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In her book, The Feminine Mystique, Friedan articulated the frustration of women whose lives gave them virtually no independence, creativity, or opportunity, and who were expected to feel grateful about it.
The Austro-German offensive of 1915, planned by Conrad, succeeded, but by this time the Austrian army had become increasingly subordinated to the German General Staff and had virtually lost its independence.
Nearly half of the Scots want independence, and virtually all of them regard Westminster as a distant place that seeks to impose upon them policies they don't want.
Second, the potential contribution of oil in the Arctic refuge to American energy independence is virtually negligible.
However, its real heart is little Real del Monte on a mountain top above it (officially Mineral del Monte since Mexican independence, but virtually everyone still uses the old Spanish name of "Royal Town on a Mountain", or just El Real).
The campaign for Scottish independence has "virtually no chance" of victory, according to Nate Silver, the polling expert who accurately called the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections.
"We believe this will substantially end the drama at Bear Stearns with virtually no chance of independence or another bidder snatching the company away" from JPMorgan, he wrote Monday.
Hilbert's lecture and monograph inspired a sharp reaction from his contemporary Gottlob Frege, who found both Hilbert's understanding of axioms, and his approach to consistency and independence demonstrations, virtually incomprehensible and at any rate seriously flawed.
The primary component necessary to encourage lesbians to be public and seek other women was economic independence, which virtually disappeared in the 1930s with the Great Depression.
