Present worldwide practises of overgrazing are substantially reducing many grasslands ' performance as carbon sinks.

* The Laffer Curve: Past, Present and Future: A detailed examination of the theory behind the Laffer curve, and many case studies of tax cuts on government revenue in the United States

Present research and development efforts concentrate on complex sets of equations which account for as many elements of physics as possible.

Despite the fact that many performances are held within the circle of a small art-world group, RoseLee Goldberg notes, in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present that " performance has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture.

In addition, many works, especially in the 1930s, prominently feature hands, which could be interpreted as another heroic symbol of proletarian strength through work: his self portrait in prison ( El Coronelazo, 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City ), Our Present Image ( 1947, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico ), New Democracy ( 1944, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ), and even his series on working class women, such as The Sob.

Present day interpretations based on Ōita's topography state that Oita's name comes from " Okita ", meaning " many fields ", rather than " vast " or " great " field, because of Ōita's complex terrain.

She appeared in a revival of the Noël Coward play Present Laughter at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1998, as well as many other stage productions across the country.

Present were many notable personalities, including Nita Ambani, director Rajkumar Hirani, director / producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah, actors Imran Khan, Rahul Bose and Vinod Khanna, and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar among others.

While most of the artists from this disc remain unknown to most, Hoodoo Gurus, Crash Test Dummies, The Wedding Present, The Primitives, and Henry Rollins have all produced well-known albums and many of the other artists are popular amongst rock fans.

Ralph M. Herzig was elected as Executive Trustee and Director of the Laymen ’ s Home Missionary Movement in 2004, and assumed the office of General Editor of The Bible Standard and Present Truth magazines as well as overseeing the pilgrim service, which functions as a speakers bureau serving its many congregations and tendering evangelistic service to outside groups and individuals on request.

* Before Present ( sometimes " Before Physics "), a time scale used in many scientific disciplines to mean years before 1950 ; commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating

This language has many indicative forms ( such as Remote Past, Recent Past, Past Progressive, Present, etc.

In the period immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, many areas that became completely barren desert were wetter than they are today, notably in southern Australia where Aboriginal occupation is believed to coincide with a wet period between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years BP ( Before Present, a formal measurement of uncalibrated radiocarbon years, counted from 1950 CE ).

His many stage credits include Daddy Warbucks in the original West End run of Annie-he can be heard on the original London cast album-and the Ghost of Christmas Present in the original Birmingham cast of the stage adaptation of the film musical Scrooge ( 1970 ), on the recording of which he can also be heard.

Since then, it has continued to host concerts by many music artists, including James Blunt, Diana Vickers, Hanson, My Chemical Romance, Tina Turner, Bombay Bicycle Club, dEUS, The Chameleons, Bee Gees, Marillion, Helloween, The Damned, Friendly Fires, Madonna, Prince, Mika, The Polyphonic Spree, Paradise Lost, Devendra Banhart, Oasis, The View, The Violet May, Queens of the Stone Age, Scouting for Girls, The Wedding Present, Bruno Mars, Blonde Redhead, Radiohead, Fink, Sabaton, Babyshambles and 30 Seconds to Mars and has regular weekly club nights.

:: Present day-Home to many charity events, festivals, outdoor concerts, etc.

Cant's theatre credits include Still Playing Away, The Railway Children, Present Laughter, An Ideal Husband, Habeas Corpus, Gaslight, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Canterbury Tales ( in which he memorably ad-libbed a reference to his work on Play School ), Oh Coward, There's No Place Like a Home and many more, as well as thirty two pantomimes, including an adaptation of " Aladdin " at the Wolverhampton Grand written by Ian Billings.

This can be seen in the many examples of ghost stories printed in the 18th century, including " Admiral Vernon's ghost ; being a full true and particular Account as how a Warlike apparition appeared last Week to the Author, Clad all in Scarlet, And discoursed to him concerning the Present State of Affairs.

He also contributed many articles to The Present Age and similar periodicals, and wrote a number of short books including The Principle of Reincarnation, Gold: in History and in Modern Times, West-East: A Study in National Relationships, Labour: in History and in Modern Times, and The British: Their Psychology and Destiny.

Edward's Great West And Her Commercial Metropolis, Embracing A General View Of The West, And A Complete History Of St. Louis, From The Landing Of Ligueste, In 1764, To The Present Time was a history of St. Louis containing portraits and biographies of some of the old settlers, and many of the most prominent business men.

In other countries such as the United States, Ireland, and many Nordic countries, there is a growing trend of customers using Card Not Present recharge options such as online payments, or by using their mobile handsets to call the operator and recharge with a representative ( CSR ) or through their IVR ( Interactive Voice Response ) system.

Present cultural and economic manifestations of Yugo-nostalgia include music groups with Yugoslav or Titoist retro iconography, art works, films, theater performances, and many organized, themed tours of the main cities of the former Yugoslav republics.

Born in Essex, he made his film debut in Flame in the Heather in 1935, and went on to make many other appearances in such films as Fire Over England ( 1936 ), Treasure Island ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ivanhoe ( 1952 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), Saint Joan ( 1957 ), From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Carry On Cleo ( 1964 ) and The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ).

Present rulers of Kingdom of Nepal, Jajorkot, Bajhang and Indian Princely States such as Jhalai, Jubbal, Bagribari, Tripura, Oel Kaimara, Khairagarh, Rajgarh, Tehri-Garhwal, Khajurgaon Thalrai, Benaras, Ramnagar, Mayurbanj, Poonch, Sikar and many other states share a direct bloodline with Commander-in-Chief Gen. Padma Jung Bahadur Rana KIH Gold Medal 1877 and Maharaja of Kaski & Lamjung Sir Jung Bahadur Rana.

