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The Americans have not had to deal with a true economic rival since the British more than half a century ago.

That was more tactical than principled, but it might help the CDU to hold on to a state it has governed for more than half a century.

Prominent Canadian economist Thomas Courchene noted correctly that this was the lowest percent " in more than half a century. "

Half a century ago, the prosperity of America's middle class was one of democratic capitalism's greatest triumphs.

As nearly half a century passed, Chinese repaid him in a similar way: Basu was invited to get treatment in Beijing.

Half a century after the sun set on empire, the British still struggle to see themselves as a European rather than global power.

But if it disappeared for half a century, unfortunately even future supercomputers would not be able to work out where it had been.

For half a century liquor companies have voluntarily kept their ads off the air for the simple reason that it was the right thing to do.

Half a century ago, John F. Kennedy said the U. S. would bear any burden, and pay any price, to defend liberty.

"Swell. " It sounded like "svelte. " He'd purged most of his accent nearly half a century ago, but now it had returned.

Home sales don't appear to be benefiting from mortgage rates that have fallen to their lowest levels in at least half a century.

NOT since Cologne was rebuilt half a century ago, out of the rubble of war, has a change in the urban landscape generated so much heat.

The last time the US grew that quickly was more than half a century ago.

Almost half a century later, Merton still seems just as intoxicated by the joy of it.

No start-up has grown into a major auto maker in at least half a century.

Half a century ago, banking appeared to be a relatively simple craft.

For almost half a century it has been my pride and privilege to stand beside one of the most extraordinary men of our time.

And there the matter rested for half a century.

For half a century or more, the prevailing doctrine has been that such issues can be pressed into a probabilistic framework.

After half a century of almost wall-to-wall rule by his rival's party, that should be an intoxicating message.

Suspicion of the United States is part of the bigger suspicion of everything that goes against the grain of half a century's indoctrination.

In the half a century since the problem was recognized, no one has found an efficient algorithm for an NP-complete problem.

The dollar did not replace sterling until half a century after America's economy had overtaken Britain's.

it had evolved by a trial-and-error process that spanned more than half a century.

He said that basic principles for the use of space were articulated half a century ago by President Eisenhower and remain in effect today.

An American who loses his job today has less of a chance of finding another one than at any time since records began half a century ago.

Preaching global Wahhabi Islam has been a cardinal principle of Saudi foreign policy for almost half a century.

Between them, he and Sir Matt Busby have managed the club for half a century of its 133-year history.

Where it originally came from, though, has been a matter of scientific debate for half a century.

I was a Malaysian, and I hardly paid attention to what was going on in a land my ancestors left half a century ago.

A government dominated by recycled generals would not be not a clean break after half a century of military rule.

Self-sufficient in grain has been a policy that the country has been following for nearly half a century.

By the time the war did end, Iraqis had voted in their country's first free election in half a century.

But even half a century of Arthur C. Clarke has not been able to shake Sri Lankans' obsession with astrology.

It does make one reflect on a man who has led his country despite a great deal of isolation for almost half a century.

Half a century ago, the training of sense of language in Chinese teaching had been advocated by Mr. Xia Mianzun and Mr.

But in the long term, it is Thailand's foreign direct investment that could be damaged most by the worst floods in half a century.

The reeducation-through-labor has been being for half a century and made a positive contribution to Chinese social and political stability.

WHEN serious illness forced him to hand over power in 2006, Fidel Castro had been running things for almost half a century.

Now, would you deem it possible that this rose of half a century could ever bloom again?

Few would argue that the tribal murders committed by Paris police half a century ago are likely to be repeated today.

Consumer confidence, as our chart shows, is at its lowest in more than half a century (except for a brief sharp dip in 1980).

Alternate years over half a century, 60 years of wind and rain vicissitudes of life, businesses from small to large, from weak to strong.

The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century.

When a Tennessee man chose the chair in 2007, it was the state's first electrocution in almost half a century.

That large scale migration activity did not end until Qing Kangxi (1722), lasting half a century.

