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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination. Annie Jacobsen

War Thought Conspiracy Men Country Imagination Cold Cold War Projects Secrets Some Area Pursuing Take Most Anonymity Were Cultivated Covert Left Decades While Height Theories Popular Grave

My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan. Anthony Doerr

For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of money, is the marketplace broadcasting that money is on sale? Are we just giving it away? Anthony Scaramucci

People Money Negative Giving Broadcasting Marketplace Possible Rates Price Concept How Sale Up Decades Just Grew Interest Interest Rates Century Hard Who Grasp Even Away Four Last

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize. Arlie Russell Hochschild

Together People Events Trend Collective Big Young Action Security See Drew More Previous Individual Toward Leads Terms Greater Historic Decades Little Them Double Choice Less Large Oriented Lives Recent

Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered. Armand Deutsch

Garden Wealth Live Crimes Has-Been Variety Powerful Attorneys Involve Rendered Verdict Been Celebrity Decades Differ After Century

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change. Arne Duncan

Change Seen Year Spent Dime More Recovery Recovery Act Driving How Than Reform Decades Staggering Act Last Last Year

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. Arthur Levitt

Values Seen Past Clearly Over Erosion Decades Ethical Two

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. Arthur Peacocke

Life Integrity Honesty World Pursuit Adult Adult Life Been Intellectual Western Decades Convinced Engaged Theology Certainly Many Now

Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet Union, for example. That means if profits are booked and earned and taxed in Cyprus, they are not taxed again in the other country. Athanasios Orphanides

Financial Three Example Country Other Earned Booked Having Had Developed Countries Over For Example Decades Soviet Soviet Union Center Again Taxation Taxed Double Means Union Cyprus Profits Treaties Number

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. Austan Goolsbee

Together Will Giving Down Weaker High High Unemployment Countries Over Budgets Wages Continue Southern Unemployment Decades Stomach Veto Northern Hold Grind Euro Union Europe Monetary Zone Need

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself. Ban Ki-moon

Change Survival Peace Conflict United Nations Other States Security Scarce Trigger Some Rising Risk Small Could Put Implications Over Well Island Climate Climate Change Itself Very Decades Nations Regions Land Migration Aggravated Sea United Large-Scale Levels

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works. Barry Diller

Time You Business Management Long Long Time Out GE Structure Bound Over Like Been Decades Century Gamble Figure Companies Works

Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period. Barry Diller

Man Natural Law Gone Everybody Mark Television Independent Out Has-Been Nobody Most Couple Period How Were Been Years Years Ago Decades Burnett Happened Worked Producers Works Twenty Now Prescribed Dozens Things

Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction. Ben Domenech

Faith Reality Conservative Liberty Country Christian Obama Religious Civic Religious Liberty More Polite Years Up Conducive Than Decades Fiction Evangelicals Now Believed Bipartisanship

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades. Ben Rhodes

Leadership People Behavior Group President Seven Presidents UN Kim Putin Permanent Opposed His Trump Very Decades Declaring Beloved

Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could maintain social cohesion, welcome immigrants of all backgrounds, and count on stable institutions. Ben Rhodes

Democracy Welcome People Strong Other Our Backgrounds States Immigrants See Could Count Maintain Institutions Policies Foreign Decades Stable Irrespective Nations Social United United States Cohesion

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals? Ben Shapiro

Technology Vote Simple Made Country Thanks Meetings Distant Email Those Visit Possible Thousands Had Over Deals Afar Affected Decades Communications Should Across Miles Who Skype Why

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades. Benjamin Wittes

Rights Liberals Threat Been Decades Reproductive

For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the classical Big Tobacco playbook of denial, denial, denial, and all the while, they did everything to hook society on their lethal product. Bill de Blasio

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm. Bjarke Ingels

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer. Bob Barr

Life Best Parenting Entitled Parents Would Would-Be Were Offer Decades Offspring So-Called Experts Special Each Belief Raised

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. Booth Tarkington

Life Time Waiting Made Living Through Weeks Longest Term Longest Time Like Boy Boyhood Decades Them Millennium Last

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades. Brendan Iribe

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