Word: 20th
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...publishers, broadcasters and electronics manufacturers whose businesses were being transformed by the advent of VCRs, cable television and personal computers. Then they hinted broadly that the faculty at M.I.T. knew precisely where all this was headed. Money came in from such leading sponsors as IBM, CBS, Warner Communications, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi, Time Inc. and the Washington Post. Sponsors can send scientists and other observers to the Media Lab and make commercial use of any of the facility's research. Though many of the projects may never yield commercial or educational applications, only one company, Toshiba, has failed to renew...
...great troves for students of 20th century American diplomacy was left by Henry Stimson, a tireless diarist and letter writer who served a number of stints as Secretary of War and State from 1911 until 1945. Stimson was the man who ordered the dismantling of a government code-breaking outfit, later explaining "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." This mind-set led to some very frank and revealing letters and diary entries. Historians piecing together the momentous decisions of World War II have the luxury of comparing personal writings in which Stimson and Navy Secretary James Forrestal describe...
...present duties this past June, spends his time supervising the 51 correspondents in the magazine's ten domestic bureaus across the country. This week he had a special concern. White was the driving force behind our reports on the deteriorating conditions faced by inner-city blacks on the 20th anniversary of the riots that tore apart ghettos from Detroit to Newark. "The inner cities burned during that long, hot summer," says White. "But the conditions that sparked the turmoil, rather than improving, have got worse. I'm glad we did these stories, but I'm sorry...
...artists in Berlin between 1950 and 1980 helped turn the geographical categories of art around, forcing the art world to lose not only its fixation on New York as late modernism's only imperial center but also its set belief that abstract art was the ultimate style of the 20th century...
With this evidence, Kennedy maintains that the United States is in the midst of a decline from its position as the world's premier power which parallels Great Britain's demise in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Curious historical circumstances after World War II allowed us to rise to world dominance, economically and militarily, and now history is righting itself. A country should only have as much power as her population and natural resources allow, Kennedy believes. Because we have only 16 percent or so of these commodities, when history has fixed itself, we will possess only that...