Women also made advances into the political arena, to such a degree that Rwanda now has the highest percent of female congressional legislators in the world.
Twenty years on, countries have made historical advances, particularly in access to primary education.
In the north it made small advances, which may bear fruit in the long-term.
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Researchers in fusion energy have made significant advances, but progress has stalled because of budget cuts and annual funding fluctuations.
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To provide much-needed financing, Ramig made seven advances to the company during 2001 and 2002 that he believed to be loans.
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The complanit further contends that a senior partner at the firm, Randy Komisar, also made sexual advances toward Pao, which she rebuffed.
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Portland has made incremental advances in reducing its sewage overflows since the Clean Water Act went into effect more than 20 years ago.
With the support of the CEO, the innovation initiative has made major advances in establishing a significant innovation operation with a strong outside-in orientation.
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By the end of next year, researchers will have made enough advances on the project to start work with the simpler proteins, he said.
But research has made important advances in the past 25 years, and today science is slowly piecing together the puzzle of this complex and devastating disease.
Wind power has made significant advances in efficiency and scale in recent years, but wind-turbines are still able to handle only one of many wind-speed categories.
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca recently announced that it has made significant advances in using gold as a means to piggyback cancer drugs targeted for tumors.
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The United States made modest advances in some areas of education, but the rate of enrollment and completion for college is below other countries, the report found.
Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
The government made economic advances under the first administration of President YUDHOYONO, introducing significant reforms in the financial sector, including tax and customs reforms, the use of Treasury bills, and capital market development and supervision.
This company and its executive team have made many important advances in the last few years.
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Chevron is working with national labs like Lawrence Livermore, applying advances made in nuclear weapons simulation to seismic rendering.
Advances made in the past decade in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Education for All may be jeopardized.
The building industry is latching onto advances made by other industries like aviation to create innovations such as self-healing and self-cleaning materials.
Instead, the Service maintained, the advances made from Ramig to ShoeS4Work represented capital contributions that could only generate a capital loss upon liquidation.
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But there was some ambivalence about the advances made by science, with fears that scientists were "interfering" with nature and creating weapons of mass destruction.
In addition, the tech advances made control systems less expensive and sophisticated controls became available in machine tools that cost tens of thousands instead of millions.
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The ability of microbes to produce electricity has been known for decades, but only recently have technological advances made their production of electricity high enough to be of commercial use.
European and U.S. diplomats are worried that the military advances made by the Northern Alliance in recent days, including their occupation of the capital Kabul, could hamper the search for a broad-based post-Taliban government.
There has been concern that the advances made by pupils in primary school can be lost when they transfer to secondary level - and particular attention will be paid to tackling this "slipping back".
It has lasted for much longer than expected, in part because there was more around than had been thought, but also because technological advances made it more profitable to pump out oil that had been difficult to get at.
"We're not asking for people to agree to wage cuts, " said Rabe, but added that wage negotiations will depend mostly on advances made for "employment security" (which brought about 12, 000 early retirements in 2001 and 2002 for unionized workers), deployment flexibility and health care.
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