Sentences with phrase «quarter century seems»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm - defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that determines the jurisprudential ethos and frames the judicial, political, and academic debate for the next quarter century or so.

And one thing that I found helpful over this past quarter - century of being a dad: While the days may seem long, the years are really short.

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.

A quarter - century ago, he faced a threat that seemed even more terrifying than Ebola.

«It's remarkable to be able to go back to data taken almost a quarter of a century before Cassini arrived and, armed with the discovery information from Cassini, produce this remarkable processed Voyager image which seems to reveal the plume at that time,» says Andrew Coates, a Cassini scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK.

Because of that factor, I didn't feel Nest seemed terribly fresh, but I could imagine what an impact it packed more than a quarter of a century ago.

With a quarter - century of sales under its belt, Toyota's luxury arm seems to have gone all bonkers in the last few years.

The company's founder — American translator and editor Anne Trager — loves France so much she has lived there for over a quarter of a century, and just can't seem to leave.

In the intervening quarter century, of course, game worlds have gained a breadth and depth almost beyond comprehension by comparison, and calling an SNES game «immersive» now might seem like a stretch, but Secret of Mana's world feels very much like a real place to me even today.

By the end of the third quarter of the twentieth century, it seemed as if Betty Parsons had launched Abstract Expressionism single - handedly.

Even though many of the angst - ridden, paint - slathered canvases reproduced in the January 1983 issue seem irrelevant to current concerns, the clash of critical positions within its pages helped set the stage for the discourse that dominated discussions of contemporary art for the next quarter century and still hold sway in some quarters.

It seems to be only by treating the medium in this way that abstract painting is considered a feasible enterprise by the establishment at the moment, a confirmation that things have not changed but rather consolidated over the past quarter - century or so.

J. Bob, Congratulations, you seem to have reconstructed the hockey stick — your analysis shows that there is definitely something going on in the latter quarter of the 20th century that is inconsistent with the previous linear trend.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

As evidence, consider that there are tens of thousands of non-medical scientists in the UK; yet in the past quarter century, there do not seem to have been any convictions for fraud.

b) after a quarter century of trying your brilliant plan, which seems to be shut up and don't complain, they're working on it, we've seen the opposite of progress — the malfeasance is getting worse, not better.

Everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon to say that internal ocean variability is causing the pause, but this leads to questions about the role of oceans in the warming of the last quarter of the 20th century.