It was one of those benchmark years that people who lived through it will remember forever.
China's turbulent history also appears to have had an impact on the generation that lived through it.
As those of us who lived through it will attest, that was as bad as any bear market in the last 50 years.
My wife and I were diagnosed with breast cancer in February of this year (she actually had the cancer, I lived through it with her).
All of this helps explain why the recession of 2008-9 felt less bad to many who lived through it than the recession of the early 1980s, even though there was a similar fall in national output in both cases.
We, here on this side of it, who experienced and lived through the debt ceiling negotiations, those of you who covered it I think understand this well.
But for those who have lived through the Enron era, it will be hard to erase images of L. Dennis Kozlowki 's lavish party in Sardinia, complete with an ice replica of Michelangelo's David dispensing liquor from his .
Many of them lived through the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, when it became unacceptable to continue adhering to old taboos that prevented serious discussions about public health concerns.
An American living overseas has the right to vote and can exercise it through the last state where they lived before going abroad.
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Maybe it was the hyperinflation he'd lived through as a young adult in Austria, in the 1920s, but he simply did not believe governments should or could iron out the bumps in the economic cycle.
If we had been naive through the decade of the 2000s, our naivete lived on, and it continued to get us into trouble.
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It is now essential that those audiences hear from American Moslem moderates and liberals who have lived through the issues and can elucidate on the realities.
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