Sentences with phrase «quarter century»

When historians look back on the past quarter century of international negotiations, two defining processes will stand out.

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

In fact, it's occurred only three times in the last quarter century.

Ok, so the for quarter century anniversary, I was hoping for a lot more in the special features department.

This is an astonishing result considering that the global car fleet is expected to add a billion vehicles in the next quarter century.

Is it weird that I spent the first quarter century of my life not really understanding why there were so many different varieties of apples?

Nothing that has happened in the ensuing quarter century has changed my conviction that we are collectively moving toward destruction.

It has been an extraordinary quarter century for sports and for the magazine.

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.

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

It takes about three years to develop any sort of system that will carry you for the next quarter century.

In the near quarter century since his pivotal show «Freeze» in 1988, Hirst has become one of the most prominent artists of his generation.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In a new analysis, June Kronholz examines the recipe that has made Teach For America's nearly quarter century record of growth possible.

These trends have grave implications for the economic prospects of young men, who have already suffered a staggering blow over the last quarter century as factories have shuttered, wages have stagnated, and public programs have increasingly turned a blind eye to their struggles.

Originally shown at the company's booth at the Electronics Entertainment Expo, the brief trailer features a montage of memorable moments from the now quarter century old series.

The Gospel stories of the risen Christ, which have been highly valued in traditional Christianity through the centuries, are now regarded by New Testament scholars as containing many legendary elements, reflecting the developing traditions of the last quarter century from which they come.

However, in the deep tropics, where the theoretical effects on the surface energy budget of temperature - driven changes in evaporation and water vapour are particularly strong, there is a near quarter century record of both SST and tas from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array of fixed buoys in the Pacific ocean.

«Whatever one thinks of the series of Civil War generals who were elected presidents of the United States for the following quarter century, not one of those bearded Republican old duffers remotely resembled Caesar.»

1991: Acura NSX Why it won: It distilled all of Honda's engineering experience and vast successes over the preceding quarter century while establishing new benchmarks for performance, affordability, and technology in exotic sports cars.

The Quintis administration marks the end of a failed quarter century experiment in tax - driven financial wizardry.

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?

In the last quarter century Russia has passed from chaotic permissiveness — «That's your problem» — to a tightly structured and harshly directed state based on the principle of traditionality, which is to say a self - conscious program of restoring tradition, not the organic perpetuation of an already traditional society.

For the last quarter century Protestant churches, certainly Lutheran ones, have been - in their architecture, their liturgies, and their teaching» emphasizing the sense in which the Eucharist is a family meal.

To this day I find it ironic but also revealing that scholars regularly reference his early (1947) book «The Uneasy Conscience of Fundamentalists» but seldom make reference to a work that represents the accumulated wisdom of an additional quarter century of thinking on the part of one of the most recognized and celebrated systematic theologians of the twentieth century.

The overall toll just to municipalities and power companies trying to keep their pipes mussel - free over the last quarter century tops $ 1.5 billion.

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.

From AD 1300 to 1600, wildfires ignited during late summer, with about 5 - 10 ignitions per quarter century, generally occurring during warm, dry summers.

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The experience of the last quarter century tells us that it only takes one number to label, shame, or laud...

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

Charles Burchfield spent his last quarter century reworking his own visionary watercolors.

Ensconced within a stately townhouse on New York's Upper East Side, the art dealer Robert Mnuchin has spent the past quarter century putting on shows of mostly American art that brim with intelligence, historical savvy, and the kind of quality that one tends to find a few blocks to the west, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This unthinkable quarter century that has passed since Electric Blanket's premiere is a splendid time to remind myself all I have is today.

Mr. Lee s conviction is a tragedy of multiple proportions: he lost his beloved daughter, was never able to grieve for her, and has spent the past near - quarter century fighting for his freedom.

Enter Tom Lee, quarter century professional financial veteran, who has been relatively «on» when it comes to generally predicting bitcoin prices.

«It is hard to point to this past quarter century as progress.»

It may be hard to believe in the midst of another contentious election cycle, but the next quarter century in the United States promises to be a period of increasing moderation and stability — at least according to a little - known but compelling theory about how the ratio of available men to available women alters our lives.

As we enter the next quarter century of celebrating packaging, we believe we need to evolve with the industry,» said Yasmin Siddiqi, Global Marketing Director — DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers; DuPont Packaging Awards program leader.

However, the first quarter century of tech - enabled learning in the schools was dampened by standards - based reforms, which not only locked in teaching to grade - level cohorts of students but also valued seat time over learning, proficiency over growth, and consumption over production.

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).

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

I suspect that the aftermath of the tech bubble helped fuel the recent explosion of hedge funds because this was the best time in the last quarter century for stock pickers.

For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

Leader - Chivée further notes that it's been a quarter century since Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas - and yet inappropriate conduct in the workplace is still a real concern for many women.