Cable television started out over a half century ago as a way to get better reception for broadcast channels.
The country ceased publishing statistical yearbooks a half century ago, said Daniel J.
The first Super Bowl was in 1967, almost a half century ago.
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After all, we have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values.
This unique enterprise, which began as a documentary experiment almost a half century ago, has grown into an inspiring testimonial to the unpredictability of the human spirit.
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There were Caterpillar, Owen-Illinois and many other plants (many of the now gone) where they could work, earning good wages (of a half century ago) and benefits.
One limitation that the study noted was that the research sample consisted only of intelligent individuals, initially raised in California, whose working careers peaked a half century ago.
Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) put it nearly a half century ago.
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Yet the oldsters sometimes prevail, thanks to seasoned marksmen like Ralph Atkinson, a 77-year-old retired butcher from Melbourne, Australia, who fulfilled his national military service obligation more than a half century ago.
The new American dream, I've found, is far more textured because the American experience at the start of the 21st century is so different from what it was just a half century ago.
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Peace Corps is as vibrant today as it was a half a century ago and continues to capture the imagination of Americans committed to service.
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One out of every five children born in Zambia dies of a disease that's preventable, treatable and was eradicated from the United States and Europe a half a century ago.
More than a half-century ago, Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, took the now-famous shot of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag at Iwo Jima in February of 1945.
This week's state visit might have been a chance for Americans to remember their wisdom in creating a parliament for Japan half a century ago and even to think of creating one for themselves.
Digital broadcasting first arrived in the U.S. four years ago, federally mandated as the successor to a fuzzy analog system developed more than half a century ago.
Gunther Schuller proposed a "Third Stream" somewhere between classical music and jazz more than a half-century ago.
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Public employee unions have traditionally been well-regarded since they started up a half-century ago.
The inn was originally constructed to house the 1960 Winter Olympic delegation a half-century ago.
Deithelm is a third generation Namibian, whose grandfather arrived in the country from Germany more than a half-century ago.
Many of the people who were standing at assembly lines a half-century ago have been replaced by robots.
Rivette, a New Wave original from a half-century ago, now seventy-nine years old, creates an atmosphere of unrivalled stillness.
But very little of what modern computers do would have been considered impossible, given enough computing power, a half-century ago.
When the first antibiotics arrived on the scene a half-century ago, they killed many of the bugs that cause childhood infections.
The particle is named after British physicist Peter Higgs, one of the theorists who predicted its existence nearly a half-century ago.
And we are all suffering the consequences of the indiscriminate and incomplete use of antibiotics, the wonder drugs of a half-century ago.
More than a half-century ago, John Chuang's father, Ming Chee Chuang, fled Burma and settled in Bandung, on the Indonesian island of Java.
About a half-century ago, surgeons began successfully operating on many of them, and in the 1970s and 1980s, they increasingly operated on complicated cases.
But there is no room for complacency about the future of a partnership that was created half a century ago, in a different world.
Carotid surgery began over a half-century ago, and studies by the 1990s clearly showed it was more effective than existing drug therapy at preventing strokes.
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