Article: Traces on the rock of elsewhere.

Article: Of King and space.(Editorials)(Nation must weigh cost of Mars initiative)(Editorial)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  January 19, 2004 ;     530 words ......by Martin Luther King Jr. nearly four decades ago. If our nation can spend $35 billion...mortality are worse than they were three decades ago. Yes, there has been progress in narrowing...one, again a greater gap than three decades ago. Given the growing chasm between the...

Article: Brick by brick. (Fine finishes: a collection of custom products from artists' studios, specialty manufacturers, and traditional artisans).(advertisement)
Custom Home;  May 1, 2002 ;     155 words ......supplies three types of brick originally crafted and used decades ago in locations in the Midwest. With the name of the original...The company's antique kiln firebrick also was tossed out decades ago. Used to line the kilns, these pieces were fired up to 1,800...

Article: Girl violence.(STATELINE)(Brief article)
State Legislatures;  March 1, 2007 ;     116 words ...Girls today are more violent than girls of two or three decades ago, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control...aggravated assault arrests of girls. Today, more than three decades ago, girls are encouraged to be competitive and confrontational...

Article: Families of those killed in 1973 Libyan aircraft crash seek compensation.
Airline Industry Information;  September 1, 2003 ;     181 words ......Israeli jet fighters shot down a commercial aircraft three decades ago are seeking to take Israel to court. The 28 Egyptian and two...offered families of each victim USD30,000 in compensation three decades ago, but many families refused the money as they did not want...

Article: GOPer Val Washington, who helped Eisenhower put blacks in key posts, dies.(African American Republican National Committee official)(Obituary)(Brief Article)
Jet;  May 15, 1995 ;     170 words ......barriers for Black professionals in sub-cabinet federal ranks decades ago, Val J. Washington left a legacy in American politics few...from a heart attack in the nation's capital where he worked decades ago to end segregation. He was 93. A native of Columbus, IN, Washington...

Article: Beach kids thought they'd found a bomb.
Shields Gazette (South Shields, England);  June 20, 2008 ;     290 words ......bargained for when they dug up a piece of coastal defence from decades ago. Eleven-year-old Nathan and sister Zara, five, were out with...steel reinforcement post from fixtures used on the seafront decades ago, emerged. The piece of metal - more than a foot in length...

Article: US: Pope defrocks former Illinois priest accused of sexually molesting boys decades ago
AP Online;  April 24, 2007 ;     133 words ...BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Pope Benedict XVI defrocked a priest accused of sexually molesting teenage boys decades ago while directing a Catholic youth camp, church officials said Monday. Robert Vonnahmen, 76, was removed from the priesthood "for...

Article: FBI Criminal Referrals Plummet
AP Online;  March 6, 2008 ;     631 words ......Department for referral than it did two decades ago. The decline is mostly the result of...figure is four times the number of two decades ago. At the FBI, the bureau accounts for...Service, the referral number was 6,600 two decades ago, in contrast to 5,100 now. _At the Internal...

Article: Analysis: Sarkozy pushes France into NATO embrace
AP Online;  February 13, 2009 ;     549 words ......is about to open a door Charles de Gaulle slammed shut four decades ago, wounding French-U.S. relations for years. The current French...military command, a body his iconic predecessor rejected four decades ago as too America-centric and a threat to France's independence...

Article: Iran remembers those killed in downing of airliner by US warship 2 decades ago
AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2008 ;     360 words ......Persian Gulf Wednesday as the nation remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner two decades ago. Some 300 relatives of victims, artists and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to the spot where...

Article: A collection of Caribbean folk music recorded over four decades ago by American musicologist Alan Lomax was returned to the region earlier this month.(Brief article)
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2006 ;     128 words ...A collection of Caribbean folk music recorded over four decades ago by American musicologist Alan Lomax was returned to the region earlier this month. Digital copies of about 60 hours of recordings...

Article: Significant changes as FBI criminal referrals drop and immigration cases increase
AP Worldstream;  March 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ......possible prosecution than it did two decades ago. The decline is mostly the result of...figure is four times the number of two decades ago. At the FBI, the bureau accounts for...Service, the referral number was 6,600 two decades ago, in contrast to 5,100 now. _At the Internal...

Article: The Eurovision Song Contest ascended through the sphere of self-parody decades ago, and floats now in an alternate universe of bad taste far beyond the reach of criticism.(Song by Israeli pop band Teapacks denied entry at contest)(Brief article)
National Review;  April 2, 2007 ;     189 words ...The Eurovision Song Contest ascended through the sphere of self-parody decades ago, and floats now in an alternate universe of bad taste far beyond the reach of criticism. Like Death in Arcadia, however, politics...

Article: The perfect fit: identifying the right thing to communicate next can make the difference between stifling or sustaining momentum.
Communication World;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......puzzle that became a craze in the U.S. a little more than two decades ago? The challenge was to manipulate the cube so all of the same-color...later on. And, as was the case with many Rubik-cubers two decades ago, we often resort to short-sighted trial-and-error to determine...