Word: ten
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...point. One reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration and popularity over the past ten years. Polls show that the percentage of respondents who now consider themselves Republicans, 45%, exactly matches the percentage of those who identify themselves as Democrats. Moreover, eight years of Republican defense spending have showered benefits on California's biggest business, aerospace. Bush is courting the industry, while Dukakis talks of holding...
...major obstacle faced the Lennon biographer-to-be: John's story from his birth up to the dissolution of the Beatles, toward the end of 1969, has been endlessly researched, told and repeated. Hence roughly half of Goldman's immense book deals with Lennon's post-Beatle period, the ten maddest and least productive years of his adult life...
...sources. Perhaps the most gaping of these was the shocking obliteration of a decade's worth of hope. Millions awoke one morning bleak with the promise of winter to learn that now the Beatles could never get back together, that the expansive spirit of the '60s had definitively expired ten years past its prime...
...restaurant, Ta Chien is alive and living in Taiwan. He likes hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches...
...country have filled and closed in the past decade, leaving about 9,200 with space remaining. Some 6,000 belong to counties, cities and towns. The Environmental Protection Agency projects that one-third of these will run out of space and shut down in the next five to ten years. In some areas the day of garbage reckoning is much closer. The two landfills in San Mateo County, near San Francisco, will be full next year, the one in Omaha's Douglas County in no more than 15 months...