Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think there is a moment arriving where the department really needs to look hard at what it is doing and representing,” says a VES Professor, who wishes to remain anonymous. “What is the curriculum and what is the balance? Is there a need to look a little deeper? There is a need for a lot more conversation...
...think he is an excellent choice,” said Lewis M. Branscomb, who is another director emeritus of the Science, Technology, and Public Program. “I believe he understands the relationship between scientific development and economic growth and right at the moment, that is the issue...
...case, the drug-reform discussion comes just at the right moment. We boomers are getting older every day. You're not going to want us on the highways. Make us your best offer...
...just very touched," Michelle told the girls, choking up with emotion as she spoke. "All of you are jewels." In the moment, it did not seem at all like an overstatement. For the better part of an hour, the girls had been performing for the First Lady, presenting a remarkable array of talent - for public speaking, for modern dance, for Shakespeare, for belting out ballads with names like "I'm Going All the Way." It was hard not to be inspired by the scene, but then that's what seems to happen around Michelle Obama these days...
...that very moment, Barack Obama was across town in plenary-session meetings with other national leaders at the G-20, discussing regulations, stimulus and funding for emerging markets that they hope will stem the enormous amounts of human suffering the world will endure over the coming months. The President had already met the day before with the Russians to discuss preventing nuclear apocalypse, with the Chinese to discuss the genocide in Sudan and with the South Koreans to discuss the pending missile launch by North Korea...