Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

If he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.

Some recent writings assume that the ignorant young couples are a thing of the remote, Victorian past ; ;

* Historical estimates of past climate changes suggest that the recent changes in global surface temperature are unusual.

Indonesia, South Korea, China, and Malaysia along with Denmark are among the nations that have consistently produced world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in both men's and women's competition in recent years.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

Brahui is the only Dravidian language which has not been written in a Brahmi-based script in the recent past ; instead, it is written in the Arabic script.

The best-known example in the recent past is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy literature, though similar material exists concerning the September 11 attacks, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the spread of AIDS in the black community.

The Indians also have a divisional rivalry with the Kansas City Royals, mainly due to numerous bench clearing brawls in the recent past.

This regulation allows the bacterium to ' remember ' chemical concentrations from the recent past, a few seconds, and compare them to those it is currently experiencing, thus ' know ' whether it is traveling up or down a gradient.

HP's offer was regarded by analysts to be overvaluing Compaq, due to Compaq's shaky financial performance in the past recent years ( there were rumors that it could run out of money in 12 months and be forced to cease business operations had it stayed independent ), as well as Compaq's own more conservative valuation of its assets.

This may result from an " overlap " between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory and those responsible for long-term memory, resulting in ( memories of ) recent events erroneously being perceived as being in the past.

It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Conversation.

Mainly used by recreational watercraft in the recent past, the canal saw an upsurge in commercial traffic in 2008.

The use of more complex stories derived from literary and stage works of the recent past also contributed to developments in script film construction.

Four-tense languages make finer distinctions either in the past ( e. g. remote vs recent past ), or the future ( e. g. near vs remote future ).

The six-tense language Kalaw Lagaw Ya of Australia has the remote past, the recent past, the today past, the present, the today / near future and the remote future.

* Passato prossimo ( recent past ): io ho mangiato (" I ate ", " I have eaten ")-merges perfective and perfect

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

The APA currently officially states that " some people believe that sexual orientation is innate and fixed ; however, sexual orientation develops across a person ’ s lifetime ", a radical reversal from the recent past, when non-normative sexuality was considered a deviancy or mental ailment treatable through institutionalization or other radical means.

This form of incest has not been widely reported in the past, but recent evidence has indicated that this behavior does take place, possibly more often than many people realize.

The most recent representatives for the organisation along with 45 vice presidents are President John J. Sweeny, Secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka, and executive vice president Arlene Holt Baker

Conversely, Baptists are underrepresented, a reflection of their quite recent expansion in numbers ; there has been only one Roman Catholic president, although they are currently the largest single denomination, and there have been no Lutheran, Pentecostal, or Latter Day Saint presidents.

A recent example is The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes ( New York, Oxford University Press USA, 2006 ), which examines the views of some early presidents as well as other political figures of the period.

In fact, former American Psychological Association presidents Robert Perloff and Nicholas Cummings have both been Keynote Speakers at recent NARTH conferences and have strongly decried the efforts of the major professional associations, in their opinion, to marginalize reparative therapists and allegedly promote gay activism instead of scientific impartiality.

Also, in recent decades, newly inaugurated presidents have chosen to deliver speeches to joint sessions of Congress in the early months of their presidencies, but have not officially considered them State of the Union addresses.

In recent years, with deep economic and social crisis provoked by neoliberal policies, the right wing lost appeal in the region ( with the major exception being Colombia ) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with Hugo Chávez ' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela.

And our educational system has failed to correct that, and I have to say that in recent years our presidents have not done what is needed ,"-The Morning Joe, January 24, 2012.

By contrast, the Constitution of Ireland describes the President of Ireland throughout as " he ", yet two of the most recent presidents were women ; in 1997, four of the five candidates in the election were women.

The presidents of the University of Mississippi, Mississippi A & M ( later Mississippi State University ), and the Mississippi State College for Women were all fired and replaced, respectively, by a realtor, a press agent, and a recent B. A.

Most recent presidents have hung a portrait of George Washington over the mantel on the north end of the room.

Iowa's most recent presidents have left to become presidents at several of the most prestigious colleges and universities of the United States: Dartmouth College ( James O. Freedman in 1987 ), the University of Michigan ( Mary Sue Coleman in 2002 ), and Cornell University ( Hunter R. Rawlings III in 1995 and David Skorton in 2006 ).

In addition, the two most recent past presidents are members of the board.

In recent years from time to time Prime Minister's House, commonly referred to as Temple Tree's, which has been the official residence of the Prime Minister since 1948, has been used by presidents.

Yet he remained a realist critic of recent U. S. presidents, urging the U. S. government to " withdraw from its public advocacy of democracy and human rights.

However, the living quarters are small and not particularly comfortable, so recent presidents ( Václav Havel and Václav Klaus ) have chosen to, in reality, live elsewhere.

In recent history, the resort has hosted several presidents and vice-presidents, foreign dignitaries such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco.

* A biography of three recent LDS church presidents: Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter and Gordon B. Hinckley

A more recent example, in the campaign for the 2012 Republican nomination, would be Jon Huntsman, Jr., who served in key foreign relations posts under four different presidents and as Governor of Utah, as well as having considerable private-sector experience and the ability to speak Mandarin.

In more recent years, presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W.

Among the most recent presidents have been Roberto Ago, Nicolas Valticos and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

To improve their working relationships with Congress, presidents in recent years have set up an Office of Legislative Affairs.

Two university presidents from recent memory are Dr. Luis Garibay Gutiérrez and Dr. Antonio Leaño Álvarez del Castillo.

In more recent years younger mission presidents have been more rare.