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  • Call it imperialism, globalization or great power politics; the new strategy is a replica of the eighty-year Cold War against the Soviet Union.

    Tom Hayden: America's New Cold War With China Tom Hayden 2011

  • Call it imperialism, globalization or great power politics; the new strategy is a replica of the eighty-year Cold War against the Soviet Union.

    Tom Hayden: America's New Cold War With China Tom Hayden 2011

  • Call it imperialism, globalization or great power politics; the new strategy is a replica of the eighty-year Cold War against the Soviet Union.

    Tom Hayden: America's New Cold War With China Tom Hayden 2011

  • Call it imperialism, globalization or great power politics; the new strategy is a replica of the eighty-year Cold War against the Soviet Union.

    Tom Hayden: America's New Cold War With China Tom Hayden 2011

  • Somehow, an eighty-year old man with $200,000/year in retirement savings is "creating jobs."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Avocado is king in Uruapan, the epicenter of Mexican avocado production, where enormous facilities have sprouted up almost overnight to meet the demand for export to venues as far-flung as Japan and France, and, since an eighty-year old ban was repealed three years ago, to the United States.

    Uruapan - The Real Mexico 2007

  • Priscilla turns up the TV, and the priest is roaring like an eighty-year old white version of Al Sharpton.

    You Can't Say No When the Answer is Yes 2009

  •       Priscilla turns up the TV, and the priest is roaring like an eighty-year old white version of Al Sharpton.

    You Can't Say No When the Answer is Yes 2009

  • Avocado is king in Uruapan, the epicenter of Mexican avocado production, where enormous facilities have sprouted up almost overnight to meet the demand for export to venues as far-flung as Japan and France, and, since an eighty-year old ban was repealed three years ago, to the United States.

    Uruapan - The Real Mexico 2007

  • I keep looking for unambiguous evidence that the eighty-year old political genius is still alive.

    Susan Braudy: Is Fidel Castro Masterminding A Slow Fade? Or Is He Dead? 2008

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