Sentences with phrase «quarter century from»

At no point in the quarter century from 1930 to 1955 did Einstein throw in the towel on his «God does not play dice» thesis.

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China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

While Americans were buying their first cell phones, about a quarter - century ago, Estonians were shut off from the world as an outpost of the Soviet Union.

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

But the paperwork has been dusted off in recent months as policy - makers debate whether this old deal — despite its imperfections — might be awakened from its quarter - century coma should Trump pull America out of NAFTA.

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.

One of the things these retailers can do is learn from the strategies that have made Amazon one of the most successful companies of the last quarter century.

As CNBC embarks on its second quarter - century, it faces a world completely altered from when it started.

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LOS ANGELES (TheStreet)-- The media stock swoon continued on Thursday as disappointing second - quarter earnings from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and Sumner Redstone's Viacom (VIAB) prolonged the downtown in television stocks that began earlier this week when Disney (DIS) acknowledged subscriber decline at its powerhouse sports network ESPN.

But a quarter of a century of continental free trade has transformed the auto industry — so much so that almost all global auto makers from Audi to Toyota have created intricate supply and distribution chains that stretch across the two borders.

In the last quarter century, from the Republican Richard Nixon in 1969 to the Democratic Bill Clinton in 1993, the evangelist Billy Graham has often played a prominent role at inauguration services.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

Almost a quarter - century later, most of these countries have slid from crisis to catastrophe.

It might have been different if the U.S. church had chosen someone with, say, a quarter of a century of experience and a Ph.D. in theology, not someone «from a tiny diocese, and she's, what, a biologist?»

Apart from a couple of very obscure references, one would never guess that he served as president of the «Christian Union» (Inter-Varsity) at Edinburgh a quarter of a century ago.

A century and a quarter ago we could not have been sure from observed experience that this is so.

Again there was delay; it seemed that Assyria might be swept out of existence by the mountain folk of what we now call Armenia; but from the third quarter of the eighth century until the destruction of Nineveh in 612 B.C., the Assyrian empire was the supreme political fact of the Near East.

The revival of Thomism from the second quarter of the 19th century gave the Church a means of confronting European thought, criticising it and improving it.

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

The acceleration of congregational studies in the last quarter century sprang in part from fresh and troubling inquiry by sociologists who probed the parish as a social organization.

This year promises To the Wonder, only the fourth film in the last quarter of a century from director Terrence Malick.

In the last quarter of the ninth century Alfred the Great made headway against them in England, but after his death fresh inroads in North England were made by Scandinavians from Ireland.

Over the last quarter - century, Milisci has built Romulus up from that first underperforming location into one of the nation's largest franchisees and developers of IHOP restaurants.

A quarter of a century on, the River Café is a prosperous, stable democracy: You go there because you know that everything, from the bowl of freshly ground pepper on the table to the handwritten menu with just one suggestion for an aperitivo written in the top right - hand corner, will be just so.

McCartney's dabbling in divisive social issues will prevent him from ruling a state as diverse as Colorado — and it reminds us that, over a quarter century, Bryant may have been the only public man in Alabama to transcend the issue of race.

In a first - ever comprehensive survey of football's long - term effects on an entire NFL roster, SI polled the former members of the 1986 Bengals, whose physical and psychological conditions a quarter century later range from near complete normalcy to near total disability.

But perhaps the most important thing is, after four work stoppages from 1981 - 1995 that saw three different seasons shortened (1981, 1994, 1995) and one World Series (1994) cancelled, this new agreement through 2021 means that baseball will have relative labor peace for over a quarter century.

During the quarter century that ensued, fans frequently saw MTKB bounding from a box seat onto one diamond or another, beneath a Vesuvius of blonde hair, to give a chaste kiss to a litany of All - Stars that included Johnny Bench, George Brett (twice), Steve Garvey and Cal Ripken Jr..

Watch all of the action from an enthralling quarter - final as three goals from Cristiano Ronaldo brought up his century in the UEFA Champions League and helped Real Madrid earn a 6 - 3 aggregate win after extra time in 2017.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the hit movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.

From Men in Blazers: Rog and Davo relive MLS's Zlatan debut, Tottenham's first win at Stamford Bridge in more than a quarter century and City moving within a win of the title.

His quarter of a century with club is truly staggering, and has rightly been lauded by sporting heroes from around the globe.

Legendary Italian still going strong quarter of a century on from debut, SunSport takes a long at similar achievements

And once again, the Blue and the Gray will clash in downtown Naperville marking Civil War Days, a weekend reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 17 and 18 at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. Adorned in period costumes with tents, weaponry and artifacts, more than 300 re-enactors will portray soldiers and civilians at the encampment, which has become an annual tradition for more than a quarter century...

After almost a quarter century, from what I have seen and heard, I sense it's still pretty much the same for fathers.

On Election day, it will be revealed how much Italians have learnt from the last quarter century, and if voters will indeed pave the way for Berlusconi comeback.

«This judgement upsets a careful balance which has stood for a quarter of a century, and impedes the police from doing their job.

Nothing could be further from the truth as many members of our Club know and experienced over nearly a quarter of a century of public service.

After 50 years in politics, from militant protester to cabinet minister, including a quarter of a century an MP, it was not something I had imagined doing.

Even a ribbon cutting for New York City's first new subway station in a quarter century couldn't keep the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and city officials from warring over transportation funding.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat, won the top Democratic spot on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beating back a challenge from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, of California, to fill the seat held by former Rep. John Conyers, of Michigan, for almost a quarter century.

But for Alain E. Kaloyeros, a physicist who rose from a basement laboratory at the State University at Albany to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in state economic development funds over a quarter - century, a more complex purpose seemed to be at work.

Trump today embarked on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.

Throw in the Lady of Songs, the late Christy Essien - Igbokwe, and you'd just appreciate a milieu of cultural giants, from all ethnic groups, that shaped cosmopolitan Lagos, in the 20th century's final quarter.

But annual growth figures go back far further and show a far longer period of growth - a quarter - century's worth, lasting from the end of the second world war to the first oil shock of the seventies.

-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.

Employment levels for manufacturing dropped by a third to about 11.5 million workers from some 17 million workers, a level that had held fairly steady for about a quarter of a century.

Lister graduated from University College London (UCL), but then spent more than a quarter of a century in Scotland.

Purple Straw is the only heirloom wheat to have been cultivated continually in the South from the Colonial Period into the last quarter of the 20th century.