Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

Although banned by then-President Marc Ravalomanana from 2000 to 2009, the collection of small quantities of precious timber from national parks was re-authorized in January 2009 and has dramatically intensified under the administration of current head of state Andry Rajoelina as a key source of state revenues to offset cuts in donor support following Ravalomanana's ouster.

Although this design eliminated a number of useful instructions such as multiply and divide it was felt that the overall performance of the system would be dramatically improved because the chips could run at much higher clock rates.

Although they moved quickly in flight, early re-entry systems slowed dramatically once they reached the lower atmosphere, which gave time for a fast missile to attack it.

Although there were accusations of human rights abuses, the OAS / UN International Civilian Mission in Haiti, known by the French acronym MICIVIH, found that the human rights situation in Haiti improved dramatically following Aristide's return to power in 1994.

Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1. 5 million in a country of about 70 million.

Although originally low-cost housing, Silicon Valley's housing prices shot up dramatically as many houses that were formerly lowly priced became multi-million dollar homes.

Although many of these speeches were not academic, others were, and Addams ' division between academic and everyday thought was dramatically different from that of her typical male academic colleagues.

Although the accuracy would not be as great, an aircraft flying horizontally would not be subject to the great stresses of diving, and could be built to hold a dramatically greater warload.

Although the armies fought the Civil War battles mostly outside of urban areas, urban populations dramatically decreased.

Although this has changed dramatically since the advent of funding for francophone high schools in the 1960s, according to the 2001 census, francophones in Ontario still tend to have a lower level of education than the general population.

" Although her influences are mostly classical, she has said that in her opinion her " style has changed dramatically over the years, though the passion for music stays the same.

Although Napolipolita cuts a fine figure, always impeccably dressed with a dramatically swirling cloak and wraparound sunglasses, her facade quickly shatters when danger arises.

Although sales rose dramatically due to the attention, the company was weak on fundamentals and actually lost money on most of its sales.

Although tape and other technical advances dramatically improved audio quality of commercial recordings in the post-war years, the basic constraints of the electro-mechanical mastering process remained, and the inherent physical limitations of the main commercial recording media — the 78 rpm disc and the later 7-inch 45 rpm single and the 33-1 / 3 rpm LP record — meant that the audio quality, dynamic range, and running time of master discs were still limited compared to later media such as the compact disc.

According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings. com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts ' overall game quality continues to fall ... Although market share has not declined dramatically to date, in years such as 2007, which promises to have tremendous competition, it seems likely if quality does not improve.

Although some important projects were started there was, however, no unified policy towards infrastructure, which did not dramatically improve.

Although the term entryism was used little if at all, opponents accused David Orchard and his supporters of attempting to win the leadership of the former Progressive Conservative Party in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the intention of dramatically changing its policies.

Although Deutsch consistently led opinion polls in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area, and had the largest amount of cash on hand for most of the race, he lagged in statewide opinion polls behind rival Betty Castor, whose fundraising dramatically accelerated during the summer of 2004 with the help of EMILY's List, which contributed close to $ 4. 5 million in television and advertising dollars.

Although work on the two prisons continued at about the same time and they share the same design of a central dome-topped building, the two prisons reflect dramatically different prison concepts.

Although the company had exported beer for most of its history, this effort was intensified dramatically in the late 1980s.

Although the lake has shrunk dramatically beginning from 1890, it remains an important habitat for birds and wildlife, especially in flood years.

Although it is true that blue collar crime rates and open manifestations of poverty decreased dramatically during the first years of his administration, there was widespread public perception, and some evidence, that most of this apparent success was obtained to the expense of civil liberties and freedom of speech, and that the means employed to this end were objectable to say the least.

Although the transcontinentals dominated the media, with the completion of the first in 1869 dramatically symbolizing the nation ’ s unification after the divisiveness of the Civil War, most construction actually took place in the industrial Northeast and agricultural Midwest, and was designed to minimize shipping.

Although the transcontinentals dominated the media, with the completion of the first in 1869 dramatically symbolizing the nation ’ s unification after the divisiveness of the Civil War, most construction actually took place in the industrial Northeast and agricultural Midwest, and was designed to minimize shipping times and costs.

Although P52 has no more than 114 legible letters, it must come from a substantial codex book ; as it is written on both sides in a generously scaled script, with on one side and on the other.

Although conventional ( annular ) Hall thrusters are efficient in the kilowatt power regime, they become inefficient when scaled to small sizes.

