Sentences with phrase «greatest modern inventions»

The target - date retirement fund is among the greatest modern inventions that benefit individual investors.

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In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Invention of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue with Ortega y Gasset's elevation of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique of the pretensions of a great deal of modern «psychological realism»:
He also asserts that «modern science is an invention of medieval Christianity, and the greatest breakthroughs in scientific reason have largely been the work of Christians.»
In Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food, Andrew Warnes searches for the origin of barbecue and is alternately overly scholarly and very interesting, especially when he finds great quotes, like this one from journalist David Dudley: «Barbecue's appeal isn't hard to fathom and may explain why barbecue cookery seems such a Neanderthal corner of modern gastronomy.
Similar to many great inventions, no one can identify a single person as the inventor of the modern disposable baby diaper.
«From the Magna Carta to the first Parliament to the industrial revolution to an empire that covered the world; most of the great inventions of modern times with Britain stamped on them: the telephone; the television; the computer; penicillin; the hovercraft; radar...
eHarmony is one of the greatest modern day inventions in my opinion.
Eric Hazan's The Invention of Paris is a guide, quartier by quartier, to the «psychogeography» of the first great modern city.
The invention of Air conditioning did some great things for the modern economy.
Or they're replaced by something better.Travel loyalty programs are one of the greatest marketing inventions of modern... [Read more...] about Are Bank Rewards Programs Killing Frequent Flyer Miles?
Travel loyalty programs are one of the greatest marketing inventions of modern times.
As America's most - cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, «Judges have difficulty understanding modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury because they believe that jurors tend to favor patentees, believing that they must be worthy inventors defending the fruits of their invention against copycats -LSB-...]».
With the great invention of the internet and modern website designs, the life insurance quoting and application process is as simple as pouring a cup of coffee compared to the older ways we knew so well.
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