They called it the Industrial Revolution because for the first time in all of human history, economic growth started at a rate where you could see the difference in living standards at the end of a human lifespan relative to the beginning of a human lifespan.
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We're entering the end of a new beginning, of another great cycle.
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It's exactly the same when people sign a declaration of peace, the Belfast Agreement when it was signed was not the end, it was the beginning of a long period of struggle which requires just as much determination from all of us to see it succeed and I believe there is a will there, certainly among the pro-agreement parties to make this succeed.
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"What we are seeing is a recovery we anticipated in June being pushed a little further back in time, beginning closer to the end of the first quarter and into the second quarter of 2013, rather than beginning a little earlier, " said the bank in its report.
They were back to work for a couple of weeks and then recessed for a week at the end of the month beginning on April 30 and then for another week the following week beginning on May 28.
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That's also why I believe what we have achieved in Copenhagen will not be the end but rather the beginning, the beginning of a new era of international action.
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While playing movies back in the camera, users are able to edit recorded videos by clipping footage from the beginning or end of a movie.
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Supporters of the concept said they hoped the debate would continue and marked the beginning of a conversation to improve end-of-life care.
It was a major blow which could be the beginning of the end of a 40 year old guerilla movement known as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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He is, he says, much more worried about standards at the end of a student's course than at the beginning of it.
The destruction of cultural property in the course of the conflicts that took place at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, highlighted the necessity for a number of improvements to be addressed in the implementation of the Hague Convention.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, another key player in the fight against apartheid, said the day of Mr Mandela's release was "a day that promised the beginning of the end of indignity".
Not the end of the world at all, but the beginning of a branding campaign built to last.
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Between an aircraft that is at the end of a 40-year evolution and one at the beginning of what is likely to be a similarly long career, there is no contest.
By the end of the episode, the tide is beginning to turn when a row about washing nears epic proportions.
"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America, " he said.
It is a reminder that, were Scots to back independence, this would mark the beginning and not the end of a long, tortuous process of negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments - over currency, the monarchy, the armed forces, North Sea oil revenues, pension rights and much more besides.
But this is the sort of thing a government should do at the beginning of its tenure, not at the end.
Have you seen any moments of introspection you could share with us about reaching the end of this momentous term and beginning a new one?
Mainly because only one person can talk at a time, necessitating such old-movie behaviors as having to say "over" at the beginning and end of a sentence.
Should that happen, it would surely mark the end of the Bush presidency, the beginning of the Baker regency and a congressionally abetted undoing of American power in the face of emboldened and ever-more-dangerous foes.
But it is pretty much agreed that when the market topped out in March 2000 it was the end of the long 1982-2000 secular bull market, and beginning of a 2000 to who knows when secular bear market.
The Commission said it would take a decision on the deal at the end of February or the beginning of March.
And perhaps living standards at the end of a human lifespan were four times what they had been at the beginning of a human lifespan.
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Normally, the body takes up economic matters only at fixed times, the beginning, the middle, and the end of a year.
Their departure marked the beginning of the end of a frenzied joy that erupted Wednesday as the men were rescued.
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It may even be the beginning of the end of a long, hellish period of impunity in the tragic heart of Africa.
However, if we believe that the five waves marked the end of a cycle, then the new move in the opposite direction will mark the beginning of a fresh cycle.
Is this beginning or the end of a correction?
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"At the end of my suffering, there was a door, " she writes in "Wild Iris, " with an image that captures both the end of a raw, howling grief and the beginning of life after loss.
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