Sentences with phrase «during that quarter century»

behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

During that quarter century Great Society programs for the poor increased exponentially.

During the quarter century that ensued, fans frequently saw MTKB bounding from a box seat onto one diamond or another, beneath a Vesuvius of blonde hair, to give a chaste kiss to a litany of All - Stars that included Johnny Bench, George Brett (twice), Steve Garvey and Cal Ripken Jr..

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While trucks and roads have improved greatly during the past quarter century, the average age of an American trucker has risen to 49.

Berkshire Hathaway sold all of its nearly 9 million shares of Twenty - First Century Fox (foxa) during the first quarter of 2017, a stake that would have been worth about $ 290 million at the end of March.

During the past quarter - century, politically facilitated globalization allowed profits to grow much faster than per capita GDP, wages, and productivity, propelling capital's share of income to an unsustainable extreme.

In the writing of Rudolf Bultmann, the great German form - critic whose program of «de-mythologization» attracted much attention during the past quarter - century, there is still another way of presenting the meaning of resurrection.

But during more than a quarter - century of medical practice, I have been led by my clinical experience to reject the deterministic assumptions underlying the therapeutic worldview that now pervades American culture.

During the last quarter of a century the large mass media corporations themselves have been taken over by even larger corporate powers.

After World War II, their condition improved dramatically in Europe and North America, especially during the first quarter century.

In its gradual development during the last quarter of a century, it has taken up into itself a number of contributory elements, and it must now be reckoned with as a genuine religious power.

In a move unprecedented during the last quarter century of organic industry rulemaking, the USDA ignored the NOSB vote in the Federal Register without an opportunity for the public to comment on their decision before it goes into effect.

India is projected to become the world's biggest milk producer over the next decade, having tripled its output during the first quarter of this century, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) has revealed.

During the last quarter century he has hustled his horses into the winner's circle, his name into the record books and his sculptured likeness into the Hall of Fame of the Trotter in Goshen, N.Y..

Moran had his own troubles a quarter of a century ago when he set an unwanted record by going into the history books as the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final during Manchester United's 1 - 0 extra time defeat of Everton in 1985.

It has a pretty cool vibe to it and clearly many Parents - to - be out there think so too considering Easton found its place on the charts quite quickly and shot through the ranks and settled in the top 100 during the first quarter of this century.

Indeed, interest in «the Great Charter of Liberties» of 1215 had grown over the previous quarter of a century, fuelled by an explosion of radical reform publishing during the Regency years.

County Executive Molinaro said, «During almost a quarter - century of service to Dutchess County, Valerie Sommerville has seen significant change in our national and local economic climate — including the Great Recession and its continued lingering impacts.

-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.

During their nearly quarter - century of service, the five shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Challenger's replacement Endeavour) have accomplished numerous important research missions and established many records in space travel.

Much of the progress of computer hardware, software, and networks during the past quarter century can be traced to Kenneth L. Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie of Bell Laboratories, who are cited for the invention of the Unix operating system and the C programming language.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

There has been virtually no progress in hurricane intensity forecasting during the last quarter century.

From AD 1300 to 1600, wildfires ignited during late summer, with about 5 - 10 ignitions per quarter century, generally occurring during warm, dry summers.

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Michaels and Saturday Night Live came out swinging during the 2016 election to take back the crown as the most influential voice in political comedy — and earn its highest ratings in nearly a quarter of a century.

That is, 2015's dip, while apparently real, isn't even close to erasing the tremendous progress that all student groups made during the standards - based reform period of the last quarter century.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

Figure 2 shows the overall record of states during the past quarter century.

Murnane: John and I have collaborated for nearly a quarter of a century, meeting almost every Tuesday for a few hours during the school year in Gutman Library.

If increases in high school graduation requirements during the last quarter of the 20th century contributed to the stagnation in graduation rates, why did rates rise during the first decade of the 21st century, a period in which high school graduation requirements were not reduced and in some states were increased?

Across our nation, school design and construction has changed little during the past three - quarters of a century; some might argue over an...

During the past quarter - century, politically facilitated globalization allowed profits to grow much faster than per capita GDP, wages, and productivity, propelling capital's share of income to an unsustainable extreme.

The same data show that investors are not able to benefit from the momentum premium, even during a quarter - century with robust paper portfolio performance.

During his more than a quarter century as the president of the Pet Industry Distributors Association, Steve King has been able to use diplomacy and a broad vision of what is best for the pet trade to benefit the entire industry.

Sephardic Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal during the persecutions of the 16th and early 17th centuries settled in an eastern Amsterdam neighborhood that became known as the Jewish Quarter.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

This exhibition addressed the widespread societal transformation, engendered by Japan's new openness to the outside world during the nineteenth century which greatly impacted the print culture known as Ukiyo - e that flourished in the theater and courtesan quarters of Edo (modern Tokyo).

In this series, which stayed «in the drawer» for the next quarter of a century, the artist used all of the elements of Soviet visual culture that he had come into contact with during the late socialist period in the small town of Viljandi.

However, during the last quarter of the 19th century, things began to change.

This exhibition sets his art with an unprecedented examination of his mentors, peers and friends in the Lexington Camera Club during the third quarter of the 20th century.

A quarter of a century before, in 1981, her last husband had died in agony after accidentally infecting himself with spinal meningitis during an experiment.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

3, Eric, in line: From examining the data records I conclude: Changes in solar irradiance explain perhaps one - quarter of the increase in temperature during the last century.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as opposition built because of the displacement of people and inundation of productive land.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as the costs of displacing people, ecological damage, and land inundation became more visible.

For the past quarter century, the country has seen its oil imports grow, and although relatively little has been done during these years to reverse that trend, that issue has dominated the energy debate.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

«Although the Earth's average surface temperature rose sharply by 0.9 degree Fahrenheit during the last quarter of the 20th century, it has increased much more slowly for the past 16 years» In the last 25 years 1980 - 2014 it has increased 0.9 F (0.5 C) too, but he didn't say that, and it is more relevant.

In addition, it has been well - documented that the measured global warming of about 0.5 C during the 25 - year period of 1970 - 1994 was accompanied by a downturn in Atlantic basin hurricane activity over this quarter - century period.»

«I have been a solar and stellar physicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for a quarter of a century, during which time I have published numerous peer - reviewed, scholarly articles.