That incremental return, historically, has been a big number, averaging about 5% annually.
That incremental return, historically, has been a big number, averaging about 5 percentage points annually.
In a reprise of the flight to safety that occurred during the financial crisis of 2008 and early 2009, people have been parking cash in Treasuries and fleeing stocks, which, of course, have had better long-term returns historically.
Mr. Dudley said predictions that productivity gains would remain high -- and therefore that growth would return to historically robust levels once this cyclical downturn ended -- might be overly optimistic.
The reports showed that there were 80 percent more transactions in the second quarter of this year than the same period in 2009 and 15 percent more than the previous quarter of this year, a return to historically normal levels after a virtual standstill early last year.
From the stance of conservation biology, Stowe et al. (2001) suggested that if consumers are brought to "recognize and de-institutionalize toxic burial customs," it will lead them to return into historically greener practices that are sustainable and facilitate the processes of grieving and coping with loss much better than contemporary practices (p. 1818).
By nature, incremental innovation, characterized by low market risk and low technology risk, lends itself to managing risk and return and historically accounting methods are aimed at supporting this path.
The bad news: The data on angel returns has historically been difficult to obtain, analyze, verify and, therefore, rely upon.
Literature from A.I.G., the recently rescued insurer, described commodities as "an asset class which has returns that have historically been comparable to stock returns but with lower volatility".
In return, 1199, a historically Democratic union, supported the re-election of Mr. Pataki and many Republican legislators.
His plan would seek to close Social Security's financial gap by tapping into the higher rates of return that have historically been available on Wall Street.
