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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Excessive lead times

Future sessional periods

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.

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.

The group was brought together by Gwyn Prins, a well regarded expert in security policy and international relations who heads LSE s Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events.

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.

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.

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The number of members varied at different periods.

And so the connectome is like bed of the stream but the metaphor is richer than that, because it's true that the stream bed guides the flow of the water, but over long timescales, the water also reshapes the bed of the stream.

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

I have long believed that GDP understates growth even in rich countries, where its measurement is quite sophisticated, because it is very difficult to compare the value of baskets of goods across different time periods.

These efforts should be maintained even after the conclusion of the presidencies, which as I have already said in the past are too short and too ephemeral.

Hence the frequent periods shorter than four years.

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.

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

Youth is a critical period in life.