Word: embeddedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of folklore and myth is embedded in oddments of visual memory (stereotypes, propagandas, stray entertainments) and in a few national epics like the story of the Kennedys, with its bright, shining moments and its darker subplots and disgraces. The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and...
A question is whether George Bush, or Dan Quayle, or Pat Buchanan, or any politician or government, can have much to do with improving a society's values -- family or otherwise. Surely the values, if worth anything, must be more deeply embedded in the culture than the slogans of transient...
Now a report in Science suggests that 370 million years ago, during the Late Devonian period, a comet or asteroid caused an even greater catastrophe, one that wiped out fully 70% of all marine species on earth. American and Belgian scientists have found tiny glass beads just .3 mm (.004...
The beginnings of Barcelona's feisty sense of autonomy lie embedded deeply within its lexical past. Contrary to popular belief, Catalan is not a bastardized version of Castilian, but a proper language in its own right. When the Romans conquered the Iberian peninsula, as Hughes tells us, they brought with...
How long can this keep up? Technically at least, the recession was supposed to have ended a year ago. But the relentless pace of new layoffs, along with ! the surge in unemployment from 7.5% in May to an eight-year high of 7.8% in June, has mooted the normal distinction...