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

"For that project, the preliminary discussion and studies phase was decades long, " he said.

The Bloomsbury Group in London six decades ago was not much hampered by its lack of a temporal history.

In terms of development, China is at least decades, if not centuries, behind the United States.

For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.

But after the liberalization reforms, this address, which had been used for decades, slowly stopped being used by people.

Decades later he flew around the world in his own corporate jet, but he maintained emotional ties to the period in which he grew up.

From cradle to grave, only a few decades, the length of life, hardness, weight is not only in the calculation process can be realized.

Indeed, it is possible that, over the next few decades, the net effect of such a dash could be marginally more warming.

It took decades for electrical power to become a tradable commodity. Computing seems to be getting there faster.

In other words over the next decades collars business card printing and membership card is still survive, making room for development.

As I chew, all of a sudden it occurs to me that I have not heard a rooster crow in a few decades.

The payoffs for exchange and assistance programs is often measured in decades, not weeks or months.

The internet's casual destruction of the value chains by which newspapers have made money for decades seems to puzzle and infuriate him.

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.

Think tanks too have grown, as challenges nobody thought of a few decades ago now bear down on us.

Climate change is the climate factor for several decades or longer period of time the long-term results of any systemic changes.

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

Some of it takes a form Americans are used to: the rich receive a much larger share of the national income than they did a few decades ago.

Thus, over the course of a few decades, the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere will return to pre-industrial levels.

This magic is all made possible by the ingenuity of the software Apple's been perfecting for decades: QuickTime.

Clinton also noted that the U. S. -Philippines alliance has been a force for regional security for decades.

Sachs said it has been used for four decades to treat actinic keratoses, which appear as a scaly or crusty bump on the skin.

The mayor is still battling with a budget deficit and is trying to overcome decades of gross mismanagement.

So far, it has attracted only $132m, compared to at least $200bn in investments by Taiwanese businessmen into China over past decades.

China is ready to work with Equatorial Guinea to push for in-depth, all-round development of bilateral ties in the next four decades.

If you haven't yet figured it out: China will be the "Japan" of consumer electronics within a few decades, if not sooner.

In earlier decades, when nations around the world had economic crises, they'd send officials to Washington to ask for help.

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

He said literature and the arts are critical to what he called normalization after decades of military rule.

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.

The paper that emerged was a remarkable indictment of the elaborate architecture that grew up over the decades since the Wall Street crash.

Shanghai's nightlife is in the unenviable position of having to live up to its own decades-old reputation.

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.

Women spent so much time trying to be like men in recent decades that they forgot about all the advantages of a woman.

For decades, she did not give interviews but, finally, she was persuaded to talk to film-maker, Andre Heller, in 2001.

For decades, social scientists have tried to determine how TV advertising affects the children and teenagers who watch them.

To improve the efficiency of fuel is one of the main direction of research in the next few decades.

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.

It has been four decades since Pilar Maroto lost her newborn son, but tears still fill her eyes when she speaks of him.

IT TAKES only a brief visit to the Bank of Estonia's small basement museum to grasp what turbulent decades the Baltic states have endured.

And, in the decades to come, they and their children stand ready to contribute so much more -- if we put aside our prejudice and let them.

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

China, in short, will not become the predominant power that the US has been, at least over the next few decades.

Over the last few decades there has been a tremendous growth in information technology and its impact on everyday life.

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

Over the last few decades it has been a common practice to view the atmosphere from a zonally averaged perspective.

The landmark discovery seems to reverses decades-old assumption that thinking about food causes you to eat more.

We stared in touch for many decades, but I lost track of him several years ago and don't even know if he's still alive.

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

Credit expansion was one of the "unexpected difficulties" China had encountered in dealing with the worst crisis in decades, Wen said.

Six decades later, the Korean War still seems to have a strong influence on the positioning of U. S. military forces in East Asia.

He was one of the first to point out decades ago the problem of arsenic contamination in deep water wells in West Bengal and Bangladesh.

The U. S. position could mean the next IMF chief is again European, as has been the case since the organization was founded six decades ago.

If the Palestinians got the right to vote, given their higher birthrate, within a few decades Israel would no longer be a Jewish state.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades.

