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"I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,"said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Chri

"It's been postponed until 2017," says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.

"It's been postponed until 2018," says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.

"Of course, I didn't know she couldn't read, so there I was submitting these reports," he said, "She would put check marks on them like she had been reading them.

"There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world," says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

A letter written by Charles Darwin in 1875 has been returned to the Smithsonian Institution (档案馆) by the FBI after being stolen twice.

A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

A new batch of young women—members of the so-called millennial (千禧的) generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade.

A New Jersey black bear that walks upright on its two back legs and has become a social media darling has re- emerged and has been captured on video months after its last sighting.

A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas.

A recent study said that 40% of American teens claim to have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger.

A simple "thank you" lets the senders know that their email has arrived safely, that it has not been lost among what could be 50 other emails that have arrived in your email inbox that day.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 32 elements: class, sex, and generation .

Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, argues that it may simply be because breakfast-skippers have been found to be less knowledgeable about nutrition and health?

Although many of his specific conclusions have been 35 rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

Although many of his specific conclusions have been rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

And authorities have been hunting several attackers who are still at large.

As for the taxi drivers, most are delighted to be behind the wheel of new cars,although there have been a few complaints about switching from black and white to a plain white colour.

Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practi

Bacteria are carried by various 'media', which can include raw food, moist surfaces where bacteria have been left, our hands or skin and from coughing or sneezing (打喷嚏).

Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.

Blandon, the boat's owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.

Breakfast has been found to affect more than just weight.

Buffington says he found a soda bottle half-buried in the sand that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.

But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched.

But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived, though the visit has been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents.

California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other.

Enjoy the snow now, because chances are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept.

Even so, relatively few young women 15% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.

Even so, relatively few young women 16% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.

Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

For example, mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans.

For men aged 18 to 34, living at home with mom and/or dad has been the dominant living arrangement since 2009.

For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.

given that sustained social contacts have been shown to support health and a long life, those wishing to maximize the health value of crafts might consider joining a group of like-minded folks.

He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.

He maintains most of the feedback he has received has been overwhelmingly positive.

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

He's a difficult man, and I think there's been some trouble on the shop floor.

high-protein breakfasts have been found particularly effective in reducing the longing for food and consumption later in the day, according to research by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Hmm, I've been a bit worried about his reaction.

However, bacteria have been shown to live on cabin surfaces, so wash your hands frequently.

However, online CBT programs have been gaining popularity, with the attraction of providing low-cost help wherever someone has access to a computer.

However, the business had been in trouble for years.

However, this is the first time a panel has been designed to be laid directly on top of existing roads and the first project to install the panels on public highways.

I have always been a poor test-taker.

I haven't been abroad for a long while.

I just got a text message from my bank, saying my salary has been deposited in my account.

I mean, it's been two decades, but I can still remember when I got my first real salary.

In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."

In recent months, though, environmental studies indicate there have been signs of improvement.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.

It has been found that not eating breakfast is related to the incidence of certain diseases in some countries.

It has been trying out monitoring stations that are intended to yield minute-to-minute maps of outdoor air pollution.

It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.

It must have been very crowded when you were there.

It's been in business nearly a century.

I've been involved with pubs off and on for ten years.

I've been looking for a job for a year and more.

I've had the idea for some time that Jack Green's been busy stirring things up in connection with the latest wage claim.

Jude and his family had been invited by the researchers to see the fossil being preserved at the university.

liechtenstein uses the same money as its neighbor Switzerland, but it has been an independent country since the 1860s.

Many of the access codes he's purchased have been required simply to complete homework or quizzes.

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

Maria McCartney has been in the mobile ice-cream business since 2005.

More recently, however, some companies have been investing money in a more ambitious undertaking: learning how to adjust the fundamental make-up of the food they sell.

One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.

pigeons are often seen as dirty birds and an urban nuisance but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans.

Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.

Research from the exhaustive study of groundwater from over 950 drilling logs has just been published.

She's been working in Manchester for two years, and no one, not one of her colleagues had ever invited her to their home.

similarly with earnings, young men's wages after adjusting for inflatio have been on a downward trajectory since 1970 and fell significantly from 2000 to 2010.

since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

since then, I have been trying to attend dancing classes twice a week after work.

since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been what's for dinner.

six birds have just been trained to pick up rubbish at a French historical theme park.

