Business was barely present in Rio ten years ago, but some 700 companies and 50 chief executives attended the Johannesburg talks.
Yet two-fifths of Americans still refuse to accept that human beings share a common ancestry with animals, preferring to believe that they were created in their present form in the past 10, 000 years.
They have lived in their present house for 16 years and are very reluctant to move.
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The Maya originated around 3, 000 years ago in present-day Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.
This point-based system may allow the U.S. to put legal immigrants on a path to citizenship by issuing green cards to legal immigrants based on criteria such as number of years present in the U.S., level of education, employment potential, etc.
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Called Hoba, it is an iron boulder thought to have landed about 80, 000 years ago, in present-day Namibia.
Not only has the scope of electric equipment present in buildings expanded in recent years, the scale of energy consumed by plug loads has also grown.
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Just as the first tee shot has changed in the last few years to present an even more formidable challenge, so too has the final one at the 18th.
On the contrary, reducing our stress levels is something that we should take very seriously, since chronic stress can affect the ways in which our brains function in the present, and it may seriously alter our brain health in the years to come.
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Fewer organs have become available in recent years due to improvements in road safety, and, at present, living donor operations are the only way to make up the shortfall.
Having only had roughly 2 weeks to devise core innovations that would impact one billion people in 10 years, the students took the stage in four waves to present their proposals.
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Citibank has been continually present in El Salvador for over 36 years and has had a full branch licence for over six years.
While other kinds of food allergies present in the first two or three years of life, pollen allergies that contribute to oral allergy syndrome develop more slowly, Wood said, peaking in the teenage and young adult years.
For his part, Sessions offered an amendment to require Democrats to present a budget that balances in 10 years -- something Murray's budget doesn't do and President Obama's is not expected to do when he unveils it soon.
Such assertions may have been accurate as recently as earlier this decade, but at present, and increasingly in the next several years, this conclusion will appear to be guided more by an overconfidence in American capabilities than by pragmatic realism.
These comparisons draw upon tests that are taken every three or four years, in areas such as maths, science and literacy - and so present a picture lagging by several years.
Brent's biggest concern at present is that for the first time in five years earnings yields are below corporate bond yields, making mergers and acquisitions more expensive.
The new Terrence Malick film is set fitfully in the present day, largely in the nineteen-fifties, and, somewhat surprisingly, a few billion years before that.
Collingwood, 31, has played 33 Tests and has been an ever present in the England side since the series in India two years ago.
It said the disease in Kent and Essex might have been present for a number of years, and was likely to have been transmitted by wind from mainland Europe.
When production is outsourced to a foreign country (a growing trend in recent years, including in the service sector), present statistical procedures lead to an underweighting of the foreign labour incorporated in imports.
John Kastelein, a cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam who is conducting a separate set of imaging studies of arteries in the neck, says that if torcetrapib removes plaque from the arteries over the course of two years in three different studies, it may still present a very compelling clinical benefit for patients.
As for the next 15 years, it is hard to pick winners in the present buoyant mood.
It says that economic growth will increase from 5% at present to between 7% and 8% in the next five years.
Even if the gap is plugged, Inenco predicts the price of electricity in the years ahead will be higher and more variable than at present.
The whole of Irvine was built by one firm, the Irvine Company, which says confidently that its present population of 200, 000 should double in the next 20 years.
It was incredibly rewarding work, and those 28 years provided experiences that have served me well in my present role as president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers.
Forecasts by Analysys, a British consultancy, suggest that in ten years' time operators may depend on what are at present embryonic or unknown services for two-thirds of their revenue (see chart).
With an estimated 12, 000-18, 000 members (approximately 20 to 30% of them children under 18 years), the FARC-EP is present in 35-40% of Colombia's territory, especially in the southeastern jungles and in the plains at the base of the Andes mountains.
In fact, many of these challenges have been present since their young adult years.
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