Word: advent
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...Fund, while Martinez has traveled worldwide as a consultant on blindness (and she water-skis when she gets the chance). Despite Breslin's wheelchair breakdown, a day with them on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area shows that commonplace life has improved dramatically for them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles at the entrance made access difficult, the checkout aisles were too narrow for her wheelchair, and Breslin had to wheel backward against the flow of other...
Though Time Inc. continued to grow over the years, the flow of documents lessened--due to the advent of computers. Shortly after her appointment as archives manager, Felsher took action. "We were losing a lot of history," she says. She took a class in oral history at Columbia University, then began targeting people whose recollections she wanted to preserve on audiocassettes. Later, she conducted interviews with a video camera. "It takes a lot of nerve to interview a journalist," she says...
...arrive in the middle of the sequence. What is important is Hill's coupling of text and video which explores the relationship between space and time, language and reality. These relationships, set forth by Heidegger in the early 20th century, have been severely upset by the advent of electronic media...
Moreover, from 1987-1992, larger payrolls have not led to greater success. Finally, many studies have indicated that since the advent of free agency, baseball has actually gotten more competitive overall...
...natural to think that the greening of the peninsula might signal the much-debated advent of global warming, caused by the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases released by the burning of fossil fuels. As long ago as 1978 a paper in the journal Nature urged scientists to look to Antarctica for early indications of the so-called greenhouse effect--among them the breakup of ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula...