In 1980, the year of the "Reagan Revolution, " his vision of hope, growth and opportunity was exactly what the American people needed and wanted.
Since the end of the revolution last year, Libya's security establishment has been divided on how to deal with the scores of militias, composed predominantly of ex-rebels who fought to topple the Gadhafi regime.
Political leaders from eastern Libya, where most of the country's oil is pumped and last year's revolution started, demanded a high degree of autonomy.
But the 34-year-old midfielder could not hide his desire to be part of Fabio Capello's England revolution with his national team on the brink of qualification for next year's finals.
Benghazi was the birthplace of last year's Libyan revolution.
Its main character, a bumbling and backwards cleric often depicted in compromising scenarios, resonated with countries grappling with the thorny issue of modernization -- particularly Iran, where Molla Nasreddin's first year of publication coincided with the Constitutional Revolution, an attempt to reform Iran's monarchy.
In June 2012, Ben Ali was sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the killing of protesters in last year's revolution.
Such a mechanism is "a work of art for the wrist, " effuses Matthew Morse, U.S. editor of Revolution, a two-year-old glossy magazine for watch collectors.
The cost of a barrel of oil doubled in a year after the Islamic revolution.
The human genome project itself, which was the enabling factor of this revolution, was perfectly exponential with the number of base pairs being sequenced doubling every year and the cost per base pair coming down by half every year.
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An economy left in ruins by the years of war and violent revolution in the 1970s and 80s grew at a rate of almost 10% a year from 1998 to 2008.
Over the last year, the social network revolution has made tycoons out of the likes of Sean Parker, Eduardo Saverin, Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman.
The focal point of the controversy is the 1987 Constitution, drawn up after the People Power revolution ousted the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos the previous year.
Rather than risk provoking their ire, Mr Fox may decide to deliver this year's cheer in Dolores Hidalgo, birthplace of Mexico's revolution, as earlier presidents occasionally have done.
Georgia's transition from a former Soviet republic into a non-Soviet one began with the Rose revolution of November 2003, in which the 36-year-old Mikhail Saakashvili and his friends pushed aside the 75-year-old Eduard Shevardnadze.
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Morsi's historic swearing-in took place amid tight security before the Supreme Constitutional Court and was overseen by the military rulers who have been in control of the country since a popular revolution ousted President Hosni Mubarak last year.
At the recent World Economic Conference in Davos, Google Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt said mobile Internet services have the potential to spark a "huge revolution" in the coming year, comparable to the "re-creation of the Internet" and the personal computer.
More than a year since President Hosni Mubarak was forced to stand down, the outcome of Egypt's "revolution" remains unclear.
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Schroer's fund, invested largely in pharmaceuticals and biotech, is up 35% so far this year on the strength of some good venture-capital investments and investor excitement over the potential genomic revolution.
That followed the revolution in Portugal the previous year, which set in train a rushed and botched process of decolonisation.
Which made it all the more interesting earlier this year when Steve Case's Revolution holding company bought a majority stake in the place with the idea of expanding its message nationwide.
For a start, the new Xbox 360 is launching several months before its main rival, Sony's PlayStation 3, which is expected to appear in Japan next spring and in America only later in the year. (Nintendo's next console, the Revolution, is also due in 2006.) One of the reasons the PlayStation 2 did so well was that it got to market before its rivals, which never caught up.
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