The force of economic growth over time has given middle class people in America today things that would have been regarded as miracles a century ago.
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Even as drug companies show data on dozens of medicines that target weak spots in cancer like smart bombs, what would have been lauded as miracles are now de rigueur.
Billy Wilson of the Motown Alumni Association paid tribute to Tarplin as The Miracles' "secret weapon".
When I was growing up, for instance, conglomerates were regarded as management miracles.
Pentecostals are restoring much that the Puritans drove out of Christianity, such as visions, miracles and healing cures.
As in all miracles, however, there was an element of the inexplicable.
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His miracles were as trivial, in comparison with His Reality, as a mosquito to an elephant.
Every year, chickens work miracles in places as diverse as China, Cuba and Ireland.
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It could then replicate its high-tech miracles in other sectors as well.
Described as a "free destination for the incurably curious" it has hosted exhibitions on topics as diverse as death, sleep, dirt and miracles.
Many Argentines hoped that Domingo Cavallo, appointed as economy minister in March, would perform miracles.
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There were no miracles for Ivory Coast in Nelspruit as the west Africans were knocked out of the World Cup despite comfortably beating a defensively-frail North Korea .
Tax lawyer Robert Macro, a partner at Dawsons LLP, said the new system would not provide any "overnight miracles" in terms of cuts as the UK tax system was "fit to bursting".
As my wife and I learned last year, miracles can happen twice.
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This was a bet on soft and squishy miracles in a competitive world full of people every bit as intelligent and cunning as Apple's leadership.
We can perform similar miracles for you, Fiorina and her acolytes tell such clients as General Electric, the Department of Homeland Security (an amalgam of 22 federal agencies) and the Walt Disney Co.
But it is El Greco's studied, and more naturalist style here, as captured again in breathtaking details, that compels us to believe in miracles: Who could doubt the presence of the early Christian martyr St.
Technology has given us seeming miracles, but technology still cannot influence, inspire and inform one another as much as physical proximity can.
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At this stage of my life -- a senior citizen, as they say politely -- I'm also quite happy to believe in miracles, assuming that the membrane between life and death is paper thin.
Far too many books portray corporate chiefs as comic-book superheroes, whose legendary vision, drive and hard work have accomplished miracles.
One laptopmaker refused early on to get involved because, it claimed, success would require "ten or twenty" miracles, according to Mary Lou Jepsen, a former Intel executive now serving as the project's chief technical officer.
Through many small miracles of acting, writing and direction, we see the friends' happiness start to unravel as Olivia blunders her way to a Cinderella ending something of a foregone conclusion for someone as delightful as Ms Aniston, the only member of the cast whose personal bodyguard is listed in the credits.
"The issues you have raised in our Hour of Miracles programme on 4 January and 11 January do not represent the content or intent of the programme as you have implied, " he added.
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