Sentences with phrase «decades of effort since»

Despite decades of effort since then, seismologists still have not settled on a reliable early warning system for such deadly quakes, though systems are used in Japan and Europe.

Not exact matches

The last time rates were raised was nearly a decade ago; since then the Fed has pursued a policy of slashing rates and keeping them low in an effort to wrench the economy out of the Great Recession and promote greater growth and consumption.

«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.»

As one of few U.S. aquariums experienced in nurturing and rehabilitating stranded and orphaned sea otters, the week is an annual opportunity to highlight the importance of the efforts of Shedd animal care staff since its rescue program began over five decades ago.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

While Ghana has been quite successful in its deliberate efforts, since the mid 1990s to become a leading emerging market destination for foreign direct investment — indeed the country has been the 5th biggest recipient of FDI on the continent since the beginning of this decade — these investment inflows, which have financed the larger manufacturing enterprises in the country, have been overwhelmingly concentrated in the biggest urban centres.

In its role of leading economic development branding and marketing efforts for Saratoga County, the Saratoga Partnership worked with the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to spearhead development of the agency's new logo — its first since the organization was founded nearly 50 years ago — and a modern website to replace one that had not been updated in more than a decade.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

Big Eyes seems to be one of the centerpieces of his efforts this year, as evidenced by the fact that he has given it a coveted Christmas Day release date, which remains the most high - profile launching date for an awards hopeful, despite the fact that it has been more than a decade since a December release has won Best Picture.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

Jaime has led accreditation efforts at her school for the past decade, sat on standards committees for the National Board for Professional Teacher Standards and Educators Rising, and has worked as part of the AZ Teacher Solutions Team since 2011.

Since the financial and housing crisis that gripped the world in the middle of the last decade, governments across the world have tightened regulations in an effort to reign in lending, and make the market more stable.

Despite decades of our extermination efforts (trapping, shooting, snaring, poisoning), coyotes have expanded their range threefold since the mid 1800's, largely as a result of our extensive forest clearing and eradication of wolves and cougars, which has left a significant void in the predator / prey hierarchy.

But since a major exhibition at Stockholm's Modern Museum in 2013, she's been hailed as the first abstract painter, whose mysterious spirit - guided compositions predate the efforts of male modernist titans such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky by a good decade.

The United Nations has been making the case for more proactive efforts under the rubic of «disaster - risk reduction» since the world's nations proclaimed the 1990's the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Updated, Dec. 27, 5:13 p.m. In the decade since a great sub-sea earthquake off Sumatra swept the Indian Ocean and killed more than 230,000 people, Costas Synolakis, the director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, has been one of my go - to guides to efforts to gird societies against such hazards.

The absence of such efforts tells us we've been as a species behaving like we're dumb as a bag of doorknobs since the issue started to be talked about on any scale four decade ago.

The finding stems from more than a decade of effort to virtually reconstruct ancient ocean basins to understand how their size and depth have changed since the Cretaceous, which lasted from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

A leaked tobacco company memo pushing «Doubt is our Product» was a key bit of evidence in those complaints, but industry efforts to hoodwink the general public were arguably ineffective since a slang term for cigarettes had been «coffin nails» for multiple decades.

This has occurred against a backdrop of almost two decades of political efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

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