Sentences with phrase «capacity earlier this decade»

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

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The most thorough of these studies, which has tracked for decades 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s, showed that children with strong noncognitive capacities go on to complete more years of education and experience better health.

When the laboratory finally built his design in 1950, it was the fastest computer in the world and, astonishingly, had the memory capacity of an early Macintosh built three decades later.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

By revisiting the perspectives that were elaborated by Redl and his colleagues in an earlier decade, and in the context of more recent thinking about their programmatic implications (including the possibility of increased family involvement, e.g., Aldgate, 1987; Carman & Small, 1988), we can recapture our own excitement and, thus, reinvigorate our capacity to serve the developmental needs of troubled children and youth effectively.

In recent decades, there has been heightened interest in early interventions that have the «capacity to increase the odds of favorable developmental outcomes.»