Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic problems stemmed from a six-month, $162 million overhaul that gave the QE2 modern diesel engines and revamped its accommodations. An official of the Cunard Line, which owns the 18-year-old ocean liner, said it was assumed that the renovated ship would suffer "teething problems." But their unexpected magnitude will take a $1 million bite out of Cunard's revenues in partial refunds offered to customers...
Wait a minute. This guy is a folk singer? A modern Leadbelly? He sounds like one of those hero CEOs in FORTUNE or Forbes who eats nails, sleeps three hours a night and never, never loses his driving wheel. Worse to come: by 9 a.m., the six employees of Maple Hill Productions have started to arrive, make coffee and restructure the music biz. The strategy that Rush worked out with Sykes was to use the Tom Rush name for leverage, once it was re-established. Then he would create a central organization that could bring folk musicians and audiences together...
Iceland's Althing, or parliament, is the oldest in the world, dating back to the year 930. Still, it is fairly bursting with modern ideas. Since 1983 the assembly has been home to the world's first feminist party to win parliamentary representation, the Women's Alliance. Last week the party came a step closer to wielding real power. On April 25, Icelandic voters ousted the center-right government of Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson and in the process gave the Alliance 10% of the vote...
Paul Johnson balefully examined the 20th century in Modern Times (1983). What he found in the barbaric follies of the nation-state and the quack logic of Marxism and fascism was a desecration of the rational tradition he now celebrates in A History of the Jews. Johnson navigates from a fixed position: that the People of the Book reasoned their way to monotheism and so invented Western thought. A thirst for first causes and a moral universe led to ethics and law that the Hebrews codified and refined in the Torah and the Talmud...
...although they did agree about their origins. Johnson sifts the archaeological record and concludes, as does Genesis, that Abraham the patriarch came from Ur, a Sumerian city excavated in the 1920s and believed to have flourished in the fourth and third millenniums B.C. Such corroborations of ancient texts by modern scholars suit the author's purpose, which is to condense legend and fact into a flowing historical narrative...