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There were federal acts before the Clean Air Act, going back into the fifties, that were looking at air quality, but a lot of what the federal government was doing was just studying the problem. – Allan Marks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the forties and fifties you had these sort of mom-and-pop car dealers complaining that they were being taken advantage of by the' Big Three' [ Detroit automakers ], and so this led to this series of dealer protection laws. – Daniel Crane	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Once you get to mid-fifties, things start falling off, your reflexes are not as sharp as they were when you were younger. – Brian Church	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Prices are looking for a level to stabilize around for a few weeks or months. It’s looking like it could be in the fifties. – Richard Mallinson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We could see a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities. – Keith Richards	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We could se a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities. – Keith Richards	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If self-evaluated, our score is only in the fifties, compared with that in the thirties last year ... we are making headway as we can correct even the government if it does wrong. – Lee Un-chul	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

There were federal acts before the Clean Air Act, going back into the fifties, that were looking at air quality, but a lot of what the federal government was doing was just studying the problem.

– Allan Marks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the forties and fifties you had these sort of mom-and-pop car dealers complaining that they were being taken advantage of by the' Big Three' [ Detroit automakers ], and so this led to this series of dealer protection laws.

– Daniel Crane

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Once you get to mid-fifties, things start falling off, your reflexes are not as sharp as they were when you were younger.

– Brian Church

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Prices are looking for a level to stabilize around for a few weeks or months. It’s looking like it could be in the fifties.

– Richard Mallinson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We could see a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities.

– Keith Richards

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We could se a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities.

– Keith Richards

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If self-evaluated, our score is only in the fifties, compared with that in the thirties last year ... we are making headway as we can correct even the government if it does wrong.

– Lee Un-chul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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