It was invented by a bunch of Puritans who celebrated freedom by throwing a party, and so bequeathed us with a holiday both secular and sacred, with parades and prayers that dare us to reckon with all that has changed, and all that has not.
Well, almost all: the primacy of the distinctive author has not changed at all.
The selection in many vending machines has barely changed, if it has changed at all, in a generation.
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But in recent years, that has all changed thanks to economic growth, free trade and neighboring Mexican maquiladora factories working for big corporations.
The authorities say that has all changed - new laws and a new voting system have been brought in to combat fraud and the king has given his personal assurance he will not meddle.
All that has changed here is that the victim is an insurance company rather than the bondholder.
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The news that Nike dropped its sponsorship and severed ties with Lance Armstrong got me thinking about how all that has changed.
All that has changed with growth rates plummeting (although they are still higher than the indigenous players) 2013 is likely to be a testing year for them.
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How, if at all, has Bonn changed its procedures in the aftermath of the Imhausen fiasco for examining and urgently acting upon allegations of wrongful technology transfers?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union however, with the resulting massive increases in trade and overall interdependence between nations, and the advent of the internet, with its electronic banking and finance, all this has completely changed.
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This week's merger between NationsBank, an acquisitive North Carolina institution, and BankAmerica, California's biggest bank, has changed all that.
The emergence of Arcelor and Mittal has changed all that, with steel groups that have an increasingly global dimension.
Chinese financial culture has not changed all that much, even though the country is now becoming a major manufacturing power.
But Johnston says Australia's success at the World Cup has changed all that - and the other sports are worried.
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Many Americans are seeing their living standards stagnate, but the gap between most of them has not changed all that much.
Running through Chicago neighborhoods with Duncan has changed all that.
America's long litany of corporate scandals has changed all this.
But now, four years later, all of that has changed.
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"New York is the most dynamic city in the world, and while technology has changed all around us, the city's payphones have remained mostly the same for decades, " said Mayor Bloomberg.
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