Ronald Reagan inherited economic decay and the most intense Soviet effort to win the cold war.
While chair of physics at McGill, nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford performed the experiment that led to the discovery of the alpha particle and its function in radioactive decay, which won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
The idea behind this ranking is to introduce edge weights that capture the notion that the importance of a win decays with time (e.g., a win last week is more important for a ranking today than a win 5 years ago).
Compounding the stress, I felt that if I didn't read enough, it meant that civilization was decaying and the internet had won.
At the end of the day, any choice made where everyone doesn't win is a recipe for resentment and decay in a relationship.
At first the North and South Korean economies matched each other won for won but, starting in the 1970s, autarky decayed into inefficiency.
Both actors won excellent notices, but the play, an allegory of Britain's decay, did not attract the public and closed after four weeks.
Is my kid going to win?' " Some scholars attribute the rise in sideline misbehavior to a general moral decay in American society.
They're the line managers, principals, coaches, community leaders, local officials, youth leaders, and others, who are taking the initiative to turn around a losing operation, or renew a decaying neighborhood, or create a winning team, or start a new business, or organize young people to plant trees.
