two-decades

For the next two decades at least America will remain the only real superpower.

Dell has spent the past two decades trying to become a great business of this kind, and, to a large extent, it has succeeded.

IT HAS been a dreadful week in Kashmir, the bloodiest yet in two decades of uprisings against Indian rule.

They show that this yearbook, tells of the beginning of their walk from the 18-year-old history of two decades.

Even more stunning was that, at the end of these two decades, 55 per cent of the workforce was at a new job.

It had been nearly two decades since she had won the Pulitzer prize for "The Heidi Chronicles" , her most significant play.

MINTIMER SHAIMIEV has ruled Tatarstan, a large Muslim republic in the heart of Russia, for two decades with a soft voice and a tight fist.

China's growth has been so consistently explosive over the last two decades that it's easy to forget that.

She said she voluntarily left her position on which she has worked for two decades, adding she received a severance payment she deserved.

He said he had lasted nearly two decades, but now worked for a competitor.

Perhaps my heart has been where to stay, just like the memory of a certain stagnation in the two decades when, like a moment.

Nanofluid cooling, as the phenomenon is known, was discovered almost two decades ago, but is only now coming out of the laboratory.

Over the last two decades thousands of new, trendy weight loss and dieting products have cycled in and out at your local health food store.

Integrating China into the international marketplace had been a goal of U. S. policy toward China for the past two decades.

Yet Japanese investors have had to endure two decades of frustration (and counting) since the end of Tokyo's bull market.

Let me give you a few examples of how the EU has developed over the last two decades.

But even as she prepares to turn 70, she has every reason to expect she'll be around for at least another two decades.

A year is a short period to judge such a movement: Vaclav Havel and his friends were outcasts for two decades after Charter 77's launch.

Over the next two decades he was a printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier, a gold miner, a businessman and a newspaper reporter.

At some time in the next two decades, we will think about the information market place in terms of these four components.

But Mr Castro stopped trying to overthrow Latin American governments more than two decades ago, shortly before his Soviet sponsor collapsed.

Japan had its banking crisis two decades ago, but it still does not seem to have got over it.

The race is now on to pull Iraq out of the scientific backwater it has become through two decades of war, UN sanctions and dictatorship.

Despite India's two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh's GDP per head is close to that of Kenya.

Since the number of children is now low, the birth rate will not be able to increase for the next two decades, he said.

Over the past two decades, its ratio of imports to GDP (which peaked at 32% in 2005) was more than twice that of Japan's.

Familiar piece of road, the impression had not changed over the past two decades, can now no longer the old look.

On a per-capita-emissions basis, the U. S. is expected to remain the world's biggest greenhouse gas producer over the next two decades.

People crossing the same corner two decades on. The line of cobblestones marks where the Wall used to run.

The Chinese construction industry has resembled something of a juggernaut over the past two decades.

For the better part of the past two decades, Americans have been living in a state of willful optimism about our financial future.

This group has had a better time of it than any other group in society over the past two decades, and it's time to stop complaining.

Over the next two decades, the company built a portfolio of unrivaled cable television news and entertainment brands and businesses.

Over the next two decades he built his company into China's largest retailer with thousands of stores and a market value of nearly $9bn.

And now, after just over two decades with his first and only club, Tony Adams is about to begin the last season of his career.

The invitation to speak to the Knesset and meet with the prime minister was the culmination of two decades of my involvement with the case.

As most of you know, I am not a native of this great state. I moved to Illinois over two decades ago.

But the enthusiasm for wave motors that swept California in the two decades around the turn of the century has never been matched.

For at least two decades the US has been unable to provide monetary stability, financial regulation and fiscal rectitude.

In 2011 American bank bosses will start trying to reverse one of the biggest mistakes their firms made over the past two decades.

You know better than I the great achievements of the Chinese economy over the past two decades.

Almost two decades later the Danes besieged the city again, only to be defeated once more by Alfred the Great.

America and Europe have entered the sort of structural bear market that gripped Japan and South Korea two decades ago, for two reasons.

Over the last two decades China has overtaken the U. S. , and then Germany, to be the world's largest exporter.

The fragility of China's internal situation and the cresting in two decades of its demographic advantage do not escape Friedberg's scrutiny.

Most economists believe that quantitative easing could help pull the economy out of its worst recession in two decades.

I've been a police officer for two decades and a detective, specialising in serious crime and sexual offences, for 15 years.

