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Longstanding relevance makes a classic, and Dune is certainly that.
Muad'Dib's Moral Ambiguity Erika Nelson 2009
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Longstanding programs giving unwarranted benefits to specific industries, such as farm subsidies, will have to go away.
Gary Shapiro: Can We Preserve the American Dream Without Sacrifice? Gary Shapiro 2011
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Longstanding economic trends toward inequality and 2008's disaster are driving a wedge between the already polarized rich, middle class and poor.
David Vognar: Mob Violence the Result of Bad Economy David Vognar 2011
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Longstanding problem, not going away: the support of corporatism by corporate-linked media.
Matthew Yglesias » Barnes Takes The Lead in “America’s Worst Columnist” Sweepstakes 2009
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Longstanding practice is that local police have the authority to enforce criminal, not civil violations of the law, but this has been in dispute since the Bush administration.
David Vitter's new ad trafficks heavily in race-baiting Adam Serwer 2010
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Longstanding relevance makes a classic, and Dune is certainly that.
Archive 2009-04-01 Erika Nelson 2009
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Longstanding federal rules require hospital patients to be informed of their right to spell out in a living will or similar document their wishes about being kept alive by machinery if there's no hope for a cure.
Obama Administration Reverses Decision On End-Of-Life Counseling AP 2011
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Longstanding federal rules require hospital patients to be informed of their right to spell out in a living will or similar document their wishes about being kept alive by machinery if there's no hope for a cure.
Obama Administration Reverses Decision On End-Of-Life Counseling AP 2011
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Longstanding suspicions about Chinese statistics, rooted in political pressure, were reinforced late last year when WikiLeaks published a U.S. Embassy cable citing now-Vice Premier Li Keqiang as saying that Chinese economic statistics are "man made."
China Props Up Bank Shares Dinny McMahon 2011
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Longstanding speculation about a potential restructuring of Greek debt has driven the euro down by about 5% since the start of the month—and prompted Fitch Ratings on Friday to downgrade Greece's credit ratings by three notches.
Euro Sinks on Debt Worries Javier E. David 2011
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