Skipping breakfast has been associated with a 27% increased risk of heart disease, a 21% higher risk of type 2 diabetes in men, and a 20% higher risk of type 2 diabetes in women.

So far, visitors to the theme park have been excited to see the birds in action.

So this is the first time I've ever been paid for a month of full time work.

So you feel he's been making unrealistic demands on you?

So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

Some progress has been made in the prosecution of animal fighters.

Steve, can you tell me how long you've been a pub owner?

The food industry has, in general, been firmly opposed to such direct government action.

The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.

The Great Recession and modest recovery has also been associated with an increase in young adults living at home.

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

The insect-spraying over the weekend left more than 2 million bees dead on the spot in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where four travel-related cases of zika disease have been confirmed in the area.

The land has been independent for over 300 years.

The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

The manager told me that Jack Green's been very active around the shop the last few days.

The most researched aspect of breakfast and breakfast-skippin has been its links to obesity.

The museum's social media account has been flooded with messages of support.

"It's been hard not to share pictures of her because people always want to know how babies and toddler (学走路的孩子) are doing and to see pictures, but we made the decision to have social media while she did not," O'Hanlon said.

"It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years", says Colin dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

"Our philosophy with the island has always been, ‘OK, remove the threats and let the island go back to what it was, '" says ecologist Christina Boser.

"She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about," said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian's work. "She didn't do as much to ch

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.

A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.

A lot of the government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the th

And grass-fed dairy and meat have been shown to be higher in certain nutrients and healthy fats.

And it's refreshing to see a strong, curious, clever woman adding her voice to the scientific discourse and a field that has been traditionally dominated by man.

And over the years, my stubborn loyalty has been justified.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls an

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.

As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.

Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal-mart, do not have their own recycling programs.

But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.

But many young researchers, especially those who have not been mentored in open science, are uncertain about whether to share or to stay private.

But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

But the good news is that, Moffitt says, self-control can be taught by parents, and through school curricula that have been proved to be effective.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.

By 1500 some 20 million volumes had already been printed.

By now that target has been somewhat missed.

Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams who's been measuring and monitoring the Arctic since 1971, says the decline is irreversible.

Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

first, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.

For example, many Jews have been troubled by Shakespeare's depiction of Shylock.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; It has been downloaded 5,700 times.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

Here, open-source development has been a central principle.

historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: It is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; It has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there i

However, this is a contentious theory and such claims have been treated skeptically by some scholars based on their reading of the relevant data.

In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered.

In Brazil, multinational corporation Adidas has been running a shoe-recycling program called "Sustainable Footprint" since 2012.

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

In fact, they are prescribed and they're given at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who's been trained.

In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

In the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

In two cases, huge machines have been used to lift the buildings up to 30 centimeters into the air.

Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.

Island communities have been among the hardest hit by the threats facing the ocean, said President Tommy Remengesau Jr. in a statement.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

It isn't, however, the first time it has ever been seen.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

Its profile has really been raised.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; It was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

killy learned an important secret shared by many creative people: innovations don't require genius, just a willingness to question the way things have always been done.

Leadership of the planning corporation has changed hands nearly as many times as the opening date has been pushed back.

Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.

Many European countries have been making the shift to electric vehicles and Germany has just stated that they plan to ban the sale of vehicles using gasoline and diesel as fuel by 2030.

More recently the trend of swapping spaghetti for vegetables has been championed by clean-eating experts.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Most of them had never been abroad before.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

Much has been written about how the relationship between scientists and the media can shape the efficient transmission of scientific advances to the public.

New laws have been put into place that would make it easier for farms and supermarkets to donate unsold foods to those who are in need.

Now, Africa's largest economy is facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect, leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.

Now, though a novel type of steel has been developed that resists fractures at much lower temperatures, while retaining its strength and toughness-without the need for expensive additives.

Once the interviewers have been briefed, I send the client a schedule and then they get back to me with deadlines.

Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, helping people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves.

Over the next few months, I realized not only could I not afford my dream school, I couldn't even afford the ones where I'd been accepted.

Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.

Physicians who have been on the job for several hours, for example, are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients when it's unwise to do so.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Problems surround the use of machines to spot deception, at least until it has been rigorously tested.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Researchers have been studying this group of children for decades now.

Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.

Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.

Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly, even friendly to life.

Sales of Barbie dolls have been falling every year since 2012, according to CBC news.

Saturated fats are used by the body to make cholesterol, and high levels of cholesterol have since been directly related to heart disease.

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

So Brookdale, the country's largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.

So far this year, water levels have been too high for the flamingos to nest.

So far, our discussions have all been theoretical.

So much of what CES has been about is the cool.

So we've been looking at other ways of seeing whether this motivation to view oneself positively is shaped by cultural experiences.

So, how long have you been a Market Research Consultant?

That storm has been brewing for some time, and as it has reached gale force, most large retailers are searching for a response.

That's because the technology has not been properly tested in real world situations.

That's when it dawned on her: She had been posting photos of him online without asking his permission.

The Cascadia Earthquake Zone is big enough to compete with San Andreas it's been called the most dangerous fault in Americ, but it's much lesser known than its California cousin.

The data on nutrition and childhood development has been slowly coming together for decades.

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

The incandescent light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, which came to be the symbol of inspiration, has been developed into hundreds, if not thousands, of forms.

The lawsuits said that the label was misleading because it gave the impression that the products had been certified by a third party when the certification was the company's own.

The next year, he won three gold medals in the winter Olympics, a record in ski racing that has never been topped.

The researchers believe this is the first time that the "first night- effect" of different brain states has been identified in humans.

The reviewers found that pasta had been unfairly demonized because it had been lumped in with other, more fat-promoting carbohydrates.

The show has been running for over ten years, and some of the actors are practically global super stars.

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

And the good morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, finn, 13.

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

Andy, you've been standing in front of that sandwich counter forever.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, "oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

At a local school a successful charity supper has been held.

Ben, had got in touch, he'd moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I'd last seen him.

Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student.

Benjamin was forced to admit what he had been doing.

Berlin has been the easiest while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen.

But soon, the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found.

But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers.

By mid-1963, the Beatles had been extremely popular in England.

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Companies have been testing their vehicles in cities across the country.

Dashan, who has been learning crosstalk, the Chinese comedic tradition, for decades, wants to mix it up.

Despite the previous rounds of talks, no agreement has been reached so far by the two sides.

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

Electrical lines have been killing them off.

E-mails are then sent to the bookcrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found.

Emma, a female crane, has been in their care since she arrived in 2004.

Empowerment takes the idea of delegation (委托) much further than has traditionally been the case.

For animals their size, ants have been astonishingly successful, largely due to their wonderful social behavior.

For days the kids have been looking for others we can help! things would have played out so differently if I had simply said, "No, we really don't have money to give more."

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

For weeks, I've been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: how do we make it a habit for them?

For western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for western creativity.

For years, my mum has been helping out by giving them whatever food she could spare.

Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the antArctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding―undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism―if they had been made last week.

Gas emissions have been effectively reduced in developed countries.

He told people at a conference, "there have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing."

He'd been in and out of the hospital.

Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless.

Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.

Her years of hard work have finally been acknowledged after a customer nominated her to be cheshire's woman of the year.

He's been informed that he doesn't qualify for the scholarship because of his academic background.

His works have received many prizes and have been shown in over 100 exhibitions across the country, Los Angeles, New York, philadelphia, to name just a few.

However, physicist Joseph west thought there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study.

I had been a dancer for quite a long time.

I was searching for these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing.

I wish I had been at my sister's wedding last Tuesday, but I was on a business trip in New York then.

If he hadn't reacted quickly, there could have been a terrible accident.

If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back, but no luck.

If I hadn't been wearing one, I would have been injured.

If it had not been for his invitation the other day, I should not be here now.

If she had been aware that the mushroom were poisonous, she would not have picked them for dinner.

If the new safety system had been put to use, the accident would never have happened.

If you are a student studying the arts, chances are you have been ill-advised to have a plan b.

In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created.

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

In my hometown, there is always a harvest supper for the farmers after all the wheat has been cut.

