"You only have to look around this building to see the history and pride in the reserves over the past 100 years and more, " he said.
The incredible advances that have been made to medicine and health care in the developed world over the past 100 years have been based on continuous development, on marginal improvements, each one driving the next advance and each one building on the last, until we have reached the stage we are at now.
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In the most comprehensive analysis Anthony Atkinson and Salvatore Morelli of Oxford University looked at financial crises in 25 countries over the past 100 years and concluded that there was no systematic relationship between inequality and macroeconomic disaster.
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Nevertheless, given changes in American society over the past 100 years, it appears as if the left would have more to lose on a socio-political level in the wake of a complete financial meltdown that gives rise to societal breakdown.
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Major Western brands are unlikely to be able to bestride the globe in the same way they have done over the past 100 years or more.
Cynics might note that this would mean the temperature changing more dramatically in the next 100 years than it has done in any such period over the past 20, 000 years, though the scientists say that is precisely the point.
Sales, which doubled by volume in the past ten years to over 100, 000 hectolitres, could swell by 50% in the next ten years, reckons Morgan Stanley, a bank.
In the past two years, Microsoft has filed over 100 lawsuits against spammers in America, and sued or supported legal action by governments in 30 cases in other countries.
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In the past two years, Microsoft has filed over 100 lawsuits in America, and either initiated or supported legal action against spammers in 30 cases abroad, of which it has won or favourably settled over half.
More than 100 Iraqis, working in the media, have been killed over the past three and a half years.
Over the past 100 years the quality of cars has soared, but the notion of being driven around in a top-quality car by a driver was still somewhat of a distant concept.
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