The angle of Earth's axial tilt is relatively stable over long periods of time.

Finally, over very long periods the positions of the stars themselves change, because of the stars' proper motions.

Regardless of what the right explanation is, the history of recent recessions suggests that we should not be surprised that the job recovery is taking time.

Over long periods of time, some mercury recombines with sulfur and is buried in sediments.

Ethiopian music uses a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.

The ultrasonic motor is now used in many consumer and office electronics requiring precision rotations over long periods of time.

As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long periods in jail.

This is partly because the proportion of single parents living on a minimum income for extended periods of time is above the national average.

What will it do to a child, he asks, to spend a lot of time with a machine that cannot express genuine empathy, understanding, or compassion?

Armed groups view conflict as a continuum of political and violent irregular operations over a long period that will provide control over local populations.

His life was intended to revolve around a strict rule five hours of sleep, six hours of manual work interspersed with a long time of prayer.

Youth are at risk of becoming hardened criminals when they spend long periods in the company of adult prisoners convicted of more serious crimes.

Prolonged exposure to pollutants by women workers can lead to deterioration of their health condition, particularly the health of pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding.

Moreover, many African countries hit bottom and rebounded from long periods of civil war and economic decline.

To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long periods.

Now, however, a new generation of organized criminal groups is emerging from States embroiled in or emerging from protracted periods of conflict.

Home prices cannot have shown such increases over long time periods, for then no one could afford a home.

Much of the now common knowledge concerning heart disease, such as the effects of diet, exercise, and common medications such as aspirin, is based on this longitudinal study.

Speciation events are important in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which accounts for the pattern in the fossil record of short bursts of evolution interspersed with relatively long periods of stasis, where species remain relatively unchanged.

Superficial burns may be managed with little more than simple pain relievers, while major burns may require prolonged treatment in specialized burn centers.

These birds are very long lived, and can live upwards of 70 years in captivity, although they only live to about 20 40 years in the wild.

Currently, the UNICEF project Hospital Friends of the Children is in the phase of attempting to provide education to chronically ill children who spend longer times in the hospital.

Those bodies reflect a cold war era gone by and have long since outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had.

Why Small Booms Cause Big Busts

By any standard, Haiti's elections had marked a step forward in democracy, compared to the decades of military dictatorships that America had backed, not to mention long periods of direct US military occupation.

In the east, the climate shows clear continental features winters can be very cold for long periods, and summers can become very warm.

Persons sentenced to life imprisonment or long prison terms for the commission of crimes shall serve their sentences in specialized prison facilities under special regime arrangements.

1. Recognizes that the Fund's policy of broad diversification of its investments by currency, types of asset classes and geographical areas continues to be the most reliable method of reducing risk and improving returns over long periods of time

Closely linked to this problem was the duration of the examination of submissions, which extends for long periods of time both during the sessions and during the intersessional periods, thus presenting difficulties for all members of the Commission.

Between one commentary and another about a rerun of a soap opera on TV, she said

(ii) The leave may be taken either continuously or in separate periods during the year following the birth of the child, provided it is completed during that year

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

While reserves increased at an annual rate of 22 over the past three years, the broad monetary aggregate (M2) that most closely tracks nominal GDP and inflation over long periods of time increased at less than 6 over the same three years.

Such were the errors committed over short time horizons.

Reports are made at regular intervals by the President of the Tribunal to the Security Council.

Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.

Japan, for example, had three recessions in its lost decade, starting in the 1990 s, despite a long string of large Keynesian stimulus programs that left it with the worst public debt burden among advanced economies.

Excessive lead times

Future sessional periods

The history of legislative reform is substantially a punctuated equilibrium, with long periods of time during which public apathy prevents any progress, interrupted by scandals that suddenly make progress possible.

A quick scan' can enable the rapid and efficient assessment of the need for further investigation, making it possible to perform a large scale testing of pay systems and policies for discriminatory elements without incurring long waiting periods and delays.

One use of economic growth data from the national accounts is in growth accounting across longer periods of time for a country or across to estimate different sources of growth, whether from growth of factor inputs or technological change.

Many governments increase spending excessively in booms, and then are forced to cut back in downturns, thereby exacerbating the cyclical swings.

They should be the major source of IMF financing as well, replacing quota subscriptions or lending to the Fund by member countries (potentially making the IMF a purely SDR based institution, as proposed decades ago by the late IMF economist Jacques Polak).

Indeed, almost every period of globalization and prosperity has been accompanied by symbiotic imbalances. They have always caused economic distortions and political complaints, but many have endured for surprisingly long periods.