Recent history has shown a high rate of turnover for Pontiac mayors.

Recent former mayors have included Jerry Alford ( retired telecommunications executive ), Toby Osburn ( university administrator ), Dr. Allen Groff ( physician ), and Tom Porter ( retired educator ).

Recent electoral inroads made by a number of independent candidates towards the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, such as the elections of Antanas Mockus and later Luis Eduardo Garzón as mayors of Bogotá, amid a climate of perceived generalized dissatisfaction with the country's traditional political background, have tended to shows signs that past electoral trends may be weakening and the potential for diversity could be increasing.

Recent Christian Scripture scholarship more and more has placed John within a first-century Jewish context.

Recent evidences such as the pool and a turn away from the vestiges of positivism as evidenced by the growing number of books addressing the historicity of John reveal that the final word has not been said on how much of the historical Jesus inhabits John's gospel.

" Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams ", American Music Vol.

Recent involvement of science fiction writers include Harlan Ellison who served as a creative consultant on Babylon 5 and John Scalzi who served as a creative consultant on Stargate Universe.

Recent historians, such as Yale University's John Lewis Gaddis, have grown more favorable towards the use and influence of the phrase " evil empire " in describing the Soviet Union.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Former mob boss John " Teflon Don " Gotti dies of cancer.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Recent additions to the subgenre of the whodunit include the novels of Simon Brett, the Thackery Phin novels of John Sladek, Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ) ( which is a spoof set in the present in an English-style country house ), Kinky Friedman's Road Kill ( 1997 ), Ben Elton's Dead Famous ( 2001 ), and Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ( 2006 ).

Recent translations into English include one undertaken with the assistance of the American novelist John Gardner, and John Maier, published in 1984.

Recent redevelopments of the downtown strip, led by Kevin and Nancy Weller and John Ward have resulted in a popular liquor store opened by the late Al Pike, now operated by wife Connie Pike.

Recent acquisitions by Hormel Foods include: Century Foods International ( 2003 ) Clougherty Packing ( Farmer John ) ( 2004 ), Lloyd ’ s Barbeque ( 2005 ), Mark-Lynn Foods ( 2005 ), Arriba Foods ( 2005 ), Provena Foods ( 2006 ) and Burke Foods ( 2007 ).

Recent developments on this site has seen the opening of the John Galsworthy Building, providing extra teaching and office space.

Gold won the John Frederick Lewis Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 1972 for his paper " The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence " and the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1979.

" Recent performers have included the fiery piano jazz of Esbjörn Svensson Trio, funky saxman Joshua Redman, and futuristic electronics wizard Leafcutter John.

Recent exhibits and acquisitions, including works by Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani, Frank Stella, Françoise Gilot, John LaFarge, and Jackson Pollock.

* Still Time for Surprises: John Ashbery's Recent Books by Marjorie Perloff

Recent guests have included Elton John, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, OutKast, Alicia Keys, Shakira, John Legend, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Christina Aguilera.

* John Morgan, Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds, Bull.

Recent experts include Gabriel Ajak, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, former U. S. Senator John Culver, and former U. S. Senator and presidential nominee George McGovern among others.

Recent highlights: 2010 4x400 relay team of Naomi Robinson, Jenn Nass, Marissa Romano, & Michele Gianni won their heat at the prestigious Penn Relay Carnival in a time of 4: 05. 12 to win the Penn Relays Wall Plaque.

* Provan, Iain W., " Ideologies, Literary and Critical Reflections on Recent Writing on the History of Israel ", Journal of Biblical Literature 114 / 4 ( 1995 ), p585-606.

Recent releases include Early Minimalism Volume 1, a four-CD set, Slapping Pythagoras, Four Violins ( recorded in the 1960s ), Outside the Dream Syndicate Alive ( with Faust, from London 1995 ), and Fantastic Glissando.

Recent developments in U. S. trademark law have included the adoption of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 ( see Trademark dilution ), the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 ( see Trademark dilution ).

Curtis, and J. Esson, 1995, Complex cementation textures and authigenic mineral assemblages in Recent concretions from the Lincolnshire Wash ( east coast, UK ) driven by Fe ( 0 ) Fe ( II ) oxidation: Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 152, pp. 157 – 171.

Recent changes in state legislation have also opened the way to greater autonomy for Italian universities, and in 1995 Padua adopted a new Statute that gave it greater independence.

Recent notable lockout incidents have been reported in professional sports, notably involving Major League Baseball in the 1990 offseason, the National Basketball Association in the 1995 offseason, the 1996 offseason, and the 1998 – 99 and 2011 – 12 seasons, the National Hockey League in the 1994 – 95, 2004 – 05 and 2012-13 seasons, and the National Football League in the 2011 offseason.

Recent examples include New South Wales in 1991, Queensland in 1995, Victoria in 1999, South Australia in 2002, Western Australia in 2008, the Australian Capital Territory in 2008, and Tasmania in 2010.

