None easily fit the impression of liberally minded immigrant attracting bastions from only a decade ago.
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American factories, many at death's door only a decade ago, have roared back.
Americans, only a decade ago after enjoying low unemployment, historic economic growth and unrelenting optimism, are now ecstatic to find even part time work.
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But only a decade ago, earlier products called "home income plans" made similar promises to older people to release money tied up in their houses.
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"Only a decade ago, a parent would have probably answered 'stop saying silly things' to a 6-year-old son who insisted on being a girl, " Malpas added.
Just as mobile phones and the internet became ubiquitous only a decade ago, the use of social media in our day-to-day lives is following the same exact path.
Only a decade ago a group of female employees wrote to female students at Harvard Business School advising them to avoid Wall Street, as they would be discriminated against.
Whereas only a decade ago public-opinion polls showed Americans opposing gay marriage by a two-to-one margin, new polls show that slightly more than half of Americans are in favor of it.
"I am particularly encouraged to hear that the cod stocks in the North Sea have shown signs of recovery from what was, only a decade ago, a much depleted fishery, " he said.
Who would have thought that advanced machinery and electronics such as GPS navigation tools, which only a decade ago would have seemed completely science fictional, would now be a part of our everyday lives?
Only half a decade ago it looked as though the world might have only 50 or 60 years-worth of gas.
Some carmakers already produce twice as many vehicles per employee as they did only a decade or so ago.
The survey found that 99% of large American companies now take out such insurance, compared with only 85% a decade ago.
Since uranium is 20 times cheaper to find than oil, (in terms of finding cost's share of sale price), the current price run-up has already spawned hundreds of exploration companies, where there were only a handful a decade ago.
Bhutan, about the size of Iowa and with a population roughly equal to El Paso, Texas, is a place where there are zero stoplights, only three dentists and where TV appeared about a decade ago.
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As an example, she says her uneven-bars routine a decade ago had only two release moves.
The software is free, and Microsoft crushed its only serious commercial competition, Netscape, almost a decade ago.
Where there were once only a few recognized outfitters in Pembrokeshire half a decade ago, now there are more than a dozen.
But Italy's economy is now only about 1% bigger than it was a decade ago, and the forecast for the next ten years within the euro, is not much better.
Dickey bounced around the minors for a decade and a half and only two years ago had the ignominious distinction of being the first player cut by the Mets in spring training.
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Nick Corbel, from Unite, said it broke an agreement the States made with the union more than a decade ago that staff would only be transferred between bus firms if it was on the same terms.
The output from factories, mines and farms, though still only a fraction of what it was just over a decade ago, is rising.
But the single biggest surprise I had was the concierge staff, run by veteran Todd Nelson, who came over from the Four Seasons when the Peninsula opened a decade ago, has been its only Chief Concierge.
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Just a decade ago, GIST patients lived for only a year and a half, and there was little doctors could do.
America's total saving rate fell in the third quarter of last year to only 10% of GDP, barely half its level a decade ago.
It was first developed more than a decade ago in South Africa, but has only recently been designed to commercial standards.
Mr Ozawa has done as much before, ending the only other period of non-LDP rule a decade and a half ago.
Taking American reinsurance as an example, the market counted over a hundred firms a decade ago, 64 six years ago, and only 38 last year.
It was the first time that production has been shut down at the complex, the only remaining product of economic cooperation between the two countries that began about a decade ago when relations were much warmer.
The payments market in general, not only mobile, was dominated by first generation banks typically servicing the needs merchants had over a decade ago.
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