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In the decade
preceding
the financial crisis, US mortgage debt increased almost threefold, while the real economy grew by only one-third.
None of the
preceding
arguments undermine the strong case for investing now in high-return infrastructure projects (including in education) that more than pay for themselves in the long run.
By contrast, the slowing to 6.6% in the first quarter of 2009 was a far more abrupt deceleration of 5.5 percentage points from the average gain of 12.1% over the
preceding
eight quarters.
Redistribution from the bottom to the top – the hallmark not only of Trump’s presidency, but also of
preceding
Republican administrations – reduces aggregate demand, because those at the top spend a smaller fraction of their income than those below.
In the last three months of 2008, net purchases of US assets reached a half-trillion dollars – three times more than that of the
preceding
nine months combined.
The data for July show that its export performance has improved notably (which is to say that it is not declining as sharply as in the
preceding
months).
And it is precisely for that reason that growth in the 2001-2010 period was stronger than in the
preceding
decades, when the persistence of 3.3% annual growth led some economists to conclude that the global economy had reached its full potential.
Median incomes rose far more than in the
preceding
eight years, and wages grew most rapidly at the bottom.
In the days
preceding
the announcement, it deployed thousands more troops to the territory.
Unfortunately, the latest drama, like those
preceding
it, risks obscuring more essential problems.
And none of the
preceding
16 Lok Sabha elections has been as politically momentous as the coming one.
The ECY in the US, for example, is 4%, derived from a CAPE yield of 3% and then subtracting a ten-year real interest rate of -1.0% (adjusted using the
preceding
ten years’ average inflation rate of 2%).
This initiative, it is worth recalling, was partly a reaction to the Russian invasion of Georgia the
preceding
summer, when the Kremlin tried to dismember that country by recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
After all, as a recent OECD report shows, 28-43% of the child labor that is estimated to contribute to exports does so indirectly, through
preceding
links in supply chains (such as extraction of raw materials or agriculture).
But such assumptions are an artifact of the early 1990s, when monetary policy, adhering to the
preceding
decades’ orthodoxy, allowed for a lag of as long as two years.
A 2016 EBRD study noted that children born around the time of the onset of transition in their countries were about one centimeter shorter, on average, than their peers in the cohorts immediately
preceding
or following them.
She recalled the whole of the winter
preceding
her marriage and her infatuation with Vronsky.
No, I shall never see him at my feet again!'On the
preceding
days, in the artlessness of his misery, Julien had paid a heartfelt tribute to the brilliant qualities of these gentlemen; he went so far as to exaggerate them.
His only son, the youth introduced in the
preceding
chapter, had entered the army, and had arrived in his native country, but a short time before the commencement of hostilities, with the reinforcements the ministry had thought it prudent to throw into the disaffected parts of North America.
The agitation of the
preceding
incidents had caused such an expenditure of the juices which had become necessary to the mouth of the peddler, that a new supply of the weed was required before he could turn his attention to business of lesser moment.
In his heart, he was a devoted loyalist; and when the blushing Frances had communicated to him the wishes of her lover, on their return from the American camp the
preceding
spring, the consent he had given, to her future union with a rebel, was as much extracted by the increasing necessity which existed for his obtaining republican support, as by any considerations for the happiness of his child.
Never afterwards did the opposing armies make the trial of strength within the limits of Westchester; yet hardly a day passed, that the partisans did not make their inroads; or a sun rise, that the inhabitants were spared the relation of excesses which the
preceding
darkness had served to conceal.
Frances abandoned her whole soul to the suppressed melody of the music, though the language of the song expressed a meaning, which, united with certain events of that and the
preceding
day, left a sensation of uneasiness in the bosom of the warm-hearted girl, to which she had hitherto been a stranger.
All the ordinary topics of conversation were exhausted, when the colonel, with a little of the uneasiness that is in some degree inseparable from conscious error, touched lightly on the transactions of the
preceding
day.
He had dispatched an officer, the
preceding
evening, to Colonel Singleton, who was in command of the advance posts, reporting the capture of the British captain, and, after giving his own opinion of his innocence, requesting orders as to the manner in which he was to dispose of his prisoner.
But the unusual occurrences of the few
preceding
days, the altered mien of her lover during those events, his unwonted indifference to herself, and chiefly the romantic idolatry of Isabella, had aroused new sensations in her bosom.
The interruption that we mentioned in our
preceding
chapter was occasioned by the entrance of the landlady.
CHAPTER XXIVWHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORYHe who translated this great history from the original written by its first author, Cide Hamete Benengeli, says that on coming to the chapter giving the adventures of the cave of Montesinos he found written on the margin of it, in Hamete's own hand, these exact words:"I cannot convince or persuade myself that everything that is written in the
preceding
chapter could have precisely happened to the valiant Don Quixote; and for this reason, that all the adventures that have occurred up to the present have been possible and probable; but as for this one of the cave, I see no way of accepting it as true, as it passes all reasonable bounds.
There was the coat in its usual place, but exhibiting, on a close inspection, evident tokens of having been worn on the
preceding
night.
In reply to his questions on this point, Mr. Snodgrass was about to offer an historical account of the circumstances just now detailed, when he was suddenly checked by observing that there were present, not only Mr. Tupman and their stage-coach companion of the
preceding
day, but another stranger of equally singular appearance.
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