Word: major
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...begin with, it's a gross misconception to claim that the Enlightenment was the work of writers. Writers might have advertised and propagated it, but the Enlightenment, like every single major transformation in history, was the work of scientists. It was the work of Descartes and Galileo and Newton and Leibniz and various French mathematicians whose last names begin with "L" (Laplace and Lagrange come to mind). It was they who showed that the "cold reason" of a science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed...
...panelists related stories of their experiences with critics and the media--which both play a major role in the vitality of the theater community, according to the directors...
...There was an immediate public reaction," Berwick said. "It was covered on network TV, and on the front page of all major newspapers...
...Balanced Budget Act was projected to cost the seventeen major Massachusetts teaching hospitals a total of $2.1 billion over five years, according to figures provided by the Massachusetts Hospital Association...
Harvard's major teaching hospitals also include Beth Israel Deaconess and Children's Hospital. All except Childrens's--which serves few Medicare patients--were affected drastically...