Sentences with phrase «changed in a quarter century»

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Bogle told me that he favors a speculation and derivatives tax precisely because of market changes «in the last quarter century» and the fact that «we've taken almost all the friction out of the system.»

The fourth period witnesses numerous attempts to answer these questions though it can not be denied that in some quarters little has changed in the pursuit of studies in our field since the turn of the century.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

One is a specialist in failure and the other has so little ambition its happy to accept that failure with the hope that the dithering, senile old fart will change his ways — the same ways he has chosen for nearly a quarter of a century.

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.

The different results could have come from different starting assumptions — Evans assumes the number of new dementia cases will stay the same in coming decades, while Langa takes into account the possibility that dementia risk could decline because of changes in lifestyle and health prevention measures in the last quarter century.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

And while Burns» formula hasn't really changed over the past quarter - century, it can and should be savored even more compared with the tactics broadly employed in so much similar fare these days.

It's up to their teacher Raúl Arévalo to explain to them all the changes in technology and culture, which is dumb, because what exactly have these ghosts been seeing happen all around them at school for the past quarter - century?

But if the parking charge has gone up to $ 3, the admission price of $ 5 hasn't changed in a quarter of the century.

She has been chronicling affluence for a quarter - century and takes the chance to ruminate on her work and how the wealthy class has changed in the last 25 years, with an emphasis on how people often emulate the rich without actually being able to afford their lifestyle.

Union leaders often invoke norms of justice when seeking to ensure that veteran teachers continue to enjoy the same perks and protections they were implicitly promised when they entered the profession a quarter century ago — despite intervening changes in the larger world, in the needs of students, and in management and organizational practice.

«This apparently minor change masks the most substantial reform in a quarter of a century to the key general qualification offered to learners in England.

I suppose I should start with the obvious: that with his passing the nation lost a pioneer in education reform, someone who, for a quarter century, fought hard for change, innovation, and improvement in America's schools.

Technological changes in the past quarter of a century have challenged professional educators to reevaluate their instructional skills and to reconstruct their delivery as they assist students in integrating new technology tools.

You could buy a VW Golf R for the cost of the full outfit and still have some change (on Scan's website, the whole setup, sans PC, costs # 35,999), but running Project Cars it delivered the most immersive, most convincing racing game experience I've had in over quarter of a century of whiling away the hours on videogames.

But if you're reading this and you have the means for the full, RAID full motion racing simulator, then you'll never look at racing videogames the same way again - and as VR technology and motion rigs improve, the genre may change more in the next quarter century than it has in the last.

A quarter - century after appearing on the Prairies publishing scene in Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications is seeing changes in its leadership.

The narrow lanes of the historic quarter have barely changed in centuries, and twist around the vast Gothic cathedral and the 14th - century Royal Palace.

The SNES Classic offers authenticity, but changes in the industry over the past quarter century have been — for all their faults — largely for the best.»

I stopped being a developer around a quarter of a century ago and have seen so many changes since then, with most of the exciting ones happening in the last few years,» said Ahmad.

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.

(When I change my mind I call it a Kenege — when you've been in the business for a quarter century, it happens.)

It seems to be only by treating the medium in this way that abstract painting is considered a feasible enterprise by the establishment at the moment, a confirmation that things have not changed but rather consolidated over the past quarter - century or so.

As I explained last winter in my Issues in Science and Technology essay, I've unlearned almost as many things as I've learned about human - caused climate change in more than a quarter century of reporting on the issue.

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.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

An Arctic scientist who has consistently sounded alarms about the approach of global warming, Smith is best known for determining the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand Arctic lakes over the last quarter of the 20th century.

«There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a dramatic decline in food production... after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate appears to be cooling down.»

How about, rather than trying to bolster confidence in the models, we take a look to see why a quarter century of climate models have hardly changed our understanding of climate at all?

As time and the solar / climactic cycles march on, natural changes ahead might end up putting a - not insignificant dent - in the harvested energy (measured in kwh / yr) of a larger 20MW PV system over a quarter century.

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

Meanwhile, at PJ Media, Kathy Shaidle uses the 26th anniversary of Hustler vs Falwell to discuss Mann vs Steyn, and how attitudes to free speech have changed drastically in a mere quarter - century.

A quarter century on, what gets lost in the dichotomy between climate change believers and deniers is that inaction and avoidance in our daily lives are forms of denial, too.

However, in the deep tropics, where the theoretical effects on the surface energy budget of temperature - driven changes in evaporation and water vapour are particularly strong, there is a near quarter century record of both SST and tas from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array of fixed buoys in the Pacific ocean.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

The SNES Classic offers authenticity, but changes in the industry over the past quarter century have been — for all their faults — largely for the best.»

SAMHSA approved client feedback tools that help behavioural healthcare professionals achieve therapy effectiveness Moving on towards nearly a quarter century now, there has been a growing realization in the behavioural, emotional and mental health profession that eliciting and measuring client feedback about the therapeutic alliance and perception of change can have a positive impact upon -LSB-...]

«I have seen so many changes in my quarter of a century as a Realtor, most of them incredibly positive,» says Thyssen.

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