Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...testers are quite enthusiastic about the new OS and see it as a major step forward from [Windows] Vista,” he wrote...
...Junior forward Chloe Keating ended the Crimson’s 165-minute scoreless drought, notching a goal off a penalty corner in the 55th minute...
...Dole and Bill Frist have been pushing current party leaders on Capitol Hill to work with Democrats on health-care reform, which increasingly looks like it will pass in some form. And even a few of their own have begun to show impatience. "Ronald Reagan always had a positive, forward-looking agenda, and I think that was a significant strategy that worked for the Republicans back then," says Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican Representative from California. "We've got some very tangible alternatives. I just think we should just be promoting them more. Too much politics, not enough policy." (See pictures...
...Government's daylight saving schedule - which was created for energy-saving purposes, with the idea that an extra hour of daylight in the winter would cause people to use less oil. Arizona never adopted the new time plan on the grounds that it was too hot out to "spring forward" an hour in the summer. Daylight hours don't vary much in Hawaii, and the tropical state has never needed the time plan...
...Nepal is 15 minutes ahead of India but an hour and 15 minutes behind China. Iran can't decide what to do about daylight saving; its parliament wants to observe it, while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says no. And in 2007, President Hugo Chávez set Venezuela's clocks forward 30 minutes, supposedly to make the country more productive. In the end, time really is relative...