However, as cord cutting and over-the-top streaming continues to eat its way into traditional TV viewing – and already it has climbed to account for over a quarter of TV watching according to new reports – consumers' tolerance for downtime will likely be impacted as well.
It has climbed, delightfully so, for those of a bullish persuasion.
That barometer, the Ifo economic research institute's monthly survey of businesses, showed that confidence has climbed for at least the last two months, though it remains weak.
For the first time since oil drilling began in the 1850s, the price has climbed for seven consecutive years.
Still, an index tracked by JPMorgan Chase that gauges global production has climbed for three consecutive months.
The number of Americans without health coverage has climbed for five consecutive years, to 46.6 million in 2005, according to the Census Bureau.
The Shanghai stock index has climbed for the last three days after slumping 22percentt last month as banks reined in lending to avert asset bubbles, and policy makers advised industries to curb overcapacity.
The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation.
So despite the fact that none of the climbers had climbed for at least 5 months prior to this study, it seems possible that the difference in mitochondrial function observed was a long-term (or even stable and transmissible) effect of exposure to high-altitude hypoxia.
Record sales have climbed for five years.
