During the past year I have discussed this matter with the leaders of several Western nations.

During the past year, our long-range striking power, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on new strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile has entered the operational inventory.

During the past year, 10,517 government bid invitations were received and 4,427 procurement leads were mailed to Rhode Island manufacturers.

During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.

During the past decade the program has been carried on through expansion of free higher education in state universities, state colleges, and community colleges.

During the past year, these ligands have yielded some unusual five-coordinate complexes of nickel ( 2 ) and some interesting binuclear phosphorus-bridged complexes of palladium ( 2 ) ( see figure ), as well as new compounds of the well-known type Af.

During the past 50 years, 7, 435 Schmidt camera plates were used to complete several sky surveys that make the data in USNO-B1. 0 accurate to within 0. 2 arcsec.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

During the past few centuries of detailed, scientific study of the Bronze Age, it has become clear that on the whole, the use of copper or bronze was only the most stable and therefore the most diagnostic part of a cluster of features marking the period.

During the past five hundred years, however, probably due to Confucian influence, inheritance by sons — but not always, or even most often, the eldest son — has been the norm.

During the 1980s, a neo-traditional school of jazz sought to reconnect with the past.

During the past few years, Sharman Networks and its business partners and associates were the target of copyright-related lawsuits, related to the copyright of content distributed via Kazaa Media Desktop on the FastTrack protocol.

During and after its golden age, the Dutch built up a commercial and colonial empire, which fell apart quickly after the Second World War ; the historical ties inherited from its colonial past still influence the foreign relations of the Netherlands.

During the period October 2007-October 2008 Spain had its unemployment rate climbing 37 %, exceeding the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993.

During the past decades, globalization, outsourcing and information technology have enabled many organizations, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard, to successfully operate solid collaborative supply networks in which each specialized business partner focuses on only a few key strategic activities ( Scott, 1993 ).

During the past Super Bowl games since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger ( Super Bowl VI ), the NFL logo was painted on the 50-yard line, except for Super Bowls XXV and XXIX.

During the past decade since 2001, the Turkish lira has also gained a considerable amount of value and maintained its stability, becoming an internationally exchangeable currency once again ( in line with the inflation that dropped to single-digit figures since 2003.

During the past 50 years, only once the President has not obeyed the Council of State consensus and Halonen was accused of cronyism.

* During 2010, such legislation was introduced in six states ( Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma ); however, none made it past the introductory stage.

During the past three decades, the city has seen a dramatic rise in the number of international migrants, and today 15. 2 % of Milan's population is foreign born.

" During the past two decades there has been a shift towards greater residential living areas in the Wall Street area, with incentives from city authorities in some instances.

During the past years however, the installation of wind power systems has been the subject of controversial debates due to its landscape impact.

During the 20th century, paella's popularity spread past Spain's borders.

During this interview, Rooney repeatedly corrects Ali G's poor grammar, and responds angrily to Ali G's foolish questions about the current state of the media.

During this period poets from the north and south of the island extolled the merits of their respective peoples ( Eremonians and Eberians ), at the expense of the other side, and often descended to a pettiness that some contemporaries thought foolish.

During the standing ovation that followed, Farage was the only MEP to remain seated and went on to describe the Prince's advisers as " naïve and foolish at best.

The party hat has its origins in the dunce cap worn by misbehaving or poorly performing schoolchildren from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, with its festive decoration and society's positive attitude toward the wearer indicating a relaxation, abrogation, or even reversal of certain social norms: During the occasion in question the wearer is permitted or encouraged to engage, rather than discouraged from engaging, in frivolous and foolish behavior for which the required wearing of the dunce cap would in other situations constitute a punishment.

During the last three centuries attempts have been made to sift away successively those gems which had no claim to be considered in any sense Gnostic, or specially Basilidian, or connected with Abrasax.

During the next three years, Alexander seemed to renew his attempts to subdue the states of Thessaly, especially Magnesia and Phthiotis, for upon the expiry of the truce, in 364 BC, they again applied to Thebes for protection from him.

During his rookie season, he played in two games where he amassed a record of 5 passing attempts with 0 receptions and 2 interceptions.

During the Battle of France, the French, who made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers, were constantly frustrated when German forces arrived there first and pressed on.

During the next two years, Déby faced at least two coup attempts.

During their attempts at conquest in 1460 and again in 1491, the Incas established forts in the Central Valley of Chile, but they could not colonize the region.

During his second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career.

* 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

During a hand, each player bids for a number of tricks, then attempts to take exactly that many tricks during the hand.

During the Middle Ages, there were several attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings.

During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.

During the 1980s the Australian attempts to emulate big-budget US soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty had resulted in Taurus Rising and Return to Eden, two slick soap opera dramas with big budgets and shot entirely on film.

During this period, the British made several unsuccessful attempts to affiliate St. Vincent with other Windward Islands in order to govern the region through a unified administration.

During the 1994 season for San Diego, Humphries completed 264 out of 453 attempts for 3, 209 yards and 17 touchdowns, with 12 interceptions.

During the 1760s and 1770s, relations between the Thirteen Colonies and Britain became increasingly strained, primarily because of opposition to Parliament's repeated attempts to tax American colonists without their consent.

During 18th to 19th century Romanticism, there were various misguided attempts to explain the obscure term, or to elevate it to the status of a remnant of pagan antiquity, scoffed at by Grimm's entry in his Deutsches Wörterbuch.

During continuing struggles between the British and the French for control in the Caribbean, the French made further attempts to invade Anguilla in 1745 and 1796 but these failed.

During the Jacksonian era, some of the first attempts were made by corporations to influence politicians.

During the 1970s, attempts were made to use cosmic ray spallation to produce deuterium.

During the Second World War three Allied attempts to bomb the town failed: only the railway station was damaged, and there was only one casualty.

During the reign of Ranavalona I, early attempts at industrialization took place from 1835 under the direction of the French Jean Laborde ( a survivor of a shipwreck off the east coast ), producing soap, porcelain, metal tools and firearms ( rifles, cannons, etc.

During the 2010 election cycle, the state of Florida passed two redistricting amendments to their state constitution that were aimed at preventing future attempts at gerrymandering.

During the early part of the 20th century, attempts were made to suppress Cajun culture by measures such as forbidding the use of the Cajun French language in schools.

During 1943 and early 1944 there were at least four failed attempts organised by von Tresckow and von Stauffenberg to get one of the military conspirators near enough to Hitler for long enough to kill him with hand grenades, bombs or a revolver: