Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...20th century began slowly, to the ticking of grandfather clocks and the stately rhythms of progress established by high Victorian seriousness. Thanks to science, industry and moral philosophy, mankind's steps had at last been guided unerringly up the right path. The century of steam was about to give way to the century of oil and electricity, new and transforming sources of power and light. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, ordained by natural...
...more bit of advice: Relax. However you spend Millennium Eve, you can't really go wrong. After all, humankind has been down this path only once before -- and it's not likely anyone did anything so memorable the first time round. So to recap: You can sit home pondering new names for 20th Century Fox and making earnest millennium resolutions. Or you can plan early, play hard and party late. Whatever you decide, have a nice millennium...
...prolonged investigation of Boalt Hall has worried universities already struggling to chart a path between the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws racial discrimination, and the 1978 Supreme Court decision in the case of white medical school applicant Allan Bakke, which bans reverse discrimination and racial quotas...
...press gave his supporters little reason for optimism. His brusque handling of a few questions -- "Just have fun, get raises and bonuses, play gotcha. I don't care," he snapped at reporters -- revealed that the distemper that drove him from the race three months ago will hamper his path to redemption...
...armed with my backpack full of good intentions, I resolved to shop an Arabic class. Despite the fact that I was following the path mapped out by a star-studded panel of University luminaries, Harvard did its utmost to prevent me from carrying out my adventurous resolution...