Sentences with phrase «period earlier this decade»

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Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Three Statistics Canada analysts have recently used newly available data to measure Canadian replacement rates over the period from the early 1980s to the middle of the current decade.

All the major countries had reduced interest rates to unprecedented levels in the early part of this decade — 0 per cent in Japan, 1 per cent in the United States and 2 per cent in the euro area — and they maintained this position for a prolonged period.

The response of the teachers of the early church to the person and work of Jesus, both in the period which saw the emergence of the New Testament and in the decades following, was by no means uniform or standardized.

Earlier this year, Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) 2018 State of the Wine Industry Report said that US, specifically, had experienced a boom in wine sales over the past two decades, that growth was now levelling off and reaching the end of a 20 - year growth period.

Just remember women decades ago didn't have the early pregnancy test and they would never have known they were pregnant until after the missed period — this is why the rate of miscarriage is technically higher these days.

On that generous assumption, the Coalition government achieved a reduction in net administration costs of 27 per cent in real terms between 2011 - 12 and 2014 - 15, which is much better than we observed over comparable periods in the three decades covered by our earlier analysis.

Such an exploration is not only an interesting study in its own right; it is also significant for assessing the prospects for the future of government in the coming decades, for example in assessing how government changed in the periods of cutbacks in the 1980s and early 1990s in the context of what is likely to be a period of prolonged fiscal restraint in the 2010s.

Thinktanks like the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Demos are leading the assault against the conferences, which have dominated British politics throughout the early autumn period for decades.

Allen's research team also showed that prior to the recent (since ~ 1980 onwards) tropical widening, the tropical belt actually contracted for several decades, consistent with the reversal of the PDO during this earlier time period.

The analysis showed the date of peak tornado activity in the region moved earlier at a rate of 1.55 days per decade over the time period studied.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see «Early signs»).

A fall now would confirm the MAFF's beliefs that BSE has an incubation period of four to five years and that Britain's cattle will be rid of the disease sometime early in the next decade.

The government's Office of Research Integrity had earlier found Popovic guilty of «relatively minor» misconduct based on what the appeals board called a «handful of words and notations... in one heavily edited paper written by a scientist with limited English skills during a volatile period of scientific discovery a decade ago».

In 1984, the Brandeis and Rockefeller groups, working separately, isolated a gene called period, which had been discovered a decade earlier after a genetic mutation in a fruit fly caused the creature to lose its ability to entrain its insect clock to a 24 - hour rhythm.

In 1984, Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University and Michael Young at the Rockefeller University isolated a gene called «period,» which had been discovered a decade earlier after a genetic mutation in a fruit fly caused the creature to lose its ability to entrain its insect clock to a 24 - hour rhythm.

Extratropical centennial - resolution records therefore provide evidence for local multi-centennial periods warmer than the last decades by up to several degrees in the early to mid-Holocene.

Uhlhaas and colleagues summarize decades of work to hypothesize that «in ASDs abnormal brain maturation during early prenatal and postnatal periods results in cortical circuits that are unable to support the expression of high - frequency oscillations during infancy.

This concatenation, which has global temperature 13.9 °C in the base period 1951 — 1980, has the first decade of the 21st century slightly (∼ 0.1 °C) warmer than the early Holocene maximum.

What would be standard rom - com fare was elevated by the period - perfect details, color - coordinated costuming, life - on - the - town montages, and settings that resembled movie sets of several decades earlier, when every cinematic New York apartment had a terrace.

Stewart's Vonnie doesn't really seem of the period in which the film is set: this easygoing but undemonstrative sensualist doesn't quite look or act like someone who exists in 1930s Hollywood, but seems more like a Beat era character two decades early, a precursor to her Marylou in On the Road.

The number of employees, teachers, administrators, and others has continually increased for four decades, except for the early 1980s period of declining enrollment and recession.

In fact, while we are in the early innings, more has been done to advance the interests of Newark's children over this period than in the three decades that preceded it.

During the past decade, a full - scale war for dominance raged between the two groups in a manner that Chall (2000) described as less reasoned than exchanges in earlier periods.

