There was mail call, sometimes at protracted intervals, which might mean some (censored) letters from home and perhaps a not-new newspaper or a miniature "pony edition" of Time or The New Yorker.
The IMF looked at Protracted Large Output Gaps — PLOGs — and found that in general inflation gets squeezed toward, but not below, zero: And our own history actually points in the same direction: the 1930s were marked by sharp deflation in the early years, but considerable inflation as the economy partially recovered, even though unemployment remained very high.
Sequence analysis of the transcribed genes suggested repeated transpositions at protracted intervals.
This effect modification is conceptually similar to the "dose rate effective factor" used in radiation epidemiology that describes for a specific type of radiation the effects on disease risk of total radiation dose delivered at lower (protracted or highly fractionated) dose rates compared with the effects at higher (or acute) dose rates (National Research Council 2006).
Tesfamicael Gerahtu, an Eritrean diplomat, said: "My delegation is dismayed at the protracted reliance on unreliable, unproven and sensational information and interactions.
Tesfamicael Gerahtu, an Eritrean diplomat, said his delegation was dismayed at "the protracted reliance on unreliable, unproven and sensational information and interactions", adding that "preconceived ideas and conclusions" about Eritrea had become rampant.
And anyone who thinks that the philosophical ideas of positivism, naturalism and materialism are false and out of date, will find it an easy matter to refute the aesthetic or pseudo-aesthetic doctrines which mutually support them and are supported by them, and will not regard their problems as problems still awaiting solution or worthy of discussion or, at least, protracted discussion.
Better understanding of the various biological mechanisms underlying withdrawal from alcohol will be the key to design and to apply appropriate pharmaceutical management, together with appropriate therapy aimed at inducing protracted abstinence.
The recovery phase can be varied in duration and at times protracted.
On his left flank stand America's white working-class voters, who face stagnant wages at best and protracted unemployment at worst.
Amy Marx, a Maryland painter whose work features images of violent storms and tornadoes, and who currently has a show at OK Harris in SoHo, where her large pieces are listed at between $8,500 and $12,500, remembers protracted discussions with a family in Maryland a few years ago.
