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Year in sentence

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Here, just for historical authenticity, is a picture of me in that year.
The punch line is that a year and a half later, I was there when this magnificent young woman, my daughter, got married.
This is Regina Holliday, a painter in Washington DC, whose husband died of kidney cancer a year after my disease.
What did Google come out with this year?
Last year we had about two million people, which is about 10 times what we ever estimated.
For fun! (Laughter) Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt.
Volunteers answer the phone around the clock every day of the year, and calls are confidential.
But things have moved on, and now in 2017, we have over 200 staff listening to older people every day of the year, 24/7.
After all, even the leader of the free world needs a little help from the sultan of Facebookistan if he wants to get reelected next year.
And earlier this year, there was a troubling incident where people who had made donations to Rospil through a payments processing system called Yandex Money suddenly received threatening phone calls from members of a nationalist party who had obtained details about donors to Rospil through members of the security services who had somehow obtained this information from people at Yandex Money.
I could give you all kinds of facts and figures about the U.S. economy, but I think the most salient one is this: ten percent of American businesses disappear every year.
Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year.
And in my third year, I started becoming confused because I was Yemeni, but I was also mixing up with a lot of my friends in college.
And in the first year, I had to fire half of the men.
So half a year ago, I decided to go to Pakistan myself.
What could go wrong is that a year ago, nine percent of the entire market just disappears in five minutes, and they called it the Flash Crash of 2:45.
How? Well first see, if you put 125 billion dollars a year into a country like Afghanistan where the entire revenue of the Afghan state is one billion dollars a year, you drown everything.
Beginning in 2004, every general came in saying, "I've inherited a dismal situation, but finally I have the right resources and the correct strategy, which will deliver," in General Barno's word in 2004, the "decisive year."
But it wasn't sufficient to prevent General Abuzaid saying that he had the strategy and the resources to deliver, in 2005, the "decisive year."
Or General David Richards to come in 2006 and say he had the strategy and the resources to deliver the "crunch year."
Or in 2007, the Norwegian deputy foreign minister, Espen Eide, to say that that would deliver the "decisive year."
Or in 2008, Major General Champoux to come in and say he would deliver the "decisive year."
Or in 2009, my great friend, General Stanley McChrystal, who said that he was "knee-deep in the decisive year."
Or in 2010, the U.K. foreign secretary, David Miliband, who said that at last we would deliver the "decisive year."
And you'll be delighted to hear in 2011, today, that Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, assures us that we are in the "decisive year."
Well the answer, of course, is, if you spend 125 billion or 130 billion dollars a year in a country, you co-opt almost everybody.
In the Afghan section in London responsible for governing Afghan policy on the ground, I was told last year that there was not a single staff member of the foreign office in that section who had ever served on a posting in Afghanistan.
But that slowness, that caution, the fact that President Clinton initially said that American troops would only be deployed for a year, turned out to be a strength, and it helped us to put our priorities right.
He had a lesser charge of forgery, got a year sentence and died a hero to the Dutch people.
But today I'm going to talk about access to food, because actually this year and last year and during the 2008 food crisis, there was enough food on Earth for everyone to have 2,700 kilocalories.
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