Assemblyman Darryl C. Towns has only to turn to photo albums from a few years ago to see how his deep kinship with a fellow politician has been fractured by the most consequential revolution in city politics in decades: term limits.
The red curve is the decade term; the green curve is the residual of decade subtracted from original LOD; and the blue curve is interannual variations that seasonal and decade terms have been removed.
That process is repeated during potential second- and third-decade terms.
Centuries, generations, and decades are terms of convenience.
For every battle won, there remain people who will happily reverse those decisions and cast women back decades in terms of social progress.
For decades the terms of trade, for example, have operated against West Indian primary producers; none of the West Indian islands produces enough of any one major commodity to have a decisive role in fixing prices.
If we divided the American population in half, we would find that those in the lower half have been pretty stable over the last few decades in terms of their incomes relative to one another.
Decades before terms like "alpha girl" were invented to describe a cutthroat female high school pecking order, the hits of Lesley Gore outlined this treacherous realm of sexual rivalry and vindictive gossip in language as curt as a text message.
"This is something, honestly, that we've been battling for decades in terms of what we see as the unequal treatment of our clients," said Deborah Wright, president of the local chapter of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, which led the march.
Over the New Year commentators, right and left, have agreed that the Westminster elections this coming May are the most starkly etched for decades, in terms of divergence in spending plans between the Tories and Labour.