The German figures, the best since reunification almost two decades ago, meant that the euro-area economy had a good quarter, too.

China's economy has grown at a rate of about 10 percent a year for the last two decades.

But just as he did two decades ago, he saved his best performance for the game itself.

Tanabata, the mother and father, respectively, in the two decades after the kind of mood to go on the story of Cowboy Weaver?

And given all that has happened in your two decades on Earth, just imagine what you can create in the years to come.

There have been striking gains since the Communists opened the system to private enterprise more than two decades ago.

But, over the past two decades there have been a few game-changers.

May 11 two decades ago, I came to this world, I fall to earth from the moment that you began the difficult years of child-rearing.

Population levels around the basin are expected to double to 40m over the next two decades, causing a sharp rise in the demand for water.

It was the index's best pre-Labor Day week in two decades and pushed it back into the black for the year. U.

But for performance she did for over two decades, a brilliant star touched millions of hearts across the world.

Year after year over the past two decades, Matsushita's growth rate has equaled or surpassed that of all of its global competitors.

Over the next two decades, the world will see a burst of urban expansion at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed in human history.

No technology has ever spread faster around the globe: the mobile phone took less than two decades to reach this degree of penetration.

But in the last two decades Chicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan has knocked the legendary crime boss from his pedestal.

No economy in history has lifted more people out of poverty in a shorter period of time than China has within the last two decades.

It has been given an extra kicker over the last two decades by the "Great Moderation" in the global economy.

Mr Naimi warned that the region would be "central" to satisfying the growth in demand, especially from China, in the next two decades.

Peru's capital is afflicted by an anarchic, corrupt transit system due to chronic mismanagement and corruption dating back two decades.

In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, that distinction has not been appreciated well enough.

Over the two decades that the report covers, inequality rose in 37 US states and had not changed significantly in the other 13.

One of Mourinho's first acts was to hand the captain's armband to John Terry, the best Chelsea youth product for over two decades.

This week they were rebuked by Campaign 2000, an activist group, which reported that child poverty is now as bad as it was two decades ago.

Zheng said the past two decades have witnessed the sound development of business exchanges and cooperation between the mainland and Taiwan.

The emergence of mesoscopic physics has led to the discovery of many striking new phenomena in solid state physics in the last two decades.

A large number of studies have been performed over the last two decades to assess whether mobile phones pose a potential health risk.

The idea that the economy will grow at nearly double digits for the next two decades is now accepted wisdom in India.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1978, to considerable surprise, since by then he had not taught economics for two decades.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, quite a few writers resorted to the standpoint of religion culture.

HSBC is in the unusual position of having a huge cushion of capital and its tier one ratio is now at its highest levels for two decades.

For Simpson, though, seeing her hot tower hypothesis verified over the next two decades was surely a kind of poetic justice as well.

For two decades they have enjoyed a duopoly in this part of the market, roughly splitting sales between them.

As I look at the data, the US has received about as much equity investment as it has lost over the past two decades.

I replied stiffly, less out of the prejudice of two decades than from the awkwardness of our meeting.

Indeed it has been for two decades, and most of you do not credit yourselves for navigating it into reality.

Bulgari's poor performance follows news in January that Swiss watch exports suffered their biggest monthly decline in at least two decades.

All of us had done different jobs within our companies, but more importantly, our industries have changed a great deal in two decades.

This, then, has been a broad surge in commodity prices, albeit after more than two decades of, first, falling and then stagnant prices.

Over the next two decades, he tried every marketing gimmick he could think of.

China's journey from a seriously poor, autarkic, economy to the "shop floor of the world, " took a bit more than two decades.

Over the next two decades the makeup of tourism around the world will change significantly.

They found that there was no change in rates between 1998 and 2003 compared with the previous two decades.

Eric J. Fry, Agora Financial's Editorial Director, has been a specialist in international equities for nearly two decades.

It was not until two decades ago that transistors began to replace electric tubes on a large scale.

And in Papua New Guinea, they were making stone axes until two decades ago, just as a course of practical matters.

In the two decades leading up to the global financial crisis real disposable household incomes increased in all OECD countries.

For two decades, this new universe of linkable data expanded faster than any other form of information.

The 48-page report also reveals that there has been a fall in the number of returning refugees to 197, 600, the lowest in two decades.

Financial reforms in the next two decades should be decisive, comprehensive and well coordinated, following a properly sequenced roadmap.

