Sentences with phrase «dramatic economic changes»

Also, dramatic economic changes in employment, requiring workers to retrain for jobs, and the pressure on families to alter lifestyles because of job losses and changes, necessitate counselors skilled in helping individuals and families cope with these major life changes.

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Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Most of the economic changes from last year were not dramatic, just telling.

These dramatic changes are made all the more significant by the ways in which family composition appears to be related to important social, behavioral, and economic characteristics.

At the same time, they remain determined to sustain their positive development trajectories, and to concentrate on managing the dramatic social and economic changes that their peoples are experiencing.

The results provide the most comprehensive and up to date picture of the effect of the economic downturn on Greece, which received its first bailout of $ 110 billion in 2010 with strict conditions including tough austerity measures; privatisation of government assets; and dramatic changes to the country's industries and government.

Though China is ranked relatively high on the Oxfam index, we wanted to include it in our study because of the dramatic political and economic changes there in the past several decades.

It is clear that humankind is moving through dramatic relational changes, as well as facing dire political, economic and environmental challenges to our existence.

These shortfalls mark a dramatic change from the years of teacher layoffs that occurred during the economic recession of 2008 and the several years that followed.

Dramatic changes in family patterns, economic demands, lifestyles, priorities, and values have placed new demands on schools.

The need for dramatic changes in secondary education is a key focus of the Governor's economic plan for North Carolina, and that focus has generated political momentum for high school reform.

Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said of Change Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoChange Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profochange, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoundly.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth.

In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders.

While we experience dramatic social, cultural, economic, and environmental changes, people across continents share in a continuing fight for social justice, solidarity, and tolerance.

I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).

Different economic models, based on different underlying economic worldviews, can have a dramatic impact on the size and direction of economic change due to climate policy.

First, that the cultural changes required will be dramatic, even if the economic changes may not be: we need to have a better way of going from real world evidence to real - world governance.

But climate science now shows that the situation has become so urgent, and the forecasts so dire, that only radical social and economic transformation will give us a chance of avoiding dramatic and irreversible changes to the global climate.

To prepare for life on a hotter, dryer world, we are faced with the need to make rapid and dramatic changes in the way we do nearly everything, especially the global economic model.

«This book aims to demonstrate how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, arrival of waves of immigrants, the litigation explosion, the civility crisis, and the current economic crisis that blends with dramatic changes in technology and communications and globalization.

Economic changes over the last few years have had a dramatic impact on the practice of law in Canada and abroad.

Opening up local communities and green businesses would be the most dramatic change in the Russian economic policy especially the recently adopted policy on Blockchain companies and cryptocurrencies.