Well I managed to sit through the first twenty minutes of 'The Battle of Basra' before switching off.
The first twenty were all college football programs, and Louisville had finished ahead of strong on-the-field programs like USC and Oregon.
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The director, David Dobkin, and the writers, Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, kick off with a hectic montage of good will, and the first twenty minutes are rabid with simple pleasure.
As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
The court came to be seen as a victim of its own success, and by the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century appeared to be collapsing under its own caseload.
They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.
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But, by the dawn of the twenty-first century, Wall Street salaries were nearly twice as high.
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This seemed inviolable for more than half a century, but since the beginning of the twenty-first century it has been subjected to some reinterpretation.
This is the first time in twenty years that a bipartisan agreement has increased tax rates on the wealthy.
But it is rational, sound and in harmony with sport, not as it was in the days of " Chariots of Fire, " but as it is in the twenty first century: Unrelenting, mercilessly competitive and unsparingly achievement-oriented.
The second decade of the twenty-first century will be the decade of the brain.
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century.
This is the sustainability challenge of the twenty-first century and thus one of the governance challenges of our times as well.
What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.
Fortunately, a newly released report. by the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship and the Twenty-First Century lays out a roadmap for such defenses.
When you look at the parallel between the breaking of armies in 1917 and the corporate challenges of the twenty-first century, you see that the battlefield and the marketplace are comparable scenes of adversarial competition, and the path we must take to achieve success is simply timeless.
It might seem like a service like Netflix could become so compelling and competitive that it would motivate millions to cut the cord and jump into the twenty-first century.
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The key question is how will the pending litigation against New Jersey be changed (if at all) by the memorandum recently filed by the twenty-first century version of the Department of Justice.
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Having a sponsor to speak up for you when you are not in the room and when others of influence may not realize your worth is the recipe for success in the twenty-first century workplace.
The international energy market of the twenty-first century is witnessing an unprecedented period of turmoil and instability, an indication of an indisputable global power shift that holds serious, long-term implications for U.S. national security interests throughout the world.
The main goal of this program has been to bring business leaders together in Vermont so they can connect directly with the thought leaders at the university and throughout Vermont who are helping pioneer the redesign of business for the twenty-first century, establish a supportive network of like-minded professionals, and then return to their companies and communities as knowledgeable champions of positive change.
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The starting point for that program, the twenty-first-century equivalent of Social Security, should be universal health care, something every other advanced country already has.
The Forum is a future-oriented event designed to feed the debate launched by the Director General of UNESCO on the necessity of a new humanism for the twenty-first century.
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All three missions contribute to make a library of the twenty first century the ideal place to discover new books.
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In the twenty first century, popularizing science is not merely a philanthropic, democratic option, but rather a definite need of our society.
Moreover, it is the first international economic instrument that is explicitly guided and driven by consideration of fairness and equitability, which sets the stage for a new international economic order in the twenty-first century.
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Three days after the election, Secretary of State Clinton announced that the United States was suspending sanctions against Burma and would be appointing an Ambassador to the country for the first time in twenty-two years.
If education and human capital were the keys to economic prosperity in the twentieth century, they are even more important in the twenty-first.
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