Pharmaceutical price gains, which had been slowing earlier in the decade, have begun to increase again.
In spring 2016 things look much the same: another coalition government has been installed; the spending cuts first outlined at the beginning of the decade have begun again; and somewhere on the continent a newspaper is publishing grainy close-ups of Kate Middleton's elbow.
Largely behind the scenes, plans that were drawn up, tested, exercised and refined over more than a decade have begun to swing into place, just as the WHO intended: its definition of phase five includes the warning that a pandemic "is imminent and that the time to finalise the organisation, communication and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short".
In the 1930s, the theater screened films in Yiddish and German, but by the next decade, had begun its gradual shift toward smut.
It is hoped that more consistent and reproducible pathological reporting, more timely use of surgery and radiotherapy and the greater application of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy will, in this current decade, have begun to make an impact.
A13 NATIONAL A7-12, 16 U.S. Inmate Population Begins to Level Off The prison population, which grew explosively for three decades, has begun to stabilize with the decline in crime rates, government figures show, offering hope for easing the overcrowding that has plagued state prisons and local jails.
Wolves, hunted to the brink of extinction over the past seven decades, have begun to reappear in the region in recent years.
State prison populations, which have grown for nearly four decades, have begun to dip, according to a new report, largely because of recent efforts to keep parolees out of prison and reduce prison time for nonviolent offenders.
Marooned now in old age, he "felt his mind to be a sieve of a sort, but what surprised him was that he was left with memories, feelings, images, moments that finally, after all these decades, had begun to arrange themselves as a constellation".
But now, midway through his eighth decade, he has begun to contemplate his legacy, and the future of the Icahn empire hangs in the balance.
