Sentences with phrase «history of major changes»

I review the policy history of major changes in educational institutions, including but not limited to the massive increase in school spending, and related literature.

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The past six months have been an extraordinary period for Chinese politics, with a steady series of high - level events and major changes unprecedented in recent history.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

The Post's Brian Fung and Sari Horwitz: «Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $ 85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high - stakes legal battle over one of the biggest media deals in history.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

The first major shift came in the late»60s, with the arrival of the various liberation theologies, which are still growing and changing as more and different voices from the underside of history insist on being heard.

Following their struggles domestically and their setbacks in terms of heavy defeats away from home in Europe this season, Barca will need to make changes to their current squad giving Luis Enrique's successor the best possible chance of continuing their illustrious history of winning major honours.

«The LPGA did not add a fifth major championship to change history, alter discussion or make the accomplishment of a «grand slam» more difficult.

I don't think you can find another year in the state's history where you saw the number of changes and the major changes that were made in the legislative year, the change in leadership, etc..

«For the first time in history,» he said, «all major economies have come together to accept their responsibility to take action to confront the threat of climate change.»

The plague has caused death and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 years.

Washington, DC — Reservoirs of oxygen - rich iron between the Earth's core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth's history, including the breakup of supercontinents, drastic changes in Earth's atmospheric makeup, and the creation of life, according to recent work from an international research team published in National Science Review.

The elegant women's shift dresses have been observed as the reflection of major cultural changes in the history of fashion during its peak times of immense popularity.

Like a comic book collector obsessively rearranging their longboxes — or, more accurately, like a major movie studio delicately tinkering with one of the most lucrative film franchises in the history of the world — Marvel Studios has announced a name change for its upcoming Avengers sequels.

«There's a major initiative in year 7, which is a big curriculum change, which has challenged the traditional notion of history being taught in history lessons and geography being taught in geography lessons,» said Mr Matthews.

First, I listened to students in a Hartford high school address an adult and student audience about their projects, such as starting and running a successful business, designing a mural to encompass major elements of African Americans history in this country, making music the center of their lives by creating and performing in a band, and making a documentary about a previously unrecognized medical researcher in order to give fellow students a sense of their own possibilities to achieve and change the world.

By plugging in a VIN (vehicle identification number), Carfax produces a complete history of a car or truck — if it has been in a major accident, when it changed owners, and even its mileage every time it got a smog check.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

This type of book looks and history, makes minor or major changes in historical events, and tells a tale based upon the author's speculation about how these changes would play out over time.

This is not the first major format change in the history of the company that's carried comics from publishers like Image, Archie and Aspen Comics.

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

Tom's reasons for adding IBM to his list include: (1) tremendous platform, (2) a history of adapting changing markets as a corporation, (3) recent partnership with AAPL on mobile device apps, (4) major player in big data and cloud, (5) P / E of 13 (compared to MSFT's 17 and ORCL's 18).

 Accordingly, we focused on dealers with a history of violations in the past 3 years. Another objective was to review the impact of recent changes the agency made to the penalty assessment process. We identified the following major deficiencies with APHIS» administration of AWA:

Looking at the timeline of changes throughout Discover's history, the first major change to Discover's product line came more than a decade after the company's inception, with the launch of the Discover Platinum Card in 1998.

Most major US airlines are offering travel change waivers for flights to and from Las Vegas through Tuesday in the wake of the largest mass shooting in recent American history.

With a series as beloved and long - running as Final Fantasy, combined with its history of reinventing itself (or at the very least, changing things up) with every major entry, it's understandable that a lot of nervous hopes ride on the first FF of the current gen.

This second explanation was later modified through the power of Ludwig von Koopa's Time Travel Tube, but no major changes were made to Earth's history.

Tate Modern director Frances Morris noted that her work is regarded for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us,» the Guardian reported.

Shedding light on a rarely examined topic in the history of modernism, the major exhibition «Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915 - 1950» (Feb. 12 through May 7, 2017) at the High Museum of Art will uncover how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American art.

Tate Modern's director Frances Morris commented: «Tania Bruguera is well known for the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.»

While many of her male peers and acquaintances with western educational background advocated their social, political, and cultural visions in public, and made their way into mainstream history, Pan Yuliang's own accounts related to major decisions on changes in her life and her artistic motivation are nowhere to be found.

Frances Morris, the director of Tate Modern, said Bruguera was well known for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.

If you look at the statistics at the top, which is where, of course, art history is controlled — that is major exhibitions, permanent collections and monographs — there's been almost no change whatsoever.»

This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th - century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies.

The British Museum is hosting a new major exhibition which centres around the golden age of the Ming dynasty in Chinese history, which they claim to be fifty years that changed China.

His own expertise in European tapestries resulted in two major exhibitions: «I am incredibly proud of the two big tapestry exhibitions that I did because I think they helped change the nature of art history.»

We continue our series of art history lectures about major exhibitions in London with Graham Greenfield, who started by studying Architecture before changing to Fine Art.

Many of the factors he lists are indeed well known to be responsible for the major climate changes in Earth's history.

Perhaps you should study history and see that our planet under went many major climate changes in the past millions of years.

Scientists have pieced together the climate history from 3000 year old stalagmites and discovered a record of climate changes that may have influenced major historical events, including the fall of the Roman Empire and the Viking Age of expansion....

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.

«This research shows that we've experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution,» says Major, «as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history — but this change happened a lot more quickly.»

Cape Farewell originally published the book, Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change, to accompany a major exhibition of art from the Cape Farewell expeditions at the Natural History Museum in 2006.

That began to change with the ascent of Chief Almir, who has shifted the focus to long - term sustainability, winning major support from the Brazilian national government, conservation organizations such as Forest Trends, and through a major mapping project with the Amazon Conservation Team and Google Maps that, in rich detail, documented the natural and human history of the land over the years.

What you haven't quite addressed, which Steve Goddard nails a lot Is the changing of adjustments to past records that we've got There are TOBS adjustments, fair enough, but then adjusted TOBS And more TOBS changes, «fixing history» with major probs

As a result, the very different land - use histories produced by different models of Holocene land - use change (Figs. 1 and 2) have major implications in understanding the emergence of humans as a global - scale force transforming climate — a key indicator of Earth system transformation and the emergence of the Anthropocene (9 ⇓ — 11).

My major research interest in climatology is historical climate, but particularly the impact of climate and climate change on human history and the human condition.

Black had a history of perpetuating the alarmism promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its major authors at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU).

Well - documented climate changes during the history of Earth, especially the changes between the last major ice age (20,000 years ago) and the current warm period, imply that the climate sensitivity is near the 3 °C value.

Perhaps the change in viewer length of The Weather Channel can be explained away via its reports becoming longer and less repetitive, but the history of major weather events can not be erased, nor can myriad problems with Gelbspan's own narratives.