Recent Celebrants have included: The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2012 ); The Reverend Paul Keane, Old Oratorian and Chaplain to the University of Essex ( 2011 ); The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Promoter of the Cause of Canonisation for John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ); The Very Reverend Robert Byrne, Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 2009 ); The Right Reverend Patrick O ' Donoghue, Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster ( 2008 ); The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside ( 2007 ); Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville, Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 2006 ); The Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan, Abbot of Farnborough ( 2005 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2004 ); The Right Reverend Bishop George Stack, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2003 ); His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O ’ Connor, Archbishop of Westminster ( 2002 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds ( 2001 ); Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2000 ); The Abbot of Ampleforth ( 1999 ); The Catholic Chaplain to Harrow School ( 1998 ); the Provost of the London Oratory ( 1997 ); the Apostolic Nuncio ( 1996 ); His Eminence George Basil Cardinal Hume ( 1995 ); Dom Stanislaus Hobbs of St Benedict ’ s Abbey, Ealing ( 1994 ); the Master of St Benet ’ s Hall, Oxford ( 1993 ); and the Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 1992 ).

* A Recent Future ( 1995 )

This formed the basis for a 1995 article in the Psychological Review for which she received the American Psychological Association's George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology.

* Sterelny, K., 1995, « Understanding Life: Recent Work in Philosophy of Biology », The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 46 ( 2 ), p. 155-183.

*" A Recent Future " ( 1995 ) with James Keelaghan

Recent scholarly works on the topic of stakeholder theory that exemplify research and theorizing in this area include Donaldson and Preston ( 1995 ) and Mitchell, Agle, and Wood ( 1997 ), Friedman and Miles ( 2002 ) and Phillips ( 2003 )..

Recent works in redifining the families within the Noctuoidea has been carried out by Kitching ( 1984 ), Poole ( 1995 ), Kitching and Rawlins, Speidel et al.

Recent additions include a new pre-school facility in 1990, a new upper school science building in 1991, additional pre-school classrooms in 1995, and a new upper school building including a computer center, foreign language laboratories and a new library in 1996.

Recent Directors of Music have included Henry Washington ( 1935 – 1971 ), John Hoban ( 1971 – 1995 ), Andrew Carwood ( 1995 – 1999 ) and Patrick Russill ( 1999-to date ).

* KJ Hopt and PC Leyens, ' Board Models in Europe – Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy ' ( 2004 ) EGCI Working Paper

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

Recent years have once again brought a new construction boom to the Fairfax campus, which is currently undergoing a massive, $ 900 million construction campaign ( between 2002 – 2012 ) based on the 2002 University Master Plan.

Recent work tries to take into account the roles of differences in parent bodies and the specifics of their orbits, ejection velocities off the solid mass of the core of a comet, radiation pressure from the sun, the Poynting – Robertson effect, and the Yarkovsky effect on the particles of different sizes and rates of rotation to explain differences between meteor showers in terms of being predominantly fireballs or small meteors.

Recent extreme droughts ( 2000 – 2007 ) have put significant stress on river red gum forests, with mounting concern over their long term survival.

Recent studies have shown that the formation of the Oort cloud is broadly compatible with the hypothesis that the Solar System formed as part of an embedded cluster of 200 – 400 stars.

* BBC Sport – Club news – Recent results – Upcoming fixtures – Club statistics

Recent elections have seen decreasing election violence between the SLFP and the UNP, compared to the period 1977 – 1994.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed – Russian General who ran for the presidency against Boris Yeltsin ; Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie Doll

Recent multigene analysis indicates the odobenids and otariids diverged from the phocids about 20 – 26 million years ago, while the odobenids and the otariids separated 15 – 20 million years ago.

Recent outbreaks of West Nile virus encephalitis in humans have occurred in Algeria ( 1994 ), Romania ( 1996 to 1997 ), the Czech Republic ( 1997 ), Congo ( 1998 ), Russia ( 1999 ), the United States ( 1999 to 2009 ), Canada ( 1999 – 2007 ), Israel ( 2000 ) and Greece ( 2010 ).

" Emerging from the Wilderness ( or, from Redwoods to Bananas ): Recent Environmental History in the United States and the Rest of the Americas ," Environment and History, 10 ( 2004 ), pp. 407 – 38

Recent Historical Writings on the Rape of Nanjing " American Historical Review 104, 3 ( June 1999 )., 842 – 865.

Recent research has influenced the design of spacecraft environments, as systems that mimic the light – dark cycle have been found to be highly beneficial to astronauts.

Recent operations have included patrolling the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia ( since 2009 ), the war in Afghanistan ( since 2005 ), intervention in East-Timor ( 1999 – 2004 ), in Guinea-Bissau ( 1990, 1998 and 1999 ), Angola ( 1992 ) and ongoing peacekeeping responsibilities in the Balkans and Lebanon.

Recent researchers have decided that the " Rat Man " was in fact Ernst Lanzer ( 1878 – 1914 )— though many other sources maintain that the man's name was Paul Lorenz.

* World Wide Fund for Nature – A Recent History of Everglades Regulation and Litigation

Recent governmental activity in the area of ITS – specifically in the United States – is further motivated by an increasing focus on homeland security.