• This extended the known missile crisis well beyond the weekend of 27-28 October, the time that had always been thought of as the moment the danger finally lifted with the deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev to withdraw the Soviet missiles in exchange for a US promise not to invade Cuba.

    BBC: Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one

  • Yet under copyright law, which treats the product of employees and contracted freelancers as the work of the company from the moment of creation, Ditko owns no part of Spider-Man.

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  • James named the New Year's Day win over Sheffield as the crucial moment of the season.

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  • Judge Ahmed Refaat was in no doubt about the significance of the moment, as he spoke of the "dark" days of Mubarak's three-decade rule.

    CNN: For Mubarak, once Egypt's strongman, a long fall from grace

  • Once again, just as the consensus was to be in the commodity asset class it backfired for the moment as the contagion of a globe slowdown that cannot predicted has taken its victims, the speculative interest that saw copper, gold, silver, oil as sure things.

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  • He called it "a brave attempt in murky waters" and said that unions should celebrate the re-election of the Labour government "as a moment of triumph" in the fight to defend public services, and seek a partnership with the government to improve them.

    BBC: You are in: Business

  • As cultural artifacts of the moment, both novels also resonate with contemporary anxieties surrounding contagion in our everyday lives.

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  • It is highly resonant that the bank, whose collapse four years ago is associated in most people's minds with the onset of the 2007-8 financial crisis, should be privatised just as we face the moment of maximum danger of a second banking meltdown - this one emanating from the eurozone's turmoil.

    BBC: Will Virgin plus Rock challenge the big banks?

  • The present level of tax rates on all income classes is surely worthy of discussion at the moment, as is the proper role of the federal government in our lives.

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  • The congregation heard music from two choirs who were involved in the life of the shipyards, as well as observing a moment of silence in remembrance of the 1, 517 people who lost their lives on the ship's disastrous maiden voyage.

    BBC: Titanic launch 100th anniversary marked in Belfast

  • Regardless of how it happened, the devastation of the Great Chicago Fire quickly turned into one of the young city's great blessings, as the moment in history and the location at the heart of a growing industrial nation ensured that Chicago would not merely be rebuilt.

    BBC: The infamous architecture of Chicago

  • The collective outpouring of grief that followed the death of Princess Diana in 1997 is now looked back on by many with bemusement, as is the brief "Britpop" moment of the mid-1990s, dubbed "Cool Britannia" by Vanity Fair magazine, which soon lost its lustre, exposed as a feeble parody of British music's 60s heyday.

    CNN: Olympics 2012: A spectacular triumph for London

  • "The power and simplicity of voice integration as part of a TV interface is clear the moment you sit back and speak to your TV, " said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile.

    ENGADGET: Nuance takes credit for voice features inside Samsung's 2012 Smart TV lineup

  • The Pope's private secretary, Georg Gaenswein, also gave evidence, testifying about the daily routines of the papal household and the moment he began to suspect Mr Gabriele as the source of the leaks.

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  • He later described that night, when United came from behind to win with two goals in the last 90 seconds of the game, as his best moment in the game.

    WSJ: Manchester United Manager Ferguson Retires

  • Its members are collecting signatures for a petition to change the law so it defines life as beginning at the moment of conception.

    BBC: South Carolina: Up close and in personhood

  • One of the two was convicted, and although his conviction was overturned, the story of Vincent Chin serves as an important moment in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community and civil rights history.

    WHITEHOUSE: Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Blog

  • But I would venture to speculate that the Splunk IPO (April 2012, one month before the Facebook IPO) is what will be viewed in the future as the defining moment, the launch of the big data era.

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  • The out-takes also remove a little of the mythology around the final image as it begins to show what else was happening around the moment of capture.

    BBC: Behind the contact sheet

  • This is the moment to which you can trace so much of what would come to be known as Gaullism, the moment when selective memory would begin to play its indispensable role in the rebuilding of France.

    BBC: Part Two - France and Memory

  • Optimists say those steps may, in the long run, prevent Singapore from going down the same road as earlier cities-of-the-moment that burned bright and then flamed out, like Dubai.

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  • But he becomes quieter as the moment of testing approaches.

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  • The famous casts show victims of the volcano in Pompeii, including a family of four huddled together in their final moments, and a dog "fixed forever at the moment of its death as the volcano submerged the cities".

    BBC: British Museum to exhibit artefacts from buried cities

  • As the moment of decision arrived for banks and hedge funds, it was no surprise yesterday that European officials were busy handing out a report prepared by the Institute of International Finance, the body negotiating on behalf of some of the investors.

    BBC: Europe and the threat weapon

  • Groves has been documenting those clashes for a number of years, focusing on the moment of celebration as players react to a goal scored.

    BBC: Subbuteo: In the box

  • Surely nothing can be said or done to assuage their pain in this moment of grief, but I hope it is of some comfort that these brave individuals will be remembered as standing at the vanguard of a historic moment in global health: the final push to end polio.

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  • The Belarusians carted boxloads of old curtains down from the attic to use as sops against the doorways, but the moment the last boxload reached the bottom of the stairs the doors popped and the waters entered.

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  • Specific terms and details of the deal may ultimately change, but at the moment it looks as though Lockheed will make 21 models of the aircraft for the Air Force, six for the Navy and three for the Marine Corp.

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  • Which meant that, when MoMA displayed it for the first time in 1939, it was able to promote it as something of a revelation that marked the moment the now-celebrated Picasso changed art forever.

    BBC: Too famous to see?

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