enjoyed double-digit growth over the past decade.

Over the past decade, Washington's Taiwan policy has created unnecessary dilemmas for Taiwan's political leadership.

With the mass introduction of cheap plastic receptacles over the past decade or so, their livelihood has collapsed.

Over the past decade, we've studied the design and implementation of enterprise IT systems and assisted numerous firms with the process.

Over the past decade the number of Chinese migrants working in Russia's far east has actually fallen.

This movement into alternative investments and away from banking has been speeding up over the past decade, say experts.

This movement into alternative investments and away from banking has been speeding up over the past decade, say experts.

Over the past decade, the less dynamic economies of Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia and India have seen greater jobs growth.

That has not only generated a huge current account surplus but has contributed two-thirds of Germany's economic growth over the past decade.

Over the past decade, dozens of charter and independent schools, like Promise Academy, have become no excuses schools.

His marketplace takes outsourcing, widely adopted by big business over the past decade, to the level of the individual worker.

Sure enough, both Bernanke and Geithner, along with dozens of other regulators, overlooked many signs of excess over the past decade.

Over the past decade the simple unweighted average of countries' growth rates was virtually identical in Africa and Asia.

One of the most remarkable stories of business reform and revival over the past decade has been the turnround in the Chinese banking sector.

This fall in the initial debt-servicing burden on mortgage borrowers has underpinned the rise in house prices over the past decade.

But amid the surge in inexpensive imports over the past decade, some prominent economists have challenged that view.

But amid the surge in inexpensive imports over the past decade, some prominent economists have challenged that view.

The expansion of Web technology over the past decade has opened a number of doors to presenting data online.

Daiichi employees have received the highest average radiation doses of those at any Japanese plant every year over the past decade.

Over the past decade, with the rapid advance of economic and social, marital and family issues has been unprecedented attention.

But consistently and increasingly over the past decade, faith in Congress has collapsed--slowly, and then all at once.

In every place that Census scientists have explored over the past decade, they have discovered life previously unknown to science.

But over the past decade, the other end of the chain has come to matter more.

So what we are seeing in the U. S. over the past decade is productivity growth without the job growth that usually comes with it.

Over the past decade, Dr. Kaplan's group has focused on biomedical applications in fields like tissue engineering.

But, over the past decade, the factory has come up against an economic threat far more potent and menacing: the industrial might of China.

Over the past decade, Dr. Kaplan's group has focused on biomedical applications in fields like tissue engineering.

But, over the past decade, the factory has come up against an economic threat far more potent and menacing: the industrial might of China.

Over the past decade, however, machines for measuring brain activity have proliferated .

Over the past decade, Russian foreign policy has experienced a number of dramatic shifts.

Over the past decade, word spread that Lee could fix old toys, earning him the nickname the "toy doctor. "

Three important and closely related developments affecting the way that people are employed have gathered pace over the past decade.

Most of its aggressive growth over the past decade and nearly 90 per cent of its manufacturing takes place outside Taiwan.

Most of what happened over the past decade across the world was legal.

Iran's musical restrictions have eased over the past decade and pop music has become increasingly common in some parts of society.

Some economists think the huge overcapacity in industry that held back prices over the past decade is much lower today.

Some economists think the huge overcapacity in industry that held back prices over the past decade is much lower today.

Over the past decade the rise of institutional investors in the sector has led managers to reduce risk, damping returns.

The rise in the oil price over the past decade has led to a richer and more assertive Russia.

Indeed, its surplus with America has shrunk as a share of America's GDP over the past decade.

Over the past decade the locus of power in the drug trade, as in so many other businesses, has moved closer to the final consumer.

Over the past decade, Asian governments learned the benefits of anti-inflationary policies from the west.

Over the past decade, recommendation engines have become quietly ubiquitous.

Over the past decade, one such model, the use of mobile dental service units, has emerged as a practical strategy.

It was not just Apple's products that got thinner over the past decade. So too did Mr.

Mr. Friedman is grateful to his colleagues for their friendship and support over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the rich, professional classes have developed an increasingly unhealthy attitude to their jobs.

