The top stars of soccer have seen their salaries climb to record levels since the turn of the century, a reflection of the drawing power these modern-day entertainers wield, but if a team were to be selected of the eleven best performers, who would be included?
Masaru Kakutani, a director of the Tokyo branch of Moody's, a credit-rating agency, reckons that by the turn of the century some big companies will have to spend a quarter of their operating profits on pension contributions.
The scooters are emblazoned with a print inspired by the life of Florence Broadhurst, a turn-of-the-last-century singer and comedienne who founded a finishing school in Shanghai before moving to England and then to Australia to set up a wallpaper company.
Foster Wheeler went through a bigger crisis at the turn of the century, when a series of costly power plant contracts led to the company's near collapse.
Former slaves began forming the privately owned college, then the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, before the turn of the 20th century to offer a place for the children of black farmers to go to school.
But here's a darker explanation for why companies like Fatbrain.com traded at multiples of their losses for a brief time around the turn of the century: It was a conspiracy.
On the volume end of the spectrum, the gradual evolution of Gutenberg era printing to the offset printer (introduced in 1875) created a turn of the century boom in paper-based media, and the great Hearst-Pulitzer circulation wars of 1895-1898.
As an example of the sort of senator that progressives ought not worry about losing, I cited Bayh, a longtime leader of the pro-corporate Democratic Leadership Council, which has for the better part of a quarter century worked to turn the Democratic Party into a kinder, gentler version of the GOP.
This follows the successful decade-long redevelopment of the turn-of-the-century Armory Square section of downtown into a trendy restaurant and nightclub district.
In front of the synagogue built when the village was founded, at the turn of the previous century stood a kiosk displaying flyers for the local cinema and the winery, as well as posted notes from the council signed by Benny himself.
For a number of years at the turn of the century most big investing institutions forgot what the ownership of a company entails.
Since the turn of the century we had seen a steady turn toward lower taxes, a ban on even discussing gun control, a rising wave of anti-gay legislation and all manner of conservative legislation.
The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's assembly line.
But the turn of the century saw a downturn in Suede's popularity, with their 2002 album A New Morning only reaching number 24 in the charts.
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The casino had been a long time coming: though the video lottery terminals were approved by the state legislature at the turn of the century, the state dragged its feet for a decade before naming an operator of the casino, losing billions of dollars in revenue as a result.
He points to the success of micro-irrigation in semi-arid Gujarat, whose agriculture has grown at an average of 9.6% a year since the turn of the century, partly thanks to the creation of 500, 000 small ponds, dams and suchlike.
Englewood's population has more than quadrupled to 27, 147 in the most recent census since the area, settled by Europeans beginning in the 1600s, incorporated as a city around the turn of the 20th century.
Sweeping vistas of craggy mountains and dramatic sunsets may seem a little saccharine by today's artistic standards, but at the turn of the century, the images were a revelation and spurred tourism to places like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.
The company, which dates back to a turn-of-the-century maker of brass curtain rods in upstate New York, had grown quickly in the 1980s and 1990s by acquiring manufacturers of office supplies and housewares.
For example, without Machado, the work of Virginio Colombo, a highly esteemed Italian-Argentine architect from the turn of the 20th Century, would otherwise go undocumented.
The historic co-op retains much of its turn-of-the-century detailing, including leaded windows, a multi-paned picture window, dark paneled walls, oak doors and original cage elevator.
The turn of the 20th century was a good time to be leaving Odessa.
At the turn of the century it was a market town of 15, 000, and half the population was Jewish.
Filipino emigration to America actually began at the turn of the last century, according to Ricardo Jose, a history professor at the University of the Philippines.
At a recent leadership conference in Chicago, for instance, he regaled 2, 000 middle managers with tales of Ernest Shackleton, a turn-of-the-century explorer who helped his party escape certain death in Antarctica -- and whose story just happened to be the subject of Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, the first volume in the Adventure Library.
In another series of works, Greenfield takes photos of turn-of-the-century blackface performers and superimposes a subversive message that looks like an eye chart.
To enter the theater now is to be immersed in a delicate pastel world of sage and celadon green, rose-pink, lavender and orchid, a dramatic change at the turn of the century from standard theatrical red and gold.
The action such as it is takes place in a turn-of-the-century school for servants, run by the creepy Herr Benjamenta (Gottfreid John) and his sister (Alice Krige), who is beautiful, nervous, and remote.
At the turn of the century, it wrote a tenth of the world's insurance.
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