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Al Qaeda is said to have established a network in fifty or more countries.
Worldwide, this number could exceed fifty million, with about half that number in drug studies.
But do the talks now underway have any better chance of success than the countless failed negotiations that have marked the past fifty years?
Africa is poised to establish its own human rights tribunal, fifty years after Europe, 25 years after the Americas, and two years after the International Criminal Court.
There are now 6.5 billion people on the planet, almost four billion people more than fifty years ago.
Fifty Shades of TrumpWASHINGTON, DC – Last week was a most unusual one for President Donald Trump’s administration.
The nineteenth-century physicist William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, made his own brilliant blunder when he calculated that the Earth was less than 100 million years old – about fifty times younger than the age deduced from modern radiometric measurements.
Fifty years on, it is our generation’s turn to move the world towards sustainable development.
Fifty years ago, when asked what he thought would be the Vatican's reaction to one of his dictates, Stalin responded with his usual brute cynicism: How many divisions does the Pope have? he asked.
Fifty years of defense dependence on the US has created a powerful “peace industry” in Europe whose primary business is to fight defense spending tooth and nail.
Fifty years ago, at the International Conference on Human Rights held in Tehran, the global community declared that “parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.”
Fifty years ago, as de-colonization accelerated, no one had a good word to say for imperialism.
Until the recent Asian accident crisis, the poorest workplace safety record in world history belonged to the United States in the fifty years following the American Civil War.
Industry-wide, one American worker in fifty at the turn of the last century was killed or seriously disabled each year in work-related accidents.
Al Qaeda retains cells in some fifty countries.
Sweet Caroline in TokyoTOKYO – Fifty years have passed since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, with official ceremonies held in Washington, DC, and Dallas to commemorate the anniversary.
There should be five IMF programs per year, not fifty.
During the war in Kuwait, the Iraqis pumped massive amounts of oil into the Persian Gulf, resulting in the world's largest-ever oil spill--some fifty times the amount released from the tanker "Prestige" off the Spanish coast last fall.
The use of the Welsh language in Britain and Gaelic in Ireland is greater today than fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago, Norbert Wiener of MIT, a great 20th century mathematician and pioneer of computer science, warned of the threat that computers posed to jobs.
Fifty percent!
The most important new fact remains unchanged: after fifty years of enmity Syria has signaled its readiness to follow Egypt, Jordan and the PLO in seeking reconciliation with the Jewish state.
Fifty years later, tensions between India and China are rising again amid an intense geopolitical rivalry.
Fifty years after six days of war, the absence of peace between Israelis and Palestinians is part of an imperfect status quo that many have come to accept and expect.
The fact that fifty years of the Cold War show nuclear superiority to be a chimera and that the defenses are not yet known to be technically feasible somehow leaves the minds of these strategists unaffected.
Though composed of fifty states, its residents overwhelmingly speak the same language, listen to the same television programs, see the same movies, can and do move freely from one part of the country to another; goods and capital move freely from state to state; wages and prices are moderately flexible; and the national government raises in taxes and spends roughly twice as much as state and local governments.
It is paradoxical that although older persons are much healthier and living considerably longer than they did fifty years ago, government policies have driven most of them out of work into retirement.
NMD Offers Russia A Chance"We have lived like pigs for half-a-century, so why not keep living like that for another fifty years?"
During the last fifty years, repeated attempts by reform-oriented elements to open up Saudi Arabia’s society and polity had failed.
Fifty leaders from government, business, civil society, and academia identified gender inequality as the most urgent constraint to sustainable growth, social cohesion, and political stability, and agreed on the steps needed to address the issue effectively.
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