Sentences with phrase «year trend toward»

Michael Crichton discusses Chernobyl, the origins of the novel State of Fear, the language of ecological scare - tactics, the ongoing, 150 - year trend toward energy decarbonization, and the concept of «information invalids» - people sickened by bad information.

Michael Crichton discusses Chernobyl, the origins of the novel State of Fear, the language of ecological scare - tactics, the ongoing, 150 - year trend toward energy decarbonization, and the concept of «information invalids» - people sickened by bad information.

I pointed out that the puppies had reversed a five - year trend toward gender balance in the Hugo awards.

Moreover, there has been a twenty - year trend toward relatively larger student bodies.

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In recent years, however, observers have cited a decided trend toward fundamental reassessments of human resources structures and positions.

The trend toward the cloud has been gaining acceptance for some time, as startup Box, founded by Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Year Aaron Levie, can attest.

«Over the past few years, we've seen a steady trend toward people using TweetDeck on their computers and Twitter on their mobile devices.»

To be sure, any 25 - year predictions are inherently difficult and overly biased toward trends today.

EDM as a popular trend has subsided from its early - 2000s peak, and while electronic will never go away, the pop charts have drifted toward more traditional, less garish genres in the past few years.

«Global growth is still seen as on track to recover gradually toward its underlying trend of 3-1/2 % over the year ahead,» Deutsche Bank said in a note.

«The consumer trends are moving at a pace that I've never seen in my 30 years in the business, toward more natural and more real ingredients,» he says.

The movement toward improving living standards for chickens builds on the cage - free eggs trend, which led to a slew of restaurant chains and grocery stores in recent years promising to ditch cages to improve the lives of hens.

Now, earnings are running at around $ 2 billion a year and trending toward the mid-2000s peak.

It may see losses in a year, or struggle over a five - year period, but over time the trend is toward gains.

The blame for its underperformance, according to Buffalo Wild Wings» management, lies with the painful combination of historically high wing prices for this time of year, a shift in mix toward its value - priced offerings, and difficult traffic trends.

First, U.S. economic numbers continue to be mixed ---- an index of economic surprises is still hovering just above a six - year low ---- although the trend is toward improvement.

After having dipped in the second half of last year, home prices in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been recovering, are up from levels one year ago, and are now at new heights or trending toward them (Greater Vancouver: 11.4 % y - o - y and Fraser Valley: 18 % y - o - y).

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

The last fifty years have seen a trend toward greater emphasis on both diversity and IQ.

The trend toward more serious desire for social change may seem to be contradicted by the highly publicized conservative political expression of the past few years.

The trend toward larger farms in conventional dairy production was evident in the five years between the two USDA organic surveys.

U.S. wine drinkers continued their shift toward higher - priced bottles from California last year — a trend of interest to Modesto - area producers.

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«Despite consumer trends toward low - carb and no - additive preferences, CCA has failed to launch new products to address these trends in recent years,» said CIMB analyst Daniel Broeren.

Last year we saw most of the top season point totals to go Over their numbers, but this year most of the top totals are trending toward the Under:

Fresh from a closing 66 and T4 at the Wells Fargo Championship, but with no wins in nine tour appearances this year, McIlroy hoped his game was trending toward his three most recent TPC starts — consecutive top 10s — and not his first three missed cuts.

Kurtz is a heavy favorite for an NCS title and is trending toward improving on his 4th - place finish at the CIF State Championships a year ago.

Mobile feeding is particularly advantageous during the summer months, but the trend toward using mobile trucks is gaining plenty of traction during the school year as well.

For starters, the trend toward sugary, processed foods in school has been in place some 30 years now and the results are clear for anyone to see: it's killing our kids.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

However, on the basis of trends so far, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which parted 40 years ago, are separately traveling in the same direction, toward erasure from the political maps of the future.

All told, Saland landed $ 425,202 in contributions, a huge amount in an off - cycle fundraising year for a candidate who usually has little competition, even in an area that's trending toward Democrats.

We've seen the trend toward strong mayoral control in many large cities in recent years, with Richmond, San Diego, Oakland and many others taking big...

«In the first quarter of 2016, we were trending toward more than 500 deaths for the year.

Because there are so many people in both fields, handicapping the race is tough but Minnesota has trended strongly toward Democrats in recent elections and voters are likely to be looking for a Democrat after eight years of Republican control of the governor's mansion.

The Republicans are also counting on a trend toward tax revenue growth in the past couple of years continuing through the next decade.

Fertility rates tend to decrease with increasing life span even if the number of fertile years per person increases, which counters the trend toward population increase associated with increased life span.

While the study couldn't control for every variable that might have affected the shape of the skulls, the trend the researchers found was toward thinner craniums and less prominent brow ridges starting around 80,000 years ago and possibly earlier.

The trend toward scientific denationalization will be further manifested in a brand - new all - European science event, which will take place in Stockholm a year from now.

Although the seven - year data record is too short to make conclusions about long - term trends, it is an important step toward understanding how dust and other windborne particles, or aerosols, behave as they move across the ocean.

«There's a lot of year - to - year variability in both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, but overall, until last year, the trends in the Antarctic for every single month were toward more sea ice,» said Claire Parkinson, a senior sea ice researcher at Goddard.

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

Results on the trend toward advanced spring emergence were published this February in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Among the paper's findings: nymphal ticks peak in the spring, larval ticks peak in the summer, and both emerge nearly three weeks earlier in warmer years.

Projects in this year's competition trended toward education and global health, although several teams tackled another pressing problem worldwide — traffic management — with applications for improving bus routes and a social networking tool for organizing car pools, says Jon Perera (pdf), Microsoft's general manager for education.

The data show that peak wet conditions for the Desert Southwest was 1,500 years ago, at which point the trend started reversing toward drier conditions.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

That's especially important on farms, since decreasing biodiversity could ultimately threaten our food supply (not that that's done much to reverse the trend toward growing single crops year after year).

Individuals with APOE 3 — TOMM40 clade A haplotypes had a mean AAO of 73.31 years vs 72.93 years for APOE 3 — TOMM40 clade B. Thus, in this much larger study (total cases = 1594, total controls = 1190; total APOE 33 cases = 474, total APOE 33 controls = 701) than the original study (N = 34), we found a trend toward association but in the opposite direction than previously reported.

We've seen the tourism market turn toward wellness in recent years with brands like Westin investing in healthy hospitality, and that trend is accelerating in 2018.

These guidelines have helped fuel a trend in recent years toward «evidence - based» psychotherapy.