Word: twin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albright gave birth to premature twin daughters. To distract herself from the stress of seeing them in an incubator, she studied Russian...
Both Lawson and Fineday are American Indian and originally hail from Walker, Minnesota--a small, rural town four hours North of the state's Twin cities...
Remus follows a legacy of Radcliffe Crew alumnae who went on to national prominence. Twin sisters Mary and Betsy McCagg (both '89), Lindsay H. Burns '87, and Cecile Ulrich Tucker '91 all competed last summer in Atlanta...
Nineteenth century Americans reveled in the twin myths of "discovery" and "progress," which had been so vastly strengthened by the physical conquest of North America and the expansion of technology. Americans could make anything, solve any problem, produce a cataract of inventions. This applied everywhere but the visual arts, where taste was generally conservative. In art, people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart...
...change: joblessness is under 5%--a 24-year low--yet inflation is holding steady at around 3%, a combination that economists thought impossible. Productivity is growing smartly, and consumer confidence is near an eight-year high, which may help explain why personal debt is climbing. And the twin banes of the 1990s--job insecurity and income inequality--show small signs of improvement...