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Another two or three decades and Michael might have the most impersonators from Bangkok and Brazil.

China came out of its shell three decades ago due to vigorous engagement with, not lectures from, Washington and Brussels.

More optimistic analysts think China will stay preoccupied with economic development at home for at least two or three decades.

Last year, when an official promotional video for the Wall was released, it looked as if it could have been made three decades ago.

I have studied them for over three decades and I find them to be scientifically fascinating, and a few are potentially hazardous to Earth.

He made no mention of his host, President Hosni Mubarak, a snub surely noticed by Egypt's autocratic ruler of nearly three decades.

In just three decades 'childhood' has been cut back by a year and a half as youngsters develop earlier.

But now, after more than three decades in the wilderness, Keynesian-style fiscal policy seems to be staging a comeback.

Over the last three decades, the party has enacted a broad array of economic reforms, even as it has clamped down hard on dissent.

Over the last three decades, Toyota built its reputation around the most American of traits: durability, reliability, affordability.

As it happens, that lack of loyalty has been a key driver of the Valley's rapid innovation over the past three decades.

There's been a significant increase in religious diversity in U. S. workplaces over two or three decades. That's part of it.

Over the last three decades, we have worked well on multiple fronts making China one of the Bank's biggest and best partners.

Computers were expensive. Cost per instruction executed can be can be used to compare the cost of computers over the last three decades.

But when America last snapped out of a long, frightening economic funk three decades ago, the metal lost half its value in two years.

"Mitigation efforts over the next two to three decades can reduce the rate of growth of greenhouse gas concentrations, " the U.

Over the past three decades, the Dutch appeared to come to terms with their place in soccer's natural order.

The Democratic senator from Montana was a novice in the rough world of rodeo three decades ago, but when challenged he did not hesitate.

Still, for three decades under Mao, China tried to break out of its backwardness and isolation but only met modest success.

In his more than three decades as an examiner, he had never seen a set of fingerprints like this.

The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades.

But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed to live with his wife for three decades without setting eyes on her face.

China is in the early stages of a battle against lead that the U. S. started nearly three decades ago.

The winning bid is expected to shape India's air power for the next three decades and serve as the bedrock of a strategic partnership.

This expectation is one of the few areas of rigorous continuity in U. S. foreign policy over the last three decades.

Saleh and his relatives plundered the public coffers during the last three decades of his abuse of power.

Yet workers' share of the cake in rich countries is now the smallest it has been for at least three decades (see chart 5).

China's economy is now roughly half the size of the United States'; in three decades, the two should be about equal.

Three decades ago, she was a cabin attendant and union official, the mother of two sons and married to a banker.

Twain goes on to claim that Miss Lyon, who was nearly three decades his junior, was trying to seduce him.

Over the next three decades, the sea shrank to two-fifths its original size, turning fishing villages into barren desert outposts.

FOR close to three decades America and Iran have had little to say to each other officially except by megaphone.

Three decades ago not a year passed without a number of people falling victims to hunger here.

The puzzle is compounded by the fact that the world ran a persistent current-account deficit for at least three decades until 2005.

They had shielded Mr Mubarak himself in respect for his three decades' service as their commander-in-chief.

Over the last three decades many papers have appeared dealing with a wide range of ethical issues concerned with population policy.

As part of that study, the individuals had undergone repeated measurements including body mass index (BMI) over more than three decades.

Increasingly, through the past three decades, U. S. business progress has been a matter of such intangibles.

For a good three decades, the UN has been trying to arrange a deal.

Three decades have past by since the beginning of Chinese modern art symbolized by the first 'Stars Art Exhibition' held in 1979.

After many years of virtually no contact, we have had three decades of intense engagement.

Leaders in Pakistan were haunted by the apparent end of a political dynasty that had shaped their politics for three decades.

On present trends, the atmosphere is likely to reach such a concentration in just three decades.

Yet the past three decades of experience suggest that this upward migration, even to, say, 40 percent, will be slow and difficult.

US government agency says the very richest Americans have become much wealthier over the past three decades than any other income group.

It would have to increase GDP by 12% a year for three decades in order to "grow its way out of debt. "

On the contrary, they're saying it will average just 2. 3% a year over the next three decades.

The quest had begun more than three decades earlier with a clue fit for a Dan Brown novel.

