In our era, MoveOn.org, the Progressive online movement, may have signaled the first stirring of a citizens' uprising.
If only Yale would rediscover the essential elements of liberal education, it would be well within its capabilities to protect all students' civil rights while ensuring that the university does not abet the great menace to educational opportunity in our era: the cultivation of an environment hostile to liberty of thought and discussion.
This is precisely what we got in our own era when gold tripled as the Fed responded to the Great Recession.
Laissez-faire ideology has its merits, but cannot compete successfully with a population weaned on the welfare state, whose members are keenly attuned to their vulnerability in our volatile era.
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In our modern era, medicine has improved our health.
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But even in our modern era, the precise confluence of therapeutic and personal factors that causes one individual to successfully fight off disease and another to flag and fade often remains a mystery.
And in our modern era there are more than a few groups of science-lovers that are unremittingly hostile to religion, often either intentionally or unintentionally lumping those sects that reject modern science with those that see its beauty.
Even in our pleasantly postfeminist era, in which pretty much everyone wears jeans, the predominant image of a fashionable, dressed-up woman is still a feminine one: heels, dresses, makeup.
"World events demonstrate that in an unpredictable era our country needs the ultimate security guarantee, " he said.
He said in the UN in September '09, quote, in an era where our destiny is shared power is no longer a zero sum game.
And that's why the President has worked so hard to begin what he's called a new era in our relations with the world and other countries.
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Indeed, our progress today marks another step forward in a new era of cooperation and partnership between our countries -- a partnership based on mutual interests, mutual respect and mutual responsibility.
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The tools are now in our hands to make our lives easier in this post-PC era.
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Is it also coincidental that in this time of union decline, the amount of wealth concentrated in the hands of the top 1% is the largest since 1929, the time in our history immediately preceding the era when the modern union movement was taking hold?
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The government had embarked on "one of the biggest investment programmes in our railways since the Victorian era", he said, during which it was "also vital that the industry looks to how it can provide better value for money for both taxpayers and farepayers while delivering the safe, competitive railway that passengers expect".
How can we communicate most effectively with our ancient tools in the modern era?
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Not wanting to trust my own judgment on this vital matter, I put together an ad hoc advisory panel of five etiquette teachers and coaches from around the country (yes, even in our hail-to-sloppiness era, such people exist).
In an era when many of our largest states are drowning in long-term debt incurred to finance spending on everything from lavish public employee pensions to privately-owned stadium construction, the last thing the federal government should be doing is encouraging even more borrowing at the state and local level.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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In the first two parts, we covered the history of the entrepreneurs-to-labor dynamic in the Robber Baron era, and how the pattern is roughly repeating itself in our time.
And not just in the hard information sciences, either. (We won't attempt to cover biotech in this column.) The quantum era so fetchingly described by Feynman has loosened our thinking in other fields, too.
He has ushered in a new era of conservation for our land, our water and our wildlife.
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But these human to human connections seem to be losing some of their currency in an era where so much of our social networking has moved online.
One word that she frequently uses in interviews is reality, which she relentlessly seeks through a medium that has been almost universally derided in our media-savvy Photoshop-friendly era.
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We cherish the memory of Abraham Lincoln because he proved to be a strong and effective Commander-in-Chief in an era when the survival of our country required one.
The Chinese people will restore themselves to their rightful place since 1700 AD with a new outlook towards the modern era as peaceful partners in our global and increasingly interdependent world.
"We hope these census numbers signal a new era of racial politics in our states, rooted not only in strong economies but also equalities for all people, " said Jennifer Allen, executive director of the human rights organization Border Action Network.
And if we keep at it, if we all do our part to usher in a new era of responsibility, then I'm convinced that we will recover from this recession, and we're going to come out on the other side stronger and more prosperous as a nation and as a people.
Back in 1973 we generally acknowledged that our recession was seismic and signaled the end of a whole era in global capitalism.
In our lifetimes, it is likely to shrink to the size it was in the Roman era.
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