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Fifteen months ago, my government was freely elected to office.
Fifteen years later, Signor Berlusoni understood that the Italian state's monopoly of television would not survive and jump-started what became Italy's main privately owned media group.
Greenspan supported the tax cuts of 2001 with the most specious of arguments – that unless something was done about America’s soaring fiscal surpluses, the national debt would be totally paid off within, say, ten to fifteen years.
Fifteen years ago, when I was a columnist for Izvestia, Russia’s leading newspaper at the time, I wrote an article comparing the political order that was emerging under Putin to Mussolini’s regime in Italy.
The politics of frustration has been particularly apparent in the postcommunist world during the last fifteen years.
This has created an even greater diversity of drugs (natural and synthetic) at lower prices and higher purity than fifteen years ago, during the heyday of the Medellin drug barons.
Reforms focused on governance and openness thus became the cornerstones of development strategy in virtually every country during the last fifteen years.
Fifteen years ago, in the United States at least, it was America Online (now AOL) that was closing the Internet.
Even if it does work, it will be ten to fifteen years, possibly longer, before NMD is operational.
The Globalization of Our DiscontentNEW YORK – Fifteen years ago, I published Globalization and Its Discontents, a book that sought to explain why there was so much dissatisfaction with globalization within the developing countries.
If, as I believe, the most important business-cycle indicator is workers' justified anxiety about losing a job and the difficulty of finding a new one, then the worst cyclical moment for the American economy came a full fifteen months after the recession's semi-formal end.
Yet the Cold War has been over for fifteen years, and military conflict between France and Germany today seems as unlikely as military conflict between America and Canada.
Fifteen years later, in 1982, when Neil Sheehan was researching his book about the war, A Bright and Shining Lie, he came across documents concerning my Pentagon-assisted manuscript.
Fifteen years after his murder, Sweden and the West must grapple with what Palme left behind, his anti-Western agitation and his willingness to see fundamental ideals of freedom as merely relative values.
Fifteen years after he took over, annual water production had increased by more than 400%, the water distribution network had grown by more than 450%, and the customer base had increased by more than 650%.
By contrast, unemployment in the United States has not increased during the past fifteen years, presently is only 5.5 percent, and is only about 12 percent for young workers.
In six of fifteen EU countries, Social Democratic Parties had 20% or less of the vote (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands), in two others (France, Luxemburg) 22% or 23%.
Despite broad autonomy enjoyed by the Basque region in the last fifteen years, Basque militants continue to spill blood.
Fifteen people were killed and many more injured in what is remembered as the Peterloo Massacre.
Fifteen years after the Madrid Conference began a formal peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, the parties are wiser as to what is inevitable if this tortuous process is to lead to a permanent settlement.
I agree with this goal, and have devoted the last fifteen years of my life and several billion dollars of my fortune to attaining it.
Fifteen years ago, few would have predicted that mega-platforms like Google or Facebook would become key players in areas like image recognition, artificial intelligence, and the development of autonomous vehicles (including military vehicles).
Back then, it was called “Uzbekistan” and was nothing more than an obligatory culinary demonstration of the supposedly unbreakable union of the USSR’s fifteen fraternal republics.
It is only a little more than fifteen years ago that the first of the contemporary international courts was created to prosecute those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Fifteen years later, Chechen extremists are fighting alongside the Islamic State.
Globalization and its New DiscontentsNEW YORK – Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalization and its Discontents, describing growing opposition in the developing world to globalizing reforms.
Fifteen years later, the new discontents have brought that message home to the advanced economies.
Fifteen years ago, there was a clear need for better infrastructure there.
If any of the country's fifteen to seventeen million Pashtuns are recruited as soldiers, they will serve under a command structure made up almost entirely of Tajiks.
China’s Quiet Central Banking RevolutionBEIJING – Fifteen years ago, Alan Blinder, a former vice chair of the US Federal Reserve System and a longtime professor of economics at Princeton, wrote a book entitled The Quiet Revolution about changes in central banking.
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