In 1996, I attended a conservative conference called Dark Ages at the Phoenix Biltmore resort.
Women today comprise half the workforce, but financially, many still live in the dark ages.
Yet that was in the dark ages of technology, and Internet purchases are now huge.
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The poem is (brace yourself) a relic of the Dark Ages--as in chain mail, not e-mail.
Modern thinking is the enlightenment thinking that ended the Dark Ages and ushered in Newtonian science.
In those dark ages, people had to wait a whole day before pundits put spin on things.
"This suit seeks to keep the taxi industry and New Yorkers in the dark ages, " he said.
Despite dramatic advances in information technology, many electric utilities still operate in the dark ages of data management.
Then came the Dark Ages of American Energy, thirty years of business as usual and fossils (fuels, mostly).
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Being curious could get you burned at the stake in the Dark Ages.
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That a housing bubble burst will propel us back into the Dark Ages.
This is a truly unique lens through which to view the dark ages.
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As far as public awareness, drowsy driving is in the dark ages compared to that, but it's just as dangerous.
The truth is, we are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to knowing what actually changes weather patterns.
In both registers, the first half of the book, from pre-history through the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, is outstanding.
"We have parents who had to carry us through dark ages and try to get us to be normal citizens, " she says.
Sutton Hoo was a milestone for historians of the Dark Ages because it reversed the perception that Anglo Saxons were relatively unsophisticated.
SLD, and though its tenure has not been marked by free-market zealotry, neither has it plunged Poland back into the dark ages.
So too the intellectual triumphs of recent years don't signify that man has become any more intelligent than he was in the preceding dark ages.
Despite the transition to deregulation in many states, several investor-owned utilities still seem to be operating in the Dark Ages of corporate governance.
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Put more simply, if we had never let inventors profit from their inventions, we would all still be living in the dark ages.
The project highlighted weaknesses in waste disposal, and in the problem posed by abandoned mines which were operating in the industry's dark ages.
To 15th and 16th Century scholars, the period following antiquity - the so-called "dark ages"- had almost succeeded in obliterating classical learning forever.
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However, this does show the danger of giving into what might be called ransom demands, as English kings of the Dark Ages found out.
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Is it in danger of slipping back into the dark ages?
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Instead, IT operations management remains stuck in the relative dark ages.
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It is also one of the key ancient manuscripts that enabled Western civilization to awake from the dark ages and enter the modern world during the Renaissance.
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But career opportunities for women, especially those with a college degree, are incalcuably better than they were in the dark ages of just a few decades ago.
The railways were auctioned off into private hands in the hope that private cash and new management would transform it from the dark ages of British Rail.
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