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 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 the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

During the years of his leadership, membership increased dramatically, from a few individuals to sixty-nine Lodges.

During the next few years, Prinknash Park, so called, was used as a home, until it was returned to the order.

During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

During the last few years, camera cranes have been miniaturized and costs have dropped so dramatically that most aspiring film makers have access to these tools.

During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.

During his lifetime, Camille Pissarro sold few of his paintings.

During the time shortly after a fire, chaparral communities may contain soft-leaved herbaceuous annual plants that dominate the community for the first few years-until the burl resprouts and seedlings of chaparral perennials create an overstory, blocking the sunlight from other plants in the community.

During the wet season, thunderstorms often are violent but seldom last more than a few hours.

During the first few days of the spill, heavy sheens of oil covered large areas of the surface of Prince William Sound.

During the time of partition, the Bengali Hindus did not migrated to India, only few colonies close to border re-located in India.

Stephan Wrage, managing director of SkySails GmbH announced: " During the next few months we will finally be able to prove that our technology works in practice and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions.

During the next few years, his financial situation remained bad.

During the 9th century BC the Assyrians began to reassert themselves against the incursions of the Aramaeans, and over the next few centuries developed into a powerful and well-organised empire.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

During the few weeks of unrest tens of thousands of people were killed.

During one of his few drum solo performances on television, Moon filled clear acrylic drums with water and goldfish, and dressed as a cat.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

During the Tito-era of communist rule in Yugoslavia, the ethnic Albanian and Serb populations of Kosovo were strongly irreconcilable with sociological studies during the Tito-era indicating that ethnic Albanian and Serb peoples in Kosovo rarely accepted each other as neighbours or friends and few held interethnic marriages.

During High Middle Ages, the town was expanded with additional settlement was founded a few kilometers north of the stronghold in the course of the Ostsiedlung and chartered with Lübeck law.