After midnight, we will be looking back for real at a long year of Internet froth, a decade of increasing velocity, a century of turmoil (trapped by triumph) and a thousand years where change has been so vast, so profound, that we can scarcely comprehend life Way Back Then.
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In a category looking for the name of a 20th century decade, Watson twice either failed to buzz in or gave wrong answers including one absurdity when Watson repeated a wrong answer that zapped Jennings first.
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In any case, here we are, one decade shy of a century since all of this rumbled into play.
Since Mr Gerstner left, IBM has reinvented itself again this time in how it is run as much as in what it sells with the result that it will mark its centenary as a role model for what a company needs to be to prosper in the second decade of the 21st century.
The stream of immigration that flowed in the 1890s became a deluge during the first decade of the new century.
By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it was clear German football had a promising crop of talent and at the 2009 European under-21 championships the evidence was overwhelming.
Real GDP growth during the first decade of the 21st century averaging 3.1 percent a year, just slightly beneath the long-run average of 3.3 percent real growth the U.S. economy had experienced annually since the end of the Great Depression.
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President George W. Bush came into office determined to reverse more than a decade of declining defense spending and invest in transforming the U.S. military into a 21st-century force.
The casino had been a long time coming: though the video lottery terminals were approved by the state legislature at the turn of the century, the state dragged its feet for a decade before naming an operator of the casino, losing billions of dollars in revenue as a result.
Yet the 1970s, the second worst economic decade of the 20th century what economist Jude Wanniski called a "functional depression" also gave us these remarkable startups: Federal Express (1970), Southwest Airlines (1971), Microsoft (1975), Apple (1976), Genentech (1976) and Oracle (1977).
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
In the second decade of this century, Esa plans to launch the Darwin flotilla - a fleet of four or five spacecraft that will hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars and analyse their atmospheres for signs of extra-terrestrial life.
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It would appear that, in the first decade of the 21st Century, the dream of escaping to the country became a reality for tens of thousands of urban white Britons.
As a practical matter though, at some point in the first decade or so of the next century, the United States is going to have to replace its B-52, and perhaps its B-1 bombers.
After a decade of annual conferences, the vision has expanded beyond story to the transformation of work in the 21st century.
The court came to be seen as a victim of its own success, and by the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century appeared to be collapsing under its own caseload.
This follows the successful decade-long redevelopment of the turn-of-the-century Armory Square section of downtown into a trendy restaurant and nightclub district.
The Dow, which has been trading since the end of the 19th century, has risen 130-fold since 1900, including a doubling in the past decade.
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