Sentences with phrase «war years»

The traditional industries of textiles and manufacturing have declined dramatically in the post war years.
When smartphone companies go to war every year with their flagship phones, it sometimes gets every confusing for users who are looking for an upgrade from their older handsets.
In the otherwise dark war year of 1941, Canadian investors received some very good news.
Post War Years In 1949 Bourgeois held her first exhibition at the Peridot Gallery in New York, which mainly consisted of totem sculptures and wooden figures.
And which game will leave us with a bitter taste in our mouths (fingers crossed there's no God of War this year).
According to figures from the Office of Management and Budget, the high point of NASA expenditures was during the Cold War years of the space race in FY 1966, when it accounted for 4.5 percent of national spending.
Really interesting account of life in the post 2nd world war years in the east end of London.
A stellar cast, accompanied by music and riveting sound effects, immerses listeners in Priest's steampunk coming - of - age tale, set during the early Civil War years in a Pacific Northwest devastated by a deadly gas.
SEOUL, April 27 (Reuters)- North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.
I've been a fan of Chloe Coscarelli's since she won Food Network's Cupcake Wars years ago.
In the Cold War years de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, as the most famous abstract expressionists, came to symbolise freedom itself.
Fritz Lang was one such director and Man Hunt is one of the best propaganda efforts to emerge from the early war years.
Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in agreed Friday to finally end a seven - decade war this year, and signed a declaration to pursue the «complete denuclearization» of the Korean Peninsula, although they did not announce any concrete steps to dismantle the North's nuclear programs.
And during the pre-Civil War years America's most valuable export was not capital goods or financial services, it was cotton, mostly produced by slave labor.
Or would they have wanted not to think back on the sufferings and horrors of those difficult war years?
[4] During the post-Civil War years, industry and agriculture suffered losses as the economy contracted.
Supporters of the invasion of Iraq forced to defend the arguments they made over ten years ago, as events in the country seem to vindicate those who opposed the war
A recent study commissioned by the European Union calculates that those lost services, along with the massive release of carbon as forests go up in smoke (accounting for 20 percent of carbon emissions worldwide), add up to 7 percent of global GDP, or two to five trillion dollars annually — the equivalent of the total cost of the Iraq War every year.
«People with depression also are at higher risk for suicide, which accounts for more deaths than car accidents, natural disasters and war each year on average.
The Avengers are probably going to be guilty of this in a year's time, but at least they're giving the end of Infinity War a year to sit with itself.
Writing letters in which pictures were substituted for words was a popular activity during the Revolutionary War years.
Griffith added that districts would also develop their own pay - scales, avoiding «free agent» bidding wars every year.
The queen's gown was designed by British couturier Norman Hartnell for her 1947 wedding, a much - heralded dash of splendor after the austere war years.
The US military had ended the Gulf war a year earlier and the economy had just come out of a mild recession in the middle of 91».
And during the World War years poor Hull was the second most - bombed city in England, thanks to its docks.
Because of this, we've crowned a «winner» to the oh - so serious console war a year in, and avoid giving credit where it is due because the idea of competition between the two leaves a bad taste in the mouths of fanboys.
It was a soldier documentary type narrative that followed these good and then very bad troopers through the Clone Wars years.
As evidenced by my replay game of the year, I'm a huge fan of the series, and this year was a big Total War year for me.
Although post war years saw a strong figuration in his work, with the creation of miniature theatres or Teatrinis, the 1960s brought a returned modernist influence.
In the post war years Lichtenhan once again organized a number of solo shows of international modern art: Piet Mondrian, Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, Oskar Kokoschka, and Vincent van Gogh in 1947; Juan Gris, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso shown in a group display in 1948; and a large - scale exhibition of French Impressionism in 1949, at which Claude Monet's Water - Lilies was seen for the first time outside France.
It provided power at Panama Canal during Vietnam war years, allowing more boats to pass through the canal (2,500 a year more is the # we've seen) than otherwise would have been possible.
«In the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, wars broke out between European countries at a rate of about three new wars a year
Amazon is joining the TV operating system wars this year, starting with a handful of 4K sets from Seiki, Westinghouse, and Element.
When smartphone companies go to war every year with their flagship phones, it sometimes gets every confusing for users who are looking for an upgrade from...
Only the final model (5f in Fig. 2) returns a statistically significant climate parameter estimate; apparently, major civil war years (i.e., years with at least 1,000 battle deaths) are more frequent in years following unusually wet periods — a result that directly contradicts the notion of scarcity - induced conflicts.
SEOUL, April 27 - North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.
Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.
Run between the KwaZulu Natal cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg, the first race started outside the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on 24 May 1921 with 34 runners and has been run every year since then with the exceptions of the 2nd World War years of 1941 — 1945.
Cvijeta Novakovic is native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, peacebuilding and conflict transformation professional and activist since 1995, war year in her home country.
In the Post War years of the late 1940s, he continued his association with these artists, and became a founding member of the seminal Eighth Street Club in 1949, the meeting place for the New York School.
Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history, giving a rarely - heard voice to the women and children of Pearl Harbor.
During the war years, Eisenhower earned his five stars because he proved to be a diligent, effective leader who could think strategically.
On the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, Canada and Japan can look back with satisfaction on a long - standing friendship that was restored and revived, following the disruption of the war years, primarily through strong trade ties.
In a joint declaration signed by Moon and Kim after the summit, the two countries agreed to pursue «complete denuclearization» of the Korean Peninsula and to strive to declare a formal end to the Korean War this year.
The government cut its budget significantly and at the same time the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to stave off inflation, because they were trying to contain the price inflation from the war years.
Both periods of inflation were the result of heavy government spending during the war years.
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