Less than half a century later Johannes Vermeer, a Delft artist, began painting scenes of the Dutch world Hudson left behind.

HALF a century ago a radio astronomer called Frank Drake thought of a way to calculate the likelihood of establishing contact with aliens.

China was still in the grip of mass starvation less than half a century ago under Chairman Mao, which led to the death of 30 million people.

Mining half a century, the total of resources reduced, the mining conditions constantly worsening, even dry.

Government policies over half a century have encouraged or abetted all this.

Lu Xun and Lei Feng possessed unparalleled influences for at least half a century.

It's less than half a century since the invention of the computer.

The franchising of hotels, like the franchising of fast-food restaurants, is half a century old.

For half a century, he went into the wilderness and spread apple seeds in his country.

He was part of a nine-member expedition that followed the southeast route pioneered by Sir Edmund half a century ago.

But the sense of incomprehension that Kapuscinski described half a century ago still persists.

Worrying parallels are seen between the dollar's recent fall and the decline of sterling as a reserve currency half a century ago.

FOR half a century Japan, dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was a one-party state in multiparty clothes.

Today the industry is at the stage where the silicon chip business was half a century ago.

A decent transport infrastructure, first installed by the American banana men half a century ago, helps to speed the hosiery to market.

For the first time in half a century, the space agency Nasa has no manned space flights on its agenda.

Half a century after Suez, part of the British psyche still laments this retreat from the world.

Nearly half a century since the CNC system has experienced two phases and six generations of development.

Half a century on, consuming coca remains legal in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and some parts of Colombia, in defiance of the convention.

The geography of the French court system has not changed in nearly half a century, despite huge population shifts.

She was fighting to save the glades from extinction for more than half a century right up until her death in 1998.

ALMOST half a century ago, Harold Wilson pledged that Britain would be reforged in the "white heat" of the scientific revolution.

More importantly, through over half a century, in two seemingly different regimes, THE POWER REMEMBERS.

ONLY its third fully-fledged head of state since it became independent half a century ago, Guinea's Moussa Dadis Camara is not the shy type.

This paper foregrounds the contribution of area studies to the thriving of UBC Geography in the last half a century.

Half a century on, what would he have made of putting a philosopher in charge of one?

The Shanghai Gold Exchange opened in 2002, ending more than half a century of government monopoly over the sale of the precious metal.

That, at least, is the lesson of half a century of food policy.

More than half a century has elapsed since the performance of three kinds of triangulations all over Japan.

Global warming and climate change have been the focus of controversy and debate for nearly half a century - Is global warming real?

For half a century central and eastern Europe had been signed over to Moscow.

It took nearly half a century before theorists formulated a comprehensive microscopic description of superconductivity.

The same language, but avery different argument, was used by Mao during the Cultural Revolution more than half a century later.

It sounds unimaginably, half a century ago, it is not possible for two ppl taking in distance, but now we are accustomed to it.

It is a diversion from the struggle to reform a country with few institutions and which has not held elections in more than half a century.

Some big countries had a housing bubble that burst, provoking the biggest financial crisis in half a century.

California is now in the middle of the worst outbreak of pertussis in half a century.

Under more than half-a-century practical application and technical improvements, Now metering pump have entered a rapid growing period.

The US economy has begun to deflate for the first time in more than half a century as a slump in demand pushes energy and food costs lower.

South Korea and Japan have been involved in the disputes for its territorial sovereignty for more than half a century.

After building for half a century, Karamy has changed from the gravel desert into a modem city.

The Bowers could also lose their soybeans to the record high temperatures and lack of rain in the worst drought in more than half a century.

Japan has had high-speed rail for nearly half a century without a single fatality in a train accident.

"After half a century in this business, you get the hang of it, " he says. "I've got the hang of it. "

Japan has had high-speed rail for nearly half a century without a single fatality in a train accident.