Such an increase in migrant stock would be in line with the migration trend observed during the past three decades.

This could describe many periods in world history, but it has never been more true than the past three decades.

S. military had been training troops and police in "civil disturbance planning" for the last three decades.

To be exact, space shuttles roared into space for three decades, two months and 26 days, the last flight occurring in July of this year.

But even in the warm, nurturing, egalitarian European Union, female happiness has fallen relative to men's across the last three decades.

Egg sparked a tradition among Russian Czars for the next three decades, until the demise of the Imperial Court.

A little more than three decades ago, the People's Republic was an isolated, agrarian nation whose closest international ally was Albania.

Carrying out reform and opening up over the last three decades has established an excellent material, technological and institutional base.

Whether Mr Nazarbayev will go ahead and treat himself to a full three decades in power remains to be seen.

And the link between crime and the poverty rate has weakened substantially over the past two or three decades.

First, growth for three decades has widened entrepreneurship, and made the pursuit of money-making respectable.

What China has done in less than three decades is nothing short of astonishing.

Chinese economic reform has been a tentative, experimental process for three decades.

NO COUNTRY in history has sustained such a blistering rate of growth over three decades as China.

Earlier this year Veronica Berlusconi, Silvio Berlusconi's wife of almost three decades, tired of her husband's reported boorish behaviour.

Over the past three decades, this pattern has persisted, with a few exceptions at the federal level.

That takes two or three decades of growth. Then, yesterday's allies can become today's rivals.

As a young discipline imported from the West, Chinese bioethics has made tremendous achievements in the last three decades.

But uranium prices remain well above the level seen for most of the past three decades, buoyed by an expectation of growth in nuclear power.

Over the last three decades there have been five bouts of co-ordinated intervention in the major currencies.

But the most interesting case is China, which over the last three decades has had the fastest-growing economy in world history.

The name stuck, and three decades later it would become associated with sadistic gangland slayings.

Two or three decades ago, little girls were not permitted to wear makeup or sheer stockings.

Maybe after two or three decades, I'll have more readers, but it's too early now.

This is particularly necessary when dealing with a country with which there has been no effective contact for three decades.

The evolution of color vision has been a topic of intensive study for more than three decades.

All of which is to say that I learn something about human nature, or Kevin's nature, on this July morning three decades later.

With growth averaging nearly 10% a year for more than three decades, China today is the world's second-largest economy.

China's trade surplus has continued to increase for three decades since China's reform and opening up policy in 1978.

It was a Japanese scientist who first undertook serious field studies of the Bonobo, almost three decades ago.

And all this against three decades of momentous social, political and economic change.

China was effectively closed for the next three decades, but Shanghai's worldliness was never fully extinguished.

After more than three decades in power, President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) conducts the political game to his liking.

Over the course of a century, antibiotics, better sanitation and other advances have added three decades to the average American's life.

America, the revolutionaries' Great Satan, is seeking to reopen a conversation after three decades of a dialogue of the deaf.

In a country that has been at war for three decades, the next generation of Islamic fighters is not hard to find.

In contrast with expectations, we find, on looking back, that we have been on an economic decline for three decades.

For the last three decades, globalization has funneled a stiff headwind directly against workers in developed countries.

So it may be that capitalism is approaching some kind of tipping point, away from the winner takes all culture of the past three decades.

For much of the past three decades China had all the land, labour and resources it needed to sustain rapid economic growth.

Three decades after the first test tube baby Louise Brown was born in Britain, scientists have revealed she was actually grown in a JAR.

Temasek's officials, including Chairman S. Dhanabalan, usually highlight the company's returns over the three decades since its inception.

For the past three decades, Australia has served as a sort of early-warning system for the rise of China.

Two days later, one of the worst earthquakes in three decades pummeled China's southwestern Sichuan province.

The NDRC has listed it as "one of the key issues and priorities" after three decades of fast economic growth.

After three decades of migrating to the coast, the inland population is increasingly working closer to its roots.

So said Richard Nixon about Fred Thompson three decades ago, when Mr Thompson was a young lawyer working on the Watergate investigation.

In the last three decades, modern music education has been paid more attention but there is still great disparity between universities.

There has been an outpouring of research over the last three decades on what researchers call "subjective well-being. "

Three decades later the two countries are still at it.

Not bad for a country which three decades ago had a separate currency for visiting foreigners.

