Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wearing a dark suit and tie, Coatsworth leans back comfortably in his chair and says the moves from 20,000 B.C.--"more or less the date human beings first arrived"--through the Aztec and Inca Empires in the 1500's in just two weeks...
THIS FALL, IN AN UNMARKED OFFICE IN THE SUBBASEMENT of the Minnesota state capitol, a team of resource-management planners is fine-tuning the biggest water-diversion project in the history of mankind and the largest transfer of wealth since Cortes acquired the Aztec empire...
...addition to the organizations' booths,M.I.T. students displayed the Aztec, asolar-powered car they had built and the CambridgeDepartment of Public Works gave a recyclingdemonstration...
...Eric Gravenaard, an M.I.T. junior showingthe Aztec, said the celebration was lucrative aswell...
...knew things and therefore understood what the followers did not: knowledge was power, and following was an act of faith. Now sheer, unexpurgated information accelerates history. It is also hell on mystique. The media help create leaders and then eat them alive -- a sort of electronic Aztec sacrifice...