Yet in the years leading up to OSHA, workplace fatalities were falling at the same rate as they fell in the period after its passage.

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Except for the brief period of mutual antagonism after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, auditors behave more than ever as if their client is management, and now the Audit Committee, rather than investors.

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Hayek wrote this passage in 1967, a period in which the United States was experiencing robust growth and had an unemployment rate below 4 percent.

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She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.

BBC: Ministerial statement: Climate change targets

In one scale there was a 5 point improvement in symptoms in the placebo pill group, but people who got nothing had a 4 point improvement over the same period of time This suggests that the main effect here is the passage of time.

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Even in 2007, when the previous record for melting was set, and satellite pictures showed the passage to be entirely clear of ice, there was only a short period of open water.

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While the book has provided some useful insight into the early developments of American higher education, I was taken aback when I came across a passage discussing the meager pay of college faculty during the 1790-1869 period and decided that some simple economic lessons are in order for our historians.

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