Correction: September 16, 2000, Saturday An obituary yesterday of William C. Warren, a former dean of Columbia Law School in New York, misspelled the surname of the current dean, who commented on Mr. Warren's five decades of influence on the school.
Behind the scenes, though, lie decades of influence and years of study.
She is a former fiddler from Northern California who moved to Boston and then Brooklyn, perfecting along the way an expansive sort of minimalism: she writes sharp little songs that gesture at decades of influences, from coffee-shop folk to 78-r.p.m. jazz.
Garth Brooks for the 2013 "The Melting Pot" album in the Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences compilation.
Though music of Stockhausen's generation may seem an unlikely influence, Stravinsky said in a 1957 conversation: I have all around me the spectacle of composers who, after their generation has had its decade of influence and fashion, seal themselves off from further development and from the next generation (as I say this, exceptions come to mind, Krenek, for instance).
Mr. Bartlett, who represents the nation's biggest banks and insurance companies, will depart after more than a decade of influencing lawmakers and regulators on the most crucial issues facing Wall Street.
Even after decades of foreign influence, most Samoans are fluent in the Samoan language.
In a way, Moldova is grappling with the same challenge as Georgia and Ukraine — trying to join the West after decades of Russian influence.
When? 1966-1997 Claim to greatness: The first non-folk female singer-songwriter She defied all categories in the late 60s, and Laura Nyro's music makes more sense now, after four decades of her influence trickling down.
(Mr Peevski's group controls six of the 12 largest-circulation newspapers as well as newspaper distribution and digital television channels).After decades of partisan influence, it won't be easy to transform agencies and watchdogs into independent bodies.
They are part of a group responding to accusations of ethical conflicts inherent in these arrangements, and their decisions repudiate decades of industry influence, says Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, a professor at the Tufts School of Medicine, who has written a book on conflicts of interest.
