Word: modernism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...being President one day in the future. But her champions note that she is now in a position to earn as much money in two weeks of speechmaking as she would have earned in the rest of her term. She has a following as ardent as that of any modern leader - whom she will now be more conveniently positioned to lead. In this view, she didn't leave the governor's office because it was too demanding but because it was too small...
...About 10 years ago, the Kallstroms moved into a two-story wooden house with a bright orange garage door. The house is modern with two octagonal windows (Blanche says the carpenter who built the place was "some hippie" who put in all the windows). They have two cottages - both also with bright orange doors - at the end of the driveway. One is a type of sauna with a wood-burning stove. The other is a smoke shack for fish. Their catch of the day is hanging from a clothing line strung from the shack to a tree. The driveway...
...1930s, Social Security numbers were assigned for income-tracking purposes and determined according to an individual's date and place of birth. Back then, identity theft - not to mention modern technology like the personal computer - were "unthinkable." But the technological boom of recent decades, coupled with the SSN's popularity as an authentication device, has enabled an "architecture of vulnerability" that exposes millions of Americans to fraud and exploitation, the report argues...
...ahead of public opinion. He was pushed by some of his advisers to move further to the left on the economy and more aggressively toward getting into the war in Europe--but in both cases, he ultimately tacked closer to the center of American public opinion. He was a modern paradox: a revolutionary for stability, a political innovator who was intent on building a system that would be less risky for the American people. That's the same challenge Obama faces today...
...history of the Muslim religion," he told TIME in 1995. "Most Americans don't know the difference between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites, but we need to know that because that's going to be a major issue in the world of the future." (See pictures of modern-day Vietnam...