Three months later, police unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses by Savile across a span of half a century, involving some 450 victims.
The logical solution would be to update the formula, to take account of half a century's worth of hydrology.
Now, the hope is that a younger generation of politicians may be willing to take a more objective look back, even at the risk of upsetting a half century of orthodoxy.
After World War II, a generation of far-sighted leaders forged NATO, which has given us a half-century of security, and played a strong role in ending the Cold War.
Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.
The State Geologist has the testimony of old residents of Long Branch, who state that they farmed on land which is now a half mile out in the water, showing a tremendous eating away of the beach in half a century.
Leeds went into the game on the back of shipping a half-century of points at home to London Irish last weekend but they showed no sign of being cowed when the opening whistle went at Franklin's Gardens.
It has a population of a mere 2.5m, and it is struggling to reconstruct its economy after half a century of Soviet occupation that ended only in 1990.
That's because Colombia has truly performed a miracle, emerging from half a century of armed conflict and horrific violence to a position of strong economic growth.
When the Treaty of Rome was adopted half a century ago, one of the fundamental freedoms for citizens recognised by its six signatories was the right to work in another member state.
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In 2004 Klinsmann and his assistant coach, Joachim Loew, took over a Germany team that went winless at the European championship that year and remade a half-century of German strategy, producing a team that played proactively instead of reactively.
We see the stable prosperity many of us experienced in the second half of the twentieth century as more of a historical aberration.
Most of the previous half-century was a period of convergence.
After a half century of observation, examination, and consultation, as a classroom teacher, university lecturer, academic advisor, pastoral counselor, and ER crisis counselor, I have concluded that our image filled minds are generated as complex mental holograms by our equally complex, functioning brains.
Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.
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The final cut -- winnowed to 185 images for the show and 75 for the award-winning book -- shows the West's myriad faces thematically grouped into Legends, Encounters, Boundaries and Visions, corralling into categories an epic visual record of almost a century and a half of exploration of the American West with the camera.
Al Taubenberger is the candidate of the Republican Party, which hasn't elected a mayor of Philly in more than a half-century.
Burma installed a nominally civilian government in March 2011, ending almost half a century of military rule.
The adoration was put to the test in 1974 when Portugal emerged from half a century of dictatorship.
And is trade not free enough already after half a century of liberalisation?
And in half a century of development in sport, that's not a lot.
And we are all suffering the consequences of the indiscriminate and incomplete use of antibiotics, the wonder drugs of a half-century ago.
With more than half a century of history on their backs, the company seems to be doing a good job at rejuvenating itself.
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The prospect of U.S. self-sufficiency overturns a half-century of conventional wisdom.
The players and owners have been revenue sharing now for the better part of a half century and always found a way to make it work.
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There were Caterpillar, Owen-Illinois and many other plants (many of the now gone) where they could work, earning good wages (of a half century ago) and benefits.
After half a century of bringing their own tax codes increasingly into alignment with the federal one--essentially piggybacking on federal rules--the states are starting to go their own way.
Rashid began the collapse by trapping Simmons leg-before for 63, won another decision as Chanderpaul fell one run short of a half century and had Brendan Nash caught for 19.
Mr Bush has become the first American president to visit Lithuania, which along with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia won independence in 1991 after half a century of Soviet occupation.
This stuff now seems superficial when seen against the more free-spirited, Zen-like pictures that European collectors have acquired in the second half of this century, a freer-spirited time for the West.
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