He did so year after year against a variety of competitors in a much less crowded late-night field.

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He ran Genencor --which produces a variety of mostly industrial enzymes--from late 2002 until it was bought by Danish food ingredient group Danisco in February this year.

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This suggests that China may be entering a period similar to that in the late 1980s, when demonstrations began to break out over a variety of issues.

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David Shebiro, owner of Rebel Rebel Records in Manhattan's West Village, reckons 60% of his sales are of the vinyl variety, up from about 10% in the late 1990s.

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For customers experiencing financial hardship, Chase may restructure loans to reduce interest rates, waive late and over-limit fees, and extend repayment terms through a variety of internal and external payment programs.

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Media attention went from zero-to-sixty from late last night, continuing through today, furthering the fundraiser in a wide variety of interest groups.

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Today's mortgage rates of around 5% are as low as we have seen since the late 1950s - and no economist (whether of the "flat earth" variety or not) expects interest rates to rise significantly.

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He also made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with hosts Jack Paar and then Johnny Carson, The Andy Williams Show and his own TV variety shows - The Jonathan Winters Show and The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters - in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Yet according to data assembled from a wide variety of times and places, ranging from mid-15th-century France to Malaysia of the late 1990s, prostitutes make more money--in some cases, a lot more money--than do working girls who, well, work for a living.

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