In the last three decades, California expanded the public sector and regulation to Europe-like dimensions.

In the past three decades, governments have accepted a huge expansion of private provision, much of it by for-profit outfits.

Over the last three decades, running has exploded as a leisure sport.

Their rapid modernization over the past three decades means energy competition is occurring on an unprecedented scale.

The tale of her broken family becomes a microcosm for China's own incredible, epic story of the past three decades.

Henry Kissinger was a senior when I enrolled, though we were not to meet for three decades.

But, three decades earlier, John F. Kennedy was able to keep his now notorious promiscuity from the press.

Therefore, the last three decades, the current mode circuit design methods have seen significant development.

Europe's universities have seen funding per student fall behind wage inflation by 1-2% a year over three decades.

New date, three decades since the film's historical moment of social change, thought the collision riveting.

Monte-Carlo method using to calculate the effective emissivity of blackbody cavities in the last three decades was reviewed.

Three decades ago, full-time workers with a bachelor's degree made 40 percent more than those with only a high-school diploma.

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The second is some three decades of experience in coaching people through a wide spectrum of chronic and acute pain challenges.

Collaboration between the EPA and the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) stretches back more than three decades.

Three decades ago, both the city and the subway shared the bad reputation: dirty, unsafe and no place to be.

Psychological research over three decades demonstrates the power of Stimulus Control Therapy.

Three decades of falling rates, after all, have produced a set of habits and assumptions which would need re-examination.

For more than three decades, budgets have been slashed and visionary programmes terminated in favour of more pragmatic goals.

In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.

Over the last three decades, foreign direct investment has brought capital, advanced technologies and business know-how to China.

This paper gives an overview of our research and practical experiences on functional absorbers over the past three decades.

The problem today is that this model, which has worked so well for over three decades, is showing signs of fatigue.

But it also laid the groundwork for nearly three decades of growth and the emergence of new sectors like information technology and biotech.

The political party that best represented progressive Protestantism in the three decades prior to the Civil War was the Whig Party.

Globalisation, the economic and political mega-trend of the past three decades, is still firmly in place.

He has also been closely involved in attempts to reform the international financial system for the last three decades.

That's not far off China's historical growth rate of 10%, the average of the last three decades.

This would be the lowest volume of sales in just over three decades, and the fourth consecutive year of declines.

Rising Arctic temperatures have reduced floating ice cover by 20 percent over the last three decades.

Three decades ago, the heads of American companies generally felt "American" , and thus had "skin in the game" of national policy debates.

Indeed, from our party through three three decades, without exception, tough, troubled, even against foreign aggression and challenges.

Both have opened up to international trade and capital flows in the past three decades.

In the UK, the rise of the financial sector over the past three decades was accompanied by a decline in manufacturing.

Activists have spent the best part of three decades campaigning for proper compensation for Bhopal's victims.

When Hafez Assad died after three decades as president of Syria, power passed smoothly to his son Bashar.

But it is evident to any dispassionate observer that these are far from being the countries of three decades ago.

Predictability under a veneer of democracy has given three decades of stability to the most populous and politically pivotal Arab state.

The economy will certainly begin to slow in the next few years after three decades of nearly 10% average annual growth.

The backlash was rooted in the disappointments monetarism caused when it was put into effect almost three decades ago.

The advent of the internet over the past three decades has opened up exciting new worlds of communication, commerce and creativity.

Even as he got older, for three decades Steve Jobs and Apple remained "cool. "

Over the past three decades, China has repeatedly opted for reforms and the opening up of a once-closed system.

Astronaut Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon , more than three decades ago .

Incidentally, GM will now be the first Dow component to lose its place in the "Hot 30" because of bankruptcy in more than three decades.

For three decades, U. S. diplomats have failed to secure real Chinese cooperation in their efforts to prevent Iran from going nuclear.

Three decades after the start of Deng Xiaoping's reforms, the nation has much to celebrate, writes Leo Horn.

Three decades ago deodorants were almost impossible to find in Brazilian shops, but Unilever's sales there are now worth euro 400m a year.

It isn't yet known if operator error may have played a role, as it did three decades ago at Three Mile Island.

For three decades it has been the subject of intense debate and rancour, preventing as many as 400 million births - mostly of baby girls.