For me, it would be the period in America during the early part of the 20th century, the first couple of decades before World War I. My grandmother was a great storyteller and that was the period of her youth.

Laborers working decades ago planned for retirement using economic estimates based on life and a cost of living standard from an earlier period.

Decades of research have demonstrated that the cost of changes in the S&P 500 Index is significant and increasing.1 Consistent with earlier academic findings, Chen, Noronha, and Singal (2004) determined that, from announcement day to the effective date, the additional cost of a new index holding rose from 3 % in the 1976 — 1989 period to about 9 % in the 1989 — 2000 period.

It cited periods of such failures to receive or deliver securities, known as «fails» in the repo market, earlier in the decade when rates dropped.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

Although the artists themselves have emerged from different periods and motivations, a clear formal relationship between the selected works is apparent, and thereby reveals a current and earlier interest in abstraction that has not lost its relevance over recent decades.

Key among these was printmaking, which she turned to in the earlier and later periods of her seven - decade career.

The speed of this change in recent years has stoked a nostalgia for earlier periods in New York — notably the 1970s and 1980s, and the experimental practices and attitudes that flourished in the city during those decades.

The exhibition includes works produced over the five decades of Baselitz's career, from his earliest paintings, dealing with his own existential problems within German society in the post-war period, to his «Fracture» and «Upside - Down» paintings.

Surveying the decade of works on view in Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the «70s, it is evident that the early 1970s was a period of intense growth and experimentation for Murray, who had moved to New York City three years earlier.

Regarded as one of the finest periods within a practice spanning over five decades, the late 1980s and early 1990s saw the production of significant works including the celebrated Eis cycle of paintings (The Art Institute of Chicago), as well as important examples of his Abstraktes Bilder series, now housed in important collections including Abstrkates Bild 726 (Tate, London), Abstrkates Bild 727 (Kunsthalle Hamburg) and Abstrkates Bild 734 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

This important exhibition will feature more than twenty paintings from various periods of his forty year career: rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic calligraphic swirls from his last decade.

Following a period of research, while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas developed new subject matter including the famed Night Climbers of Cambridge, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed «Night Climbers of Cambridge», a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the 20th Century.

Comprised of three sections, organised in rough chronological sequence, the first section features earlier works from the formative period, 1948 — 1958, during which Herrera experimented with different modes of abstraction before establishing the visual language that she would explore with great nuance for the succeeding five decades.

The earlier works in particular, bring together images that reveal a strained shift between Bieber's work for magazines and newspaper, and her personal work during a twilight period in the decade following the advent of democracy in South Africa.

Davies, like Mould a decade earlier, immediately noted the likeness of Young Man with a Flute to the style of similar portraits by Romney from around the same time period, 1760 — 1770.

Etre moderne represents the wide range of artworks that MoMA has acquired over the decades, ranging from the early defining movements of the modern art period to Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art and digital works of art.

This early period of work will be the focus of David Kordansky's solo booth at Frieze London this month, but works like this one from 2004 display the results of decades of mastery and innovation.

(Montreal 1913 — 1980 Woodstock, New York) Untitled, 1957, signed, dated Philip Guston 57, oil on paper on masonite, 63.5 x 88.9 cm, framed Provenance: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York, circa 1958 Private Collection, New York, by descent from the above Acquired from the above by the present owner In Philip Guston's oeuvre, abstraction represents a fascinating period that lasted a little more than a decade, stretching from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

It generously covers more than a decade of the early years of Gedney's oeuvre, a period during which her work fluctuated between the two initially conflicting directions endlessly debated at Phillip Pavia's Club, described by him as «the abstractionists» presence and the purists» lack of presence.»

The exhibition traces the artist's evolution over a five - decade - period and brings together more than 200 photographs, including his iconic images of familiar, everyday subjects in addition to lesser - known, early black - and - white prints and provocative video recordings.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .

A quick search turns up this partially relevant paper, which notes the influence of warming of currents in the North Atlantic, beginning in the early part of the 20th century, and which reminds us that the 60s were the most marked «cool» decade of the post-war period:

SAT observations and model simulations indicate that the nature of the arctic warming in the last two decades is distinct from the early twentieth - century warm period.