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Mr. Lhota, whose campaign routinely highlights his connection to Mr. Giuliani's rigid law-and-order policies, said that his real worry was the city's crime rate, which, after two decades of sharp declines, has begun to nudge upward.

But if you look at it a different way, the fact that Russia has enough money to even talk about developing a new bomber after a couple decades of sharp poverty suggests that it might actually be able to devote enough resources to developing its own "reconnaissance-strike complex".

President Obama immediately issued an executive order canceling numerous sanctions levied by the U.S. The deal, coupled with a secretly negotiated swap that freed prisoners including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, signals a new, if still tentative, era of cooperation between Washington and Tehran after decades of sharp-edged acrimony.

The college-age population is dropping after more than a decade of sharp growth, and many adults who opted out of a forbidding job market and went back to school during the recession have been drawn back to work by the economic recovery.

The decade of sharp-elbowed deal making that shaped the Russian industry yielded two leading contenders for the global energy big leagues.

Gulls and terns, after two decades (1980s and 1990s) of sharp increase in their densities (up to an average 13% annual growth rate in Audouin's gull) [171], are now in dynamic equilibrium [281].

How they underestimated her! Armed not only with her passion on the issue, but her decades of experience in sharp-elbowed politics, she out-argued the skeptics and outmaneuvered the opponents.

The predicted change in flow regime is an initial increase in summer flows in the early decades of 21st century followed by sharp decline of the same during the later parts of the century.

After decades of confrontation with the unbending, sharp-tongued Andrei Gromyko, the new Soviet foreign minister would, anyhow, have brought relief to other players on the international stage.

People are drinking more, and cheaper, wine; industry people call it "trading down," a sharp reversal after decades of aspirational consumption.

The other brought the grandfather of conceptual art into sharp focus after decades of benign neglect.