Eliminating from his database those companies with little or no institutional ownership, he found that the long-run tendency of value stocks to outperform the market declined significantly.
The first barrier arises because the value effect is only partly a result of the long-run tendency of value stocks to outperform the market.
According to his calculations, the long-run tendency for growth stocks to underperform the market largely disappears after eliminating the stocks that mutual funds could not have sold short.
Mr. Grant is dead right about the long-run tendency of central banks to debase their own paper currencies, but permanently returning the dollar to a gold standard is no more practicable than reducing the government's size to 19th-century levels.
Second, Marx's denial that there is any long-run tendency to equilibrium in the market, and his descriptions of mechanisms which underlie the trade-cycle of boom and bust.
Many of Garcia's peripheral statistics — his rising walk rate, his falling strikeout rate, his home run tendencies — have deteriorated, though he acquitted himself well in a home ballpark, U.S. Cellular Field, viewed as hitter-friendly as Yankee Stadium.
Explaining "Why Americans Can't Write Political Fiction" in a 2005 essay for the Washington Monthly, Chris Lehmann noted the long-running tendency in American letters to depict politics as the preserve of debased cynics and moral monsters.
Note that when running, there is a tendency to lift the back foot.
His regimented, conservative food choices represent his frustrating, stubborn tendencies: repeatedly running the option to the short side of the field with little success, for example.
Lynn talked constantly on the field, Gardi recalled -- and Lynn does this now -- voicing what he saw in the opposing offenses, their formations, their tendencies, a running stream of observations without a panicked tone.
However, we wanted to study large tendencies without running the risk of analyzing small clusters that result from noise.
