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This in conjunction with cut welfare should go a long way to turning the clock back to those halycon days.
Jobless rate for young women doubles as council cuts start to bite 2011
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Ask Jeeves—or at least, check out the search engine's initial public offering, back in the halycon days of July 1999.
Overheard 2011
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Back in his halycon days of the inauguration, of course, Obama graced Marvel's Spider-Man No. 583, a coveted issue that rang up record sales.
SARAH PALIN & MICHAEL BLOOMBERG power their way to America's comic-book covers [UPDATED] Michael Cavna 2010
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Whatever must the comrades at the TUC conference be thinking, choking on their beer and sandwiches as they hear Gordon Brown's brain proclaim that the halycon days are over?
Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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How far it had fallen since those halycon White House Days being followed by 20 MSM types..
Socks died. Ann Althouse 2009
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Whatever must the comrades at the TUC conference be thinking, choking on their beer and sandwiches as they hear Gordon Brown's brain proclaim that the halycon days are over?
Huckster Mandelson writes a new play Burke's Corner 2009
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While most of its brethren from the halycon days of the 1990s are mere footnotes, echoes of the Internet bubble popping, the company nears its 10th anniversary as successful as ever.
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Yes, but of course, we in this country have sadly gone from the halycon days of having governments and elected *cough* Prime Ministers who actually had some scruples concerning freedom of the individual to the government of the day, beholden as it is to a terrifying communitarian ideology whose only logical outcome, becoming actualised more and more every day, is an absolute socialist nightmare.
Information Sharing Orders Dan Vevers 2009
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Poor old lefties - they just miss the halycon days of the revolution, but after the poll tax riots it all just faded away.
Curious People with Dangerous Ideas « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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I can even remember the halycon days of lighting up in NYC pubs!
Watering Down Smoking Bans - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
seanmeade commented on the word halycon
is this really a word? halcyon is...
March 30, 2007
kisholi commented on the word halycon
thanks sean, my mistake
March 31, 2007