Word: epochs
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While the Neolithic period was just flowering in Europe, it had long since come and gone in the Middle and Near East, and a transitional epoch, known as the Chalcolithic (copper and stone) period was approaching its zenith. The first Chalcolithic culture appeared suddenly -- and mysteriously -- in the Near East in about 4000 B.C. and quickly spread toward the Indus River basin and the Mediterranean...
...time enforce a chastening standard of weight and scale. The millennium has a gravitational pull that draws in the largest meanings, if only because its frame of reference is so enormous. The millennial drama represents nothing less than the ritual death and rebirth of history, one thousand-year epoch yielding to another. Such imponderable masses of time overwhelm and humble the individual life-span, reducing human tragedies and accomplishments to windblown powder...
Theatrics aside, Harvard is still undefeated in the joyous epoch of Locker-soccer, named after the team's new coach Steve Locker...
...Seven Fat Years, Bartley calls for a return to the policies that, he says, made the '80s a glorious epoch. Packed with statistics and sometimes eye-glazing arguments, the book tells how Bartley and such fellow supply- siders as economist Arthur Laffer and journalist Jude Wanniski cooked up the recipe for Reaganomics over meals at a Wall Street watering hole called Michael 1. The basic ingredients were tax cuts and a monetary policy capable of producing low and stable interest rates. "As 1982 drew to a merciful close," Bartley writes, "both sides of the Michael 1 prescription were finally coming...
Historian Geoffrey Blainey is among those who argue for reducing immigration, but other analysts find the notion unrealistic. "Human movement is the feature of our epoch. Nations that put up barriers will no longer be part of any world community," says Mary Kalantzis, a historian at Wollongong University's Center for Multicultural Studies. Kalantzis thinks old forms of national identity that seek to forge a nation around a single ethnic group are no longer viable...