Not exact matches
To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil
War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII
economic boom.
Revolutions, civil
war and
economic boom and bust — the changing age structure of a country's population could be behind them all, says Fred Pearce
An open question is whether changes on the level of business or international politics can also drive changes in physiology — for instance, winning or losing
wars, or
economic booms and busts.
They found that although an increase in bidding
wars was correlated with
economic and housing
booms, that rise was not consistent from one jurisdiction to another.
The post World
War II
economic boom saw the establishment of mining (mainly alumina for bauxite), tourism, manufacturing and construction sectors, and the USA replace the UK as Jamaica's main trading partner.
Stretching from the early 1970s in the Iowa farmlands to suburban Chicago to the coast of contemporary Italy - and moving through the Vietnam
War's aftermath, the farm crisis, the numerous
economic booms and busts - The Year We Left Home follows the Erickson siblings as they confront prosperity and heartbreak, setbacks and triumphs, and seek their place in a country whose only constant seems to be breathtaking change.
There is an important 40 - year cycle that operates in the financial markets, and it also shows up in other areas such as real estate
booms, gold rushes, and
economic wars.
«But during our
economic boom since World
War II, re-use was replaced with the idea of a never - ending supply of «replace.»
The influx of money into Belize from these overseas workers created a false
economic boom which was to end dramatically at
war's end.
Yoshitomo Nara and the Tokyo Pop art movement reflect the experiences of a generation of artists who grew up during the post-World
War II
economic boom in Japan that was characterized by, among other things, an influx of popular culture from the West, including the animation of Warner Bros and Walt Disney.
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What inspired the «green activism» of the 1970s was not as much pretty pictures of «Gaia» as much as it was the oil shock, and the other
economic and Cold
War crises that developed as the postwar
economic boom turned to bust.
Now we certainly need the military in all its facets, and the
war economy does fund many workers, however, not since WWII have we seen such a post
war economic and baby
boom in this country; also with the pull backs in the Korean action, at the Peking river, we more than sealed our fate, needing to pull out of a country we did know eneough about geographically and we were flanked much like many of our
wars and occupations; WWII was our last real success.