In the 1950s in the usa, most families had just one phone at home, and wireless phones hadn't been invented yet.

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

Inventors have been trying to make flying cars since the 1930s, according to Robert Mann, an airline industry expert.

It had already been placed in a carrier for safety.

It had been known for a long time that Yellowstone was volcanic in nature — that's what accounted for all its hot springs and other steamy features.

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

It had been the Athenian's pride and joy to give to their city.

It has been really cold lately and the school should consider letting the students in to get warm before the weather gets even colder.

It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been poorly studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20, 000-25, 000 polar bears worldwide.

It was a scene that had been repeated many times in the theater's 75-year history.

It would have been so much easier if a train or a subway line went through here.

It's been her dream for a long time.

It's been tested on mice for ten times.

It's been three weeks since he first started going, so macy and I are pretty used to it now.

I've been looking forward to this training program for a long time.

James, you've been watching TV for the whole evening.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Luckily, I discovered the job—data analyst—this month and have been going full steam ahead.

Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless.

Many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been formed at a very young age.

Mary has been working really hard on his book and thinks he'll have finished it by Friday.

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

Modern businesses have been following his lead, with more tactics.

Moran says one of the problems with Jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.

Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune.

Nicholas might not have survived this snowstorm had it not been for TV.

Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.

Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after day I kept coming up with solutions, but none of them worked.

Of course! It's been ages since we met last time.

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

On mu recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother.

On the other hand, whenever I had plunged into deep water, forced by courage or circumstance, I had always been able to swim until I got my feet on the ground again.

"The traditional rule was it's safer to stay where you are, but that's been fundamentally inverted," says one headhunter.

"There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve," says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these "article preparation costs" had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

After a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying into a good family.

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads.

Among the children who had not been tricked, the majority were willing to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership.

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some times readers as faint praise.

As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's papers.

Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

Big chains have been collecting sales tax nationwide because they typically have physical stores in whatever state a purchase is being shipped to.

Britain's Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.

But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to ack

By most recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power.

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined—France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.

For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off.

Further arrangements—and there may be many—between the NHS and Deep mind will be carefully scrutinized to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

his paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

In an essay entitled "Making it in America", the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog".

In Britain the move towards open access publishing has been driven by funding bodies.

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

In some ways it has been very successful.

In such a case, the company's response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society.

Indeed, predictions of such a society have been around for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.

It has not been much fun.

Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.

Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.

Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year-the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium—television—and television is defined by downloading.

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.

Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most notoriously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing "progressive, " or left- liberal propaganda.

Scientific publishing has long been a licence to print money.

Sellers that use eBay and Etsy, which provide platforms for smaller sellers, also haven't been collecting sales tax nationwide.

Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them.

since the beginning, this price tag has been PreCheck's fatal flaw.

So remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to the place they want to go, the things they like, the thing the hate—whatever you talk about.

So what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations, as a measure, it is no longer enough.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable-for example, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of giza in Egypt; and the megaliths of Stonehenge in southern England.

Teachers, employers, and health professionals have been shown to harbor biases against the obese.

The best uses of 3 D printers and virtual reality haven't been invented yet.

The building has housed some of the nation's most significant diplomats and politicians and has been the scene of many historic events.

The concept of sustainable development has been defined as profitable.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

The efforts of America's highest-earning 1% have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility from special interests.

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics.

The most drastic, and thoroughly illegal, reaction has been the emergence of Sci-Hub, a kind of global photocopier for scientific papers, set up in 2012, which now claims to offer access to every paywalled article published since 2015.

The number of women on corporate boards has been steadily increasing without government interference.

The proposal is that it should sit alongside the existing city of culture title, which was held by Hull in 2017 and has been awarded to Coventry for Zozl.

The research of till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise woul

The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspaper are least distinctive.

The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.

There has been a kind of inflationary process at work: nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.

There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been down.

Thirty years ago, it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs, and yet that is what we have now.

This has been dubbed "quarterly capitalism".

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

This might sound small, but to undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been necessary.

This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant.

Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.

Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

Users could select which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems.

We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth.

We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information stored there.

with the gap between the church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.

Yet it is principally during this period of stronger governance that CEO pay has been high and rising.

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