"Terrorist" movement.

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milky

#383177 Sat, 23 Jun 07 01:15 AM

Interesting to see the growth in frequency of the word "terrorist" over the decades below in Time magazine. Could this be because terrorism has grown over those decades, or many of what were once called freedom fighters are now renamed as terrorists, or is it that terrorism has become more newsworthy?

WORD - TERRORIST
1920s 5
1930s 41
1940s 36
1950s 67
1960s 131
1970s 314
1980s 453
1990s 226
2000s 694

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milky

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Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

milky

#384376 Tue, 26 Jun 07 10:55 AM

Not sure if it's significant, but...

Here are the figures for the "Clinton years", so to speak.

YEAR:
PER MIL WORDS

1993 45.45
1994 39.70
1995 61.24
1996 39.78
1997 20.62
1998 28.82
1999 10.25
2000 25.19
2001 189.32

Here are the figures for this decade up to 2006 - the "Bush years", so to speak.

YEAR:
PER MIL WORDS

2001 189.32 (Repeated from above.)
2002 192.08
2003 142.90
2004 137.58
2005 107.21
2006 113.84

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