Even during the oil shock of the mid-1970s, world output continued to expand by almost 2% a year.
The former made him one of the highest-earning writers in the world in the mid-twentieth century, and barred him from achieving the top-rung literary status that he longed for.
In the mid-1990s, the world economy was booming, whereas the recent run-up in debt has come during a massive economic recession.
The chart illustrates how developing (non-OECD) country oil demand has dramatically increased since the mid-1990s while developed world (OECD) demand has decreased.
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By the mid-1980s, the world economy was up and running in a virtuous cycle that benefited the world economy and most notably Japan that experienced its golden decade.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
The 40ft (12m) piece of wreckage was salvaged from the Team Philips super-yacht which was hit by a freak mid-Atlantic storm during a round-the-world race.
But lately, Tom Peters and I have noticed the enduring vitality of mid-sized companies around the world.
In mid-February, at Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled a second Galaxy Tab, called the 10.1, after its larger, 10-inch screen size.
Matt Peacock, Group Communications Director for Vodafone, said the company moves mid-level executives around the world but faces difficulty attracting people to its headquarters in London.
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He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.
Though a lover of modern art, Mr Danto is firm with its more formalist and doctrinaire champions, particularly Clement Greenberg, a critic who dominated the New York art world at mid-century, much as Mr Danto, with a far quieter voice, stands out now.
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We're starting things off at the New Museum on the Bowery in Manhattan, where Tim and Brian will be diving deep into the "Ghosts in the Machine" exhibition, to check out pieces like Stan VanDerBeek's Movie-Drome, a dome dreamed up in the mid-60s that foresaw a world in which the viewer is bombarded by visual stimuli.
Half of the workers at Grasberg, one of the largest copper- and gold-producing mines in the world, stepped off the job in mid-September.
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Tim Berners-Lee, an exception, was a grump in his mid-30s when he invented the World Wide Web.
It invests in small to mid-cap companies in the developing world that have a few hundred million in debt, not billions.
For two years in the mid-1990s, he was the world's largest buyer of Hennessy Paradis cognac, the company said at the time.
Other "ghost workers" include some of the 50, 000 civil servants made redundant in the mid-1990s under pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Most of the structures on Oxford Street, for example, were built in the mid-nineteenth century, but after World War II bombings, some had to be rebuilt in the late twentieth century.
ASiQ will initially show off its attractively-priced system at Miami's World Airlines Entertainment Association conference and exhibition in mid-September, and plans to begin rolling out the commercial service sometime next year.
By the mid-1990s, 90% of the world's rhinos had disappeared, compared with the number 25 years earlier.
In the mid-1960s Control Data was producing the world's most powerful supercomputers, but strangely enough couldn't sell very many of them.
All over the world, since the mid-20th Century, sediments have become measurably enriched in 'reactive' nitrogen - nitrogen oxides and ammonium compounds.
The DJ Grand Wizard Theodore took me for a drive through the neighborhood while he described the mid 1970's world of hip-hop.
Every big corporation in the world is packed with mid-level managers, many of whom may have done better in school and have higher IQs than their bosses.
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The company describes itself as "one of the world's leading mid-market private equity firms", and has its headquarters in New York with other offices in London and Paris.
Junior potential by no means guarantees senior success, of course - in the mid-1990s Martin Lee rose to junior world number one but never made it higher than 94th in the senior standings.
Last week, sources close to Jackson said the insomniac singer traveled with an anesthesiologist who would "take him down" at night and "bring him back up" during the "HIStory" world tour in the mid-1990s.
Sources close to Jackson told CNN that the insomniac singer traveled with an anesthesiologist who would "take him down" at night and "bring him back up" during a world tour in the mid-90s.
Both versions are expected to arrive in Taschen's 11 world-wide stores in mid-June.
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