decade
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Mr. Hertling would return to the Middle East repeatedly over the course of the terror wars, living firsthand the “pendulum swing between expeditionary and enduring” that would dog the U.S. armed forces across two decades.
The share of U.S. employment in manufacturing has been declining for decades, as it has in other rich countries, largely because richer people want to spend more of their budgets on services.
True, the global economy needs around half as much crude as it did a few decades ago to generate $1,000 of economic activity.
The ‘Toy Story’ studio used to print money for Disney but hasn’t made an original blockbuster in nearly a decade.
As a share of consumption, Germany’s electricity imports are double what they were a decade ago.
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