Word: 18th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weight. In capitalism's 700-year history, financial scandals are two a penny. As detailed in Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, some of them had far more devastating impacts than Enron's collapse ever will. John Law's Mississippi Co., for example, bankrupted 18th century France, until Law was chased out of Paris and songs were sung in the streets advocating "the application of all his notes to the most ignoble use to which paper can be applied." From Credit Mobilier to Cendant, from Jay Gould to Ivan Boesky, under Republican Presidents and Democratic...
...country needs is a debate about cleaning up the N word and making it respectable. Apart from its crassly commercial title, Kennedy's book is a dry, legalistic account of the myriad ways in which the word has been used since it first appeared in the brutal vocabulary of 18th century slave owners. Given the powerful emotions the term has always stirred, his 226-page account is surprisingly dull...
Much to the surprise of industry observers and congressional naysayers, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced Wednesday that the country's airlines and airports will, in fact, meet the federally imposed January 18th deadline to begin screening of all checked baggage for explosives...
...discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can speak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Longfellow museum is the 18th century mansion located just beyond Harvard Square at 105 Brattle Street, which was once the home of noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—who was also an English professor at Harvard in the mid-1800s. The house also served as George Washington’s first headquarters for the Continental Army...