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  • But how did that happen, considering his near-fellow owners share maybe ninety-percent of his cave-spawned views?

    Sacked! 2009

  • But how did that happen, considering his near-fellow owners share maybe ninety-percent of his cave-spawned views?

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Since ninety-percent of what a political leader can accomplish depends on the willingness of people to be led -- and above all to sacrifice when asked to -- President Obama will be in a unique position the likes of which this country has only seen at its founding, during the Civil War and during the Great Depression and Second World War.

    Frank Schaeffer: Why and How President Obama Will Succeed Beyond Our Wildest Dreams 2009

  • After several weeks of ninety-percent humidity and temps above 100 degrees, my summer struggle is less about what perfume to wear than how to stay awake.

    Top 10 Summer Perfumes and a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2009

  • After several weeks of ninety-percent humidity and temps above 100 degrees, my summer struggle is less about what perfume to wear than how to stay awake.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • It took a ninety-percent extermination, in a series of incalculably grim calamities, to shatter humanity's deluded attitude toward its political and economic system and, above all, to erase its near-indelible idea that it existed above and outside nature and could do with and to nature as it pleased ....

    Randall Amster: Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle 2009

  • Rachel Patterson swept into the conference room wearing a pinstripe suit and a mantel of confidence befitting a prosecutor with a ninety-percent conviction rate.

    Unforgivable Laura Griffin 2008

  • "Statistically, you have up to an eighty-five or ninety-percent chance of getting breast cancer."

    'Pretty is What Changes' 2008

  • In sum – he argued that existing laws were sufficient to curb the lens hounds – but not before accusing “misbehaving stars” of being the cause of ninety-percent of the problem.

    Lindsay Lohan…lesbo? Chief Bratton sullies color of authority by alleging so! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

  • If, on the other hand, this "ninety-percent" solution was a dry run for the "eighty-percent" solution being run up the administration's flagpole as a means to sacrifice the Sunni minority to the aspirations of Shiites and Kurds who want autonomy and a decentralized national government, then the U. S.'s failure to apply the brakes on the Israel juggernaut must be seen as a qualified success.

    Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq 2007

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