Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approach the millennium, I sense a third force arising that fits nicely with TIME's mission. America's pioneers created communities that were built around the spirit and the reality of a common ground. Since then our society has embraced two sets of values: an entrepreneurial individualism based on personal rights and liberties, and a community spirit forged at PTA meetings and Rotary clubs and countless other places where we gather to work together on issues of mutual concern. Tocqueville, I think, was wrong. These two strands of the American character are not in conflict; they are interwoven. They...
...like to see them do something now--not 10 years from now, not at the millennium, now--to improve the rate of women being tenured to the rate of women earning Ph.D.'s," Joan Bolker '60 told The Crimson earlier this semester...
...gathering of some of Boston's--and Harvard's--most important people wrestled last night with a question that perplexed them all: Who is the most important person of the century or the millennium...
...choosing Hitler as my millennium figure because in a personal sense...as an impresario of evil, he cut my daughter's century from her millennium by destroying the Polish Jews, the central European Jews," Leyner said. "This individual created a temporal schism for a lot of people. There's no returning to what was destroyed...
...author of seven books on racism and poverty, hearkened the farthest back in time for his choice of Martin Luther, the German who in the early sixteenth century posted his 95 theses attacking abuses in the Catholic Church and launched the Protestant Reformation, as his person of the millennium...