The city of Los Angeles, along with members of my family, spent the better part of a century falling into what historians refer to as the nostalgia trap, an unintentional erasing of the less proud elements of the past, the gradual non-existence of entire people and events.
"The shifts in the past have been very gradual," said John Lindback, the state's director of elections.
His decline over the past few years, first gradual and then precipitous, put his main organization, the Hunts Point Multi-Service Center, up for grabs, causing a succession struggle that pitted deputies, allies and his son and daughter against one another.
Because our trek on this day would take us on a gradual ascent past the upper limits of fir and juniper, I departed camp armed with tree-boring equipment in addition to my personal gear.
Swedish director Magnus von Horn makes a debut nearly as impressive as his name with The Here After (Soda, 15), a deftly controlled, cold-handed slap of a film centred on a teenager haunted by a criminal past that emerges in gradual, unhappy slivers.
We review geological indicators of sea level and outline how archaeological features are commonly used as proxies for measuring past sea levels, both gradual changes and catastrophic events.
In the past decades, with the gradual deepening research of the theory and application of complex networks, people start trying to investigate different large complex systems in the real world by this novel theory tools [1 3], such as Internet, ecological systems, biological neural networks, social networks, and world wide web.
Human groups intermittently migrating into Europe and the northern parts of the Eurasian landmass over the past 25,000 50,000 years experienced a gradual loss of skin pigmentation.
Nonetheless, with inflation still on track to ease further this year and debt burdens remaining high, we still expect rises in interest rates to be much more gradual than during past economic recoveries.
Among the reasons, economists say, is that hourly workers may have less to spend than they had in the past, a result of a gradual reduction in the workweek over several years, to 35 hours.
