• He heads an informal group of ten rich regions which lobbies the federal government.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • Introducing yourself to a group of ten people is downright scary, as is two who appear locked in conversation.

    FORBES: Subliminally Standoffish: Secret Signals That Say You're Unapproachable

  • Japan then hastily formed a loose alliance of anti-reform countries including South Korea, Switzerland and Norway known as the Group of Ten.

    ECONOMIST: Japan's farmers

  • Gates had spent most of 2006 as a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan group of ten members commissioned by Congress to assess the situation.

    NPR: Bush Takes Different Tack on Iraq, Troop Levels

  • Osborn described, for instance, how the technique inspired a group of ten admen to come up with eighty-seven ideas for a new drugstore in ninety minutes, or nearly an idea per minute.

    NEWYORKER: Groupthink

  • Just before Congress shut up shop, a bipartisan group of ten senators suggested a compromise that would allow drilling off Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, while also raising taxes on oil firms.

    ECONOMIST: Finding more oil has become the first issue of the campaign

  • In an attempt to make it harder for organised criminals to arm themselves, and in a nod to global counter-terrorist efforts, a group of ten eastern and central African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda, which owe their liberation movements partly to the Kalashnikov, has agreed to harmonise gun laws.

    ECONOMIST: Guns in Africa

  • They will also face Sudan and Chad in Group Ten of the qualifiers.

    BBC: Keshi opts for Mali national team

  • In a German study that followed a group of teenagers for ten years, those who smoked pot at least 5 times were more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia.

    FORBES: Science Suggests Smoking Pot Raises Risk of Testicular Cancer, Schizophenia and Infertility - and Lowers IQ

  • And just to complete the day, there was the unedifying sight of coach Henk Ten Cate having to restrain a graceless group of Chelsea's defeated players confronting referee Mark Halsey at the final whistle.

    BBC: Ramos takes centre stage

  • Five of the ten surgeons in his group thought that this new scheduling idea would only make their lives worse.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Most go unreported (nine out of ten, guesses another private group).

    ECONOMIST: Hostages

  • MP, ten Muslim Brothers and a group of leftists who had called for real, contested presidential elections, rather than another rubber-stamp referendum such as is scheduled for later this year.

    ECONOMIST: The Arab neighbours

  • But over the past ten years only the same group of dominant teams -- the Packers, 49ers, Broncos, Bills and Cowboys -- have consistently made it into the Super Bowl.

    FORBES: Baseball games

  • The Main Street Fairness Act incorporates the simplification measures of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), which was developed about ten years ago by a group of states and businesses with the goal of making it easier for businesses to collect sales tax for multiple states.

    FORBES: Guest Post: Why Amazon Is Doing the Right Thing for Online Sales Tax

  • In addition to common business challenges like financing and securing customer contracts, the group has spent the better part of the last ten years navigating the National Environmental Policy Act, which means showing why a refinery won't negatively affect everything from flowers and shrubs to endangered species of animals.

    FORBES: Not In My Backyard

  • David Bonderman and Jim Coulter of TPG (Texas Pacific Group) ultimately made ten times their money on the investment in a sagging Continental Airlines, but their profits were clearly a function of making the flying experience infinitely better for customers.

    FORBES: Book Review: Jason Kelly Writes About "The New Tycoons" of Private Equity

  • Menasche's initial trial of the method on ten patients showed tantalizing hints of efficacy, but because there was no control group, it is impossible to tell whether the improvements seen were due to the cell transplant or to the bypass surgery the patients also received.

    FORBES: Using Thigh Muscle To Fix The Heart

  • Ten years as leader of the Labour group, six of them in opposition.

    BBC: Ann Lucas named Coventry City Council leader

  • Cyprus did not fair much better, finishing one off the foot of their group with two wins and two draws from ten outings.

    BBC: Lennon gets armband

  • Most of the Luhya (the country's second-biggest group, unrelated to the Luo), most of the ten or so Kalenjin-speaking peoples of the Rift Valley, most of Kenya's Muslims and most of Kenya's poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga.

    ECONOMIST: Kenya

  • Since the attacks ten years ago, the group is a shadow of its former self and its former strength.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��The ��Buck�� stops here�� on defense cuts

  • While Sam's has had five presidents in ten years, Costco has kept a stable group of managers under Chief Executive James Sinegal.

    FORBES: Follow through

  • Every ten minutes, from dawn to dusk, a group of 12 climbers sets out--in jumpsuits and headsets--accompanied by a guide.

    FORBES: A Can-Do Country

  • After ten weeks of Tai Chi classes, the study group showed significant improvements in tests of their memory, language, attention, stress, mood and fatigue.

    FORBES: Are Yoga and Tai Chi Good Candidates For Physical Therapy?

  • Carton points to two cases: (1) the case filed yesterday against Richard Hansen of Keystone Equities Group, and (2) a case from ten years ago in which a CEO shared confidential information with an adult-film star who, unsurprisingly, was sharing things with other people as well.

    FORBES: Do Not Trust the Mistress

  • In Manningham, there is excited discussion about another group, who are said to live ten to a house in conditions of squalor.

    ECONOMIST: Segregation

  • At 8:00 AM the blue-shirts counted down from ten, and then clapped and cheered as the first group of around a hundred customers were led into the store.

    FORBES: At iPhone 5 Launch In New York, It's All About Marketing

  • At the top rung of qualifiers, there's unusual but not surprising movement in financials: ING Group and Royal Bank of Scotland both fell hundreds of places from the top ten.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Rail Freight Group says that to transfer 25% of all lorry loads over the next ten years would require about 1, 000 additional freight trains, together with a network of terminals around the country, plus substantial investment in rolling stock, locomotives and equipment.

    ECONOMIST: Driving Britain off the roads

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