We are facing a once in a century opportunity to scale our impact and take teacher effectiveness to new heights.
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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
The Joola sank in the 21st century, when such grand scale maritime disasters are entirely preventable .
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Religious yearning was practically separated from political possibility, and it was not until the 19th century that a large-scale Jewish return to the land and to Jerusalem was realized.
Previous storms have crippled Yale, which dates to the 18th century, but a full-scale closure is rare.
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Now on the scale of the next century, the projections are suggesting that, between the ice and thermal expansion of the ocean, that we're likely to see upwards of a meter of sea level rise.
We must do this by investing more time and resources in support of open programs and curricula that will equip the workforce of the future with skills we need to compete on a global scale in the 21st century and beyond.
Oh, no, he is making the first full-scale reenactment of the 20th century.
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Yet, less than a page further on, Mr Glover admits that the only thing special about the century's moral horrors is their scale.
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In 1992, two earthquakes, including the third strongest in the U.S. this century at 7.4 on the Richter scale, rocked southern California.
Until the mid-19th century, beer was produced locally on an artisanal scale, and consumed un-pasteurized from the barrel.
Since the 19th century the technology for doing so on an increasing scale has developed at a frightening rate.
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The merger was designed, in Sir Iain Vallance's words, to create "one of the first great companies of the 21st century", which would deliver expansion on a global scale.
In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, operas were a popular form of large-scale, mass-market entertainment.
The Nets installed six large-scale photographs of the Black Fives, early 20th century African-American basketball teams, Sunday throughout Barclays Center's main concourse.
After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.
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These paintings were a source for Piero della Francesca's cycle on the same subject, painted in Arezzo in the middle of the following century, though Gaddi, with happy disregard for realism in scale, hardly anticipates the rigorous perspective and complex geometry of Piero's work, not to mention its cold, clear atmosphere or the figures' graceful stillness.
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The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.
Transformation is also difficult simply because the size and scale of the executive branch have grown so much over the past century, vastly increasing the odds that things can go wrong.
Goddard, in the early years of the past century, established the idea that intelligence could be measured along a single, linear scale.
Excessive attention has been directed to hypothetical radiation dangers relative to the enormous scale of broader havoc wrought by those incredible once-in-three-century natural disasters.
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It seems clear that Mr Obama is willing to scale back or scrap projects that are of decreasing relevance to America's 21st-century security requirements, or have become embarrassing money pits.
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Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
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