"After half a century in this business, you get the hang of it, " he says. "I've got the hang of it. "

To many Americans, neglecting human space flight this way looks like a sorry end to the glorious chapter Kennedy opened half a century ago.

Over the past more than half a century, bilateral relations have withstood the tests of historical storms and scored rapid development.

Its current political system has changed surprisingly little from half a century ago, when it was created.

Official figures show that Britain has experienced its highest rate of population growth in almost half a century.

Despite having originated more than half a century ago, this viewseems to be as vital in 2009 as it was in 1949.

Although Lu Xun lived before half a century, we still can learn a lot from his works.

Africa failed to grow in spite or perhaps because of all the aid that had poured to Africa over the last half-a-century.

With a long tradition of friendship, they always treat each other sincerely and understand and support each other for half a century.

With a long tradition of friendship, they always treat each other sincerely and understand and support each other for half a century.

During more than half a century in power, leading the LDP used to mean leading Japan.

Now, half a century later, most segments of the American population are more obese and less fit than ever.

Smoking may cause lung cancer, the conclusion had been open as early as half a century ago.

More than half a century before the Mayflower set sail, French pilgrims had come to America in search of religious freedom.

People and plot are grounded in the history of a country in deep turmoil for nearly half a century.

Thus, the United States for about half a century has been producing a declining percentage of the world catch.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. , has tracked half a century of declining rainfall on the continent.

It took almost half a century for the alphabetical index to become a standard; Arabic page numbers were not adopted until the 1500s.

more than half a century ago , general education curriculum was introduced into japanese universities.

more than half a century ago , general education curriculum was introduced into japanese universities.

Screw compressor after more than half a century of development and application, and technical got very big development.

Half a century ago little information was available and clients barely knew whether their fund manager was outperforming his peers.

The new model bears little resemblance to the disastrous spate of nationalisations in Britain and elsewhere half a century ago.

Half a century ago, Japan was a poor country: today Sony and Toyota are among thebest-known and mightiest companies on the planet.

For about half a century, translation study is gathering momentum and has achieved its breakthrough in either profundity or scope.

Lie between the two countries for half a century-long confrontation and distrust.

This newspaper does not advocate the first rich-country sovereign defaults in half a century lightly.

Sociologists and anthropologists have been debating this topic for over half a century.

As the earliest visual prosthesis, visual cortex prosthesis has a history of more than half a century.

Half a century ago, a Russian called Peter came here, touched by its pastoral tranquility and homonym, and named it the Forgotten Kingdom.

Every talent management process in use today was developed half a century ago. It's time for a new model.

Half a century ago, no one had thought of world food, world health, world education.

The first airliner from Taiwan to fly through Chinese air space for more than half a century is due to take off shortly.

China's worst snowstorm in half a century brought transport in Shanghai to a halt in late January.

The conflict between the two countries has spanned more than half a century.

JACK FITZGERALD has spent more than half a century selling cars, and the past four decades as a Chrysler dealer outside Washington, DC.

Almost half a century later, thousands convened on Washington's National Mall to give his new memorial a proper dedication.

An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century.

Yet if our working life really is to last for half a century, it would have been nice to know that at the outset.

This is in part due to caution about giving newly developed drugs to pregnant women following the thalidomide crisis half a century ago.

The government admits the fact that some people starved to death. Is mentioning starvation really a sensitive topic half a century later?

Spread over half a century, his beautiful black-and-white pictures show a country still bleeding from the rift between poor and rich.

He wrote, then, prodigiously, for half a century: novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography.

So, it is now half, almost half a century that I'm. . . I been buddhist.

For half a century, developers have protected their systems by coding rules that identify and block specific events.

It is half a century since Turkey first knocked on Europe's door with a bid to join the Common Market.

Yet the ratio of reserves to production has remained surprisingly constant, at about half a century, for several years.

The paper, however, had to wait nearly half a century before getting another remarkable editor.

Its victory brings an end to half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

Regional banks, in particular, had their worst performance compared to the overall market in half a century.

Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.

