Athens News Agency journalist Harry Theofanous says he cannot recall a worse crisis in the past two-decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Over the past few decades,however, scientists have determined that even trace amounts of lead in children's bodies leads to long-term neurological and behavioral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

ETA is blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people during the past four decades, with most of the assassinations taking place in Spain.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Manuel Noriega spent most of the past two decades behind bars in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Reid and others paid tribute to to Senator Edward Kennedy, who died this past August after spending decades of his career in the Senate pursuing health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09