Sentences with phrase «over the last quarter century in»

There have been other leaders of the criminal bar over the last quarter century in Canada, but none as unrepentantly flashy as Eddie.

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It reported over $ 22 billion in worldwide revenue last year and its CEO, Daniel Amos, has been heading the company for over a quarter of a century.

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.

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?

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

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.

Other significant achievements of the Commission over the last quarter of a century include the establishment in 2000 of the Lodi Wine & Visitor Center — one of the industry's original regional wine education and tasting centers — and the creation of the Lodi Rules ™ for Sustainable Winegrowing Program in 2005.

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

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 Observer has just assembled one of the more interesting lists I've seen in some time — a collective of the 25 best British films of the last quarter - century, compiled from the votes of over 60 critics, film professionals and assorted outside voices, ranging from Ben Kingsley to Peter Morgan to our friend Anne Thompson.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Keep in mind that school choice has enjoyed remarkable success over the last quarter - century as a bottom - up phenomenon.

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges in education over the last quarter - century and what the future holds for students in Idaho and the nation.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

Today that fund has $ 112 billion in assets, and once you account for survivorship bias, it has outperformed more than 90 % percent of its competitors over the last quarter of a century.

In celebrations of its 25th year, this year's show will host a series of seminar sessions looking back on the tourism revolution in the MENA region over the last quarter of a century, while exploring how the industry will shape up over the next 25 years, in light of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, huge technological advances and, of course, the increasing trend of responsible tourisIn celebrations of its 25th year, this year's show will host a series of seminar sessions looking back on the tourism revolution in the MENA region over the last quarter of a century, while exploring how the industry will shape up over the next 25 years, in light of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, huge technological advances and, of course, the increasing trend of responsible tourisin the MENA region over the last quarter of a century, while exploring how the industry will shape up over the next 25 years, in light of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, huge technological advances and, of course, the increasing trend of responsible tourisin light of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, huge technological advances and, of course, the increasing trend of responsible tourism.

Consistently working with both established and emerging artists, Brooke Alexander has published over 1,500 editions with more than 75 painters and sculptors offering a particularly dynamic view of American printmaking in the last quarter century.

Let's agree, for the sake of argument, that we have been in a significant warming trend over at least the last quarter of a century, and even that this is largely anthropogenically caused.

But, he also says: «teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated,» and we readers are then linked to his October, 2007 article and an August, 2007 image of a «warmed over» Artic.

An Arctic scientist who has consistently sounded alarms about the approach of global warming, Smith is best known for determining the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand Arctic lakes over the last quarter of the 20th century.

Thanks to REDD, companies, governments, and individuals have invested billions in conservation over the last quarter century, and now governments around the world have pledged more than $ 7 billion to REDD through the end of this year.

Over the last century, the average surface temperature of the globe has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, and the rate of warming has accelerated in the last quarter - century.

That puts Canada at odds with legal precedent in the United States, where leveraged buyouts have been more prevalent over the past quarter - century and had grown increasingly large in value until the onset of the credit crisis last year put a chill on big deals.

For instance, over the last quarter century, Kids Count has ranked states overall on their child outcomes — with Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont consistently ranking among the top ten, and usually top five, states in the country.