Sentences with phrase «last quarter century»

In fact, it's occurred only three times in the last quarter century.

One of the things these retailers can do is learn from the strategies that have made Amazon one of the most successful companies of the last quarter century.

Bogle told me that he favors a speculation and derivatives tax precisely because of market changes «in the last quarter century» and the fact that «we've taken almost all the friction out of the system.»

It had been almost $ 113,000 at its peak in 2007 and was $ 74,600 back in 1989, meaning that wealth for this group has declined by more than 40 % over the last quarter century.

I suspect that the aftermath of the tech bubble helped fuel the recent explosion of hedge funds because this was the best time in the last quarter century for stock pickers.

Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

Can a look at the complexion and character of US Treasury owners over the last quarter century help us in counting the cards of the current cycle?

In the last quarter century, from the Republican Richard Nixon in 1969 to the Democratic Bill Clinton in 1993, the evangelist Billy Graham has often played a prominent role at inauguration services.

In the last quarter century Russia has passed from chaotic permissiveness — «That's your problem» — to a tightly structured and harshly directed state based on the principle of traditionality, which is to say a self - conscious program of restoring tradition, not the organic perpetuation of an already traditional society.

Social scientific interest in the «religion factor» has increased greatly in the last quarter century, and we have assiduous monitoring by such as George Gallup and his Princeton Religion Research Center.

Disappointed by the homely behavior of the local church and embarrassed by its parochialism, church leaders have launched major schemes, especially in the last quarter century, to convert the congregation into a fundamentally different sort of community.

The Gospel stories of the risen Christ, which have been highly valued in traditional Christianity through the centuries, are now regarded by New Testament scholars as containing many legendary elements, reflecting the developing traditions of the last quarter century from which they come.

For the last quarter century Protestant churches, certainly Lutheran ones, have been - in their architecture, their liturgies, and their teaching» emphasizing the sense in which the Eucharist is a family meal.

My survey in the preceding chapter documents how scant has been the attention paid in the last quarter century to the congregation's culture, idiom, or identity — its storied dimensions.

Over the last quarter century, it has been the subject of scientific studies in the areas of pain, digestion, and circulation, and there have been some interesting results.

The nation's food chain provides numerous examples of consolidation over the last quarter century.

In a move unprecedented during the last quarter century of organic industry rulemaking, the USDA ignored the NOSB vote in the Federal Register without an opportunity for the public to comment on their decision before it goes into effect.

Perhaps the producers believe that chileheads are a new species of humankind that has evolved over the last quarter century...

Professional football has changed fundamentally in the last quarter century.

During the last quarter century he has hustled his horses into the winner's circle, his name into the record books and his sculptured likeness into the Hall of Fame of the Trotter in Goshen, N.Y..

Forty - six conference titles, five national titles (including three in the last quarter century), and three Heisman winners.

Big - time sport has expanded — exploded — in the last quarter century, but, oddly, in many respects it's more tradition - bound, more Establishment, than ever.

Over the last quarter century, Alabama has won five times; Florida, Florida State, and Nebraska thrice each; Ohio State and LSU twice; and Auburn, Clemson, Miami, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and USC each took home a BCS and / or Coaches Poll title.

Once the most outrageous trash talker in sports, he was largely muted for the last quarter century of his life, quieted by a battle with Parkinson's Disease.

On Election day, it will be revealed how much Italians have learnt from the last quarter century, and if voters will indeed pave the way for Berlusconi comeback.

Cuomo, a Democrat, has been described at the trial as having been so close to Percoco over the last quarter century that he considered him like a brother.

But if things do start going wrong, not least because there is a further economic downturn, then having a volatile or extreme opposition means the assumptions of the last quarter century of pro-market consensus could break down.

«A coalition got built over these last months that unlike anything I've seen in the last quarter century,» he said.

«A coalition got built over these last months unlike anything I've seen in the last quarter century,» de Blasio said.

If Mr. de Blasio chose to erect a museum to the last quarter century of New York City history, Mr. Giuliani would probably not be there.

The evidence could raise new doubts about whether Thibodeau committed the most - captivating crime in Oswego County in the last quarter century.

The overall toll just to municipalities and power companies trying to keep their pipes mussel - free over the last quarter century tops $ 1.5 billion.

Over the last quarter century or so, astronomers have confirmed more than 3,600 exoplanets — that's 3,600 - plus worlds in addition to the planets, moons and other heavenly bodies known in our own solar system.

The different results could have come from different starting assumptions — Evans assumes the number of new dementia cases will stay the same in coming decades, while Langa takes into account the possibility that dementia risk could decline because of changes in lifestyle and health prevention measures in the last quarter century.

MY PICK FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY IS THE MONTE VERDE site in Chile, which established a new time line for peopling the New World.

The discovery in Eastern... Central Asia of large numbers of human remains, including skeletal materials and many extremely well - preserved mummies, must rank high among the most important events in the archaeology of the last quarter century.

He is one of a number of scientists who in the last quarter century have been using the analytic tools of modern chemistry — spectrometers and chromatographs — to scrutinize the artifacts of lost worlds, seeking evidence with which to piece together the lives of our ancestors.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

Efforts during the last quarter century to save the ozone layer are finally paying off.

There has been virtually no progress in hurricane intensity forecasting during the last quarter century.

Dr. Aminian said over the last quarter century, however, the field of bariatric surgery has significantly evolved with introduction of new less invasive surgical approaches (e.g. laparoscopic surgery) and surgical procedures (e.g. sleeve gastrectomy), which have led to improvement in the safety profile of surgery.

Engine noise may have fallen by half in the last quarter century, but spy planes are still outdone by bird adaptations: Comb - shaped feathers smooth the air, and pliant tails eliminate vibrations, allowing great gray owls to fly in near - absolute silence.

So Nerem and his team used climate models to account for the volcanic effects and other datasets to determine the ENSO effects, ultimately uncovering the underlying sea - level rate and acceleration over the last quarter century.

For the last quarter century, the climate science denial machine, its cogs oiled by fossil fuel money, has been attacking climate science, climate scientists and every official US report on climate change, along with State and local efforts — with the aim of undermining action on climate change.

Bumper - related crib deaths tripled from 2006 to 2012, compared with other seven - year stretches over the last quarter century, the study found.