After three decades of economic progress but political paralysis, change is in the air, says Max Rodenbeck.

In the last three decades, evolutionary psychologists have made a number of dis- coveries concerning why we want what we want.

It estimates that between 4 and 12 million abortions have occurred in the last three decades in India as a result of sex selection.

In the rivalry lies a struggle that, despite the reforms of the past three decades, is still undecided.

Chinese scientists believe the Rongbuk glaciers have retreated by up to 230 metres in the past three decades.

In the ensuing three decades, the traditional Keynesian economics in the research, development paradigm to the historical peak.

But the oldest of the old -- the 'wellderly' -- live two to three decades longer, often free of mental and physical ailments.

Another 300 million people from rural areas are expected to move to work and live in cities and towns over the next three decades, Li said.

Despite its meteoric economic rise over the past three decades, China cannot yet hope to match America's accumulated economic capabilities.

Yet, over the ensuing three decades progress in the clinical setting has been slow, and cancer remains a largely incurable disease.

Its growth rate over the last three decades has averaged an annual rise in GDP of in excess of 10%.

Without an effective female-controlled contraceptive, a young woman faced the prospect of three decades of child bearing.

He returned to Broadway almost three decades later, filling in as the razzle-dazzle lawyer Billy Flynn in "Chicago" in 2003.

Now, more than three decades later, there is nothing private nor scandalous about middle schoolers in love.

After three decades of Iran's leaders calling America "the Great Satan" , it may not be that easy for the two countries to kiss and make up.

The IMF says there have been 40 occasions in the last three decades where such large changes have been made.

Four other federal inquiries held over the past three decades have failed to halt the decline.

Given FACS's three decades of acceptance and CERT's record of accuracy, automated facial-expression analysis might well meet those criteria.

Beta-blockers have been the mainstay of treatment for portal hypertension for nearly three decades.

NAEP test score gaps in math and reading between Caucasian and minority students have tapered to the smallest margins in three decades.

The health of people in Bangladesh has improved significantly over the last three decades, but many challenges remain.

Only then would the country be as economically equal as it was three decades ago.

In Rong-Sheng Li lay dying, he told his son tells the story of a sealed three decades, and uttered a shaking secret.

It all began more than three decades ago when Lovelock devised the electron-capture detector.

After three decades of reform and opening-up and through unremitting efforts, IPR protection is now gaining broader public support in China.

The assumptions that ruled policy and politics over three decades suddenly look as outdated as revolutionary socialism.

Outbreaks are a much larger menace today than they were just three decades ago.

China's spectacular growth over the past three decades has prompted hordes of businesspeople to jump onto aeroplanes and move house.

China's breakneck economic growth of the past three decades has pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

The result was annual growth rates of nearly 10 percent over the next three decades.

That poses a challenge to the Communist Party, which has staked its legitimacy on delivering three decades of high-speed growth.

Without a sound and effective political regime, how can China achieve rapid economic development in the past three decades?

After nearly three decades of development, china's real estate has become the fundamental and pillar industry of the national economy.

China's average annual growth of 10 percent over the past three decades is a testament to its drive.

Three decades later, Japan holds lessons of a less encouraging sort.

After more than three decades in charge, Mr Saleh cannot hold on for much longer. The question is who comes next.

In the last three decades optics has been revitalized by several important discoveries.

Since world income, education, and openness have increased greatly in the past three decades, the advance of democracy is not surprising.

Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.

Set amidst a changing metropolis, Century Park Hotel shows no signs of losing steam after three decades in the business.

For three decades, India has craved a nuclear energy deal that would bring prestige and advanced technology.

"GROWTH with equity" was the mantra of the Asian tigers during the three decades to the 1990s.

The price of gold saw its biggest fall over two days for three decades, as investors beat a sharp retreat from the recent bull market.

To save money, the family rarely shops at major department stores, and Hiroto admits to wearing the same sweat suit for three decades.

The past three decades have been the exception, not the norm, in stock market investing.

This trend began long before Ahmadinejad's presidency, and it has served to tear apart Iranian families for three decades.

Three decades later, free-thinker James Lovelock arrived at the same conclusions based on his telescopic analysis of other planets.

Three decades of this work have rejiggered his perceptual apparatus.

Our experience in analyzing cycles over the past three decades affects how we view all types of technical measures.

