Sentences with phrase «decades since american»

It's been decades since American luxury brands led the way in the flagship sedan classes.

Once in a blue moon, a Chinese movie will find an audience in the United States, but it's been nearly two decades since Americans lined up to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the last bonafide hit to make it across the Pacific.

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But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

While the documents released Friday paint a rosy picture of gains from Canada's most ambitious trade negotiation since the North American Free Trade Agreement of two decades ago, the European gains are also considerable.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

While Trump cited «national security» as the impetus for the tariffs, he's been vowing since the campaign to use trade policy to restore jobs to the American manufacturing sector, which has suffered in recent decades.

The trade upheaval threatens to undermine an American economy that is at its strongest point since the financial crisis struck a decade ago.

With American corporations eliminating more than 84,000 pension plans since 1985, and with the stock market experiencing over a decade of unprecedented volatility, Cheryl was acutely aware of how important this decision had become for what is the first generation in history required to self - fund their retirement.

It is the largest bilateral trade agreement Canada has signed since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was established two decades ago.

She cuts through the two decades of self - deception, bullying, and patronizing since the so - called Sexual Revolution established its tyranny over American social life.

The mediocrity they now noticed had afflicted American campuses since the turn of the century: seven decades of torpor.

For the Ahmadis, the scrutiny of American Muslims in the decade since 9/11 has been treated as an opportunity to discuss beliefs and answer questions.

At war's end, something would begin to happen to the rest of America, too: something that would take more than a decade to manifest itself but that had probably been brewing — as Norman Mailer might say, in the American psychic underground — since the first heady days of victory.

I will say though that I recall these being noted on her site as Diana Kennedy's carnitas and I think it's an important distinction to make: — RRB - since Diana Kennedy did the real legwork in investigating the Mexican kitchen and interpreting it for the American public decades ago: --RRB-

Since his retirement from USDA, Carpenter has been CEO of the National Meat Association (NMA), and was integral in the two big association mergers in the last decade: NMA with the North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP) to form the North American Meat Association (NAMA), and then NAMA with the American Meat Institute (AMI) to form the North American Meat Institute, for which he is president and CEO currently.

It will be the first oil - exploration programme to run in US Arctic waters since 2000, and could mark the start of the first offshore commercial drilling in the American north, although it would take another decade to establish production wells.

How about experiencing the first North American total solar eclipse in nearly three decades — and the first visible from the contiguous states since 1979 — from a carefully selected site in the Oregon wilderness?

IN THE DECADE since researchers first sequenced the human genome, obvious links between the genes and individual diseases have been slow to appear [see «Revolution Postponed,» by Stephen S. Hall; Scientific American, October].

When the Moon's shadow falls over the U.S. heartland in August 2017, it will have been nearly three decades since North Americans last witnessed a total solar eclipse in their own backyard.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

Except for a dip in the 1940s, genetic diversity in the United States has been increasing every decade since 1920, Amir Kermany, a computational biologist at AncestryDNA, reported October 9 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

And then experience the first North American total solar eclipse in nearly four decades — the first visible from the contiguous states since 1979.

In her first book since The Death and Life of the Great American Cities a decade ago, Jane Jacobs examines the «moral foundations of commerce and politics» but does little more than describe their terms, so she never wakes up.

A decade ago, it was estimated that the average American consumed 22 teaspoons of added sugar per day, amounting to an extra 350 calories; it may well have risen since then.

Since the flawed study a few decades ago on the effects of cholesterol & fats on our hearts & arteries, Americans have been advised to cut dangerously back on both.

Since moving to the Southwest over a decade ago, I've quite improved my knowledge of Mexican and Southern American foods.

African American literature - The rise of the New Negro: During the first two decades of the 20th century, rampant racial injustices, led by weekly reports Since the beginning of the 20 th Century, the.

In the decades since that first film told the story of a quaint American family whose house was haunted by a group of disgruntled spirits, there have been countless horror entries offering up the same basic premise in slightly titled ways.

In the biggest BAFTA haul for a non-British production since «American Beauty» a decade ago, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama took six awards at the Royal Opera House, including Best Film, Director and Original Screenplay.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

In the nearly two decades since Saturday Night Fever was released, the dream of wedding Hong Kong action pyrotechnics with Hollywood production values to conquer the American mainstream has surfaced periodically, but until recently the results have seemed halfhearted at best.

Since that epic chronicle of two inner - city Chicago teens» crusades to become professional basketball players — one of the most acclaimed and successful nonfiction features of its decade — James has gone on to make other probing studies of American life, such as the intensely personal Stevie, the capital - punishment exposé At the Death House Door, and last year's The Interrupters, a devastating immersion in the work of street - violence mediators.

Lucrecia Martel It's been nearly a decade since Lucrecia Martel's 2008 The Headless Woman, and many have been waiting endlessly for her ambitious fourth feature, the Almodovar produced Zama, which focuses on South American officer on a dangerous journey for the Spanish Crown.

The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.

After the long version of the movie with its artfully jumbled chronology won raves at Cannes, the American distributors hacked it down and streamlined it, though in the decades since, still - incomplete longer versions have come out on home video.

His career has taken a rather conspicuous downturn since he reintroduced himself to Hollywood almost a decade ago, just after his last great film Drunken Master 2, scraping and bowing and remixing a few of his Hong Kong hits with English - dubs (and why is it that Asian films are the only ones consistently re-voiced for North American release?)

Ever since Billy Collins introduced the concept of Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High Schools over a decade ago, I've wanted to make a «poem a day» routine in my classroom a reality.

He lays out the stark numbers to document our education gap: the U.S. now ranks 17th in the number of students receiving science degrees, down from 3rd three decades ago; the percentage of scientific papers written by Americans has fallen 10 percent since 1992; the U.S. share of patents has dropped 8 percent since 1980.

These encompass the most important lessons we have learned about American K - 12 education over the two decades since A Nation at Risk.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Focus ST Ever since the North American and European Focus coalesced into the same uniform model for 2012, American sport enthusiasts have been anticipating a replacement for the SVT version, the high - performance Focus model that was killed nearly a decade ago.

In the decade since the brand was reintroduced to American drivers, Mini Cooper also diversified its offerings to include performance models and even a crossover SUV.

The Ford Thunderbird has been an American favorite, to one degree or another, since its debut as a sporty two - seater three decades ago.

Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, and seventeen years since his last novel, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic.

Since its foundation over a decade ago, American Advisors Group has grown to become the largest reverse mortgage lender in the nation.

A decade since the Great Recession crashed into the American economy; our relationship with debt, credit and the future is... well, it's complicated.

There is some evidence to suggest that American Dobermans have a more moderate, good - natured temperament than dogs bred elsewhere since breeders in the U.S. have worked on these traits for several decades.

Since 1943, «Lassie Come Home» and the «Lassie» television series has put collies in the hearts of American pet owners, making it one of the American Kennel Club's top 40 pets for more than a decade.

Operating since 1952, Caravan Tours has over six decades of experience conducting some of the best fully guided North and Central American all inclusive tours including Costa Rica packages.

It has been a full decade since gamers took part in the wierd and wonderful game that was American McGee's Alice, a twisted and warped take on the classic tale, but we finally have a release date for its mental sequel, and that date is June 4th.