Present at the meeting were delegates from all the major countries of Europe, and from North America, although for reasons of cost and distance, few delegates attended from Asia or Latin America.

Present in more than 50 countries, where it implements some 200 projects, JRS facilitates reconciliation between victims and perpetrators, between self perceived “ enemies ”.

It is generally possible to trace US knowledge of foreign progress in nuclear weapons technology by reading the US Department of Energy document " Restricted Data Declassification Decisions-1946 to the Present " ( although some nuclear weapons design data have been reclassified since concern about proliferation of nuclear weapons to " nth countries " increased in the late 1970s ).

Present in the market for over 40 years, it is available in over 48 countries.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

Present day artists open their studios every other year for the Three Rivers Artists ' Biennial Studio Tour, which was started in 1994 by Elsah Cort ( then associated with the Cort Gallery.

Detective Constable Crockett is Kray's CID partner in Series 1 ; she appears in every episode, but speaks only in " The Queen's Birthday Present ", " Rag Week ", " Fire and Terror ", and " Yuletide Spirit " in minor supporting situations.

Enraged, Julia becomes an anti-Tribal extremist who uses her political powers and fighting abilities to humiliate them at every opportunity ( in " The Present ").

A New Present for A Servant-Maid: containing Rules for her Moral Conduct, both with respect to Herself and her Superiors: The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, and Preserving, & c, & c. and every other Direction necessary to be known to render her a Complete, Useful and Valuable Servant ( 1771 ).

Present in every Wiseman film is a dramatic structure.

The Wedding Present shared the record with Elvis Presley for most UK Top 30 hits in a year ( 12 ), by releasing limited edition, 10, 000 only 7 " singles every month from January to December, out of this they achieved their first ( and only ) ever top ten single, " Come Play With Me " in May of that year.

In July 1772 Burney again visited the continent, to do further research, and, after his return to London, published his tour under the title of The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces ( 1773 ).

Present data indicate an accretion of about Af tons per year over the entire globe, or about Af.

* Manhunt 2 ( 2007 ): Present day missions are possibly set in this year while flashbacks are set in 2007.

All dates are uncorrected radio carbon years expressed as Years before Present ( BP ) with present being defined as the year 1950.

In the same year, David Porter, a humane master sweep, sent a petition to Parliament, and in 1792 published Considerations of the Present State of Chimney Sweepers with some Observations on the Act of Parliament intended for their Relief and Regulation.

In its original form, The Annual Register comprised a long historical essay on the “ History of the Present War ” ( the Seven Years ' War 1756 – 63 ), a Chronology, which gave an account of interesting and noteworthy events in Britain over the previous year, and a collection of “ State Papers ”, a miscellany of primary source material which included official documents, speeches, letters and accounts.

In 1870 he published several important volumes, The French Aesthetics of the Present Day, dealing chiefly with Hippolyte Taine, Criticisms and Portraits, and a translation of The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, whom he had met that year during a visit to England.

Glay closed the year of 1999, playing the concert " The Millennium Eve-A Christmas Present for the People Who Love Live a Lot ", a joint concert with Luna Sea, on December 23, and the " Glay Countdown Live in Messe " Come Together "" on December 31.

Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart (" History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Importance ") is a philosophical work by Friedrich Albert Lange, originally written in German and published in October 1865 ( although the year of publication was given as 1866 ).

Present day Mahabaleshwar came into existence in the year 1829-30.

In his review ( collected in The Present as History, 1953 ) Marxist Paul Sweezy joked that Hayek would have you believe that if there was an over-production of baby carriages, the central planners would then order the population to have more babies instead of simply warehousing the temporary excess of carriages and decreasing production for next year.

It was the first to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, although a series with a similar concept The Nutty Squirrels Present had aired a year earlier.

Present U. S. use of hydrogen for hydrocracking is roughly 4 million metric tons per year ( 4 MMT / yr ).

The Mysore kingdom, founded by Yaduraya in the year 1399, consisted of only the areas surrounding the Present Mysore City and in fact the original fort was supposed to have been at a place known as haDadana-an extant small village on the southern side of Chamundi Hill.

The first proper album that The Wedding Present recorded for their new label was released in the same year 1989 and reunited them with Allison.

" William Wilson " was published in the October 1839 issue of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, though it appeared earlier that year in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present dated for 1840.

He was elected to two three year terms on the Board of Director for SAG from 1983 – 1989, and spent two of those years as the National 1st Vice Present from 1987 – 1989.

* Pubs and Breweries of the Midlands: Past and Present ( year unlisted ) The Printer's Devil.

In 2004 he co-founded the human rights blog " Passion of the Present " and blogged daily for more than a year to mobilize support for the victims of genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

In 2006 Scarling continued to tour in the United States and Europe, embarking on their first co-heading with UK shoegaze outfit Amusement Parks on Fire and opening for The Wedding Present and Depeche Mode later in the year.

" He had settled on 1873 as the year in which " the hope of seeing Jesus and being made like him " should be realized by a waiting and expectant church, and set forth the reasons for his hope in a little work entitled, " Present truth ," or " Meat in Due Season ," ...

1966-1995 — Adler served as Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music 1997 – Present — Adler has been a member of the composition faculty at Juilliard and, for the 2009-10 year, was awarded the William Schuman Scholars Chair.

* Katie-A 5 year old girl ( although it is implied at the start of the series that she was 4, as she celebrates her 5th birthday party in the episode Andy's Birthday Present ) who is, essentially, the main character of the show.

It is published four times a year by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society, a British historical membership association and registered charity.