In 1912, the US took essentially the shape with which it would face the American century.
When the American Century ended barely a decade ago, the U.S. Air Force was flying high.
It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century.
And it is the American century that has given rise to the French exception.
The problem remained at a tolerable level through most of the American Century.
Morgan, an American bank which owns the American Century mutual-fund group, to sell funds bearing its own name through savings banks in Germany and France.
But the twentieth century - indisputably that was the American century.
It is my belief that we have all the pieces in place for us to make sure that the 21st century is the American Century just like the 20th was.
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And if we show the same grit and determination that previous generations have shown, I have every confidence that we are going to have a 21st century, the American century, just like the 20th.
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Frank lived the American Century.
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It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.
Because of Roosevelt's leadership, the coming decades were known as the "American Century, " and in it we built the biggest, strongest, most prosperous middle class in history.
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Mr Khalilzad was a founder member of the now ailing neo-con Project for the New American Century, and signed its 1998 letter that called on President Bill Clinton to topple Saddam Hussein.
The 20th century became an American Century because we were steadfast in defense of freedom.
Blackburn, an Arlington, Va. collector who is divesting all his guns, accumulated a meticulous assemblage of guns from the American Revolution through the 20th century.
And we will make the next century another great American century.
Moreover, for many years it was seen by economists as presenting a puzzle, in that it seemed higher (it was roughly 6% for the American stockmarkets over the past century) than the apparently reliable long-run return from equities justified.
The Federal government has developed a viable framework for using federated digital credentials, and with this memorandum, taken a significant step towards creating a more efficient government that can meet the needs of the American people in the 21st century.
Our challenges are different now, but if the 21st century is to be another American Century, we need leaders who understand that keeping the peace requires American strength in all of its dimensions.
If all of "Jitney" were that good, it would belong on the shortest possible list of the strongest American plays of the 20th century.
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As King works up to the mighty peroration of the greatest American speech of the 20th century, his cadences continue to rise and fall, going higher each time to signal his passion for the subject.
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No single development has altered the workings of American democracy in the last century so much as political consulting, an industry unknown before Campaigns, Inc.
London is lucky at the moment to have encyclopedic shows of the flowering of American art in the last century, especially of New York artists influenced by Marcel Duchamp now at the Barbican.
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Trade with these countries will be incredibly important to the American economy this century.
The style at American Century Investments (once Twentieth Century) comes from James E.
The American presidency this century is a fruitful territory for the morbidly minded.
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In "The Age of Innocence, " Edith Wharton wrote of turn-of-the-century American society belles stowing away their fresh-from-Paris dresses for at least a season or two, so as to not appear vulgar in New York society.
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