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What we're dealing with in Iraq are not two-and-a-half weeks of conflict, but two-and-a-half decades of misrule and mismanagement, and there's a major reconstruction product that has to go on there,

The only value of nearly five decades of my work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest.

We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.

Many of the indicators associated with end-of-winter or the beginning of the growing season show very uniform movement ? about a week ? earlier. This is consistent with predictions, and it is scientific evidence that we don't need to wait decades or years to see dramatic climate change ? it's happening all around us right now.

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

Shifts in energy happen over decades and not over years. Eventually renewable will be on such large scale that you see smaller growth rates. But we hope by then that clean energy become 35-30 percent of mix of energy used in this country.

Simply telling people to eat less and exercise more is not enough. Decades of tobacco prevention efforts have taught us that focusing on an individual's behavior ignores the fact that we all make choices within a broader social, environmental, and public policy context.

Six decades ago, Taiwan already returned to China both in a legal sense and in a de facto sense, ... The legal status of Taiwan as an inalienable part of Chinese territory is not to be doubted or challenged.

Mike Wallace has been the heart and soul of this broadcast since he and Don (Hewitt) started it almost four decades ago. Millions and millions of Americans have tuned in to '60 Minutes' on Sunday nights over all those years to see him in action and to find out what questions he would be asking each week. I'm glad he'll be around to do an occasional interview. He's had such a powerful impact on all of us who work here, on how we conduct interviews and how we report stories, that there will always be a piece of Mike in everything we do.

Mike's decades of journalism experience make him an irreplaceable asset to our staff and to the community.

Milton was an absolute force for more than two decades in this community, not only because of his musical attributes but because of his commitment to this city and his ability to rally people around the orchestra and civic causes.

McDonough said, referring to the Hall-of-Fame announcer who spent more than four decades as the voice of the Detroit Tigers. ''I thought I'd be with the Red Sox all my career. Really, it's the only play-by-play job I ever wanted.

More than three decades ago, Roe v. Wade gave women control of their reproductive lives but nothing in the law changed for men. Women now have control of their lives after an unplanned conception. But men are routinely forced to give up control, forced to be financially responsible for choices only women are permitted to make, forced to relinquish reproductive choice as the price of intimacy.

More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

People who were vaccinated many decades ago are probably partially protected, but not completely protected against smallpox.

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

I would say again now that China could be the largest economy in the world within the next few decades -- though accomplishing that will be no easy task.

If we don't pull the hazardous materials out of the marsh, they're going to sink in and we're going to be looking at groundwater issues and wildlife issues and adverse impacts to recreation for decades to come.

I don't believe that either political party has particularly distinguished itself on energy strategy for a long, long time, going back decades ... there's a little bit of finger-pointing that can go in both directions. I don't think the Democrats have distinguished themselves, I don't think the Republicans have either,

I believe we have not thought through the consequences of this. We are buying a few decades to transform our economies.

But there is not much hope for Americans in blue-collar work being able to hold their jobs if the guest worker proposal is adopted. Concerned citizens will not have much hope that today's illegal workers will leave the country after being given six-year work permits, and they will simply have to hope that there is still a middle class in a few years. President Bush also talked about 'stronger immigration enforcement and border protection,' and we might hope that after decades of broken promises that this time he really means it, but the record does not justify much hope.

China is at a point in growth where South Korea was in maybe the mid-to-late 1960s. It took Korea another couple of decades before it got to a situation where it was a much more consumer-reliant economy.

China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.

I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

If Bush chooses a nominee whose only intention is to scale back the rights we have fought decades to win, we are prepared for a battle royal. Bring it on.

I can't even fathom what I caused in their lives. I've thought about it for years, for decades ... but I will never fully fathom it. But I will never let myself forget it, either. And I pray for them every night.

Given the history of Pakistan's nuclear program, these figures will certainly raise a few eyebrows. Pakistan struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop nuclear weapons, and half of their devices failed to go off in their 1998 tests, which created the impression they were still battling to perfect the technology. Pakistan's nuclear program is generally assumed to be heavily dependent on Chinese assistance, and it sounds a little far-fetched that Beijing would allow them to develop a nuclear program on that scale.

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Framed in the first three decades after independence, these laws were inspired by completely different mindset, ... These laws were based on ground realities and social conditions of that day, which largely do not exist today.

If an asteroid is found to be at an impact trajectory with Earth you will have many decades of notice. And it turns out that you only need to change its velocity by a very small amount in order to prevent a collision.

I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

From the Bush administration's attacks on women's rights to preparing for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, NOW activists have our hands full protecting the advances we've made together over the past decades and moving forward on women's rights,

From the perspective of 3½ decades in the wine industry, I can assure you right now that things have never been better in this market and the future looks outstanding.

For three decades the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has been a fervent supporter of the American playwright. It is vital that we continue to support those writers who relate the ongoing American saga for the stage. This award brings the appropriate recognition to the important role the playwright serves in American Arts & Letters.

GNEP cannot accomplish the administration's proliferation or waste management goals. The reprocessing technologies that DOE is currently researching are far from 'proliferation-resistant' and are decades from commercialization.

GM's got enormous momentum of the wrong kind. It has, in decades past, been hugely successful. The culture has said, 'Whatever we've done in the past will repeat itself', but that's not working in the current environment.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

We're proud to be the number one provider of solar power in America. We were the first company to sell a solar panel in the U.S. in 1978. Now, nearly three decades later, solar energy is one of the best investments people can make anywhere, with as much as a 15% annual return on investment. Try to get that kind of return in the stock market.

We've done two decades of radio searches and haven't found anything. We just thought we'd try something different.

