"The company has been trying to correct the sins of the past five to ten years, but it's extremely difficult to do that in a couple of quarters, " said Sean Egan, managing director of Egan, Jones Ratings in Haverford, Pa.

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He sold off the ailing business, and in the past five years he has acquired ten plastics companies.

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Studies suggest that the number of obese children has doubled in the past ten years, and that one in five children under four is overweight.

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Shawn Rogers, head of Oklahoma's emergency medical services, says that ten rural ambulance services have come to a stop over the past five years.

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Over the past ten years at least 16 Americans have been attacked by pet tigers, five of them fatally.

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But Nadal has stormed back to make eight of the ten Grand Slam finals over the past two-and-a-half years with five wins.

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