Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real world, equally obvious changes were taking hold. The twin demands of feminism and a new imperial economy paroled the American woman from her domestic cage. With the Pill, technology undermined conservative morality. Couples could have only as many children as they wanted, or no children at all. Freedom from the biological imperative has been followed by an economic imperative: earning her way, single or married. More than half of all American women ? indeed, more than half the U.S. married mothers ? are in the labor force. There a woman must collaborate and compete with men, as other...
...haven in the Irish Sea, he now runs a multimillion-dollar equine empire, Swettenham Stud, from a 100-room mansion called the Nunnery. Though a reticent man in public, he is hardly that at home. His two trophies from the French Arc de Triomphe wins are the centerpieces on twin dining-room tables. The walls of the bright, airy living room are covered with photos of Sangster, his vivacious second wife Susan (former wife of onetime Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock) and, of course, horses. Out across the 90 acres of manicured lawn and woods, however, the real thing...
While nations have struggled with the twin scourges of swift inflation and slow economic growth, millions of people have lost their jobs. Steep interest rates have destroyed thousands of businesses. Countless companies have been unable to modernize obsolete factories. The promise of economic expansion, always the driving force of capitalism, suddenly seems in jeopardy...
...late Kenneth Tynan, as dazzling a critic as recent years have seen, came to believe that "the two parts of Henry IV are the twin summits of Shakespeare's achievement. Line-hungry actors have led us always to the tragedies, where a single soul is spotlit and its agony explored; but these private torments dwindle beside the Henries, great public plays in which a whole nation is under scrutiny and on trial...
...they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader Batty (Rutger Hauer) are flowering just as his "termination date" nears. And so the twin pursuits begin. Deckard, a man from the past, races against time to track down his quarry; Batty, the man of the future, races for as much time as genetic engineering and his appetite for life will grant...