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.
They are using SLORC as their private army because they jointly are attempting to seize for the pipeline territory that has been a war zone for a half-century.
Bradley told me the story of a Hispanic California state senator whose grandfather, an L.A. resident for a half-century, was afraid to leave the house without a passport after former Governor Pete Wilson started dumping on immigrants.
The Mets, who had been in existence for almost a half century, were virtually ignored in their own home.
Frank Ellis and his family have deep roots there, a former state senator and the county attorney for a half-century.
The same idea that protected the free world from Communist domination for a half-century can protect the world from future terrorist intimidation.
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World renowned hurricane expert William Gray, who's been studying and predicting the storms for a half-century, also doubts whether the proposal would work.
But Blignaut, who last Tuesday hit Australia for a half-century, struck a blazing 58 off 38 balls before falling in the 45th over.
The problem is that many common bacteria and fungi have evolved into being resistant to the drugs that have kept them at bay for a half-century.
Such a modest, practical reform may lack Mr. Obama's preferred political grandeur, but the other reason he didn't propose it is that the government has already been doing it for a half-century.
Much is at stake for the LDP, which for half a century has been in near-continuous power.
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They did this throughout a half century Republicans and Democrats together, united in bipartisan support for the American leadership that has been essential to the strength and security of the American people for half a century now.
Abelson began writing Up and Down Wall Street in 1966 and the column became a weekly mainstay of the publication for nearly half a century.
There is no denying, however, that progress has been made in resolving a conflict that has lasted on and off for half a century.
It has been cleaned out, and made to look as it would have done in wartime, with the help of historians from the Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team (CART), and a newspaper appeal for secrets held amongst locals for over half a century.
This is a man who has been a legend for more than half a century.
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The Ryan budget cuts transportation spending in a country that has neglected its highways and bridges for over half a century.
For over half a century, this was a great deal for TV companies as they could reach large pools of customers without having to worry about building out infrastructure to get programming to those customers.
In a part of the world that has been fought over unendingly for half a century, identity often becomes a problem.
The task that awaited him at the 1970 US Open was a greater one - no British player had won the championship for half a century.
Washington (CNN) -- The USS Enterprise is the nation's oldest active duty warship, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and a history-making symbol of America's naval might for half a century.
In Afrikaans their language apartheid simply means "apartness, " a benign and harmless concept, but as it came to be applied to black South Africans, it translated into a brutal system of segregation and subjugation that would last for nearly half a century and eventually subject the country to international condemnation, to economic and political pressures that would finally contribute to its demise.
They want the Anglo-Saxon economic model - a liberalised economy, open markets, free trade, an end to the agricultural subsidies that, for the French, have been the bedrock of the European Union for half a century.
But, in another twist to the saga, about a decade ago Jewish culture returned to China, where religion has been suppressed for half a century.
GDP there has not been a world recession for half-a-century.
Indeed, as a student of France's troubled history and an observer of its politics for over half a century, I suspect France is entering a prerevolutionary phase and that a major convulsion is just over the horizon.
Regardless of whether Cuba's recent history will be shaped more by fear than affection for Fidel, one still marvels at the improbable ability of a poor Caribbean island lying just 90 miles off Key West to defy ten American presidents for half a century while under embargo.
So, to have a self reliant aviation industry, it is only now that we have the knowledge base that will enable us to build and innovate for the next generation fighter jets, when this knowledge base has been available to the developed world for half a century!
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