• And it pays for all of these by, in fact, revoking many of the tax breaks Republicans passed in recent years for big oil and natural gas companies.

    NPR: Congress Delays Recess in Legislative Push

  • In their defense, Malaysian officials point to the plethora of new legislation passed in recent years.

    CNN: Business: Malaysia's Stock Market

  • The conflict between pursuit of health and of athletic glory is particularly acute in Meghan Newcomer, a 32-year-old professional triathlete who in recent years passed out during several races, requiring acute medical attention and prompting her loved ones to ask her to slow down or retire.

    WSJ: Endurance Sports: Studies on Older Endurance Athletes Suggest the Fittest Reap Few Health Benefits

  • Congress originally passed the law in 1965, and three years ago overwhelmingly passed its latest reauthorization, rejecting arguments that improvements in race relations had rendered the act unnecessary.

    NEWYORKER: No More Mr. Nice Guy

  • All of Cuba's top boxers in recent years have passed through here.

    BBC: Cuba's proud boxing tradition

  • That streak marked the first time in the jet age that two consecutive years passed without a death in a commercial airline crash.

    ECONOMIST: Business travel

  • While states including Alabama, Georgia and Arizona, as well as some cities, have passed laws in recent years cracking down on illegal immigrants, Dayton officials say they will leave that to federal authorities and focus instead on how to attract and assimilate those who come legally.

    FORBES: How to Occupy Rust Belt Cities

  • Dingell said in the five years since a similar measure passed in Texas, only 17 cases have been filed in court.

    CNN: Bush urges action on education; Democrats defend health care bill

  • Boehner and Republicans complain the Senate has refused to take up any proposals they have passed in the past two years.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on the Economy

  • Democrats expected Conrad to put forward a Democratic budget that would have been the first detailed deficit reduction plan in three years, if passed by the committee.

    FORBES: The Time for Entitlement Reform is Now

  • As in so many cases before the court, the Justices were charged with interpreting a single, vague phrase in a law passed by Congress years ago--not whether the law itself is legal.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In the years since Missouri passed the Hancock Amendment, which restricts tax increases without a public vote, Missourians have opted to keep relative tax burdens low when faced with their own decision.

    FORBES: Strangled By Taxes, Will Michigan Loosen The State's Grip?

  • Some of the most important pieces of legislation passed in the last two years include mountains of regulation (like the financial regulatory overhaul bill, which directly affects JPMorgan Chase and other banks), which have yet to play out.

    FORBES: Report: JPMorgan Chase Puts Its Money On Gridlock

  • In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • But after years of adjusting, the family now must confront yet another massive change: in February, Mike passed away, 11 years after his diagnosis.

    BBC: Magazine

  • But by the time Brendan got to his first game in my brother's seats, five years had passed and the Red Sox, in their never-ending campaign to wring more revenue out of the band box that is Fenway Park, had built two more rows, pushing my brother's seats back.

    NPR: Red Sox Game Locks in a Father's Day Memory

  • Two years ago, Congress passed legislation creating the compensation fund in response to years of complaints that those who were made sick by their exposure to toxic substances at the Ground Zero site needed and deserved health care and compensation.

    WSJ: 9/11 Fund Sets First Payments

  • In recent years, concealed-carry laws have duly passed in 31 states.

    ECONOMIST: Freedom, guns and women

  • Under Mr. Reid's leadership, the Senate has not passed a budget resolution in three years.

    WSJ: McGurn: The Do-Nothing Senate

  • Like Citizen Kane, Vertigo received mixed reviews on release but has grown in stature as the years have passed.

    BBC: Vertigo is named 'greatest film of all time'

  • That's thanks to Act 221, passed three years ago in an effort to promote long-term business investment with credits to offset state income and corporate income taxes over a five-year period.

    FORBES: Stars in Their Eyes

  • In the past two years, at least 30 states have passed such legislation and are in the process of implementing changes.

    WSJ: Teacher Evaluations Pose Test for States

  • The increases in productivity in the coming years (because, technology) would not be passed on in pay packets.

    FORBES: The German Labour Miracle

  • In Britain, the Council of Churches has suggested an amnesty for illegal immigrants with children who have been in the country for more than five years, inspired by limited amnesties passed by the previous Labour government in the 1970s.

    ECONOMIST: Deportation

  • In his first two years, Obama passed legislation that addressed big issues, but partisanship has probably become more corrosive.

    FORBES: Political Temperance Will Be Long-Term Process

  • Elizabeth, in recent years, any number of proposals to allow drilling in ANWR have passed in the House and died in the Senate.

    NPR: ANWR Community Split on Oil Exploration

  • "The pharmaceutical industry had the courage to come out with compounds very quickly, " Sternbach told Forbes in 2003, two years before he passed away.

    FORBES

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