OVER half a century ago, Lawrence Durrell spent some time in Cyprus when it was still under British rule.

Over half a century after the introduction of a communist model, the leaders of China have laid the fundations of a new super power.

After nearly half a century development, China's shield tunnelling in soft soil has achieved incessant advance.

Only by doing so could we bridge the divide engendered by historical contingencies more than half a century ago .

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

The screen has gone blank - the latest indication that half a century of enmity may be winding down.

The main constituents of coffee have been known for over half a century.

The strange phenomenon has fascinated and perplexed scientists from more than half a century.

Half a century later, this exhibition offers an opportunity to witness great design that transcends time.

There may be several years, calling such have been half a century.

And, although wealth has been soaring over the past half a century, happiness, measured by national surveys, has hardly budged.

For more than half a century European integration has provided the anchor for German foreign policy.

It took half a century and two wars for raw American economic power to translate into geopolitical dominance.

Almost half a century on, with Vietnam, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia and Burma now also in the club, the issues remain the same.

Nearly half a century after China's invasion, it remains largely undefined and bitterly contested.

His election in 2000 marked the peaceful transfer of power to the opposition after more than half a century of Kuomintang (KMT) rule.

Over the past half a century, both sides have established a profound traditional friendship.

Southern Taiwan suffered its worst flooding for half a century as the typhoon dumped up to 2. 5 metres (8. 2ft) of rain.

Half a century ago, few American mothers with little children worked away from home.

But, like Gruen half a century ago, Mr Caruso has a bold vision for his developments.

Japanese voters have resoundingly rejected the party that has set the country's policy agendas for more than half a century.

Hemispherical photography has been used to study forest canopy geometry and understory light environments for approximately half a century.

Instead, we got the slowest job growth in half a century, and the typical American family actually saw its income fall.

The emergence of speech technology will solve this problem, and makes use of the half a century from the remote control stage of history.

Since then, huge monsters continue to attack Japan for half a century and the weapon begins to lose its deadly effect.

An investment that continues to pay off after half a century is a wonderful thing.

This transformed capitalism and the role of government for half a century, even in the liberal democracies.

Within hours global journalism , in all sectors of media, faced its stiffest challenge in half a century.

Four years ago they were luxuriating in the lowest interest rates for almost half a century.

His critics gloomily compare AK to Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled for half a century.

Half a century ago scientists found the first hints that the hormones of pregnancyspura female mammal 's ardor for its offspring.

Paulin, who passed away on Saturday, was a well-known figure in the world of French design for over half a century.

Loggerhead turtles take almost half a century to reach maturity, say scientists.

T he Soil and Water Conservation Bureau has devoted itself to conserving slopeland and preventing disasters for half a century.

The food system has existed for more than half a century and has become riddled with corruption and inefficiency.

Some people in the West say they cannot remember a time with less rain in half a century .

This viewpoint, after half a century, is still effective when we want to make a research on today's China.

After half a century of life under the Castros, many Cubans have convinced themselves that nothing will ever change.

For the man who conceived that model and then passionately defended it for over half a century, this is quite an admission.

Under the treaty, Japan seized Taiwan and Penhu Islands, subjecting Taiwan people to its colonial rule for half a century.

In the process he sheds considerable light on more than half a century of South Africa's difficult history.

There is already mounting frustration among younger Tibetans that half a century of forbearance has got precisely nowhere.

This feedback loop has helped fuel half a century of explosive growth in the computer industry.

Today, Japan can look back half a century with nostalgia and pride, yet look ahead with concern.

Don also found unopened letters that Mr. Brick's mother had sent more than half a century ago.

The Modern Language Association has been tracking language enrollment for half a century.

In the mid-19th century this meant to meet a test without flinching; the modern sense emerged over half a century later.

Since this was half a century ago, Dr Nuland did what the textbooks then recommended.

Spiritualism was a fad in full flower for half a century.

Over half a century ago, scientists realized that's because the sickle cell mutation affects only the "adult" version of hemoglobin.

