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On the scale of decades, in our lifetimes, we're going to see a lot of damage to coral reefs.
Scientists like James Hansen tell us we may need to eliminate net CO2 emissions from the economy in just a few decades.
Perhaps the tremendous progress we've made over the last century by a series of forces are, in fact, accelerating to a point that we have the potential in the next three decades to create a world of abundance.
We are living into extraordinary decades ahead.
And that era of terrorism, of course, was followed by segregation and decades of racial subordination and apartheid.
CA: There's been this huge decline in crime in America over the last three decades.
An important impact, if global warming continues, will be on the breadbasket of our nation and the world, the Midwest and Great Plains, which are expected to become prone to extreme droughts, worse than the Dust Bowl, within just a few decades, if we let global warming continue.
We're discovering particles that may travel faster than the speed of light, and all of these discoveries are made possible by technology that's been developed in the last few decades.
And for decades it had been assumed that only humans can do that, that only humans worry about the welfare of somebody else.
For decades in the United States, African-American women were sterilized without their consent.
And so I hope they'll feel that I'm living out what I've learned from them and from the decades of work that I've already done at the foundation.
When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades, without disability, a dramatic change, well is it any surprise that that $40,000 hip replacement replacing the 10-cent aspirin is more expensive?
But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the death of two mayors.
And he worked for decades trying to explain this number, but he never succeeded, and we know why.
Almost four decades later, how will this building expand for a new progressive program?
But here's the thing I know from decades in the system: real, systemic change takes time, and it takes a variety of strategies.
We can't turn back the clock on decades of overfishing in countless regions of the ocean that once seemed inexhaustible.
But for the first time in three decades into this epidemic we have a real chance to come to grips with HIV.
You could basically spew a bunch of particles in orbit that could take out that orbit from being useful for decades or longer.
But most of all, for the first time in decades, they expect to be active participants, not spectators, in the affairs of their country.
And for decades, I'm going, why does this happen?
How is it that if for decades we had a pretty straightforward tool for keeping patients, and especially low-income patients, healthy, that we didn't use it?
We all know what happened when millions of women were given hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms for decades until all of a sudden we realized, because a study came out, a big one, NIH-funded.
The revolution is going to continue for at least several more decades.
The decades ahead will see dramatic advances in disease prevention, general health, the quality of life.
Over the last two decades, India has become a global hub for software development and offshoring of back office services, as we call it, and what we were interested in finding out was that because of this huge industry that has started over the last two decades in India, offshoring software development and back office services, there's been a flight of white collar jobs from the developed world to India.
In fact, I've managed to stay clear of hospitals for almost three decades, perhaps my proudest accomplishment.
Four- to five-day-a-week psychoanalytic psychotherapy for decades and continuing, and excellent psychopharmacology.
In 86 percent of the world's countries, happiness has increased in recent decades.
A tabulation of positive and negative emotion words in news stories has shown that during the decades in which humanity has gotten healthier, wealthier, wiser, safer and happier, the "New York Times" has become increasingly morose and the world's broadcasts too have gotten steadily glummer.
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