Well, consider that franchising, one of the great game changers for small business over the course of the last century, today accounts for over $ 1 trillion in total sales and employs approximately 15 % of the US workforce. (inc.com)
Over the course of the last century, the modern university has ceased to attend to character formation, or it has imagined that such attention should be an «extra-curricular» enterprise having little or nothing to do with knowledge. (firstthings.com)
Conversation about community over the course of the last century has paralleled the conversation about culture. (firstthings.com)