No matter the era, it's funny.

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In March, the Labor Department moved to suspend the Bush-era rules and held the matter open for public comment for just 10 days.

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Whether you can use such a serious aspect of Germany's recent history for parody remains a matter of debate in the country, where the Nazi era is still quite a sensitive and painful topic for some to discuss.

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The types of disruptions that used to occur once in an era or generation in the past are now happening in a matter of years or months.

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Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.

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Not long after that era, the newspaper industry had other forward-thinking businessmen (yes, sometimes ingenuity was a matter of economic survival).

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"We're very fortunate because, no matter what happens at the World Cup, I don't think it will mean the end of an era, " he continued.

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