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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. -- Todd Gitlin
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays. -- Maeve Binchy
It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products. -- Woody Harrelson
We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term. -- Christina Romer
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years. -- Michael Burgess
When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen. -- Pete Hegseth
I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14. -- Daniel Radcliffe
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. -- Martin Filler
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. -- Harry Mathews
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade. -- Bob Beauprez
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. -- Barack Obama
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal. -- Stephen Colbert

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