Sentences with phrase «less decades in the future»

It's psychologically challenging to put off satisfaction in the present for security in the future — much less decades in the future.

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There is another limitation on coal's future in Appalachia: After decades of heavy production, there is less of it to be mined.

After all it was widely feared less than two decades ago that the establishment of the ECB in Frankfurt in 1998 had all but killed London's continued future as the center of European finance.

«If this research is borne out in future studies, we could be less than a decade away from a safe and effective live - attenuated vaccine for RSV.»

After being in the industry for over a decade, he's sure that the future needs to be less about recycling waste and more about avoiding it altogether.

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

What had been heralded by many within the profession as the future of teacher education all but vanished in less than a decade.

Though moderate inflation during the past decade has resulted in current withdrawal rates that are a bit less for the 2000 retiree than for some retirees in the 1960s, this is hardly reassuring with further analysis based on the required future asset returns needed for sustainability.

Climate change is a lagged result of cumulative emissions, so errors in forecasts of what will happen after 2050 are of much less importance than getting projections right for the next few decades — this is fortunate because of course we can't know what will happen many decades into the future.

The Climate Action Tracker assumes continued emissions reductions in future decades at a level of effort no more, or less, ambitious than that implied by the INDCs.

And his nonbinding pledge that America will cut emissions in future decades may make the upcoming climate talks in Paris less of a fiasco than earlier talks in Copenhagen.

Sea ice, which even in winter has been in retreat for decades, will remain more or less steady in the immediate future, according to new research.

And by the time such models produce much, in that distant future, one can be certain their error bars will be so wide as it will take many decades to decide whether the hypothesis of any of the models, much less their mean, can be rejected.

Hallegatte [8] notes that these sources of uncertainty will not go away in the foreseeable future: social uncertainties will play out over decades, and recent experiences of improving scientific understanding have often led to more uncertainty about the future rather than less [10], as the implications of unappreciated processes such as ice - sheet dynamics become clearer.

The recent growth, and accompanying profile, of aboriginal law begs the question of how the practice area grew from obscurity less than two decades ago into relatively big business, with no signs of letting up in the foreseeable future.