Recently, for example, they were instrumental in the passage of legislation that mandates five percent federal contracting set asides for women-owned businesses.

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The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2004, five years before the passage of the CARD Act.

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The passage is now open for four or five months a year and is getting more traffic.

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Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.

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Shackled and crammed into the ships' holds in the most grotesque and insanitary conditions, the slaves would then have to endure the so-called "Middle Passage" across the Atlantic between Africa and the Americas, a journey that could last anything from five weeks to three months.

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