The International Olympic Committee's rules define a three-year period for change of nationalities, but Qatar persuaded the Bulgarian Olympic Committee to waive that rule.
Both women see 2018 as a critical period for change.
The chance of success for Zachary would have been especially promising since the juvenile justice system would have had nearly eight years of his adolescence to work with him - a critical period for change and transformation as Zachary matured into adulthood.
Ironically, when he finally managed to get to the West--he could hardly be called "defecting" since the regime was crumbling by the hour by that time--he could not compete for his new allegiance, West Germany, because of a mandatory one-year waiting period for change of citizenship.
Set a time period for change.
It just takes longer time periods for changes that are fundamental enough to require the descriptiveness of new properties.
In ordinary periods (intercrisis periods), propaganda for changes, however worthy, is likely to be, in the words of the German sociologist Max Weber, "a slow boring of hard boards".
We used Cox proportional hazards regression to compute 1- and 5-year hazard ratios as a measure of relative mortality (ie, mortality rate ratio [MRR]) for each calendar period, adjusting for changes in age and comorbidity level.
