John's account suggests nearly three years, but Mark's covers only 50 days.

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Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said it had taken more than 400 calls since Saturday morning, in what was described as one of its busiest days in the past 50 years.

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Eastek now gets paid in an average of 50 days, versus 30 days around six years ago.

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Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.

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In the last two years National Public Radio has held six "Serendipity Days" in which about 50 employees from different departments, including digital, engineering, HR and news, volunteer to come together and think of new ideas and projects over a two-day period.

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