So far, the Republicans have not been perceived to be doing well in the late 1990s.

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When I would be there late at night, she might come in and say, 'What are you doing here?

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Girls overtook boys at GCSE level a few years ago, and this year's results, to be published late on Wednesday, are expected to show that they girls are now doing better in almost every subject.

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And in the late 1970s and early 1980s, most of the new ideas for what we should be doing as a people were coming out of the governors' mansions of the country.

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