• Either can be calculated on a historical or a prospective basis.

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  • In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.

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  • According to a historical reports, a few hundred Sioux left their reservation to visit a dying chief.

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  • All speeches take place within a historical context, a time and place.

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  • At the time we urged patience and a little historical perspective, publishing a table of major historical "crisis events" and the Dow's reactions, both immediate and 63 days later.

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  • He says Moscow's actions reflect a historical inability to find a place in the international community.

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  • It seeks to place indigenous-language media in Africa in a particular historical context with a view to highlighting their role in enhancing the participation of Africans in the political process in their local environs.

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  • Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.

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  • Fans of the author will love and recognize all the hallmarks of Boyd's best books: a historical thriller, rife with espionage, set in the not-too-distant past, featuring an exotic and exquisitely drawn locale and a cameo from a famous historical figure, in this case Sigmund Freud.

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  • For those of us who love this country and believe America has every asset it needs to remain the No. 1 economic engine of the world, it is troubling that we have no plan and substitute a demonization of government and worship of the free market at a historical moment that requires a rethinking of both those beliefs.

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  • For Danica Patrick, it was a historical week that ended with a promising outlook for 2013.

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  • The weapons used in the shooting include a hunting gun and a historical army rifle known as a carbine, which dates back to the first half of the 20th Century, general prosecutor Catherine Sappey said.

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  • The Old-World-style brick and stucco spread, a historical landmark, is situated on a rare half-acre-plus lot.

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  • Such a remarkable historical legacy is also a burden for South Africa.

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  • This is a unique response to a rate action by the ECB that cut interest rates to a historical low at 1%, a 25 basis-point drop.

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  • He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many other industries.

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  • The computer-animated movie, scheduled to open nationwide Friday, is set in a specific historical era and has a female protagonist both firsts for 26-year-old Pixar, a unit of Walt Disney Co.

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  • He wrote as well as anyone since Thomas Macaulay and was a master of the historical essay, a hero to a generation of schoolboys who were raised on his controversies over the rise of the gentry and the origins of the second world war.

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  • He lived with a sense of familial and historical loss and a dread of instabilities to come.

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  • Caribbean experts, together with representatives from institutions in Latin America and Europe, examined the challenge posed when a historical building is restored to function as a museum or cultural centre.

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  • It is both both false and injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized.

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  • The Brazilian experience stands out for the grandiosity of its act, which was not just the final chapter of a historical process but was also integrated to a development and self-affirming national strategy.

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  • My books include the novels "Sellout" and "Wink" and several educational titles (subjects varying from drug abuse and its impact on society, a historical look at domestic spying, and a biography of Bill Gates) as well as "Tested XX" - the bestselling history of my rather inbred family, which also happens to be America's oldest family of knife-makers, the infamous Case clan.

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  • At the start of the 1998 election cycle, a good economy, peace and historical precedent suggested a status quo election.

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  • In it, he takes a historical look at race in sports and discusses a number of topics, including whether today's stars are doing enough to help their communities.

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  • One, featuring a sepia-toned, faux historical photo of a young Henry Ford in a workshop with an Apple, compared the product to the Model T for its ease of use.

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  • Prof Tsang says he is referring in particular to China articulating in recent times a "new historical view" that a large swathe of territory in the North is more Chinese than it is Korean.

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  • The screenplay, by the Tavianis and Sandro Petraglia, is constructed as a series of historical tales framed by a contemporary story in which members of the three surviving generations of the Benedettis illustrate, in various ways, the consequences of their blighted family history.

    NEWYORKER: Fiorile

  • Campaigners fighting plans for a wind farm at a historical Northamptonshire site will have to wait for the outcome of a hearing at the High Court.

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  • Try out a historical hacienda ( www.haciendapinsaqui.com), a private villa (www.4volcanoes.com) or, for a more budget option, a rustic room in the sleepy town of Peguche (www.ayahuma.com).

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