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Since at least 2009, pundits and professional investors have been predicting that the three-decade-long bull market in bonds was about to end.

Own Government Bonds? Here's Why You Should Be Worried Jason Zweig 2011

The question is which retailer will win the latest round in their three-decade-long battle for customers, as consumers resume spending on projects once again.

Lowe's Profit Jumps but Home Depot Ups Its Game Miguel Bustillo 2011

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, bringing the three-decade-long NASA program to a close and leaving the United States with no vehicle to carry astronauts into space for several years.

East Texas Remembers Columbia Tragedy as Final Shuttle Landing Approaches 2011

Many observers believe that with interest rates currently near zero, a three-decade-long bull market for bonds is coming to an end.

Bond Investing May Soon Have a New Math Tom Lauricella 2011

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, bringing the three-decade-long NASA program to a close and leaving the United States with no vehicle to carry astronauts into space for several years.

East Texas Remembers Columbia Tragedy as Final Shuttle Landing Approaches 2011

U.S. consumers embarked on a three-decade-long borrowing-and-spending binge that drove their saving rate from 12% to 1%, their borrowing rate from 65% to 135% of after-tax disposable income, and consumption spending from 62% of GDP to 71%.

Gary Shilling's Seven Faces Of Deflation 2011

And we find that the organization over its three-decade-long evolution in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has functioned as a strategic enabler of regional, local, and global forms of militancy, says Rassler.

New Study Asserts Taliban Faction Closely Linked to al-Qaida 2011

As the nation's most vocal and well-known activist, the 32-year-old mother of three is helping to shatter perceptions of women in this conservative society, while emboldening a new generation of Yemenis to demand an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade-long grip on this country.

In Yemen, female activist strives for an Egypt-like revolution Sudarsan Raghavan 2011

The wage-price spiral peaked in the early 1980s as Consumer Price Index inflation began its three-decade-long downtrend.

Gary Shilling's Seven Faces Of Deflation 2011

Managing the top job, in many ways, is a continuation of her three-decade-long career with a family business she joined shortly after an overseas education straddling two continents, first going to high school in Switzerland and then attending a design school in San Francisco.

Nan Fung Group's New Boss Shu-Ching Jean Chen 2011