nine years

(Economic & Social Research Council) The Teaching and Learning Research Program, the largest research initiative into education related topics ever undertaken in the United Kingdom, presents its major conclusions Nov. 24-25, after nine years of investigations across all sectors of education, from the importance of preschool education to lifelong learning.

The program was funded and managed by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Troy Anthony Powell has been running Tap’s Barber Shop for nine years and has seen business get better every year — until this year.

The stock market is trading right where it was nine years ago. The current market turmoil may result in a lost decade like the 1930s and the 1970s.

Some believe the troubles are severe enough that the period of weakness isn't over.

Citigroup shares sank about 6 percent to their lowest level in more than nine years, as stockholders recoiled at forecasts of more losses at the troubled bank and comments from a Middle East fund executive that Citi must raise more cash to stay in business.