Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kids were getting, the Peninsula team had them wear ActiGraphs, light but sophisticated devices that measure not only the amount of physical movement the body engages in but also its intensity. During four one-week periods over consecutive school terms, the kids wore the ActiGraphs nearly every waking moment...
This reset moment will not last for long, let alone forever. History and the zeitgeist keep moving. It's a good bet that the 2020s will be fully roaring, the dawn of yet another thrilling, manic era of hypercapitalist easy money and overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption...
...Emanuel is now chief of staff in a White House that badly needs the drug industry as an ally in its drive to overhaul the health-care system. And the industry has indeed come through in a big way: in June, at a moment when the Congressional Budget Office was estimating that early versions of two Senate health bills were turning out to be more expensive than expected and would fail to curb rising health-care costs, the industry offered to take an $80 billion hit. Since then, drug companies have been pitching in to mobilize public support for President...
...private moment with my dad to thank him for sticking with it," his son Michael told reporters outside the hospital after the papers freeing his father were signed. "It was very emotional when the guards left...
...Spotify doesn't see itself as a rival to iTunes, mainly because it feels that it offers a service iTunes can't match. "We honestly don't think there is a direct competitor to Spotify, as no one's doing exactly what we're doing at the moment," Butcher says via e-mail. "We're confident that Apple will allow the Spotify app, as we think it will improve the iPhone users' experience even further." (Read "Maximize Your iPhone...