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.
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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In decade 2 of the 21st century a lot of the significant innovations are downstream rather than upstream.
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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.
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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