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

Japan, in just a few decades, remade itself from a war-torn country into one of the richest nations on earth.

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

The president said these benefits might have been justified decades ago - when such jobs were more difficult and dangerous.

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.

Authorities warned of potential power shortages as parts of China continued to struggle with some of the coldest weather in decades.

For decades, discussions about the international monetary order focused on the way that it appeared to be dominated by the US.

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

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 past few decades, Americans have waged political war as if all that matters is the amount of money going into federal coffers.

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

For decades this cosy form of capitalism ensured that competition was never too fierce and everyone prospered at least a bit.

Scientists have been struggling for decades to understand the disappearance of honeybees, where numbers have halved since the 1980s.

For perspective, think back just a few decades when China was dubbed the "bicycle kingdom" with passenger cars a rarity.

The last four decades and more have had been through repeatedly the repeated difficulties, are rough, but I did not regret!

The draconian, decades-old state of emergency must be lifted and with it curbs on freedom of speech and assembly.

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

They spent the next few decades behaving as if the country's prosperity depended on their actions.

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

The age of the universe is one of the basic questions that have preoccupied astronomers for decades .

But the marked increase of the salaried rich shows just how much the upper class has changed in recent decades.

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

Considering that this grape was thought to be a loser in the U. S. for decades, we're amazed how far it has come in such a short time.

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

She knows al-Nahda was brutally repressed for decades and said she was glad to see al-Nahda having a real renaissance.

It takes decades for a country to grow up to a certain level, and all of a sudden it disappears.

it addressed none of the underlying problems, which continued to fester for decades thereafter.

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

At least half of these adults will die between 30 and 69 years of age, losing decades of productive life.

Within the past decades, epidural steroid injections have been used in the treatment of severe low back pain and sciatica.

"This hunt for resources is going to consume large bodies of water around the world for at least the next couple of decades, " Mrs.

But the marked increase of the salaried rich shows just how much the upper class has changed in recent decades.

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

Considering that this grape was thought to be a loser in the U. S. for decades, we're amazed how far it has come in such a short time.

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

She knows al-Nahda was brutally repressed for decades and said she was glad to see al-Nahda having a real renaissance.

It takes decades for a country to grow up to a certain level, and all of a sudden it disappears.

it addressed none of the underlying problems, which continued to fester for decades thereafter.

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

At least half of these adults will die between 30 and 69 years of age, losing decades of productive life.

Within the past decades, epidural steroid injections have been used in the treatment of severe low back pain and sciatica.

it addressed none of the underlying problems, which continued to fester for decades thereafter.

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

At least half of these adults will die between 30 and 69 years of age, losing decades of productive life.

Within the past decades, epidural steroid injections have been used in the treatment of severe low back pain and sciatica.

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

Global warming was one of the many factors responsible for the worst flooding in decades.

He said that although gene patents had been issued for decades, the patentability of genes had never been examined in court.

"This hunt for resources is going to consume large bodies of water around the world for at least the next couple of decades, " Mrs.

It will not be many decades before Chinese businesses own more assets abroad than those of any other nation.

The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

He said that although gene patents had been issued for decades, the patentability of genes had never been examined in court.

As CEO at MetLife, he took an office a fifth the size of the grand, mahogany-laden one that his predecessors occupied for decades.

"This hunt for resources is going to consume large bodies of water around the world for at least the next couple of decades, " Mrs.

It will not be many decades before Chinese businesses own more assets abroad than those of any other nation.

The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

It also preserves the decades-old convention that the U. S names the No. 2 official at the fund and Europe taps one of its own as IMF chief.

How quickly it is resolved will determine the pace and nature of China's economic growth over the next several decades.

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

Until the last few decades, the tools to explore these underwater mountains did not exist.

The party promises "rule by politicians not by bureaucrats" , something that did not happen during the LDP's decades in office.

It also preserves the decades-old convention that the U. S names the No. 2 official at the fund and Europe taps one of its own as IMF chief.

How quickly it is resolved will determine the pace and nature of China's economic growth over the next several decades.

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

Until the last few decades, the tools to explore these underwater mountains did not exist.

The party promises "rule by politicians not by bureaucrats" , something that did not happen during the LDP's decades in office.

