Ten years have passed since the Party’s 18th National Congress. The past decade marked three major events of great immediate importance and profound historical significance for the cause of the Party and the people: We emb...
No one can quite agree on who first used the term 'social media', but we do know from which decade it came. Was it... a) the 1980s, b) the 1990s, c) the noughties, that is the first decade of the 21st Century? Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary genera...
In the mid-20th century, Chinese Communists began exploring China's socialist construction. And in the 1980s, socialism with Chinese characteristics was formed and developed. It entered a new era in the second decade of the 21st century. So, what are the features of socialism with Chines...
Like with midcentury modern, modern architecture is not new in the 21st century. The term refers to styles that were innovative when they were built, from around the end of the 19th century through the mid-1980s.Modern homestend to be sleek and minimal, prioritizing functionality over ornament...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
of the island which triggers the legal action. This is one of the books I have liked the least by the author (after having read over 25 of his) mixing beliefs in black magic, enchantments on the island, misticsm and the praise of the oppressed political agenda of the past decade. ...
Cherie.Blair casts himself as EU president candidateSpeaking on French TV, Tony Blair sang the praises of the EU and sketched his agenda for its future, all in fluent FrenchMultimediaThe Blair years: video, pictures an...
decade of the twenty-first century, the civic value of postsecondary education is an open question among its foundational patrons. It is no longer clear that the US Congress, federal agencies, or state legislatures view academic institutions as problem-solvers of first resort. The organizational ...
Economists frequently compare the current inflationary period with thepost–World War II era, when price controls, supply problems, and extraordinary demand in the United States fueled double-digit inflation gains—peaking at 20 percent in 1947—before subsiding at the end of the decade. Consumption...
One of the most notable and iconic BHAGs is President Kennedy's ambitious 1961 declaration: "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth"—a goal accomplished in 1969 with the first moon...