Word: eras
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...this era of exit polls and televised results, city residents still watch officials spend more than a week counting their preferential ballots to determine the outcome of City Council and School Committee contests...
...postwar era was launched with a speech by Harry Truman outlining a presidential vision of containment. Similarly, Bush could launch a postcontainment era by propounding a bold swords-into-plowshares scheme for a fundamental change in East-West relations. Such a clarion call for a radical new Bush Doctrine could command the bipartisan support that accompanied the Truman Doctrine. It could also, at the very least, regain for the U.S. the initiative on the world stage. And, who knows? Gorbachev might go along. More surprising things have happened this year...
...would be 2 1/2 ft. high and have water flowing evenly and slowly across its flat surface. Underneath the water, etched in the stone and looking like points of a sundial, would be the words -- the names and the events -- that would tell the history of the civil rights era. They begin with 17 MAY 1954 SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS SCHOOL SEGREGATION IN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION and end with 4 APR 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED MEMPHIS, TN (there will be 53 entries in all, with a conspicuous space before Brown and after King, suggesting the struggle...
Alfred Eisenstaedt's exuberant V-J Day in Times Square. Dorothea Lange's moving Dust Bowl-era Migrant Mother. Neil Armstrong's historic Man's First Moon Walk. These are among the ten photos TIME has chosen as the most important news pictures in 150 years of photojournalism, and you can see them in a special collector's edition that appeared last week at newsstands around the country and in subscribers' mailboxes. From tens of thousands of images, special-projects editor Donald Morrison and his staff culled 91 in all, and finally chose ten that best define...
Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, near the tiny town of Parkfield, scientists are conducting an experiment that they hope will open the door to a new era of earthquake prediction. Along a 20-mile section of the San Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000 ft. deep into the earth and laced the surface with "creep meters" that measure rock movement. "We're listening to the heartbeat of this section of the fault very, very closely," says the Geological Survey's Thatcher. The Parkfield section of the San Andreas is unusual in that...