Sentences with phrase «documented by decades»

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According to town officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and documents obtained by Business Insider, AMC has kept the Celebration theater empty for close to a decade because it's cheaper to take the loss on the theater than to pay staff and operate it.

Geek Squad computer repairmen have reportedly been working with the FBI for at least a decade, according to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

The United States has been lying about Iran having a nuclear weapons program for decades, as well documented by Gareth Porter and other journalists.

Two sources told Reuters in June that the firm estimates its annual profit could be cut by 1 billion pounds ($ 1.3 billion) by the end of the decade if Britain returned to WTO tariffs of 10 percent, according to internal documents.

The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $ 150,000 to a former Playboy centerfold model for her story of an affair a decade ago with the Republican presidential nominee, but then didn't publish it, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter.

The constitutional history of the past six decades, writ short, is essentially the tale of how the Founders» Constitution was transmogrified by the Supreme Court into a document of almost infinite plasticity.

The documents point to efforts by the sugar industry to lay blame on fat — in which the industry succeeded for several decades in making fats we now know to be crucial to our health as the number one dietary enemy.

Compiled by the Catholic University of Porto in collaboration with Deloitte experts, the document details in stark terms the financial crisis, which has, like a malignant growth, spread throughout Portuguese football over the last decade or so.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Judging by the comments people are leaving on websites like Huffington Post, etc., a marriage contract isn't a «real» marriage (although a marriage license is just a legal document, and marriage throughout the decades and all over the globe has always been about increasing wealth and / or status, mostly for men, but whatever).

A decade of complaints about sexual abuse and mistreatment at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre are documented in a report based on hundreds of complaints by detainees.

Sexual assaults, harassment and sexism have been documented at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for almost a decade, both on campus and during the mandatory Sea Year training that is the school's hallmark program, a review of public records by Newsday shows.

If approved, the document would be the first central planning document adopted by the town in nearly three decades.

The document published today, modelled on the programmes drawn up in Germany by a series of coalition governments dating back decades, showed the depth of work by the Tory and Lib Dem negotiators who toiled for five days in the Cabinet Office.

Silver is accused in court documents of using his official position to get Glenwood to send its tax certiorari business to a law firm headed by a lawyer who served as Silver's counsel decades ago.

The shadow foreign secretary told the programme that the documents proved what he has said for the last decade: that Ashcroft had abided by an undertaking in 2000 to be resident in the UK to allow him to attend the House of Lords.

Documents housed at the University of California, San Francisco, and analyzed in recent months by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group, show that the oil and tobacco industries have been linked for decades.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

For decades he has carefully documented how apes and monkeys avoid fights or quickly make up after them by sharing food, grooming each other, or even hugging and kissing.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

The findings add to the few documented cases of rapid responses by wildlife to climate change, such as Rosemary and Peter Grant's studies of finches in the Galapagos archipelago for four decades starting in 1973.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.

Modern human skeletal remains resulting from genocides, violent conflicts, and mass disasters are primarily analyzed and documented by forensic anthropologists, whose skills have been applied to this work for several decades, often providing information that is otherwise inaccessible.

This shift has resulted in a well documented increasing cool bias over the last several decades and is addressed by applying a correction to the data.

Atkinson said: «We reached this tremendous milestone through the efforts of more than 800 people over eight years... We have documented, in extensive detail, the design conceived by Dr Jose Reyes more than a decade ago.

(2013) by the marine ecologist Mark J Costello at the University of Auckland and colleagues, the rate of documenting new species was 17,500 a year over the past decade, rising above 18,000 a year since 2006.

«The study is unique in taking observations by different instruments and different field campaigns separated by a decade to document that changes in the region include the flow connecting these two outlets,» Charles Jackson, a geophysicist at the University of Texas who wasn't part of the study, told Earther.

The documents point to efforts by the sugar industry to lay blame on fat — in which the industry succeeded for several decades in making fats we now know to be crucial to our health as the number one dietary enemy.

Graham's paper, edited by the firebrand Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), is respected but modest, and her push to expand the paper's influence by making it a public company comes to a head the very week that Ellsberg has a shoebox full of classified documents detailing decades of presidential deceptions about Vietnam War policy placed on the desk of one of The Washington Post's assignment reporters.

Ranked as the very best avant - garde film of the 2000s decade in a poll conducted by Film Comment, At Sea (2007) is experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton's silent document of the birth, life, and death of...

The hallmark document of the first decade of the 21st century was No child Left Behind, This legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, sought to increase the accountability of the nation's public schools.

«This is well - documented in the decade - long role HGSE has played in this rigorous experimental evaluation study led by Dennis Barr and implemented by many HGSE alums on the research team.

As Terry Moe documents in his recent book, Special Interest, for decades the politics of school reform have been dominated by the education establishment, the collection of teachers unions and other school employee associations derisively called the «blob» by reformers.

It's a document informed by the best thinking on systemic reform over the last two decades.

For the last two decades, education researchers and developmental psychologists have been documenting changes in attitudes and motivation as children enter adolescence, changes that some hypothesize are exacerbated by middle - school curricula and practices.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

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.

The document reports findings from the most recent in a series of polls taken once every decade since 1928 by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Considered by many to be a landmark document, the report contributed heavily to the lore that American schools were failing; setting the stage for decades of local, state and federal experimental «reforms» that also embraced Friedman's ideals.

Prepared by Dr. Ken Mitchell, an educator with decades of experience at all levels, this document is extremely readable and important.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past few weeks (and, actually, longer than that), decades of dealmaking between states, districts, and affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is rearing its ugly head just as state governments must also deal with increasing Medicaid costs driven by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The absolutely critical role played by phonemic awareness (the ability to segment the speech stream of a spoken word, e.g., / cat / into component phonemes / cuh + ah + tuh / and / or to blend separately heard sounds, e.g., / cuh + ah + tuh / into a normally spoken word / cat /) in the development of the ability to decode and to read for meaning has been well documented in the past decade and a half.

In the past two decades, HTML and CSS have worked with browsers to enhance layout, and PDF, a once - closed standard developed by Adobe in 1993, has afforded freedoms on par with print design, with additional security to protect commercial typefaces and private documents.

There Hayden became chief author of the Port Huron Statement, the foundation document for more than a decade of campus activism, and a generation of political engagement by former student activists that continues to be felt in the nomination of then - student activist Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate for U.S. president.

This phenomenon is known as the vacuum effect, and is scientifically documented across a variety of species — and corroborated by decades of failed animal control policy.

Decades of research on island fox morphology and interactions with humans have documented their smaller size relative to mainland gray foxes, the occurrence of intentional island fox burials, and the use of fox pelts by Native Americans [18 — 22], but their evolutionary history has remained unresolved.

Accompanying the exhibition, this richly illustrated hardback exhibition catalogue is signed by the artist and collates the American artist's most iconic paintings, sculptures and collages to thoroughly document decades of ground - breaking work from Jasper Johns.

This exhibition of works by New York artist David Reed documents the continuities and changes evident in a three - decade - long engagement with painting.