And I think that members who just got here this month, freshmen in the House and the Senate, I think will have that same measuring -- they want to -- they will look four years from now and say, did what I do in those four years improve the prospects of this country, help the economy grow, help the middle class, make us more secure or not?
You will probably be able to read about it in the American Economic Review in, say, three or four years' time.
Exactly half of the voters polled, 50% say they are optimistic about the next four years ago and the number of American voters who say that the US is headed in the right direction is up to 38%, with 47% saying things are off on the wrong track.
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The Mayor of London, particularly, I would say, over the past four years, has transformed the city.
But city officials say it could four or five years before Mardi Gras draws the million-plus visitors it did before Katrina.
The family of York chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing for four years, say it is "unacceptable" no-one has come forward with information.
Nearly two in five (38%) say that their personal finances will be better off in the next four years compared with 26% who say their finances will be worse off and 29% who say things will be about the same for them.
However, researchers say it will be three to four years before they know for sure that the hormone treatment is really effective.
What did the polls say before Election Day in those states four years ago?
Seventy-six percent say conditions in the country will improve four years from now, with the remaining 24 percent saying that's not likely.
Many Sudan-watchers say it is too little, and four years too late.
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The difference in GFR between these patients and those who lived further away from traffic pollution was comparable to a reduction in GFR associated with being four years older, the researchers say.
Many Americans see Mormonism as a cult: in polls over the years a steady one in four say they would be less likely to vote for a Mormon as president.
When asked whether he would like to be prime minister, Mr Johnson would only say that he wanted to be mayor for the next four years.
As I look back over my career so far, I can safely say I have learned and grown more in the last four years than in the previous twenty.
Every four years there is one day when the people have their say.
The authorities say that prosecutors may have let him go free in 1971 after serving four years on a federal charge.
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Federal regulators say at least four new airports will be needed in the next 20 to 30 years.
And when I say, by the way, a higher education, it doesn't mean four years.
Despite repeated requests for information, his doctors have declined to say much about the four bypass grafts that were stitched into Cheney's heart 12 years ago.
On the other hand, it's his third term, and most governments would consider that pretty good, and his critics in the Iraq War, which is a great dividing issue in Europe for the last three or four years, Chancellor Schroeder and President Chirac of France, dare I say it, are in much bigger trouble themselves.
And, they say, Americans are justifiably concerned about the government's ability to protect the nation four years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
All he had to do was say: Hey, Bob Rubin, my good friend, you are welcome to stay another four years at Treasury.
He is also armed with strong planning approval and veto powers that hand him a direct say over which projects are built and what physical shape the city will take over the next four years.
But, the consequences of continued slow growth and high unemployment fall most heavily on the least skilled and those who lose their job or the opportunity for a better life, to say nothing of the broad middle class that has suffered a historic decline in median income during the past four years.
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Cuomo in a radio interview didn't say how his new overhaul would be different from his ethics reform two years ago, or other ethics reforms four years before that.
Voters under the age of 30 made up 18% of the electorate four years ago, but a recent Pew Research Center study found that the share of them who say they are following campaign news very closely is roughly half of what it was at this point in 2008.
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