Even if the market for executives functions better in future than in the past, when it comes to pay, the only rational way is up.
If companies grow faster in future than in the past, for reasons over and above the investment of retained earnings, then actual earnings will grow faster as well, and the earnings yield will prove to have been too gloomy an indicator.
He told BBC News that the types of changes that will happen in the future have already happened in the past.
We will change just as much in the future as we have in the past, regardless of age, gender, and economic standing.
We are clearly entering into a new era where pensions will have to act a lot smarter in the future than they have in the past.
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If we, as human beings, continue to act as predictably in the future as we have in the past, markets should trend higher, with the occasional sell-off or correction.
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Shale-gas discoveries elsewhere in the world are dragging down the price of gas, and the oil price is unlikely to rise as fast in the future as it has in the past.
I, for one, am extremely dubious about the likelihood that this approach would work any better in the future than it has in the past because it is hard to believe that Congress will provide the necessary funding to make it work.
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Mr. Obama reportedly began intensive meetings on the future of Afghanistan in the past few weeks.
But even downloading, which opens the intriguing question of whether you own or lease a digital file (more on that in a future column), may be a thing of the future past: left in the dust as streaming becomes ever more available, reliable, and cheaper.
Fourth, the SEC will be no more effective in the future than it has been in the past.
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And by definition, that will create a situation where we have greater energy security in the future than we have had in the past.
He even scooped up 7 million Microsoft shares last summer after senior executives at the software giant told him that options issuance in the future will be lower than in the past.
Why are we not investing in the energy sources of the future, just the ones in the past, particularly if the energy sources of the past are highly profitable right now and don't need a tax break?
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In Aymara, spoken in South America, the future is behind and the past in front.
For the most part, these are based on the assumption of stability: that things in the future will be like they were in the past.
The analysis in this paper assumes that the gains from productivity growth will be more broadly shared in the future, as they have been in the past.
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There is also a likelihood that Wales may not secure the same level of European funding in the future that we've had in the past according to Mr Hillier.
Even as Dr. King stood in this church, a victory in the past and uncertainty in the future, he trusted God.
You'll hear the President again tomorrow talk about the need for Congress to take action on those items that are before it that have in the past and should in the future enjoy bipartisan support -- very specific items -- a "To-Do" list that can, if fulfilled, contribute to economic growth and contribute to job creation.
Gross domestic product may be rising smartly for now, but the future looks gray--in the past few months, Polish output growth has come in below expectations, while the country's purchasing managers index has also been weak over recent months.
Because elections are always about the future, and I know people are angry about some things that have happened in the past on Iraq, but ultimately the future is about more than one issue.
"In the future we must work together as we have in the past, indeed, as we have from the beginning to strengthen our democracies and brighten our people's lives and broaden our children's futures, " he said.
These pioneers are all around us -- the entrepreneurs and the inventors, the researchers, the engineers -- helping to lead us into the future, just as they have in the past.
And France will, in the future, focus more on training than it has in the past, and that is perfectly appropriate because we are increasingly shifting responsibility to the Afghan national security forces for the security of the country.
At the turn of the century many assumed that, because the achieved ERP had been high in the past, it would be so in the future.
On 12 September 2005 he spoke at a meeting in Birmingham, entitled "Peace and liberty", telling about his own support for Muslim causes in the past and in the future.
And yet the relation between economic data - which are often imperfect, and can only represent the state of an economy as it was some time in the past - and the future is tenuous at best.
But it is certainly the case that we in Washington have the potential, anyway, to help elevate issues that are of concern, elevate issues that contribute to the scourge of gun violence in this country, and that has been the case in the past and it certainly could be in the future.
"Winning the World Cup in 1966 will stay with me forever, but it's time to look to the future, not the past, " he said in a statement.
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