After the government initiated its case against IBM, the company spent two decades scrupulously avoiding even the appearance of impropriety.

Over the past two decades, sub-Saharan Africa has seen a resurgence of this airborne disease, which disproportionately affects the poor.

Over the past two decades, it has become one of the most-studied objects in the sky.

After two decades, the federal government has decided to serve nutrition advice on a plate instead of a pyramid.

In less than two decades, the two countries together will have more than three times as many rabid consumers as the US has citizens.

In the past two decades, Jews have called it the City of David, a part of what thousands of years ago was the ancient Jewish capital.

Trade within the EU has grown no faster than the EU's trade with the rest of the world over the last two decades.

For two decades, world leaders have been trying -- and failing -- to hammer out a workable deal on global warming.

By one researcher's measure, Windows share of the PC market in the latest quarter was at its lowest level in two decades.

Over the past two decades, securitization has emerged as a distinctive feature of the financial system in the United States.

The Model T was introduced in 1908, and over the next two decades the Ford Motor Company sold more than 15 million of these cars.

This technique developed greatly in recent two decades. The particle size measuring devices based on this technique also came into being.

Over the next two decades appetite for metals is likely to double as China and India urbanise and modernise.

But over the last two decades, at the same time as China became the world's major exporter, it was able to dramatically diminish poverty.

And her extraordinary fortitude in surviving two decades of relentless persecution has earned the respect and loyalty of her followers.

after two decades of the baby boom, China has the early 70s, a pair of husband and wife one child has become a popular practice.

During the over two decades since the Reform and Opening, the undertaking of ordinary advanced education in Shanghai has made great strides.

In the two decades since, he has founded a further four businesses, including a staffing agency and a real estate investment firm.

In the past two decades, the relationship between Russia (and the former Soviet Union) and the NATO alliance has changed radically, he said.

Energy expert Daniel Yergin reckons coal will remain the top fuel for power plants globally for the next two decades.

After a trial lasting more than two decades he was sentenced in 2009 but had to be frequently rushed to hospital and was mostly bed-ridden.

In two decades Fosun has grown into one of the most powerful Chinese companies most Westerners have never heard of.

When I entered office, I brought with me a philosophy formed by two decades of the study of history.

Boeing has estimated that demand for commercial aircraft from China alone could be worth $480bn over the next two decades.

For the last two decades, as technology supersaturated our cultural environment, the gravity of technology simply became too hard to ignore.

WERE job creation to continue at its present rate, it would take two decades to put America's almost 15m unemployed back to work.

Nearly two decades later, proponents of the primacy of publicly listed companies can no longer be so sure.

This could be more about fashion as we have had two decades where the trouser suit has not had a significant role to play in fashion.

Over more than two decades, the moderate coffee drinkers were somewhat less likely to develop any form of prostate cancer.

And the Chinese government recently announced it will be building 20 new cities a year over the next two decades.

But over the next two decades Islamic banking prospered, driven by a revival of faith following the Iranian revolution in 1979.

In the past two decades, the number of animals used for scientific experiments significantly reduced.

Over the past two decades, a great number of infrastructure projects have been developed under concession contracts.

The number of buffer overflow attacks was increasing during the last two decades, bringing users great loss.

The contracts are insurance policies against long-term declines in U. S. and foreign stocks and expire during the next two decades.

However, two decades ago there was nothing like the current global credit crunch.

Academy to carry out real scientific research started in the last century on behalf of the two decades.

Darwin was also in the grip of an idea so subversive that he would keep it under wraps for another two decades.

The killings are the latest escalation in the more than two decades of conflict and hopes of a peaceful solution are now fading fast.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right.

Humanity will encounter alien civilisations with the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted yesterday.

Confused death two decades, since the great thoughts, Trinidad stood nowhere so miserable!

More than two decades later, he has amassed plenty of advice on getting out of a fire or crash alive.

By some estimates $1 trillion of new investment will be needed over the next two decades to match airport capacity to flight plans.

Two decades later, however, enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism east of the former Iron Curtain appears to have waned considerably.

Now, nearly two decades later, Sun Dannian is ready to present her results.

In the last two decades, a few cognitive scientists have contemplated ways to create a distributed memory.

The next two decades may well be the same as the past two, but with the disguise of a less overt and near-caricatural regime.

Increased exploration spurred by high oil prices paired with that drop in demand led to two decades of low oil prices.

