Sentences with phrase «past quarter century»

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

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.

While trucks and roads have improved greatly during the past quarter century, the average age of an American trucker has risen to 49.

Canada has dropped four spots since 1988, when the index was first compiled, though the past quarter century has been less kind to the United States.

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.

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.

For the past quarter century, the answer more often than not has been the Vancouver design firm of Osburn / Clark Productions — specialists in designing and building the most beautiful cabins (please, not cottages) in the most difficult spots.

For the past quarter century, the Bank of Canada has had the responsibility of using monetary policy to achieve low, stable and predictable inflation, a goal cemented in our 2 per cent inflation target.

In fact, The Women in Canada: A Gender - based Statistical Report released March 7 of this year stated that «the increased participation of women in the paid work force has been one of the most significant social trends in Canada in 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.

However, Canadians should also understand that the region has made great strides in the past quarter century.

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.

There is regular change of rhetoric, and the tocsin of environmental alarmism is sounded in different keys and with reference to different scientific (or pseudoscientific) claims, but the shape of the argument has not changed that much in the past quarter century.

There seems to be general agreement that this is possibly one of the most important scientific advances of the past quarter century.

Stephen Hawking has had little more standing than a celebrity for the past quarter century.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

This destruction may be the most important social and economic development of the past quarter century.

Though the past quarter century has been a challenging, sometimes discouraging time for mainline congregations and their leaders, many positive things, often hidden from public view or statistical analysis, have been going on.

In the United States in the past quarter century, working families have maintained their standard of living only by working more hours.

«The British Empire in India lasted the better part of two hundred years,» wrote Peter Chapman (no relation to Pat) in Bon Appetit in 1992,» but it's only in the past quarter century that curry houses have established themselves in the British culinary imagination.

In the past quarter century no African - American has cracked the ATP's top 10.

Managers» deployment of lefty specialists has increased steadily for 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.

Press secretaries for Democratic and Republican presidents have held on - camera briefings on a regular basis for the past quarter century.

But he volunteered some criticism of his own performance at his prestigious New York City law firm, where he's worked for 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

McGuinness's subsequent journey — helping lead Irish republicanism from militarism and Marx to democratic agitation and peace - building has defined the past quarter century, since the first IRA ceasefire of 1994.

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.

Archaeology in British Towns provides the specialist and general reader alike with some insight to what has been achieved in 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.

Precisely this connect - the - dots method led to one of the most significant public - health breakthroughs of the past quarter century: In the early 1980s, epidemiologists studied the sexual and social connections among a group of gay men on both U.S. coasts who were developing fatal cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma.

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.

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).

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.

``... a cold Antarctica is just what calculations predict... and have predicted for 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.

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.

Church plays the title character, a jaded janitor who's been working at the same job in Boston for the past quarter century.

No one has made more or better movies in the past quarter century, and few people have changed less.

Church plays the title character, a jaded janitor who's been working at the same job for the past quarter century, after being dumped by his high school sweetheart, Sonny (Shue).