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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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