Technological advances were reflected in the fact that the average traction force of locomotives more than doubled in these two decades.

In the longer term, it faces a chronic demographic crisis likely to result in severe labour shortages in the next two decades.

The photo attached is that of the Five-Wheel Pagoda erected in Taiwan about two decades ago through Guru Chen's initiations .

For two decades our contacts with China had been limited to the reciprocal recriminations of sporadic ambassadorial meeting in Warsaw .

They predict that the introduction of solid-state lighting could increase the consumption of light by a factor of ten within two decades.

This shift from a reformist middle class to a reactionary one over a mere two decades should be surprising.

But the experience of the last two decades suggests that the women are likely to continue wearing the pants.

A swap deal would be the first since the end of the Cold War two decades ago.

During the past two decades, China's processing trade has grown significantly, accounted for half of the total foreign trade of China.

But ended it was, and two decades later Wallace himself, the face of segregation, apologized for his words.

Overall, the requirements discipline has come quite a way in the last two decades.

Humanity will encounter alien civilisations with the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday.

The economy has just had its fastest three years of growth in two decades.

After 2010, it is set to decline once more and is forecast to sink six points over the next two decades.

That quarterly deficit was the first since 2004, and China has not recorded a full-year shortfall in two decades.

It was two decades later that Park Geun-Hye decided to return to the public spotlight and enlarge her own political career.

Indeed, the past two decades of Chinese policy have been a concerted campaign to make sure it never has to.

In materials chemistry field, nonlinear optical material is a new type of material which developed during the last two decades.

China has already built as many miles of high-speed passenger rail lines in the last four years as Europe has in two decades.

I majored in music in college, but over the last two decades I've played only intermittently, and never professionally.

Despite a huge upsurge in cellphone use over the past two decades, brain cancer rates in the United States have been declining.

Two decades later Woodland went on to help devise the UPC system in universal use today.

More broadly, the arrival over the past two decades of thousands of new Chinese immigrants is generating debate over the influx's effect.

In the last two decades, with the booming of the economy, travelling by air has become a great event in people's life.

In the two decades since the farm job ended, he and two adult sons have tried in vain to reconnect the family to a Saudi paycheck.

Wages have declined substantially as a share of GDP growth over the last two decades.

Over the last two decades, they've identified dozens of human proteins, or host factors, required for HIV propagation.

After two decades in which Beijing actively encouraged foreign investment, the recent signals have been much more mixed.

During the past two decades, investment operations have, on average, accounted for 75 percent to 80 percent of the Bank's portfolio.

Bernanke, in an emergency session in January, ordered one -- making for the single-biggest reduction in more than two decades.

Over the past two decades, I cannot think of one instance where a Japanese company has done a good job managing a crisis.

Mumbai has been the target of a series of so-called "serial bombings" by terrorists over the last two decades.

For two decades Piye had ruled over his own kingdom in Nubia, a swath of Africa located mostly in present-day Sudan.

ROCOCO has been a floral production designer for more than two decades.

Ironically, the only world model visible in the public eye now (two decades later) is the Limits to Growth.

Shot down on their first operational mission, Downey and Fecteau spent two decades in Chinese prisons.

But Liguria's position will be usurped over the next two decades by formerly Communist regions of Germany.

Ulaanbataar, Mongolia's capital and largest city, has doubled its population over the last two decades.

During the last two decades, the topic of children's theory of mind has become immensely popular in developmental psychology.

Our team of outstanding engineers brings nearly two decades of water extraction experience to the company.

Over the next two decades, however, these demographic trends will reverse.

Two decades ago the United States Coast Guard shut down the Caribbean cocaine route, so the trade shifted to Mexico.

The Nobel prize for literature, bestowed on him this year, would have been deserved two decades or more ago.

For at least another two decades, said Yunhan, China will be trapped in a coal-dependent economy.

China launched its stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen less than two decades ago as part of reforms designed to foster growth.

Whatever philosophical high ground it has had over the last two decades has been lost.

As the baby-boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) retire over the next two decades, the burden on the state will rise sharply.

In the last two decades, nuclear disarmament has become an integral part of the electricity industry, little known to most Americans.

China has achieved remarkable results in reducing absolute poverty over the last two decades.

He reckons that, through a combination of energy conservation and more renewable energy, Japan could scrap nuclear power within two decades.

And this shift is moving swiftly: The size of the global middle class may also double in two decades.

