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  • Though I obviously don't know about every foundation grant ever given anywhere, in my very direct experience with foundations during my twenty-year community organizing career, and my growing familiarity with education-oriented foundations over the past eight years since I've become a teacher, I only know of one -- yes, just one -- major foundation initiative that reflected those lessons.

    Larry Ferlazzo: Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations Larry Ferlazzo 2011

  • My grandparents have only one plant in their house, a spindly pathos with heart-shaped leaves that hangs over the kitchen sink from a small brass pot that can barely contain its twenty-year roots.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Just so I could embarrass her into explaining why her husband, a college graduate, an Army Ranger and a twenty-year military veteran, applied for a job as a stock boy at the feed store.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Though I obviously don't know about every foundation grant ever given anywhere, in my very direct experience with foundations during my twenty-year community organizing career, and my growing familiarity with education-oriented foundations over the past eight years since I've become a teacher, I only know of one -- yes, just one -- major foundation initiative that reflected those lessons.

    Larry Ferlazzo: Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations Larry Ferlazzo 2011

  • Recently retired from a twenty-year service in Dietary and Nursing Resident Care, she now splits her time between Michigan and Florida—finally a “Snow-Bird.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • It offers a four-step plan for reductions and destruction of warheads over a twenty-year timetable to get to Zero.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Just so I could embarrass her into explaining why her husband, a college graduate, an Army Ranger and a twenty-year military veteran, applied for a job as a stock boy at the feed store.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • He carried himself like a twenty-year old man, despite the age, the booze and a poor diet.

    Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • Just so I could embarrass her into explaining why her husband, a college graduate, an Army Ranger and a twenty-year military veteran, applied for a job as a stock boy at the feed store.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Bernie Madoff carried out his scam over more than a twenty-year period.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

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