Even the French, who for decades ran the EU as equal partners with the Germans, are acquiring something of an inferiority complex.

Those executives would likely leave, lopping decades of experience and expertise off the top of the company.

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

You might have been thinking about this goal for months, years, even decades.

Libyan opposition forces trying to oust Moammar Gadhafi from his four decades in power are heading to China to seek support.

Those executives would likely leave, lopping decades of experience and expertise off the top of the company.

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

You might have been thinking about this goal for months, years, even decades.

Libyan opposition forces trying to oust Moammar Gadhafi from his four decades in power are heading to China to seek support.

Since Brian David was injured in a traffic accident decades ago, he found conventional wheelchairs to be a real pain.

'I actually think the next decade for coal is going to be one of the best decades we've ever had, ' he said.

A few decades ago, while in medical school, he wanted to understand gene networks and came up with a model known as K-N nets.

Widely touted forecasts such as for 200m climate refugees in the next few decades seem to have been plucked from the air.

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.

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.

Widely touted forecasts such as for 200m climate refugees in the next few decades seem to have been plucked from the air.

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.

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.

The President and I were determined -- determined to set the relationship on a stable course that could be sustained for decades.

It is only a wrist watch, world over millions have been wearing, discarding and changing wrist watches since the past several decades.

In just a few months Mr Papandreou's Socialist government is seeking to overturn decades of tax evasion and easy government money.

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

You have three or four decades ahead of you, and yet you are focusing on a few weeks' unemployment.

If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.

You have three or four decades ahead of you, and yet you are focusing on a few weeks' unemployment.

If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.

All that's needed is a simple vote that Democrats and Republicans have taken for decades, including all of the leaders in Congress today.

Such applications are decades away, but "you could use algorithms like this to decode other things than vision, " said Gallant.

Over the decades it has lost its negative connotations and is now taken as a necessity of survival.

As a structure of light, a large bridge across the ability to type, Cable-stayed bridge has been a great development in recent decades.

So God waved him big hands and time suddenly went back to a few decades ago. There was an apple orchard, and John was sleeping under a tree.

He said China's relations with its neighboring countries have been growing mature and closer over the past six decades.

Over a couple of decades he synthesised hundreds of chemicals, all of which he tried first on himself and a small group of volunteers.

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.

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.

On a tour of a Chrysler car plant in Ohio, President Barack Obama said the economy continues to recover from the worst recession in 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.

The task facing science and industry in coming decades is as at least as challenging as the original deciphering of the human genome.

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

By the time he and I dueled, he had been retired and holed up in that dungeon of his for decades.

And so far it seems to be working: America's unions are poised for an internal debate more wide-ranging than any they have had in 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 last three decades, we have worked well on multiple fronts making China one of the Bank's biggest and best partners.

Practically all have been with him for years, some for decades.

Practically all have been with him for years, some for decades.

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

In the West, there seems to be a strong tendency over decades to view robots as something evil, like technology run amok.

The area is almost all rain forest and until recent decades was one of South America's least populated and most inaccessible areas.

The last execution took place in Britain almost five decades ago. But it's remained a rallying point for some in the British public.

Indeed, over the decades relations with the LDP had not always been smooth.

His chocolate triumph is not the result of a snap buccaneering move, but follows decades of immersing himself in the cocoa business.

His timing could hardly have been worse: the 1960s was one of the most ideologically charged decades in American history.

It was a small ambition, Mr. Jobs said, instead of trying to build companies that last for decades, if not a century or more.

After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil.

After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil.

For decades, economists have been warning us that when we buy at a distance, we do not tend to take the cost of our own time into account.

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

For decades it had traded on the idea of a lurking menace, some faceless demon eating away at the Scandinavian dream.

In finance, trading volumes have boomed in recent decades, yet it is unclear how much all the activity has lifted living standards.

For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock.

And the marketing is that not matter how much you've invested in your brand, one bad week can undermine decades of good work.

No one has changed the world so much in these decades like Steve Jobs, who has no throne, no military force, no political title.

But it's not that the campaign isn't trying to speak to the youth of today, as opposed to the youth of decades ago.

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.

Although MMOG evolves several decades, the security problems peculiar to MMOG which named cheating has not been entirely solved up to date.

