• Such statements and actions suggest that the Chinese today, like the Japanese sixty years ago, put great faith in the ability of a materially weaker challenger to defeat a major power which looks stronger, but which they believe has become decadent and irresolute in the use of power.

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  • How had a woman like her a sixty-two-year-old single mother from Illinois managed to devise a strategy to possibly bring an end to a highly entrenched and revered custom that has existed for nearly two thousand years?

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  • The final experimental cola was the scientifically advantaged product that PepsiCo will begin selling within the next six months (its name is still secret) a cola that is supposed to taste like regular Pepsi but that has sixty per cent less sugar.

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  • Nearing sixty, Haydn was ripe, like a tasty new fruit from the frontier.

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  • Removing this potent source of data from someone attempting to thread their way through a crucial conversation is like asking someone to drive a windy country road at sixty miles an hour with their eyes closed.

    FORBES: Is Facebook Making Us Antisocial?

  • In this world, a hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars a year might well look like an unconscionably low wage.

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  • Currently, over sixty percent of households in Africa burn biomass fuels, like wood, crop residue, charcoal and dung every day.

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  • While her decisions pleased editors in their early fifties, like Chira and Berke, they did not please editors who were closer to sixty and wondered if their age was held against them.

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  • Macmillan is the smallest of the big-six publishers, which produce sixty per cent of all books sold in the U.S. Like its peers, Macmillan relies heavily on Amazon, which sells about fourteen per cent of its trade books and the vast majority of its e-books.

    NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

  • In our Dartmouth classes, we often ask who would like to own a Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Roadster with 604 horsepower that can go from zero to sixty miles per hour in 4.2 seconds.

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  • The sheer amount of data taken in by a camera like this is too large to be completely relayed to the ground, but users are able to define upwards of sixty-five independent video windows within the image and zoom in or out.

    ENGADGET: Darpa develops a 1.8 gigapixel digicam and no, you can't 'check it out'

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