Word: straightening
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...talk of house elves and Ellen DeGeneres was unremitting. Two girls hummed “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” while going over the sequence for the last time. After the exhilarating scramble to finish applying blush, pin costumes, and straighten hair, TAPS came together in a circle and had their usual pre-performance pow-wow. “Thank you all for your hard work. You guys made being your director so easy. It’s going to be an awesome show. Everyone looked so good today,” Driscoll said...
...source of strength in hard times while firmly guiding the nation into the industries of the future. China's vibrancy has even led Americans to question the viability of the very tenets of democracy. "It is intellectually and politically unsettling to realize that, if the West cannot quickly straighten out its systems of government, only politically unreformed states like China will be able to make the decisions that a nation needs to survive in today's high-speed, hi-tech, increasingly globalized world," scholar Orville Schell recently wrote. (See TIME's coverage of the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos...