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After 1800, however, living standards began to increase, first in the West, as stagnant economies transitioned to the industrial revolution and to a period of modern economic growth where living standards double every 35 years.
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To do this the satellite would need to be in a synchronous orbit (one whose orbital period is the same as the period of revolution of the planet underneath), and the descending cable would have to be counterbalanced by an ascending one extending off into space.
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The film, covering the period from the revolution of 1911 to the Communist Party's founding in 1921, prompted numerous comments on Chinese internet forums about the lessons it offered for rebelling against bad government.
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Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000).
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It has been taught to all economists ever since it was first pointed out in the marginalist revolution of the 1870-1890 period.
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Indeed, much of the thinking behind the Enlightenment, which you credit as inspiring America's revolution, occurred in England during this period.
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The survey covers a period known as the "information revolution" as human societies transition to a digital age.
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Whether any company flourishes or fails in the volatile period of transition between an aging Second Industrial Revolution and the emerging Third Industrial Revolution will depend, to a great extent, on their energy costs.
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The first was born in 1723 and the last died in 1813 a period of emerging empires, generating enough war, revolution and trade to absorb any number of precarious Scots.
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Clearly he was a student during and immediately after the Iranian revolution, and of course, the students were extremely active during that period of time.
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