• Born in Dundee in 1922, William Turnbull was never to become a household name but was at the forefront of British art in the post war period.

    BBC: Dundee-born sculptor William Turnbull dies aged 90.

  • He had grown up with memory of the post-war period and the Cold War.

    BBC: Europe's tight fist at Nato irks America

  • The post-war period of financial repression occurred under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was marked by tight capital controls.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • For many years the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for most of the post-war period, did not have any women in the lower house.

    ECONOMIST: Mumeo Oku

  • Take, for example, the wealthy industrialist Samuel Courtauld, scion of the Courtauld textile empire, whose collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings assembled during the 1920s and 30s helped permanently establish their importance in the post-war period.

    BBC: A Point of View: The art of collecting

  • The longest expansion in the post-war period was 120 months, from March 1991 to March 2001.

    FORBES: How Much Longer Can The Economic Recovery Last?

  • This system provided stability during the post-war period, when a booming Japan was rebuilding itself.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate governance in Japan

  • By comparison, during the post-war period, US unemployment peaked in November and December of 1982 at 10.8%.

    BBC: Putting the job losses in context

  • From September to December The Rest is Noise will focus on the post-war period from 1945 to 2000.

    BBC: Entertainment & Arts

  • It is a continuation of the British obsession with the housing market, that has scarred public policy throughout the post-war period.

    BBC: Budget 2013: Mortgage move 'significant' for buyers

  • In the future, Mr Letwin wants the budget to balance across the cycle, a demanding goal, rarely, if ever, achieved in the post-war period.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The post-war period is rich in examples of blistering catch-up growth.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Naturally, many of the candidates called unfit are members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for most of the post-war period.

    CNN: From Our Correspondent: A Gift From Korea

  • Until the Great Recession, there was only one ten-year stretch in the post-war period, ending in early 1983, in which growth averaged as low as 2%.

    FORBES: How Ambitious Is Pawlenty's Growth Goal?

  • This was because of the "archaic spider's web" of thousands of bilateral agreements which had been the legal framework underpinning international air travel since the post-war period.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • If current pay practices are compared with those of the recent past, then the option explosion may be the most beneficial change in corporate policies in the post-war period.

    ECONOMIST: No soft option

  • Japan was able to turn its back on Asia for most of the post-war period because of a strong security alliance with America that has now been going for 50 years.

    ECONOMIST: Friends and neighbours

  • In the post-war period he practised and taught psychiatry in Vienna for 25 years, and spent 20 years in the United States as a visiting professor at Harvard and other American universities.

    ECONOMIST: Viktor Frankl

  • Noda, 54 years old, is the third youngest prime minister in the post-war period, two years older than Abe Shinzo and a few months older than Tanaka Kakue when they assumed the office.

    FORBES: As Prime Minister, Noda May Offer Something New

  • Based on his experiences as a soldier in the Philippines, it sold 200, 000 copies and was acclaimed by critics, many of whom regarded it as one of the finest novels of the post-war period.

    CNN: Newsmaker: Norman Mailer

  • Economically, Europe began the post-war period in ruins.

    ECONOMIST: From sea to shining sea

  • Italians have traditionally flocked to polls with voting levels far higher than other European countries and the U.S. But in this election, 75% of the electorate cast ballots, the lowest level in the post-war period.

    WSJ: Italy Vote Shows No Clear Winner, as Berlusconi Rises

  • In the post-war period in the U.S., federal spending has averaged just under 20 percent of GDP. (You can confirm this for yourself by going to the White House OMB site and downloading Table 1.2).

    FORBES: Paul Ryan's Budget is Not Nearly as Radical as the Status Quo

  • As shown in the first chart below, there are only a couple of times when housing contributes 1-2 percentage points to growth, the most notable being the post-war period of rapid household formation by returning war veterans.

    FORBES: Connect

  • "Oreiller is the man who inspired a lot of kids in Val d'Isere to try to become ski champions in the post-war period, " said Perret, author of a book about one of Val d'Isere's most famous events.

    CNN: Val d'Isere: The hidden home of skiing's 'madmen'

  • There is an especially exquisite irony here, since in the post-war period, at least until the 1980s, food firms were very happy to develop and promote, on its own terms, novelty, from new tastes to greater convenience, and consumers loved it and bought these innovative products.

    FORBES: The Politics of Obesity: Here Comes the NGO -- Media -- Class Action Bar Complex

  • New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.

    BBC: Philip Gould: What 'permanent campaign'?

  • "Those who managed to survive the troubled post-war period and want to go on putting their hands in the state budget should understand that there is a limit to everything, " it said.

    BBC: Abkhazia Georgia leader Ankvab escapes deadly ambush

  • In many ways, the post-Cold War period resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: We��ve Only Just Begun.

  • The post-World War II period perhaps marked one of the greatest periods of brand building and technological development in the United States.

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