Energy-consuming industry did contribute a lot to the economy booming in the last two decades, whereas we have to reconsider it now.

It's a bit like the situation Microsoft enjoyed for the past two decades.

The exact cause of the explosion, the deadliest in the U. S. in more than two decades, is under investigation.

This special report will show that the globalisation of banking, which has driven the industry for two decades, is in many ways on hold.

Within two decades Chinese population could be very old and declining.

Chiu went into the business about 40 years ago, after a man she had lived with for two decades died.

Americaannounced new sanctions against the regime, in keeping with a policy some Western countries have pursued for nearly two decades.

Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into a high-tech superpower.

Over the last two decades, thanks largely to government policy, the poverty rate in Brazil has halved.

Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.

Within the last two decades the Chinese have helped change Richmond from a sleepy fishermen's village into a city of over 140, 000 people.

Biological desulfurization was a new technique developed in two decades.

Since the World Wide Web was invented two decades ago, we have been celebrating these benefits -- and rightly so.

At 65, he looks older and less robust than when he was the dominant figure in American politics two decades ago.

After more than two decades marked by controversy, drama and, of late, triumph, Mr Dimon sits atop Wall Street.

Two decades later, in the 1980s, the truth surfaced that it was composed by the novel's authors "according to the martyr's thoughts. "

Indeed, some in Silicon Valley believe that the Google IPO will be an event unmatched in two decades.

Yet over the last two decades, the percentage of aid devoted to agriculture fell from 15 percent to less than 5 percent.

It was first sequenced over two decades ago, yet our understanding of the wider physiological role of mtDNA is surprisingly sketchy.

True, there was a rival, in the shape of the Soviet Union. But that imploded two decades ago.

Existing US currency oversight provisions were crafted two decades ago for a world economy that bears little resemblance to today's.

But when I stumbled into the startup world two decades later, the dots began to connect.

In the last two decades, researchers' attention has focused on second language or foreign language learning strategies.

I never expected things to be exactly the same. How could they be after nearly two decades?

Why are health outcomes among the world's poor so dire, even when international health assistance has quadrupled over the past two decades?

Instead attention was on Shanghai, where the municipal government became the first local state entity to offer bonds in almost two decades.

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however, an intellectual revolution occurred.

In Chile, China and South Korea per capita income has doubled is less than two decades yet all showed slight declines in happiness.

The explosion in the country's economy over the last two decades has also produced an explosion in private wealth.

Time series estimates showed improved control of high total serum cholesterol over the past two decades in England and the United States.

It has yielded rapid growth for two decades and India has sailed through the financial crisis that has battered the West.

The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

The next two decades will, in this respect, be far more challenging than the last three.

These days, China seems to play the same role in much of our discourse that Japan did two decades ago.

Fast Retailing has had little choice but to look outside its home market, where it has 790 stores after more than two decades of expansion.

The number of tribe members arrested on drug charges has increased 60-fold over the last two decades.

But look two decades ahead, and it would be a brave person to predict that the status quo can hold.

This year's crisis appears to mark the end of a bubble in the financial markets that has lasted nearly two decades.

Access to pain treatment increased over the past two decades, but only in a small number of countries.

For two decades the prosperity that flowed from globalisation, albeit often unevenly distributed, seemed to assure its forward momentum.

Yet over the past two decades China has enjoyed the fastest growth in TFP of any country in the world.

Although CMR has been extensively studied for nearly two decades, there still remain some questions or phenomenons to be clarified.

In this section we highlight some lessons in that respect, illustrating them with examples of experiences during the last two decades.

After nearly two decades of frenzied activity, Spain is now the biggest foreign investor in the region after America.

The relative rankings of inequality haven't changed much over two decades, with the United States leading the trend.

The last two decades, however, have seen a shift away from classic 'open ocean' AEW and intercept control.

Prices are now expected to go up across the industry, after two decades of decline.

Q: Myanmar will hold its first general election in two decades this November. What expectations China has on the election results?

Despite Saab's loyal following, in two decades of GM ownership it has had one profitable year.

The Chinese economy grew about 10 percent a year for most of the last two decades.

In the last two decades, the morbidity of this cancer is rising steadily in most countries.

The first chapter: to state clearly the academic direction of Chen's "Hurry two decades, change in forty years" .

the reform that took place during these two decades had changed the face of modern china . key facts of the film planning.

Which yearly average best represents the trend over the past two decades and should be applied to today's defense budget?