Even decades later, the lack of centralization allowed, for example, Airbus engineers in Toulouse and Hamburg to use different industrial-design software.

WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy

The problem is that they may not develop diffuse mesothelioma until years, even decades later, but once diagnosed, the condition is terminal.

BBC: Week ahead

Yet controversy has long swirled around habeas corpus on the question of whether it is aimed at assuring only that certain procedures be followed, or whether a case can be revisited, years or even decades later, if evidence arises that a convict turns out to be demonstrably innocent.

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Mothers who smoke or drink during pregnancy double or triple the odds of their babies becoming violent offenders decades later, even after accounting for other social influences.

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Even today, over six decades later, just hearing that long wail of the warning siren on old newsreels and films gives me that same cold knot of fear in the pit of my stomach which I always felt all those years ago.

BBC: Stanley Ross remembers the Blitz

Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher for companies like General Electric, News Corp.

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And four decades later, Ted would campaign even more vigorously to secure Ed's nomination for this medal.

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Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher.

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Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher for companies like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ), CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ), Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ).

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