Other reconstructions were based on retreating glaciers, or water temperatures in boreholes, or core sunk into ice sheets – but they too reproduce a hockey stick shape.
They spend mornings in panel discussions based on the retreat's particular theme; in recent years, those themes have included "Complexity," "Shaping Our Future" and "Wisdom and Spirit".
The sea-level implications of the research are troubling, if not direct — researchers cannot precisely quantify sea-level rise just based on the retreat of grounding lines, although they are certainly related.
What Mr. De Villepin is really after is an activist foreign policy for France based on engagement, not retreat.
These are an array of customized modules from two-hour, hands-on, in-the-office workshops to three-day immersive retreat-based forums, based on the Athena CORE10, to boost confidence and sharpen the leadership skills of women on the team, from up-and-coming junior staff to middle managers.
From this, the researchers created a conceptual model based on who benefits from retreat and who initiates it.
Polar bear experts had been braced for a 10% decline in the western Hudson Bay population, based on observations about the retreat of sea ice and the deteriorating condition of polar bears, especially mothers and cubs.
"I wrote a sort of manifesto," Mr. Gladwell said, referring to his article in The New Yorker and later in his book, which described how crime, smoking and even best-sellers grow or retreat based on the accumulation of small events until a tipping point is reached.
In it, Burgoyne explicitly appeals to Clinton for instruction on whether he should attempt to advance or retreat, based on the likelihood of Clinton's arrival at Albany for support.
When Burgoyne received the letter he immediately replied, appealing to Clinton for instruction on whether he should attempt to advance or retreat, based on the likelihood of Clinton's arrival at Albany for support.
