Authorities said if convicted the defendants face up to 20 years in prison for racketeering, up to 20 years for conspiring to commit money laundering, up to ten years for money laundering and up to five years for operating an illegal gambling business.

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Even so, in contrast to only ten years ago, the firms operating in Kansas City today are largely the same as those trading soft red winter wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade and spring wheat at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

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Ten years ago, if you had suggested that we would be operating retail stores and selling hardware in the year 2013, people might have looked at you funny.

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Ten years ago, Apple introduced the first major release of its OS X operating system, Cheetah.

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Over the last ten years, Harley posted annualized growth of 15% in sales and 25% in operating profits.

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