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  • In a thirty-year period beginning in the mid-1970s, the study documented that of a total of 312 defendants against whom the United States attorney general had authorized the government to request the death penalty, 78 were white, 54 Hispanic, 14 Asian/Indian/Pacific Islander/Native American, 3 Arab, and 163 African-American.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • Since many of the "deficits" facing pension plans are projected over a thirty-year period, the huge numbers being thrown around are actually unreliable guesstimates.

    Bob Samuels: The "Liberal Press" Continues Its Assault on Unions, Pensions, and Public Employees Bob Samuels 2011

  • The ten-year and thirty-year treasury yields have dropped to historic lows, which means lower borrowing rates, Deborah Levine reports on the Markets Hub.

    Long Bond is King Min Zeng 2011

  • The truth is that the thirty-year fight over gay marriage has been a massive distraction for America that has prevented us from focusing on skyrocketing divorce, the growing culture of male womanizing, women feeling unreasonably old, fat, and unattractive, the fixation of husbands and wives on celebrity relationships that deprives their own marriages of oxygen, and the dumbing down of American through moronic reality TV.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: While Gays Push to Marry, Heterosexuals Fear Commitment Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • The explanation was simple enough: Carole was struggling to overcome a thirty-year smoking habit, and she was chewing nicotine gum.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Since many of the "deficits" facing pension plans are projected over a thirty-year period, the huge numbers being thrown around are actually unreliable guesstimates.

    Bob Samuels: The "Liberal Press" Continues Its Assault on Unions, Pensions, and Public Employees Bob Samuels 2011

  • The explanation was simple enough: Carole was struggling to overcome a thirty-year smoking habit, and she was chewing nicotine gum.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Mr. Getty died recently of an undisclosed illness and in doing so emerged for a time back into the world from his thirty-year gilded confinement as a seriously debilitated stroke patient.

    Trish Wood: J. Paul Getty III: A Kidnapped Life Trish Wood 2011

  • Since many of the "deficits" facing pension plans are projected over a thirty-year period, the huge numbers being thrown around are actually unreliable guesstimates.

    Bob Samuels: The "Liberal Press" Continues Its Assault on Unions, Pensions, and Public Employees Bob Samuels 2011

  • Mr. Getty died recently of an undisclosed illness and in doing so emerged for a time back into the world from his thirty-year gilded confinement as a seriously debilitated stroke patient.

    Trish Wood: J. Paul Getty III: A Kidnapped Life Trish Wood 2011

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