Word: millennium
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...group marketing director, says mature consumers are just as eager to buy as youngsters, though they are savvier and more discerning. They are also richer - much richer. "They control 80% of the nation's wealth and they're very happy to spend it," says Fiona Hought, managing director of Millennium, a British ad agency that specializes in selling to oldsters...
...longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people - as Americans...
...common--except that they all include chord progressions and something you could plausibly call a melody. But music theorists have long known that there's something else that ties these disparate musical forms together. The composers of these and virtually every other style of Western music over the past millennium tend to draw from a tiny fraction of the set of all possible chords. And their chord progressions tend to be efficient, changing as few notes, by as little as possible, from one chord to the next...
...also gets much credit for the city's dramatic downtown revival, with its emphasis on flower planting and condo development. The 2005 opening of the $500 million Millennium Park - exorbitant cost overruns notwithstanding - has been a crowning achievement. His latest endeavor is to imprint the sparkling urban visage on the rest of the world: Daley is currently consumed with luring the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Chicago, and he's already traveled to Beijing, Athens and Barcelona for insights on how those host cities fared...
Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without resolution. Time's up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. So far it looks like Hume was onto something; though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often decisive, and that explains some strange quirks in our moralizing...