The relative strength of the euro over the past decade has helped push its gross margin to an industry-leading 60 per cent.

Officials claim that air quality has been steadily improving over the past decade, thanks to billions of dollars of investment.

In study after study over the past decade, they've shown abilities previously thought to exist only in humans.

But in much of the rich world, house prices have moved in tandem over the past decade.

Some are upset about having missed gold's massive price surge over the past decade and are worried about buying too late.

Over the past decade, that atmosphere of limited expression has crept into South Korean cyberspace.

Also, as wages eroded over the past decade, some people living on the edge found themselves pushed into poverty.

But this is not enough, he argues, to reverse the dramatic decline in private consumption as a share of GDP over the past decade.

In study after study over the past decade, they've show abilities previously thought to exist only in humans.

Weaker investment is one reason why the trend growth-rates of some Asian economies have slowed over the past decade.

A huge international effort to eradicate slums over the past decade moved 227m people out of poverty, according to the UN.

Asia thrived over the past decade by relying on export-oriented growth aided by depressed exchange rates.

Along with other Mediterranean countries, its economy lost ground to Germany's over the past decade and now needs to regain it.

Thanks to such small-bore reforms, health spending over the past decade has risen more slowly than in most other countries.

As a result, the achievements of emerging market financial systems over the past decade have been impressive.

Over the past decade Russia has recovered its economic and international prestige largely because of the massive increase in energy prices.

It is true that India's growth over the past decade has not greatly reduced social inequalities.

Meantime, annual spending on national defense, thanks largely to Iraq and Afghanistan, has risen 150% over the past decade.

The amount that American firms spend on research in computer services as much as trebled over the past decade.

India's capacity for growth has certainly increased over the past decade, thanks to earlier reforms.

Over the past decade, Toyota has sold more than a million Prius gas-electric hybrid cars worldwide.

The trend in fiction over the past decade has been toward specialization: the closeup, the miniature, the microcosm.

IP rights have expanded from wealthier countries into poorer countries over the past decade.

He does not mean that a comparative lack of warming over the past decade shows greenhouse warming has stopped.

And bilateral trade between our two nations grew by a factor of five over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the list of qualifying crimes has quietly grown (states make their own laws on collection).

Two versions of Mac have circulated over the past decade: best scorer alive, and most versatile dude ever.

Ads for banks have taken off as the financial industry has been liberalised over the past decade.

He points out that residential property has outstripped every asset class over the past decade.

One big change over the past decade is the emergence of China as an economic power.

Yet over the past decade, India has emerged as one of the world's most important new engines of growth, despite itself.

The region accounted for 80% of the increase in global oil consumption over the past decade.

Over the past decade the way Britons buy music has changed radically, and this has hurt both chain stores and independents.

Scientists have amassed considerable evidence over the past decade.

Double-digit growth has helped China keep a lid on its debt-to-GDP ratio over the past decade.

A noticeable trend over the past decade has been the slow but steady flight of 'brick-and-mortar' retail stores to the Web.

Exports of these have doubled over the past decade and the country is a big supplier of apple juice and garlic.

The growing popularity of Islamic finance over the past decade has provided a small boost.

Over the past decade, emerging Asia's exports as a share of its GDP grew from 37% to 47%.

Domestic savings pools have deepened over the past decade to absorb the supply of local debt issues.

And meantime, book-lending from UK libraries has fallen by forty percent over the past decade alone.

Lo and behold, over the past decade, a new group of assertive atheists has done battle with defenders of faith.

Even forecasts published over the past decade have proved wildly optimistic.

Over the past decade they have bought or merged with local brewers, thereby gaining access to their all-important distribution chains.

Time flies. Thanks to the concerted efforts of the international community over the past decade, many people who suffered from hunger now.

Over the past decade the price of vegetable oils has all but quadrupled. Like other commodities, prices hit records in 2008.

But it is ultimately a healthily cathartic one, as Asia and Japan have discovered over the past decade.

Over the past decade, a prototype of matriarchal society quietly at home.

In Mexico, the number of credit cards in circulation has quadrupled to 24 million over the past decade.