However, as of September 2006, the PPM stands at 87. 5 % after a period of steady increases in the annual moving average since 2003.

At the point the German ships opened fire with accurately determined ranges for their guns, Beatty's ships were still maneuvering, some could not see the enemy because of their own smoke, and hardly any had the opportunity of a period of steady course as they approached to properly determine target range.

Indeed there was a steady stream of edicts issued from 771 right through the period of Kūkai's studies which, for instance, sought to limit the number of Buddhist priests, and the building of temples.

This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.

It is a steady wind, absent only occasionally during this period.

The process is repeated over several days, varying the fasting period, until a 24-hour basal profile has been built up which keeps fasting blood sugar levels relatively steady.

Although the role of the violin in music drastically changed through this period, progress in violin technique was steady but slow.

Most important to the Thai economy in this period might be that the regime introduced the market-oriented Import-Substituting Industrialization ( ISI ) which led to steady and rapid economic expansion in the Kingdom in the 1960s.

Another study confirmed this number, finding that per capita tax revenues had grown almost sixfold over the eighteenth century, but that steady economic growth had made the real burden on each individual only double over this period before the industrial revolution.

Adoption in the United States still occurs at nearly three times those of its peers although the number of children awaiting adoption has held steady in recent years, hovering between 133, 000 to 129, 000 during the period 2002 to 2006.

But as Jones ( 2009 ) points out, Esterházy was hardly alone in doing this ; during this same period, " the steady decline in the number of orchestras supported by aristocratic families represented a ... change that affected all composers and their works.

After the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Ukrainian high culture was sent into a long period of steady decline.

Population growth was steady during this period.

A steady increase in regional temperatures over the last 100 years has been reflected in a lengthening of the ice-free period which was as short as four months in the late 17th century.

Eight or so species from only two families made it almost to the end of the Cretaceous, the order having gone through a more or less steady decline since the middle of the period.

" They attacked Warren using official FBI statistics that showed violent crime and homicide rates shooting up nationwide ; in New York City, for example, after steady to declining trends until the early 1960s, the homicide rate doubled in the period from 1964-74 from just under 5 per 100, 000 at the beginning of that period to just under 10 per 100, 000 in 1974.

The high school graduation rate in the county among citizens over the age of twenty-five from 2005-2009 was steady at 85 %, while the percentage of those aged twenty-five and up with a bachelor's degree in the county was only 28. 7 % in the county during the same period of time.

The parish became a metropolitan borough in 1900 and the population peaked in 1901, entering a period of steady decline which lasted until 1981.

There was a slow increase in the population until World War II, after which there was a resurgence of emigration to other countries in Europe, which continued until 1971 and the start of another period of steady increase until 1993 ( 611, 000 inhabitants ).

A steady period of growth ensued, as many companies found Tracy an ideal location for their distribution facilities.

He kept up a steady program of modernization, which over a period of years transformed it into one of the most modern hotels far and wide.

: * the period from 1800 to 1872 was marked by steady economic development and a relatively high birth rate.

A 2004 World Bank publication would suggest that, in this period, Montesinos ' abuse of the power accorded him by Fujimori " led to a steady and systematic undermining of the rule of law ".

Campbell studied the records of 172 school board members in twelve western cities over the period of 1931 - 40 and found `` little or no relationship between certain social and economic factors and school board competence '', as judged by a panel of professional educators who studied the voting records on educational issues.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

The islands prospered economically until the middle of the Nineteenth Century, when a combination of the abolition of slavery in the Territory, a series of disastrous hurricanes, and the growth in the sugar beet crop in Europe and the United States significantly reduced sugar cane production and led to a period of economic decline.

Throughout the postwar period, economic progress also was assisted substantially by a level of internal and external political stability unseen in other East European countries during the same period, that was also a change in Bulgarian political scene was a lot of turbulence preceded the ascent to power of the BCP.

This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis, a period of military and economic collapse which came close to destroying the empire.

* Baby boomer, someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II

The conquests of Cambodia by Naresuan the Great for Ayutthaya furthered the political and economic isolation from Cambodia proper leading to a dialect that developed relatively independently from the midpoint of the Middle Khmer period.

The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995.

1996 and 1997 were a period of post-war recovery and improving economic conditions.

In 960, the Song Dynasty gained power over most of China and established its capital in Kaifeng ( later known as Bianjing ), starting a period of economic prosperity, while the Khitan Liao Dynasty ruled over Manchuria, present-day Mongolia, and parts of Northern China.

During that same period, the economy grew by 3 % a year, and by 1951 the United Kingdom had " the best economic performance in Europe, while output per person was increasing faster than in the United States.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post – World War II period.

And the defense effort throughout the period from 1960 to 1987 contributed only marginally to economic decline.

Emboldened by the liberalized atmosphere of glasnost, public dissatisfaction with economic conditions was much more overt than ever before in the Soviet period.

The late nineteenth century saw a period of economic and political upheaval.

* The Great Deflation, a period of worldwide economic deflation occurring roughly between the years 1870 – 1890

However, public opposition to increases in defence spending — during a period when economic constraints require reduced spending for social welfare — has created differences among the political parties regarding a broadly acceptable level of new defence expenditure.

Dublin entered a period of stagnation following the Act of Union of 1800, but it remained the economic centre for most of the island.

Dublin suffered a period of political and economic decline during the 19th century following the Act of Union of 1800, under which the seat of government was transferred to the Westminster Parliament in London.

The city was at the forefront of Ireland's rapid economic expansion during the Celtic Tiger period, with enormous private sector and state development of housing, transport and business.