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"We've reached the goal after a centurylong struggle," said Ruth Dreifuss, a former Swiss Cabinet member who in 1999 served as the country's first female president.
Swiss Women Claim Majority Seats In Cabinet For First Time 2010
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The ruling, seen as mostly benefiting Republicans, reversed a centurylong trend of limiting the political muscle of corporations, organized labor and their massive war chests.
Obama Challenges GOP To Stop Blocking Rules That Would Limit Corporate Donations 2010
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That case, known as the "Dr. Miles rule," kicked off a centurylong tug-of-war over policies like these.
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We will definitely not get mired in Vietnam and tear the country apart over it, and there's no need to have a centurylong conflict about equal opportunity for men and women of all races and ethnicity: been there, done that.
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Indeed, it may well be the culmination of a centurylong process of Asian nations 'finding their individual development paths.
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Soon he was spreading out census data next to the stacks of blueberry pancakes on Steely's kitchen table, and plotting an end to the Southern Democrats' centurylong stranglehold on the 6th Congressional District.
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Soon he was spreading out census data next to the stacks of blueberry pancakes on Steely's kitchen table, and plotting an end to the Southern Democrats' centurylong stranglehold on the 6th Congressional District.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Obama marks centurylong tradition of presidential first pitches
WAFB - Local News 2010
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Obama marks centurylong tradition of presidential first pitches
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Obama marks centurylong tradition of presidential first pitches
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