Sentences with phrase «decades past resulted»

The cause of widespread fluorosis in cattle in Central Florida in decades past resulted from the creation of phosphate plants in the 1940's.

Not exact matches

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

As a result, Stronach's annual compensation from Magna alone has ranged from US$ 1.9 million to US$ 40.5 million in the past decade.

U.S. airlines remaining after a wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft in the event of a storm.

As a result of government investment and solid economic growth, 40 million of those people entered the middle class over the past decade.

Over the past two decades, Alberta has gained almost half a million people (net) as a result of in - migration from other provinces.

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

Chinese dairy production and consumption has soared in the past three decades, averaging a 12.8 % annual growth rate since 2000 as a result of changing diet trends that are shifting more toward Western foods, according to a report by the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

«During the past decade, PepsiCo has become a role model for global companies by demonstrating that aligning business and societal interests is a recipe for strong financial results,» said Bill George, senior fellow, Harvard Business School.

Over the past few decades, stock exchanges have made more and more decisions designed to improve their business results at the expense of supporting long - term investors and public companies.

Any policy that does not clearly result in a reversal of the deep debt, trade and capital imbalances of the past decade is a policy that can not be sustained.

These consistent increases have resulted in a dividend that has grown by 200 % over the past decade.

As a result of what happened during just one of the past twenty decades (the 1970s), most people now believe that a large rise in «price inflation» or inflation expectations is needed to bring about a major rally in the gold price.

We've seen booms and busts in new housing starts over the past several decades, but homeownership rates in the U.S. took a huge blow as a result of the Great Recession.

The result has been skyrocketing student loan debt over the past decade.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Bear, a researcher and surgeon, has led international trials that have resulted in major changes in the treatment of breast cancer and dramatically increased the chance for breast conservation among women with breast cancer.

The explosion of charismatic, Pentecostal, and indigenous communities, especially in Africa, poses all kinds of problems, but here, too, the observation applies that «the most significant — and most gratifying — result of ecumenism over the past few decades is not the various documents [of agreements and convergences] but the recovery of fraternity, the fact that we have rediscovered that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.»

But the net results of the past few decades of development have been well summarized in the cliché, «the poor becoming poorer, the rich becoming richer».

As a result, the past decade has seen a precipitous decline in young evangelical identification with the Republican Party.

They believe that, as a result of the booming economy, a new management science not taught at business schools has arisen over the past decade: «managed mendacity.»

The pharmaceutical company Amgen admitted that «over the past decade its oncology and haematology researchers could not replicate 47 of 53 highly promising results they examined,» and this is apparently typical.

Descriptively, these results produced rates of schisms that were highest in the 1930s and 1960s, although no decade in the past century was free of schisms.10

The deregulation in the United States over the past decade has not worked well in other areas, either: in the stock market it brought on a rash of scandals; in the airlines it resulted in poorer service, higher prices and the end of service to many smaller cities.

But the net results of the past few decades of development have been well summarized in the cliche — the poor becoming poorer — the rich becoming richer.

Craft beer has experienced exponential growth in the United States and throughout the world over the past decade as consumers have come to appreciate the variety of styles and phenomenal quality that result from the dedication of smaller, local beer producers.

It condemned the hypocrisy and logically fallacious claim that Golden Rice opposition is a crime against humanity while turning a blind eye to the ecological havoc and thousands of farmers driven landlessness and suicide as a result of past decades of GMO commercialization of GM Soya in Argentina, BT Cotton in India and GM Corn in The Philippines.

We think that chile cheeses were the result of two trends that collided: the increasing tendency to add flavors to cheese and the heat wave of chile popularity that has swept America and other countries for the past two decades.

This seems to suggest that our club knows better than every other perennial giant in the sport, which is highly unlikely considering our glaring lack of results over the past decade.

The Red River Shootout and the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party are played in split stadiums roughly in between the two campuses, and of the biggest rivalries, they have produced the most anomalous results in the past three decades.

Well you don't need a 1000 games to see the results and the league table over the past decade.

Despite the disappointing results of the past decade it appears fans of Arsenal FC, including myself, are powerless when it comes to being able to force through desperately needed changes because of Arsene Wenger's entrenched position within the Arsenal FC hierarchy.

TOO many children are being left in equipment (car seats, infant seats, baby jumpers, baby walkers, baby swings, etc.) resulting, frankly, in «bucket baby» syndrome (unofficial professional observation as children's fine motor skills have been declining the past few decades) the impact is often not noticed until school age?

But over the past decade or so more impressive - seeming results have gone along with radical and non-transparent redefinitions of who or what counts as «administration,» so that it has become effectively impossible to distinguish the effect of moving the goalposts from the quality of management.

So the Republican Party spent the past three decades trashing government as the problem rather than the solution (for both ideological and political reasons), and we get a massive financial crisis from the resulting deregulation.

Bartoletti says the current climate of corruption, which has resulted in the indictment, resignation or imprisonment of 35 Senators and Assembly members in the past decade, including several in 2013, has raised public awareness.

It notes that 150 courthouses have been closed in the past decade, causing those involved to travel further and even resulting in some cases being cancelled, and says a lack of clerks and legal advisors is causing further delays to the system.

The ranks of county highway workers were decimated and as a result the road system has suffered for the past decade.

Adrian Kavanagh, 24th April 2014 Reviewing the past three decades of by - election results shows that government parties have tended to fare poorly in by - election contests (although the last two by - elections have been won by government parties), but does certain parties... Continue reading →

Over the course of the past two decades, brook trout populations have rebounded as a result of ponds and waterways becoming less acidic — including those written off as dead.

In the past decade Mt. Sinai has documented WTC - related disabilities, but fortunately New York's politicians didn't wait for the lab results, recognizing that much of the medical fallout, especially respiratory problems, would surface slowly.

This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Bermuda grass's geographic range has been moved 100 to 150 miles north as a result of the research USGA has helped to fund over the past decade, Kenna said.

Economic pressures to reduce health care costs have resulted in a 300 percent increase in ambulatory surgeries over the past decade.

Steps taken to clean up car exhaust over the past few decades have had a huge effect, and as a result, «the sources of air pollution are now becoming more diverse in cities,» said McDonald, a chemist at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo..

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

«One of the things we've learned over the past decades is for us to have confidence in our results, what we need to do is to have different approaches to analyzing the data and the model results,» Karl said.

Ammonia and sulphur emissions have increased considerably over the past decades as a result of human activities.

The results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences March 9, 2010, showed that the region's fog has decreased by 30 percent in the past six decades.