Three decades later, Jobs would do exactly the same thing, except in a black turtleneck and jeans.

The U. S. Interstate system, in contrast, was built over more than three decades, starting from 1958 and lasting until 1991.

For more than three decades, Honeywell has served as a MAC on hundreds of Shell projects.

After three decades of stellar growth, the financial-services industry needs to shrink and become less profitable.

After three decades of undisputed rule, the accord calls for Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to share power with the opposition. Mr.

Three decades on, a British EU president would give pause to those who maintain that Britain never has any influence in Brussels.

More than a million Chinese have studied in the West in the last three decades.

She belongs to the generation most people believe is reaping the benefits of three decades of rapid economic growth.

For three decades after that, Deng restored order, rationalized the economy, and opened the country to foreign investment.

America, its chief mediator for the past three decades, has formally taken time out. Israel's government seems blithely uninterested.

Nearly all the gains that wage earners made over the past three decades have gone to paying for health care.

Three decades later, another team recorded electrical activity in deltoid muscles as people walked.

Bongo, Africa's longest serving ruler, has maintained more than three decades of cordial ties with Beijing.

The Chilean side admires the splendid achievements made by China over the past three decades of reform and opening up.

When Deng Xiaoping initiated his reform and open-door strategy three decades ago he pushed an overseas-study program.

"Bill has spent more than three decades helping to shape our industry, " says GAM and GABB publisher Phil Saran.

Apparently, not for millions of Chinese, including those who have prospered economically during the past three decades.

Over the past three decades, the prevalence of childhood asthma has increased substantially.

The internal security services were the feared enforcers of Hosni Mubarak's three decades in power.

In the past three decades, China has more than doubled the mileage of new track in its railroad system.

For much of the past three decades, China focused its efforts on building up its physical infrastructure.

Experts have long cited three decades of strict population control for China's looming demographic time bomb.

Over three decades, political and military leaders have appealed to Islam as a source of strength.

Like Harry Winston, who died more than three decades ago, Mr. Graff has made his fortune selling big diamonds.

Capital controls were lifted three decades ago and financial markets are highly integrated.

British Airways' cabin crew say they have offered to take pay cuts, a far cry from the inflation-busting rises demanded three decades ago.

Most Americans are still not prospering in the high-technology, global economy that emerged three decades ago.

Three decades ago the world began moving towards markets and an increasingly open world economy.

A major exhibition of American artist Julian Schnabel's paintings from the past three decades will be shown at venues throughout Asia.

But starting three decades ago, these trends have been turned upside down.

Finally, and most concerning, for three decades, the overwhelming secular trend has been towards ever lower yields.

The Radio City Rockettes have performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for more than three decades.

Only in the past few years has per capita income started to get back to where it was three decades ago.

Researchers studied three decades of Major League Baseball batting averages and play-by-play data.

During the last three decades, a new kind of numerical method which is named meshless method or mesh free method has been developed.

Over the past three decades, with the default settings, color replication is incredibly simple to is also very easy.

More than three decades of uninterrupted war in Afghanistan has mass-produced widows.

After nearly three decades of effort, we have discovered that universities aren't very good at technology transfer, either.

Since economic reforms were initiated three decades ago, we have put a lot of emphasis on exports.

God is reading a newspaper when it suddenly strikes him that Hosni Mubarak has been at Egypt's helm for nearly three decades.

Cassandra has had a tough assignment during the past three decades.

After three decades of the one-child policy, you'd expect people here to know how to have sex without getting pregnant.

Three decades after China embarked on dazzling economic reforms, much has changed for women.

Four more IIMs have been built in India in the past three decades - in Bangalore, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode.

The same goes for milk products, which consumers been paying for at the same rate for three decades.

In three decades of reform and opening up, China's Private Higher Education has experienced ups and downs.

The Maoism that replaced Chinese tradition has since been eviscerated by three decades of economic reforms and opening that began in 1978.

By taking risks, Jacobs forced his school to adapt through nearly three decades of business tumult.

During the past three decades, hydropower plants have been criticised for their environmental impact.

To make matters worse, the country's oil industry, its fiscal cash-cow for the past three decades, is declining swiftly (see chart).

He then briefly reviewed the past three decades in France published several important proceedings of Dunhuang Studies.

In three decades of working with high-tech organizations, I've seen fewer than ten truly original ideas.