The economy has changed completely in the last few decades, but our high schools have not.
The Catholic Church has lost a significant number of members in the last few decades.
Obesity rates among kids ages two to five have doubled in the last few decades.
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Another startling trend in the last few decades is the absence of the leadership classes from the military.
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Despite occasional catastrophic crashes, airline accident rates have seen "massive improvements" in the last few decades, he said.
Private institutions have also sprung up in large numbers in the last few decades offering widely varying educational facilities.
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In the last few decades, revolutions in communications, revolutions in technology have made businesses mobile and has made commerce global.
Bangladesh has hit many remarkable milestones in the last few decades.
But there is no better example of the living Constitution than the conservative re-casting of the Second Amendment in the last few decades of the twentieth century.
That has all changed in the last few decades, as America increasingly falls academically behind its global competitors, especially in Asia ( where tutoring has grown exponentially).
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Employers have been the cornerstone of pension provision for millions of workers in the last few decades, and just when saving levels need to increase they are reducing.
Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher Gregory Poland counts more than a dozen new diseases that have emerged in the last few decades: HIV, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, avian influenza.
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In the last few decades, corporate legal strategists have wrestled to find the best balance of offense and defense in managing lawsuits that have uncertain merit or no merit at all.
The hype has increased in the last few decades since functional neuro-imaging has enabled scientists to observe directly the activity in the brains of conscious subjects exposed to certain stimuli or engaging in different tasks.
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"In a way, it is testament to Mohenjo Daro that it is still standing, given everything that has been thrown at it in the last few decades in the name of conservation, " says Dr Ibrahim.
On Thursday morning, Mr Thompson attacked the government for specifically failing to recognise the contribution of these employer-sponsored schemes, which had been the "cornerstone of pension provision for millions of workers in the last few decades".
And we may not agree with their policies, and we'll have a passionate debate about why they're not right to lead the country, but it does show you how far America has come in the last few decades.
In a statement to MPs on 9 February 2011, Mr Cable said the UK had "consumed too much and exported too little" in the last few decades - and with Germany now exporting over three times as much as Britain it was "vital to turn this around".
There are ample reasons to believe that the model of the U.S. computer industry which has successfully outsourced much of its production in the last few decades and made design, not manufacturing, its priority will not work effectively for companies trying to commercialize innovations in energy, advanced materials, and other emerging sectors.
He said even looking at the unemployment figures in the early 1980s, it was "the highest number in terms of the last few decades".
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The researchers also say there was little change in the amount of rainfall in the region over the last few decades and so could not account for changes in glacier retreat.
While women have made significant progress in business over the last few decades, they are only about a quarter of all chief executives and earn just 76% as much as men with the title.
It's clear that some part of the population has been involved over the last few decades in violent opposition, both to the government and, in the last decade, to the presence of U.S. troops.
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Without startups there would have been no net job growth in the United States over the last few decades.
There is no evidence that individual or corporate tax rates, under the tax codes of the last few decades, play significant roles in determining the value of particular long-term investments.
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Fisher has been independently judged to have outperformed all other market gurus in predicting broad market movements over the last few decades.
Mr. England has the unenviable task of playing such a role at a time when defense funding is substantially larger in real terms than over much of the last few decades yet thanks to extensive, and expensive, worldwide combat and combat-support operations around the world woefully inadequate to meet the military's recapitalization requirements.
Make no mistake about it: The practical effect will be to buy the regime in Tehran the last few months it evidently needs to achieve what it has sought for decades: the means to have the world not only bereft of America's leadership and stabilizing force, but to neutralize and perhaps eliminate the United States as a 21st Century society.
Implanted devices have been around for decades, but only in the last few years have these devices become virtually accessible.
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