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In the past thirty years, the United States has quadrupled its incarceration rate but not its prison space.
NEWYORKER: Hellhole
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There is no doubt that in the past thirty years, progress has been made in helping senior executives get the most relevant data they need for managing their company.
FORBES: Help Wanted: Data Dictators
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In the past thirty years, Waits, as a songwriter, has tried to retain a sense of craft while finding musical settings that take his compositions out of some nostalgic tar pit.
NEWYORKER: Gravel Pit
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He has given large sums of money to L.A. arts institutions about a hundred and forty million dollars in the past thirty years but in return he has expected a degree of fealty that many in the art world find unseemly.
NEWYORKER: The Art of the Billionaire
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While Reagan called for cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse of welfare programs, he was working with a Democratic House, and entitlement programs have only grown and proliferated in the past thirty years, with both parties saying yes to low taxes without saying no to new spending.
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But I need to say something that might be not you know very politically correct now, but I don't think that we should forget that in the past twenty or thirty years Egypt had a leapfrog in its economy and the achievements of the last period in the economic front should not be forgotten.
BBC: Transcript of Hatem Seif el Nasr interview
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The history of an era in which South Africa came of age and grew in stature will stir up events of the past thirty years ago, that influence our destiny.
FORBES: Glencore Prospectus Confirms IPO Will Create Six New Billionaires
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One global company based in Florida, MTN has for the past thirty years pioneered and developed satellite-based services for virtually all of the cruise ships and cargo carriers in the world.
FORBES: Cruise Ship Communications for Passengers Is About to Change
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One oil boss says they produced more technological breakthroughs in five years than battery research has in the past thirty.
ECONOMIST: Fuel cells meet big business | The
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Over the past thirty years, startups have been prodigious job creators in this country.
FORBES: The Great Startup Slowdown
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If "Zero Dark Thirty" does win Best Picture, it will be one of only five times in the past 25 years when the director of the best film didn't also get an Oscar.
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