Now it seems like years ago but it was only this week that Yasser Arafat came to Downing Street and met with Tony Blair, then the talk was of speeding up the Middle East peace process and even of pushing Israel to accept a Palestinian State.
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This raises the specter that the United States is doomed to many long, gray Japan-like years of economic twilight, with growth in the private sector being choked off through a rationing of credit so that the government and its Big Business cronies can hog low-interest credit while would-be new businesses that are the engine of job creation are left to fend for themselves.
We just can't afford four more years like the last four years.
Like 25 years ago, Daimler-Benz and BMW had the courage to come to China.
Advertisements for jobs in the press nearly always specify age or state something like two years' experience.
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But it looks like being years more before that prosperity trickles down to the more distant provinces.
It may be more like 20 years before Greenlandic oil is produced, assuming it is even found.
State-supported college education means that students take a John Belushi-like seven years to complete the work of four.
Now, like many years past, we've actually been planning this day, and the holiday season, since the summer.
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But today, that arc is more like five years, so you have to build change into your organizational construct.
And if you have college debt or other debt to pay down first, it could be more like 20 years!
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It may only be a 13-hour time difference between Beijing and New York, but most days it feels like two years.
The film is a conservative critique envisioning what the US would look like four years from now if Mr Obama was re-elected.
Punch in 1-855-FOR-1993 on some Manhattan street corners to hear a notable New Yorker recount what life was like 20 years ago.
Perhaps I reminded her of what she was like 25 years earlier.
And my sense is, if we don't get a hold of this, what are you going to look like 10 years from now?
In fact, the gap between what Germany and France have to pay to borrow is now at its widest for something like 20 years.
What did the health care system look like 30 years ago?
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Right here in Wisconsin -- if you look at the lake now and look at the lake, what it was like 30 years ago, 40 years ago.
Constant devaluations of the ruble, power surges, shortages of sugar and a bad water supply conspired to make this quite an ordeal--"like ten years in purgatory, " he recalls.
Plus, for last minute trips like New Years, what could be easier than pushing one button for air, hotels and transfers instead of trying to line them up individually?
Eventually they're going to default and get foreclosed, but for maybe like five years, they'll cut your monthly payments down to what you would rent, so why not stay?
But for the age of like ten years old, I mean this is very sad to say that when they are in the class, the whole school is actually watching them.
What will Twitter look like ten years from now?
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