Nathan Kirsh debuts on the Forbes list of billionaires this year after decades of quietly investing in a diverse set of businesses.
Companies spend billions of dollars each year on decades-old generator technology and tens of billions on the diesel fuel to burn in these inefficient and high-pollutant generators.
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You know, we went through a period of decades when we had hundreds of major strikes per year in the '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s.
It will reopen next year after decades of decay as a multi-purpose venue incorporating a restaurant, heritage centre and luxury accommodation.
To some extent this does depend upon the over capacity or not in the car manufacturing industry but believe me, the way things have been this past couple of decades a buyer looking for tens of thousands of cars a year can pretty much write his own price.
Sums totalling hundreds of billions of dollars per year are mentioned - and, burned by decades of broken pledges on aid, this time developing country governments are likely to want to see the money itself rather than some amorphous pledge.
Anglo American was too optimistic in believing that it could turn around decades of mismanagement and looting in one year.
Canada had a similar manufacturing tax preference for three decades but scrapped it as of this year in favor of a lower tax rate for all companies.
Greenblatt also posted impressive numbers in his money management experience, with his hedge fund, Gotham Capital, producing returns of 40 percent per year over a span of more than two decades.
Most long-term predictions suggest that, despite weak growth over the past couple of years, the total of freight-tonne kilometres flown will expand by around 6% a year over the next couple of decades (see chart).
Such an exceptional contribution was part of the actions that have been implemented so far this year in Cuba to mark the four decades of the Convention.
In fact, the amount of bottled water Americans drink has risen nearly every year for more than two decades, while the estimates of how much tap water people drink has fluctuated up and down during that time.
This may sound dry and technical, but the OECD wants all nations to participate in this pact, which has existed for a couple of decades but was radically expanded last year to give high-tax governments sweeping new powers to impose bad tax law on income generated in low-tax jurisdictions.
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But are colleges taking advantage of 18-year-olds, who have little appreciation for the decades-long consequences of debt?
College costs have been rising roughly at a rate of 7% per year for decades.
Independent booksellers have been vanishing for decades at the rate of 200 or 300 a year nationwide.
But take the Empire State Building, which consistently lost money for its owners every year of its first two decades of existence.
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But the scandal was hard to shake off, and he retired the following year after more than three decades of Army service.
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Encouraged into the field by Elizabeth David, four decades of his scholarship and erudition were recognized last year when he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament approving an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average growth of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament expected to approve an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Another interesting statistic: out of all the decades from the 1940s onward, the era that got the biggest boost this year in terms of digital album sales was the 1980s.
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But was it wise of Mr Obama to put such a big thing, such a complicated thing, at the very heart of his presidency in his very first year, in the middle of America's worst recession for decades?
Whereas the number of patents granted increased at less than 1 percent per year from 1930 until 1982, in the two decades after the creation of the Federal Circuit, patent grants nearly tripled, growing at an annual rate of about 5.7 percent.
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It passed from family ownership in the memorable year of 1929 and for several decades has been an oversize funeral parlor (below).
Never met him, but watched at some distance as he logged year after year of outperformance stretching over two decades.
According to official statistics (and notwithstanding the small surge in the first quarter of this year), America's productivity growth during the 1990s has been as paltry as it was during the previous two decades, an average rise of around 1% a year.
The queen's visit to the Foreign Office, only her second in the past six decades, is the final official engagement of her busy jubilee year.
The decades-old Spanish event draws tens of thousands of revelers each year.
This handy chart shows inflation averaged 3.42% a year between 1913 and 2007 with only the decades of 1920-1940 averaging below 2%.
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