We are far better prepared to deal effectively with a public-health threat than we were in 2001, a time when America's public-health infrastructure was crumbling due to decades of neglect.

We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, but we need to look ahead decades into the future.

Together, the countries that spent four decades glowering at each other across the wall of hatred and fear now have the opportunity to transform Euro-Atlantic security for the better,

What we were trying to do is make a really positive album with lots of different elements from different decades and do lots of different things. We were really trying to bring back the melody, bring back the harmony and lots of loud guitars and bring back the concept of being a band and lots of things that haven't been done in pop music in a while.

Her hope is to be able to pursue her planned retirement from two decades of distinguished public service to do community service law.

We may not be able to please all of the people all of the time. But a 20,000-seat stadium is going to be built for this event and the city of Toronto is going to benefit for decades to come. Let's give it fair dues.

How we use these surpluses in this moment of prosperity will determine America's future for decades to come. Nothing will more surely determine it than making the right choices,

has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.

Halloween has become in recent times a little more of a retail-type holiday than you've seen it in decades past. It's becoming a little more important not just for sales of scary masks, but there generally is more traffic into the stores. It's sort of the beginning of fall, something like the precursor for what's to come.

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Keeping the bits is not enough - you need to be able to recreate from them something that readers in decades and centuries to come will be able to use.

Judge Roberts as chief justice threatens decades of a federal court system tipped against equality.

It appears as though with a very large eruption the effect can last for many decades and possibly as long as a century.

It comes as a surprise to no one that after decades of internal and international conflict, Iraq is littered with land mines and bombs.

I think the public's more understanding now of the gay and lesbian issue. It's much more sophisticated than it was two or three decades ago.

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money going out of our community, out of state, and even out of the country, the wind turbines bring the promise of decades of steady rates with the money staying right here.

I think two more decades of flight is a real possibility for Hubble,

I think that meeting really helped put a face on who we are. We made our points about what we contribute to the city in tax dollars and that this is our livelihood, we've been doing it for decades and we hope to be doing it for a lot longer. And I really got the sense that they got it.

It is a picture postcard lost for eight decades in the mail.

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Just at it did when the Great Game was played out in the decades leading up to the First World War, ongoing industrialization is setting off a scramble for natural resources. The coming century could be marked by recurrent resource wars, as the great powers struggle for control of the world's hydrocarbons.

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

Our change in lifestyle over the past few decades has definitely contributed to more stress in pets generally. We have more work, more things to do, smaller properties and fences surrounding our homes.

Over the last decades we have made some significant progress in fighting AIDS in our country. But we cannot rest until this progress reaches every corner of the globe and we are able to ensure that no matter where you live, the scourge of AIDS ceases to be the terrifying killer that it is today.

Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.

Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have transitioned the company where it could be a brand for decades to come,

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

Some of these problems are the result of planning decisions made decades ago.

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.

Some people change their views over the course of time. For others, one could draw a straight line from where they were decades ago to where they are today. Nothing in the available record allows us to conclude that John Robert's views have changed. Indeed, given how deeply held those views have been, a change of mind would be remarkable.

That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for decades after the event. We found that volcanic effects on sea level can persist for many decades.

Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they remain utterly timeless for me. I cannot recommend them enough.

Live entertainment is really prospering, and people are demonstrating their appetite for live theater. The theater has become the mass art form it was decades ago.

I think for decades she's been an inspiration to the women who have entered journalism, but I also think she's been a good role model for decades of investigative reporters regardless of gender. She not only became this pioneer among women journalists, but she also carved out and established this niche of journalism called investigative reporting.

I think many people end up taking buyout offers quickly because $100,000 (or some other lump-sum payment) can seem like a great deal of money, only to end up realizing after the fact that it wasn't enough to justify leaving. People need to avoid the wide-eyed feeling of I'm winning the lottery and make sure they think about if I am 50 I still got decades ahead of me.

The American people must have a say in decisions that will affect their well-being for decades to come,

The Asian markets will have pivotal global significance in the coming decades and will offer significant investment opportunities for both KKR and our existing portfolio companies.

The Asian markets will have a pivotal global influence in the coming decades and will offer significant investment opportunities for both KKR and our existing portfolio companies, ... As the role of private equity in Asia grows and is further defined, KKR will carefully assess the landscape and determine the most appropriate ways to be a leading participant in that process.

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

I was born and raised in the Northeast, and country music oftentimes is attached to a stereotype, and really, the evolution of country music over the past couple of decades shows it is mainstream music,

Most of the executives of publicly held companies are on the job for five years and these companies are more concerned with quarterly earnings. However, family-owned businesses are in there for the long run. It might even take decades for some of their ventures to pay off,

Whole nations will just disappear in the next couple of decades if nothing changes.

will positively shape our military for decades to come.

Wiping out trees is like wiping out many years or decades of a crop.

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?

We finally have, after decades of thinking that they were functionally extinct, some hope of protecting Pacific right whales.

We believe the tentative agreement is an essential step toward ensuring that G.M. is a competitive and financially sound corporation that can continue to provide good wages and benefits for decades to come.

We've known that sleep disturbances are among the best biological markers for depression, but this is the first time we've shown that those disturbances can show up decades before the depression.

We have built our nuclear energy facilities over the past decades by tightening our people's belts. The facilities are built with our people's blood and sweat. It is unimaginable for us to succumb to outside pressure and give up our independent nuclear power industry without an alternative that will compensate us with nuclear energy.

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it.

We're willing to reach a consensual agreement that satisfies Northwest's need to be competitive. But Northwest is trying to bust the union. They're trying to undo decades of collective bargaining.

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

Usually they only come into favor for a couple a years a decade, and I'm going back three decades on that,