Sentences with phrase «quarter century since»

Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan's 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won.

In the quarter century since a grassroots battered women's movement put partner violence on the national agenda, members of nearly every helping profession have wrestled with the task of integrating new information about abuse and new responsibilities toward its victims into existing professional paradigms and practices.

Almost a quarter century since the artist's last in - depth retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979, this exhibition includes rarely seen works from the Guston estate.

Today marks a quarter century since the iconic system first went on sale in the United States, becoming the best - selling system of its time while setting the standard by which all future systems would be judged.

In the quarter century since the debut of the original RAV4, demand for crossovers has grown substantially, and sales of the compact Toyota have grown with it, eventually becoming the Japanese brand's number - one seller in the U.S.. However, the RAV4 last got a redesign in 2013, so to keep it fresh, Toyota just pulled the sheets on a new fifth - generation at the 2018 New York International Auto Show, bringing updated exterior styling, a redesigned interior, the latest safety tech, and a new architecture under the skin.

Just a little over a quarter century since re-unification, Germany is now the most admired country in the world.

It's a great honor to be with you as we celebrate all that's been accomplished in the quarter century since the first charter school law was passed in Minnesota.

In 2016, it will be a quarter century since Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law.

It's been a quarter century since I stopped teaching high school social studies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

It's been a quarter century since the Volkswagen Scirocco was readily available for mass consumption in North America, and for good reason.

IMPORTANT ITEMS TO NOTE: It's been a quarter century since the Volkswagen Scirocco was readily available for mass consumption in North America, and for good reason.

It's been a quarter century since government regulations limiting emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants began to neutralize the problem of acid rain, but lakes in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada have been sluggish to recover.

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

The publication of an expanded and revised version of Leslie Farber's The Ways of the Will nearly twenty years after his death and almost a quarter century since the appearance of his last book is an occasion of both interest and pleasure.

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.

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In the quarter - century since, ETFs have experienced massive popularity and growth.

I'm an adult and have been in the same city now since essentially for a quarter of a century.

Iron ore sank to the lowest level since 2009 as supply exceeds demand and China, the biggest user, contends with its weakest expansion in almost a quarter century.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the world's first exchange - traded fund debuted right here in Canada, and over the years those of us in the industry have got pretty adept at rhyming off the benefits of ETFs.

It's been more than a quarter of a century since Randy Hibshman first introduced Little League Baseball's Challenger Division in Coral Springs.

The fourth period witnesses numerous attempts to answer these questions though it can not be denied that in some quarters little has changed in the pursuit of studies in our field since the turn of the century.

And since the science of comparative religion has grown up in the past quarter - century, it is a live question to every thoughtful person.

Since Whitehead was nearly forty when the Queen died in 1901, we should see him as a man of the Victorian age whose intellect bore its best fruit a quarter of a century later.

But that was a quarter century ago, and since then player names have become one of the very best things about the NFL.

Peter King, an SI writer since 1989 and senior writer since 1990, has covered pro football at the magazine for a quarter - century.

I think it's a around a quarter of a century since we last won the League Cup, and I know it's bottom of the list of priorities, but I would love to win it.

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.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

While Top Box is new, Kennedy said he has been thinking about the concept since he moved to Illinois a quarter - century ago.

Since losing control of the Florida Congressional Delegation over a quarter - century ago, the Democrats have their best opportunity to regain control in 2018.

In the quarter - century since the ban was imposed, countless elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks, and little has been done to stop it.

Almost a quarter - century has passed since then - Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm made that statement.

BY SAM SCHWARTZ Lower Manhattanites are getting «railroaded» (or should I say «trucked») and have been for a quarter century ever since an act of Congress dictated that tolls on the Verrazano Bridge should be collected only in the Staten Island - bound direction.

Since the outdoor shopping mall opened nearly a quarter - century ago in Orange County's Town of Woodbury, it has become one of the top ten tourist attractions in New York State.

By the next election, it will be almost a quarter of a century since a Conservative leader walked into Downing Street as a Prime Minister secure in his or her Parliamentary foundation.

Over the past quarter - century — with the support of every governor since Mario Cuomo — Kaloyeros has built a public - private tech empire, now based at a gleaming, 1.3 million - square - foot «NanoTech Megaplex» adjacent to the SUNY Albany campus.

Of the trillion or so barrels of oil produced since the dawn of the Oil Age in the 19th century, a full quarter have been burned in just the first decade of the 21st century.

Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever - expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.

By Science's centennial, a quarter - century ago, many gaps still remained in knowledge of the cosmos; some of them have since been filled, while others linger.

A quarter - century has now passed since five astronauts roared into orbit to complete the fifth - longest space shuttle mission at that -LSB-...]

It is also quite old; it has been providing this service to clients since 1990 — that is more than a quarter century of experience!

It is almost a prerequisite for the job, given how fervently the film industry — mostly since its inception, but especially over the past quarter - century — bows down at the altar of the tweenage boy.

[W] hite people haven't learned much in the quarter - century since Eddie Murphy's classic disquisition on The Amityville Horror.

Reigning Best Picture winner Moonlight stood out for focusing on the kind of characters that remain underrepresented in the quarter - century since Juice.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Director: Jacob Hatley In Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick Danko.

Achievement since then can therefore be reported as part of a continuous trend line stretching back a quarter - century.

A quarter - century has passed since the nation's first charter - school law was enacted in Minnesota, leading to arguably the most fundamental shift in public education in my lifetime.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

The logical system that has been needed since the Range Rover appeared in 1970, and began with the adoption of Defender 20 years later, has at last reached maturity a further quarter of a century later.