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  • President Obama was referring to a ten-year-old federal contracting scandal.

    Lloyd Chapman: One Honored Obama Campaign Promise Could Help Slash Jobs Deficit Lloyd Chapman 2011

  • President Obama was referring to a ten-year-old federal contracting scandal.

    Lloyd Chapman: One Honored Obama Campaign Promise Could Help Slash Jobs Deficit Lloyd Chapman 2011

  • She ran the house with all the tenderness of a Marine Corps drill sergeant, and she was fond of saying, “I take no shit from man nor beast,” an expression the ten-year-old twins had picked up when they were learning to talk and which Mark now used with more frequency than April.

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

  • From the would-be author who insists to his would-be editor that "my grandkids love this story" to the award committee member who says "my ten-year-old thought this book was boooorrrring," the children's book world is replete with those who use their own children as test subjects.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • From the would-be author who insists to his would-be editor that "my grandkids love this story" to the award committee member who says "my ten-year-old thought this book was boooorrrring," the children's book world is replete with those who use their own children as test subjects.

    Still, it's not like a book can give you polio. Roger Sutton 2009

  • Perhaps by sheer luck the two ten-year-old girls smiled at me and said ¨gracias¨ then lowered the rope and let me be on my way.

    Page 2 2010

  • Emmitt considered his own thirteen- and ten-year-old daughters and tried to imagine how children could be "passed down through slavery ... just because of the color of their skin."

    Megan Smolenyak: Emmitt Smith: Who Do You Think You Are? Megan Smolenyak 2011

  • Perhaps by sheer luck the two ten-year-old girls smiled at me and said ¨gracias¨ then lowered the rope and let me be on my way.

    Page 2 2010

  • My ten-year-old sister is still in Burma with my mother and I hope that one day she will have the chance of a better life and not have to leave.

    Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech 2011

  • When Sister Brigh scolded, Sabrina felt more like a disobedient ten-year-old than the woman of twenty-two she was.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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