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It said that the past year had been a fallow one in the absence of funds and through the resignation of the Secretary , Mr. Phillips . It is a mobile , informal dance whose steps have become somewhat standardized only within the past century . There is , in its slow dawns and its nights slow to end , in the sight of its narrow streets and their too orderly cobblestones , in its reverberations of the past century — there is in all of this the source of a faint ennui but also an irresistible charm that places it , without contest , in that little cluster of cities ( Seattle , New Orleans , Savannah ... The very notion that standing up to this man , one of the truly nasty tyrants of the past century , in the only manner that he understands is somehow a " failure " is incomprehensible . When considering the state of the environment , we should think first of the terrible pollutions that were banished in the past century or so - - the typhoid that polluted such rivers as the Hudson , smallpox that humanity has finally pursued to the ends of the earth and just about eradicated , the dysentery that distressed and killed people all over the world as it still does in India , the plagues and other epidemics that trouble us much less than in generations past , or not at all . The boundaries of the health professions are also changing faster now than at any time in the past century . In the past century , we have seen three highly successful stimulative tax programs , under Presidents Coolidge , Kennedy and Reagan . Blair is oppressed by a sense that the progressive side in British politics was disastrously weakened in the past century by the rift between Liberals and Socialists , a rift he wanted to heal . They are the most recent group to enter Laos , some having arrived from bordering countries within the past century . Using a statistical pattern detection method , Santer and colleagues reviewed records of the past century and identified the anthropogenic " fingerprint " of climate change that took into account the confounding effects of natural variations . Both these conditions are true off the southern coast of Chile , where the largest earthquake of the past century occurred in 1960 . Indeed , Haitis most powerful and arguably most successful political figure from the past century - - Franois Papa Doc Duvalier - - was literally a voodoo doctor . The prevailing national judicial philosophy for much of the past century has been that there are certain rights implicit within the Constitution ; rights that are necessary for the freedoms promised by the Bill of Rights . The effects of war and continuing insecurity have combined with the worst drought to hit the country in the past century to create what could be an unprecedented tragedy .