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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image formed in Eleanor's mind, that during the course of her husband's presidency a giant transference of energy had taken place between him and the people. In the early days, the country was fragile, weak and isolationist, while her husband was full of energy, vital and productive. But gradually, as the President animated his countrymen with his strength and confidence, the people grew stronger and stronger, while he grew weaker and weaker, until in the end he was so weakened he died, but the country emerged more powerful, more productive and more socially just than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...economic historian Joel Mokyr, stressing this sort of international synergy, has attributed Europe's Industrial Revolution to "chains of inspiration" by which one idea sparked another. But, as we've seen, chains of inspiration had been vital to the whole history of technical advance, even the glacial process by which the stone flake inspired the inventor of the stone knife. What was new was how fast the chains were being forged, even across great distances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web We Weave | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Wikler, where two other people are quoted, as well as that of Darling-Patel, where two opponents are quoted extensively, and the reporters even called up someone at Ohio State. On the other hand, we do not get to find out where Darling or Plants grew up, a clearly vital fact. (Texas and Michigan, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...universal keycard access to their Houses between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 a.m., starting next semester. Though we congratulate those House committees, Masters and members of the Undergraduate Council Committee on House Life that made this important change possible, we urge these same groups to fill the vital gap to make universal keycard access available 24 hours...

Author: By But STILL Not enough, | Title: Finish the Job | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...eight minutes, here is over in less than three. The sole exception is the uncut version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice extracted from the original Fantasia, in which Leopold Stokowski hypnotized an anonymous band of Hollywood studio musicians into sounding just like the Philadelphia Orchestra in its blazingly vital prewar prime. Even the ancient paleo-stereo sound track of that sequence has a raw, visceral impact missing from the glossy digital audio heard elsewhere in Fantasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing It Safe--and Sorry | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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