Although plans were scaled down it was still a huge building and is a Grade I listed building.

Although plans were scaled down it was still a huge building and is a Grade I listed building.

Although this philosophy is still followed today to some extent, it has been largely scaled back.

Although the force was scaled back to avoid antagonizing the United States, more than 70, 000 Japanese troops joined the much smaller units of the Allied Expeditionary Force sent to Siberia in 1918.

Although such small sloops are rare, today ( the one pictured at right is a 19th Century survivor ), the design was scaled down to produce the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy, a class of racing vessel used in traditional competition between Bermudian yacht clubs.

Although this process can be easily scaled up, it is rather complex and the products are much diluted, which greatly complicates the recovery of the liquid products.

Although red cellidor scaled Swiss Army Knives are most common, there are many colors and alternative materials like nylon and aluminium for the scales available.

Although at one time the USPS expected to irradiate all mail, it later scaled back to just treating mail sent to government offices.

Although there are currently no true MAVs ( i. e., truly micro scaled flyers ) in existence, DARPA has attempted a program to develop even smaller Nano Air Vehicles ( NAVs ) with a wingspan of 7. 5 centimeters.

Although scaled, some filefish have such small scales as to appear scaleless.

Although there is some dispute over his age upon reaching the summit, it is widely accepted that he is the youngest person to have climbed the mountain until Jordan Romero scaled it on May 22, 2010.

Although continuing to function, the Game Warden, Market Time, and Riverine Assault Force operations were scaled down and their personnel and material resources increasingly devoted to Sealords.

Although EMP has scaled back its live music programming from the level of its first few years, every April since 2002 it has hosted the three-day Pop Conference, which brings together a few hundred people for a unique conference that presents the perspectives of academics, writers, artists, and fans.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.

Although I absolutely reject the Platonism of it, I have literally squealed with delight at the imperturbable perfection with which the position is laid down on page after page ''.

The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides.

" Although the plane came down only five miles northwest of the airport, no one saw or heard the crash ", wrote rock performer, archivist and music historian, Harry Hepcat, in his article about Buddy Holly.

Although Baguirmi resisted, it accepted tributary status in order to obtain help from Ouaddai in putting down internal dissension.

Although all rebellions were eventually put down at enormous cost and casualties, the central imperial authority was seriously weakened.

Although the Cirth were later largely replaced by the Tengwar ( which were enhanced and brought by Fëanor ), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language ( Angerthas Moria and Angerthas Erebor ) because their straight lines were better suited to carving than the curved strokes of the Tengwar.

Although its use has been mainly associated within the high-vacuum range ( down to 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup > mbar ), diffusion pumps today can produce pressures approaching 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup > mbar when properly used with modern fluids and accessories.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

Although the term " fighter " specifies aircraft designed to shoot down other aircraft, such designs are often also useful as multirole fighter-bombers, strike fighters, and sometimes lighter, fighter-sized tactical ground-attack aircraft.

Although the gentility passed down the generations, the prosperity did not ; Eric Blair described his family as " lower-upper-middle class ".

Although Magloire declared martial law, a general strike essentially shut down Port-au-Prince.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

Although the automaker announced two days later that it had been approached with new offers, by April 2010, any sale became unlikely, as inventory was depleted and Hummer dealerships began shutting down.

Although IKEA household products and furniture are designed in Sweden, they are largely manufactured in developing countries to keep costs down.

Although " icing " increases alcohol content, most of the United States breweries simply add water back into their beer after the icing process to bring the alcohol content back down to nearly the same levels.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

Although commonly assigned to the order Coraciiformes, from this level down confusion sets in.

Although humans and other mammals use various biosynthetic pathways to both break down and synthesize lipids, some essential lipids cannot be made this way and must be obtained from the diet.

Although it is difficult to pin down what aspects of language are uniquely human, there are a few design features that can be found in all known forms of human language, but that are missing from forms of animal communication.

Although the drawings were bought by the British Ministry of Information, his application was turned down and he was conscripted in the Army, where he served first with the Royal Artillery, then with the Royal Engineers.

Although both rebellions were put down in short order, the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes of the unrest.

Although such boats cruised on the Ohio River in an oval pattern up and down, the state of Kentucky soon protested.

Although many techniques are used by vaulters at various skill levels to clear the bar, the generally accepted technical model can be broken down into several phases, listed and described below: