It was the epoch of churning out another piece of converged electronics nobody needs.
Since the epoch of supposedly subpar returns got under way, the global stock market has been enjoying markedly above-average returns.
Instead, Tea Partiers signal that society is beginning to perceive, and trust, that the epoch of total war has ended.
It was the epoch of developing a bold new computing platform.
One of the manuscripts is a historical review of primarily Iran, written in 1414 by Khafiz-I Abru, a famous historian from the epoch of Tamerlan, letting us travel through the manuscript as he, himself did in his time.
They discussed how the physical details of the site supported their interpretation in a response in the May issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, and that while the legend of the nachzehrer was found in Germanic areas, Venice was a crossroads during the epoch in which such legends from distant lands might have circulated.
It takes months just to change the daylight savings rules, let alone the entire epoch of the operating system.
Though the Cretaceous asteroid cleared the stage, mammals did not really get going until 10m years later, in the Eocene epoch.
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Mammoths first appeared in the Pliocene Epoch, 4.8 million years ago.
After this point, growth was moderate, at about 3% per year for the long term, with variations in the form of major depressions and recessions and a 23-fold inflation which had no like in the previous epoch.
The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
"We compared what you see in these galaxies with what you see in the field galaxy population, other galaxies at the same epoch and distance, and there is a stark difference - far more star formation and black hole growth, " the Cambridge University scientist and Royal Society research fellow explained to the BBC News website.
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Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
The preceding Palaeocene epoch was also brought to an end, the rocks suggest, by a sudden release of methane.
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According to Erica Wagner, Literary Editor of The Times, such epoch-making events have traditionally proven to be great canvasses for the imagination.
Here at the foot of the Acropolis you are reminded that human beings do remarkably similar things from one historical epoch to the next.
That result in the end sparked a new epoch in cosmology, seeking to understand what is driving the expansion, and Prof Perlmutter is enthusiastic that such fundamental problems have been highlighted by the Nobel committee.
Battle lines were drawn, as many who felt betrayed and manipulated decried the apparent emergence of yet another liar in this epoch of Enron and the L. Dennis Kozlowski -era Tyco International--not to mention Winfrey's fellow TV icon Martha Stewart.
Battle lines were drawn, as many who felt betrayed and manipulated decried the apparent emergence of yet another liar in this epoch of Enron and the L. Dennis Kozlowski -era Tyco International (nyse: TYC - news - people )--not to mention Winfrey's fellow TV icon Martha Stewart.
They record an epoch before the Endeavour impact when there was aqueous activity at a near-neutral pH.
People in our social networking epoch have the attention span of fleas.
Noting that we are now in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, as humans are the major changing force of the Earth system, she explained that the answers provided by technological solutions can only go so far it they do not come with social transformation as well.
One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.
While I suspect not every reader is crazy about Warren, her history is right: it is hard to find an epoch in which the private sector priced mortgage risk properly.
William W. Priest, CFA and CPA, is the CEO and co-CIO of Epoch Investment Partners, a money management firm.
Having only recently emerged from an epoch of total war, the U.S. responded by going on to a total-war footing.
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