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Joan moved through several phases in her fifty-year career -- from Broadway chorus girl to flaming flapper, from silent movie vamp to comic mannequin, from dramatic actress to businesswoman and corporate executive at Pepsi-Cola.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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Israel must adapt, instead of arming Arabs and Israel the USA should invest in a fifty-year education & prosperity regime that raises an entire new generation in peace.
Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010
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One study found that, using a fifty-year data set, almost all weather stations in Maine had already reported a decrease in the winter snowpack.
David Kroodsma: An Interactive Map: Northeast Snowfall and Climate Change David Kroodsma 2011
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Joan moved through several phases in her fifty-year career -- from Broadway chorus girl to flaming flapper, from silent movie vamp to comic mannequin, from dramatic actress to businesswoman and corporate executive at Pepsi-Cola.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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The country has a fifty-year political consensus about technological risk taking to protect national security.
Lewis Milford: Solyndra, Solar Panels and Supersonic Planes: What's the Difference if One Fails? Lewis Milford 2011
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One study found that, using a fifty-year data set, almost all weather stations in Maine had already reported a decrease in the winter snowpack.
David Kroodsma: An Interactive Map: Northeast Snowfall and Climate Change David Kroodsma 2011
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Here was a fifty-year time period when Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Jesus Christ, et al, breathed the same air at almost the same time, and he was gassing on and on about
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I would like to invite readers to weigh in on the positive and negative aspects of the revolution from our fifty-year perspective.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The Banqiao Dam failed under Chinese (communist) rule, and the democratic underground website reports that nearly 3,500 others failed over a fifty-year time span.
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The bar they were at served chicken after midnight by the headliner, a trumpeter, and by two the friends knew everyone's story, the fifty-year plus taxi driver saving for braces for his teenage girlfriend, the 9/11 widower relocating to Houston, the detective writing a screenplay about her daughter's death.
Waltzing Mathilde Marcelle Heath 2011
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