• Hillary's momentous political journey with Bill began in earnest in Sara Ehrman's Volkswagen a week after Richard Nixon and his long-suffering wife, Pat, left the White House for exile in San Clemente, California.

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  • Roll Over and Die Laughing IBM's momentous decision this month to wind down its traditional pension plan in favor of 401(k)s will no doubt accelerate the movement toward self-directed retirement savings.

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  • The more interesting bits of the book tend to be thrown in almost as incidental facts dictating Britain's momentous choice.

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  • That's a momentous paradigm shift, but we haven't really changed the way we make music videos we make them as if they're still for MTV.

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  • On the face of it, this vignette was rather less momentous than Mr Darling's statement.

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  • Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.

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  • President Obama's much-anticipated speech at West Point Tuesday night constitutes an opportunity with the potential to be as strategically momentous as Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.

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  • In the Free World it's been another momentous year of dynamic capitalism, with corporate giants under siege in the marketplace or in financial flux: General Motors, Ford, Fannie Mae, Merck and others in Big Pharma, Siemens, Time Warner, Coca-Cola, Sony and Volkswagen.

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  • "D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).

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  • The BBC's Damien McGuinness in Tbilisi says it is a momentous day for Georgia - a day which strengthens the country's democratic credentials.

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  • That brings me to the second momentous conclusion of Mr Fisher's admission that a 6.5% drop in residency can wipe out profits - which is that (many would argue) it is far too risky a basis to run a company charged with looking after the welfare of 31, 000 vulnerable elderly people.

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  • It's being called a "momentous discovery" by the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association.

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  • Some commentators on Mr Thom's work question whether the momentous events of history can really be called catastrophes, using the word in the sense that they were totally unexpected interruptions of an ordered existence.

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  • "I believed this would be a momentous development, as big as Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, " he adds.

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  • Swansea City coach Alan Curtis said Sunday's game will be a "momentous occasion".

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  • The ugliness of the Samual Alito Supreme Court hearings underscores just how momentous filling vacancies on the high court's bench has become.

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  • By any radio producer's standards, it was a momentous day.

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  • To commemorate such a momentous occasion, Razer, the world's leading high-end precision gaming brand, in collaboration with Hasbro, famed toys maker, unleash the exclusive Transformers 3 Collector's Edition gaming suite.

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  • In the momentous Neon Bible, The Arcade Fire's members have grown up: Their bodies are older now, worn down by modern living, and their hearts are in tatters, but their fever burns more brightly than ever.

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  • Unfortunately, however, on that beautiful and momentous Saturday I actually had to borrow my friend's PC laptop to do so -- which made me feel both confused and dirty.

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  • After recent momentous wins over Manchester United and Arsenal, Roberto Martinez's men edged a little closer to safety with a commanding display.

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  • Manager Ian Holloway's newly-promoted Tangerines looked on course for a momentous three points as they came from behind after Bobby Zamora - watched by England coach Fabio Capello - headed Fulham into a first-half lead.

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  • But the onetime British trading post's ascent into the stratosphere of the world's ultra-wealthy cities in recent years reflects a momentous shift in the global economy, as wealth settles in Asia after more than a decade of booming emerging-market growth.

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  • But before the news cycle turns to other momentous matters, such as the search for his successor, let's get something straight: This man is the best coach who ever lived.

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  • The aim was "to provide a perspective on business and career development that lies totally outside the established MBA curriculum, confronting prejudices about creativity and providing innovative methodologies developed to channel creativity to 'stretch the walls of the elastic-sided box', that can be successfully applied to any industry, to generate momentous ideas, " according to Kevin Roberts, Saatchi and Saatchi's worldwide CEO.

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  • In this momentous week, such matters are far from the minds of Northern Ireland's euphoric peacemakers.

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  • Dr Roger Wilkinson, Chester Zoo's head of field conservation and research, said it was a "momentous moment".

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  • Even a northern victory, momentous as it would be, would not bring an end to Sri Lanka's conflict.

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  • This is the first official government sanction of women's sports in schools, but some Saudis say it is not as momentous a decision as it may seem.

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