Most said they were planning to dance through the night to greet the first dawn of the new millennium - just to confirm if really had arrived.
The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's assembly line.
The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) assembly line.
The prize for general non-fiction was awarded to Gilbert King for Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America, which details racial injustice in Florida in 1949.
When the first cable landed, Brian Herlihy, the CEO of Seacom said its arrival marked "the dawn of a new era for communications".
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.
This dramatic and rapid evolution of the relationship between people and their machines places us at the dawn of yet another new era, one we are calling the Age of Context.
Thus, the dawn of a new era, one that makes many, including this author, uncomfortable.
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The dawn of a new age has undoubtedly put many in a cosmic mood.
At the dawn of the new century, a new technology promised to fundamentally change global economics.
Whether or not we realize it, we are at the dawn of a new information revolution.
Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said it represented the "dawn of a new age" for superfast broadband in Wales.
So what happened to all that boring stuff you could have purchased at the dawn of the new millennium?
They are often disappointed that instead of the dawn of a new politics, there has been a exacerbation of politics as usual.
At the dawn of the New South Africa in 1993, Wendy Luhabe (after a decade in corporate marketing) co-founded Women Investment Portfolio Holdings.
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At dawn, the new arrivals gathered outside the UN reception centre.
The dawn of something new though seems to be upon us.
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While the work was early and crude--the researchers had merely demonstrated "read-only" memory thus far--it nevertheless predicted the dawn of a new era of molecular computing.
But now we're at the dawn of a new mode of work requiring cross-collaboration, and somebody who can see all the different facets of a problem is critical.
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Pundits have wondered whether this is the dawn of a new era for Internet activism, especially from tech and Web companies that, in the past, have been less political.
"It's a new dawn in the design of microprocessors, " says Randy W. Watkins, vice president of technology at SecuraKey, a Luminary Micro customer that sells building access and security systems.
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Before us, at the dawn of a new millennium, we can envision a new era that escapes the 20th century's darkest moments, fulfills its most brilliant possibilities, and crosses frontiers yet unimagined.
In Tina Brown era, supposedly the dawn of a new attitude, Newsweek has gyrated through a series of increasingly embarrassing attempts to goose its traffic by trying on different attitudes like cheap suits.
The trouble for both of them was that, although policing devolution should have been one of the brightest rays of that new dawn, David Cameron was unable to persuade his UUP allies to vote for it.
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And when our grandchildren reflect on the history we leave, let them say we did what was required of us, that our words were true to our Founders' dreams for a young Republic and our actions foretold the dawn of a new and brighter day.
His message this time, we are told, will be that the death of Osama bin Laden and the outpouring of support for democratic change across the Middle East and North Africa opens a new dawn for Muslims - and even greater opportunities for expanded relations with the United States than he promised two years ago.
In November 2008 the UUP formed an electoral pact with Britain's Conservatives, which the two parties presented as a new dawn for Northern Ireland.
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