Sentences with phrase «thirds of its population since»

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has lost more than four fifths of its jobs and two thirds of its population since the 1950s.

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But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Two - thirds of the economic progress made by underdeveloped nations since 1950 has been wiped out by the population explosion.

Gains have been made since the depression of the 1930s, and the serious victims in our society are about one - sixth of the population rather than one - third; but one - sixth represents many millions, and its presence indicates the need for a continuing revolution.

Since 1997/1998, Third World countries, which account for 80 % of the world's population, have, outside of a few exceptions, been confronted with a new debt crisis.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

We reduced the amount of water southern Nevada was using by one - third since then, despite the fact that we increased our population by 400,000.

The disease, which has killed at least a third of the wild population since the mid-1990s, had now infected devils across more than half the island.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - Mar 20 - Japan's birth rate is at its lowest since records began in 1899 and if current trends continue it will lose a third of its population in the next 50 years.

THE INDEPENDENT - Feb 14 - Nearly a third of elderly population have had or would consider having sex on a first date since turning 65, while one in 10 over-75s saying they have had multiple sexual partners.

Viewers who have been paying close attention (though why they would is a mystery) won't be terribly surprised by this development, since the Colleens earlier received an extended lecture from their history teacher (Vanessa Paradis) on the area's latent Nazi population — as illustrated through black - and - white mock - archival footage of the villainous Adrien Arcand (Haley Joel Osment) trying to start his own Third Reich by blaming unemployment on «the fault of the Canadian Jew» and proposing the launch of «Le Solution Finale.»

Based on per capita emissions, China and India (a third of the world population) emitted less than the US since 1900.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

The main conclusions are: 1) The linear warming trend during 1973 - 2012 is greatest in USHCN (+0.245 C / decade), followed by CRUTem3 (+0.198 C / decade), then my ISH population density adjusted temperatures (PDAT) as a distant third (+0.013 C / decade) 2) Virtually all of the USHCN warming since 1973 appears to be the result of adjustments NOAA has made to the data, mainly in the 1995 - 97 timeframe.

The government had to house nearly one - third of the island's population and, since it built the homes, had to put up solar water heaters.

He adds the current convention does not serve Alberta well, since it has almost 12 per cent of Canada's population, yet only four per cent (one - third of the single spot for the Prairies) of representation on the Supreme Court.

Third, the state is responsible for crime, period, and since crimes are against the state it is almost criminal to allow one out of a population to take the brunt and suffer lifetime of burden.

While Muslims have been in Australia since before white «Christian» settlement, and although they are the third largest religious group (after Christians and Buddhists), comprising 2.1 per cent of the population, they remain a very small minority against whom high levels of negativity exist.