The United States has been the world's breadbasket for more than half a century.

After nearly half a century of peace, most Monpas seem relaxed about living in the dragon's shadow.

More than half a century ago, the Dalai Lama, the serf system of politics and religion is the supreme ruler.

The "free radical theory of aging" was first laid out almost half a century ago by Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska.

Described here is the progress of the electrical treatment for arrhythmia during the past half a century.

World trade growth has underpinned rising prosperity for half a century.

This was true half a century ago in the segregated South. But today, it is nonsense.

Nearly half a century since the efforts of the Chinese people can not say no, but no one can be on the podium the Nobel Prize.

They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world.

Britain has struggled for half a century to get its apprenticeships right.

FOR half a century, strip malls were the commercial heart of suburbia.

On present projections her working life will last for more than half a century.

Temperatures are forecast to drop to -16 C in Beijing, the lowest in half a century, when work resumes after a three-day New Year holiday.

The USDA said that domestic stocks-to-demand would drop to the lowest point in nearly half a century.

The bloody Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lasted for half a century.

Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a new study finds.

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said it's the most intense in more than half a century.

But maybe we'd have to wait half a century for another revolution.

Half a century ago, the world was relatively comfortable with open commerce in human products.

For more than half-a-century the charge of double standards has been the west's enemy in the Middle East.

My grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they had met each other.

Half a century after Donald Horne named Australia The Lucky Country.

Isn't her husband's party, which has dominated power for half a century, responsible?

Fidel Castro is eighty-five, and has held supreme power in Cuba for half a century.

Railroad volumes have this year suffered the largest cyclical decline in over half a century, according to UBS.

He has been engaged in literary editing for half a century, and has been Editor-in Chief of Historical Data of New Literature for 20 years.

Company B has maintained a leading position in the field of railway and bridge construction in nearly half a century.

THE People's Action Party, or PAP, has enjoyed almost untrammeled dominance of politics in Singapore for half a century.

t is half a century since the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) was founded to promote and popularise science.

That's what Eleanor Roosevelt was striving toward half a century ago.

who has demolished his boiled mutton and turnips for half a century .

Half a century, the largest amount of trees felled each year, when 25 million cubic meters.

According to human rights groups, Mr Shaikh, 53, would be the first European to be executed in China for more than half a century.

In late January, China faced its worst winter weather in half a century.

Share-based payment, as a kind of incentive mechanism, has developed quite prevalently for half a century.

Corporate America's cash pile has hit its highest level in half a century.

The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism.

For half a century, the global energy supply's center of gravity has been the Middle East.

Than half a century, providing high quality to the world of professional table tennis products.

Until this month, the poverty line has been calculated the same way for half a century.

For more than half a century, the Mountain State sent the late Robert Byrd, a Democrat, to represent it in the Senate.

Magazines had existed half a century before the entry of mass advertising.

Half a century ago on 12 April, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union became the first mankind orbiting the Earth.

Tepco's shares suffered a third day of losses on Wednesday, plunging 17 per cent to Y466, their lowest level in nearly half a century.

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) has been recognized for almost half a century.

His ideology has evidently not changed in half a century.

But industrial production in April rose 5. 2 per cent from the previous month, the fastest rise in more than half a century.

It's important to remember that the meaning of Gombe, after half a century, is bigger than Jane Goodall's life and work.

Over half a century has passed, what's the difference between background and conceptual system of this two kinds of space of flows?

It is half a century since Beijing liberated the thankful serfs of Tibet.

More than half a century later, the shadow of nuclear attack didn't fade from any mind.

The really amazing phenomenon is that, for half a century, his predecessors resisted the temptation to tax and meddle.

That's the best data out there on how common it is, and it's more than half a century old.

Half a century later GM is a byword for poor management.

However, the first chronic case took place half a century ago.

Right now most of the world is stuck. It's been stuck for half a century.

More than half a century ago the old movies, but in order to win praise from generation to generation classic.

established in 1959 , it keeps developing for nearly half a century.