Sentences with phrase «decades of progress since»

Decades of progress since then have made it safer and cheaper — but also grimmer and far more frustrating.

Not exact matches

«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»

Global progress in reducing the prevalence of smokers appeared to fall into 3 phases for both men and women: modest progress from 1980 to 1996, followed by a decade of more rapid global progress, then a slowdown in reductions from 2006 to 2012, with an apparent increase since 2010 for men.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

Shor's «quantum error correction» methods boosted confidence that quantum computing technology would in fact someday be possible — confidence that was warranted in light of the progress in the two decades since then.

Measles deaths dropped dramatically in the first decade of the 21st century, but progress has stalled since 2007, new estimates show.

It's been 15 years since the first human genome sequence was published, and with it launched a decade and a half of human genetics and genomics inquiry that has brought amazing progress — and perhaps an equal amount of frustration.

In some of the movie's most poignant scenes, Sandra and Bif remember their childhood together, and all the ways in which their lives have progressed in the decades since they grew apart.

The most irritating feature of Little Fockers is the lack of progress its characters have made in the decade since Meet the Parents.

Researchers found that much of the progress for black students since the 1960s was eliminated during a decade which brought three Supreme Court decisions limiting desegregation remedies.

There will be panel discussions on the progress our country has made in achieving equality of educational opportunity in the decades since the publication of the Coleman Report and the options for making greater strides in the future.

While non-representational art has been around since the stone age, the work here typifies an unprecedented upsurge of abstract art that was often viewed by its practitioners as the culmination of several decades, if not centuries, of aesthetic progress.

Abstract Progress in urban climatology over the two decades since the first publication of the International Journal of Climatology is reviewed.

My husband built our home a decade ago and it has been a labour of love and work in progress ever since.