Word: bion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power in almost every society. It has not only made possible but helped to create the vast and complicated structure of modern civilization. Adam Smith called it "the great instrument of commerce," but few who have tried to define it over the years did better than the poet Bion 2,100 years ago: "Money is the sinews of affairs...