Just a few decades of life, the vagaries of life, in my youth has not faded before God, I can arrange to meet you, I am really happy.

He said the aristocratic way of pronouncing vowels had gradually ceased to be a class apart over the decades.

She may also feel a strong desire to do more for herself, and her career, after decades of caretaking, explains Brizendine.

Scottish engineers brought crates of it up the Congo and Zambezi rivers decades before Coca-Cola set foot on the continent.

'We haven't faced something like this in decades, ' said the senior American official.

I've been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I'm far from the player I wish I were.

Because iodine starts to dissipate after a few days, the risk isn't as long lasting as with cesium, which remains for decades, he said.

Could the world switch over to power from only the wind, sun, waves, and heat from the Earth in only a few decades?

It was a symptom of the Japan disease, which led to the first of two lost decades for that country.

According to art critics around the world, my guest is one of a few prodigies in decades to capture the art of realism.

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.

comet mcnaught , the brightest comet in decades , is now fading as it moves further into southern skies and away from the sun and earth.

They reconnect me with that feeling I had decades ago when books transported me to another place.

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.

In August, he made a trip designed to remind North Koreans of his father, Kim Il Sung, the country's founder and ruler for four decades.

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

But in India, the massive transformation of financial services has been compressed into just a few years rather than over decades.

That needn't be true; China's government seems to have built up a remarkable reserve of goodwill in recent decades.

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

He was at Mr Bush's side for decades. His fingers were all over the policies, not just the press releases.

The trend could simply be part of a natural and long-term cycle that pushes wind speeds both up and down over the course of many decades.

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

"For past decades, the U. S. has supported the people of Taiwan, but now our democracy is being locked in a birdcage, " he said.

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

It has been a few decades since the computer came into being.

Monte Carlo methods have been used for decades in physics, engineering, statistics, and other fields.

Several senior scientistshave now said the claim was unrealistic and that the large Himalayanglaciers could not melt in a few decades.

It does not allow someone to exhume memories that are decades old or to retrace or undo human development.

Until a few decades ago, that hunting accident would have been a local misfortune, a curse played out in a few rural villages.

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

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

Ireland is doomed to fiscal stringency for decades, given its poor growth prospects, at least in comparison with its Tiger years.

Mitchell said the goal continues to be a resolution of the decades-long conflict within a year.

Menopause, then, poses a bit of a riddle: in a handful of species, including humans, females cease breeding decades before they die.

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

And most of Africa is actually poorer today than it was a few decades ago, when aid dollars began to increase.

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

The United States may be experiencing one of the coldest winters in decades, but things continue to heat up in the Southern Hemisphere.

Over the past decades, evidence for the health advantages of breastfeeding and recommendations for practice have continued to increase.

we seek to build upon a strong tradition of engagement by presidents and secretaries of state of both parties across many decades.

Wireline formation testers have been commonly used to acquire formation pressures and reservoir fluid samples for a number of decades.

And yet, when it comes to the Wag obsession, we seem to have regressed many decades.

It is hard to see how China can be blamed for job losses when America's unemployment rate (4. 5%) is close to its lowest for decades.

Some of them say the company, known as Tepco, had opportunities over the decades to retrofit the oldest reactors.

Over the last seven decades, they've been a proving ground for developments including delta wings, tailless aircraft, and supersonic flight.

With a light touch and keen ear, she had spent decades chronicling the ambivalent desires of her self-absorbed cohort.

Transferring responsibility for schools to municipalities seems to help, and this has been happening across the country in recent decades.

And anyway, the marketing idea behind it had been around for decades, if not centuries, before safety razors were invented.

For decades, researchers have dreamed of building hypersonic aircraft that could whip around the world in just a few hours.

Julia lifted her forearms out of instinct, shut her eyes, and waited for the swift delivery of his decades'-old promise.

Then you let it all ferment in the back of your mind for decades, until, bang, it suddenly coalesces into a brilliant insight.

The goal is to drive the kind of reform over the next couple of years that will last for the next couple of decades.

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.

It has evolved over the decades into an international financial center but hasn't been able to use or trade the currency of its hinterland.

If you haven't been living under a rock for the last few decades you know who John Lennon was.

The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades.

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