Sentences with phrase «systems by a decade»

It was way ahead of such technology, preceding the first GPS systems by a decade.

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Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.

The company had responded to aggressive new competition and low - cost delivery systems by changing their entire business in less than a decade.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

The letter notes that the current backdrop of strong and balanced global growth is underpinned by a resilient global financial system that is the product of determined efforts by the G20 and FSB over the past decade.

Dairy, poultry and egg farming, alone among all of Canada's food production, is governed by supply management, an archaic, decades - old — and very costly — controlled - market system.

For more than two decades, Genworth Canada has supported the housing market by providing thought leadership and a focus on the safety and soundness of the mortgage finance system.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, most Protestant churches worked together to enact legislation that would protect women and children from the factory system, limit the hours worked by all, and improve wages.

Her «free money» was accepting the social security payments she earned by paying into the system for decades.

In the public arena, this meant that blacks were not obliged to «work within the system,» given the brutality inflicted upon them by the system over the decades.

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

This toolkit was designed by IFOAM based on best practices identified through a global review of organic guarantee systems and regulations, and decades of experience in advising governments and the private sector in this area.

We got a quick lesson by Jason on the ins and outs of the irrigation system, and were amazed by the link between decades - old practices and modern technology.

We can help you improve the cost situation by checking the recipe and highlighting areas for cost reductions, which might be found through tailored food system and / or adjustment of technologies - our core business strengths for many decades.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

«Inflation targeting» summarises the system widely adopted in the last two decades on a nation - by - nation basis, involving independent central banks using interest rates to keep inflation at a target level in the framework of a New Keynesian macroeconomic model.

The reasons for this shift are to be found in Catalonia's political evolution over the past decade, especially in the shortcomings with regard to constitutional recognition and political and economic accommodation displayed by the Spanish political system.

A decade or so ago, it was common for nonprofits and campaigns that wanted a database - driven Content Management System for their website (s) to have one built just for them by a vendor using Cold Fusion, Perl or some other development language or environment.

«It is evident that a system in which demand and costs are going up and funding is going down is unsustainable and unless something changes, by the end of the decade, councils will not be able to deliver existing services in the way they are delivered now,» he said.

Opponents of the death penalty argue against it by citing America (where the system is misapplied, inconsistent and often takes decades before punishment is implemented), or by playing a neat conjuring trick with the UK figures.

The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central is reported to have said that the newly launched digital property addressing system is not the first of its kind in Ghana in four decades as has been declared by the Akufo - Addo led government.

Legislator John Mills, Chairman of the Erie County Legislature, was proud to be joined by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski and Angola Public Library Director Jennifer Page, Eden Public Library Director Donna - Jo Webster, Concord Public Library Director Bridgette Heintz, Town of Collins Public Library Director Abigail Barten - McGowan, Orchard Park Public Library Director Peggy Errington and Boston Free Library Director Lydia Herren to announce that with overwhelming community support his Hot Dog Roast Fundraisers have raised a grand total of $ 67,077 over the past decade.

Labour's leader - in - waiting, Alan Johnson, yesterday restated his proposal for an election day referendum on the alternative vote plus system — the one recommended a decade ago by a commission headed by Roy Jenkins, but then shelved by the Blair government.

The bulk of the measures announced months ago will be enabled by the bill, delivering the biggest shake - up of the welfare system for decades.

It's been almost a decade since the state's workers» compensation insurance system was overhauled, prompting cheers by both employers and workers.

It also points out that smaller regional airports have been damaged by «decades of delay» in the hub airport system.

For decades, critics of the sprawling state prison system have assailed New York's policy of punishing convicts by consigning them to «Special Housing Units,» parking - space - sized cells where prisoners can remain isolated up to 23 hours a day.

The Trump administration proposed the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades, outlining a framework that would cut individual and corporate taxes, eliminate widely used exemptions and deductions and tilt the U.S. closer to the type of tax system embraced by other industrialized nations.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

I've been trying to read up on comparative politics and noticed that laws once passed in the United States system by and large tend to stay passed for decades or longer and are only overwritten in...

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;

Hundreds of thousands of households across the UK will be affected by changes to benefits from April, part of government plans for the biggest shake - up of the welfare system for decades.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

The current system was designed decades ago by men and for men.

Building out the full renewable energy system in New York in the next 15 years will create 4.5 million jobs while lowering electric rates to half of what fossil and nuclear fuels will cost in the next decade, according to a recent study by Cornell and Stanford researchers.

The tradition begun by the Voyager twins, which outlasted their missions to Jupiter and Saturn by decades and are now reporting from the edges of the solar system, continues today: In March a combination of luck and solid engineering allowed the Stardust probe to complete its second comet - chasing mission.

«Over the past decade, we have learned that remnants of planetary systems around white dwarfs are ubiquitous, and over thirty debris disks have been found by now.

New research published in Geophysical Research Letters by University of Melbourne scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science shows that a positive IPO would likely produce a sharp acceleration in global warming over the next decade.

By the 1990s, «the whole health care system became completely permeated by [MRSA],» says Farr, who for the past three decades has been a leading proponent of active detection and isolation to control superbugBy the 1990s, «the whole health care system became completely permeated by [MRSA],» says Farr, who for the past three decades has been a leading proponent of active detection and isolation to control superbugby [MRSA],» says Farr, who for the past three decades has been a leading proponent of active detection and isolation to control superbugs.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

In a decades - long game of hide and seek, scientists from Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research have confirmed for the very first time the specific immune memory T - cells where infectious HIV «hides» in the human body to evade detection by the immune system.

In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.

Copelli's frustration — about the difficulty of getting things done in a system that, despite a recent infusion of cash, remains unwieldy and impoverished by decades of neglect — seems common among scientists working to create or overhaul research programs, especially in the country's less - developed northeast.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

As the recent meltdown in Fukushima showed, the design of these reactors» systems, such as the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades ago.