Word: moment
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...tough to figure the exact moment when the button stopped tickling America's fancy. It wasn't during the Cold War: the giant red button was all that kept us from nuclear Armageddon. And in the age of the personal computer, the button was king. Mice, monitors, keyboards - buttons became a part of the fabric of our new, digital life...
...Morawski recalled. “She held off the top Princeton swimmer who competed in the Olympics. Going against someone who’s in the top eight and who caught up after five laps and still keeping her from overtaking the race was a special moment for Mills.”Her top speed and great swimming form made Mills stand out from the rest. She qualified for the NCAA Championships—taking place at Texas A&M’s Student Rec Center Natatorium in College Station—where she, junior Alexandra Clarke, and Coach Morawski...
...Asian population, but, now that they are appearing on our own walls, we cannot ignore them as we do when we see them in our newspapers. It is unfortunate that we need to wait for the writing on the wall to be motivated into action, but at least a moment for awareness has now come...
...unemployed people creates, as close as economics ever has, the possibility of a free lunch for economic policy, because it means you can get more stuff by putting people to work," says a top Administration official. "That's why I think there is a lot of potential in this moment." But the same reasoning doesn't work for a global-warming bill. "That would be more complicated," says the official. (See a photo-essay on the beauty of trees and forests...
...Bush Administration's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol. "Right now we have a degree of flexibility [regarding] what we need to do and what other countries are willing to do," says David Doniger, policy director at the NRDC's Climate Center. "That tremendous opportunity may be lost at this moment if this drags...