Sentences with phrase «over the past quarter century»

Wind speeds and wave heights have been increasing over the past quarter century, a result possibly linked to warmer waters caused by climate change.

Returns over the past quarter century have been poor, while returns prior to that were seemingly decent.

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

The chart below compares the path of each country's carbon emissions over the past quarter century.

And even as maternal deaths have dropped dramatically over the past quarter century, an estimated 830 women across the world still die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Surface - level ozone, also known as smog, has increased over the past quarter century at western US rural sites during springtime, partly due to rising Asian pollution, whereas smog has decreased in the eastern US but can spike due to heat waves, according to a new study from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).

The SNES Classic offers authenticity, but changes in the industry over the past quarter century have been — for all their faults — largely for the best.»

TO MARK ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY, the September issue of Frieze magazine features three different covers and a review of the 25 most significant works of art produced over the past quarter century — one for each year since 1991.

What's not uncertain: the slow drip of unresponsive labour market regulations and mostly unenforced rules over the past quarter century has shifted bargaining power towards employers, against workers.

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

In what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next year.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

An exemplary three - part documentary on the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was nothing less than the story of Britain over the past quarter century

Very few of the reforms suggested by the Moreland Commission under Mario Cuomo have been enacted over the past quarter century, and most are still talked about as potential cures for what ails Albany in the aftermath of an unprecedented streak of corruption convictions.

To understand why, just turn to this month's Think Tank (page 66), the first of a yearlong series, where 11 of today's leading medical and biological researchers talk about the greatest advances in their field over the past quarter century.

Examining the development of biotechnology in the United States, Britain, Germany, and the European Union over the past quarter century, the author examines how the public and private actors in each have interacted to produce the current range of approaches to the political management of biotechnology.

The study explains why springtime ozone levels measured in Yellowstone National Park and other western parks far from urban areas have climbed over the past quarter century.

An influx of pollution from Asia in the western United States and more frequent heat waves in the eastern U.S. are responsible for the persistence of smog in these regions over the past quarter century despite laws curtailing the emission of smog - forming chemicals from tailpipes and factories.

As the achievement gap has widened over the past quarter century, educators have increasingly focused on summer pastimes as both a key factor and a solution.

No longer an exclusive enclave of affluence, the county has witnessed an influx of poor and minority students over the past quarter century.

The University of Michigan's Maris Vinovskis is undoubtedly the most diligent, thorough, and prolific historian of education goings - on in Washington over the past quarter century, particularly when it comes to standards, assessments, and compensatory programs.

School choice has had a remarkable run over the past quarter century.

Improving school organization, management, and leadership can support improved retention of minority teachers, according to this report, which examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority teachers over the past quarter century.

It's a question that has loomed large over every statewide election, every legislative session, and millions of kitchen tables from Albany to Buffalo over the past quarter century — what to do about the Upstate New York economy?

INDUSTRY NEWS Pressure piles up on Mitsubishi as fuel economy cheats uncovered over past quarter century

In a report headlined «Dividends are a Big Winner in Canada,» RBC Dominion Securities examined the performance of different types of stocks over the past quarter century - companies that raised dividends, those that paid stable dividends, dividend cutters and companies that paid no dividends at all.

The Whale Centre Maritime Museum displays found artifacts donated by Tofino locals over the past quarter century and exhibits tradition first nations from jewelry and artwork to whaling equipment and a complete 12 metre long (40 feet) skeleton of a gray whale.

One of the earliest works in this survey of 25 artists who have engaged with the human figure over the past quarter century is Bear and Policeman by the controversial American Jeff Koons, who is about to be the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Still, the extent of sea ice recorded in November was well shy of the median extent observed over the past quarter century, as the image from Nov. 14 (above, right) shows.

Mark Herrmann takes a big - picture look at how pharmaceutical product liability law has evolved over the past quarter century, and in particular how well it has done in pursuing the goal of appropriately screening out meritless cases.

AI Week Applications of AI have become both more frequent and more capable over the past quarter century — these are some development highlights

Dan McAdams has been the leading thinker over the past quarter century in the study of personality, identity, and human development.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

The SNES Classic offers authenticity, but changes in the industry over the past quarter century have been — for all their faults — largely for the best.»

To mark its 25th anniversary, Frieze magazine commissioned three different covers for its September issue, which also included a review of the 25 most significant works of art produced over the past quarter century.

Over the past quarter century the level of the e BoC overnight rate has explained nearly 29 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

Over the past quarter century the VIX has averaged over 22, the highest of any month, in September.

Over the past quarter century the level of the fed funds rate has explained nearly 50 % of the variation in stock / bond correlations, according to Bloomberg data.

Over the past quarter century, the face space model has gained the support of a number of neuroscientists.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

«Basically, over the past quarter century, there have been six research articles that are useful in identifying someone who is likely to engage in terrorism,» Desmarais says.

Over the past quarter century, a wave of immigration from Latin America, legal and illegal, has caused a divisive political debate in the United States on how to address its various implications.

Over the past quarter century, charter schools have taken firm root in the American education landscape.

Over the past quarter century he has conducted public and private seminars with a total of more than a million participants.