The movie has now reignited a decades-old controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil in Pictures] Reference
Prudential Financial and MetLife are decades-old rivals. From Wordnik.com. [AIG Nears Sale of Two Japanese Units] Reference
For Lang, this says that decades-old stereotypes persist. From Wordnik.com. [Despite New Law, Gender Salary Gap Persists] Reference
But the shuttle is expensive, and, worse, it's based on decades-old technology. From Wordnik.com. [Son Of The Shuttle] Reference
But by 1994, two factions had resumed their decades-old struggle for dominance. From Wordnik.com. [Standing Tall, For Now] Reference
And because the industry's decades-old culture of all-out resistance is crumbling. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Signals] Reference
Investigators still don't know why the decades-old pipeline in San Bruno ruptured. From Wordnik.com. [Calif. Blast Spotlights Nation's Aging Gas Lines] Reference
The Five Hundred, and now the Taurus, is the answer to the decades-old question, WWWCD?. From Wordnik.com. [Bully about the return of Taurus] Reference
Good news: Jealousy may prompt China to resolve decades-old border dispute with India this month. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
When she pressed for an explanation, her father refused to talk, citing a decades-old pledge of secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets, Lies and Love] Reference
And even the prosecutors themselves at first admitted that the decades-old case is hardly a "slam-dunk.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bloody 'Army' On Trial] Reference
Lawton Chiles -- that led to the overnight reversal of a decades-old policy of welcoming Cuban refugees. From Wordnik.com. [How Do We Get To The Endgame?] Reference
The decades-old campus movement to change Nike's worker treatment policies may finally be gaining traction. From Wordnik.com. [Nike Bends To University Demands, Promises To Help Displaced Honduran Workers] Reference
Many external and opposition groups have called for you to lift Syria's decades-old state of emergency laws. From Wordnik.com. ['A Long Road Ahead'] Reference
Millers rely on decades-old equipment that leave rice grains broken and unsuitable for export to most markets. From Wordnik.com. [Rice Sows Hope in Myanmar] Reference
So it makes sense that he's a big fan of a new twist on the decades-old SAT, an innovation called Score Choice. From Wordnik.com. [Something Else to Worry About] Reference
But he still offers the usual -- a blocked writer up in Maine, spooks haunting the scene of a decades-old crime. From Wordnik.com. [Art For Autumn] Reference
The word "America" is often pronounced here as an epithet and accompanied by a litany of decades-old grievances. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. builds goodwill with quick assistance in Pakistani flooding] Reference
STEVE INSKEEP, host: This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tries to make progress on a decades-old problem. From Wordnik.com. [Mideast Talks To Test Clinton's Negotiating Skills] Reference
When they have disposed of Bosnia, Serbs and Croats will be hard pressed to resist the pull of their decades-old feud. From Wordnik.com. [Bosnia: An Unholy Alliance] Reference
Spotting and stopping crime in action, not waiting for a rusted, decades-old station wagon to reveal something to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Back] Reference
Raúl has said Cuba cannot blame the decades-old US embargo for all its economic ills and that serious reforms are needed. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing] Reference
But was Clinton's support of Newsom the result of his decades-old feud with Brown, or of a more recently developed loyalty?. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Womack: The Politics of Personal Animosity] Reference
The decision extended the court's landmark 2008 ruling that struck down the District's decades-old ban on handgun possession. From Wordnik.com. [Gun rights advocates challenge Maryland's restrictions on handgun carry permits] Reference
Either way, Kaczynski's decades-old words won't have any effect on his sentencing -- no one doubts he will spend his life in prison. From Wordnik.com. [A Killer's Self-Portrait] Reference
The researchers looked at seven such counties in Colorado -- and none of them bothered to comply with the decades-old civil rights law. From Wordnik.com. [Art Levine: Obama's Latino Strategy Faces Voting Barriers in Swing States] Reference
If the equivalent amount of BPA was ingested by a 155-pound adult, that would exceed EPA's decades-old safe exposure limit for BPA by 12 times. From Wordnik.com. [Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts] Reference
But the Fed has dragged its feet on updating decades-old funds-availability rules regarding when consumers can get money from deposited checks. From Wordnik.com. [After 20+ years of lax consumer protection, should we trust the Fed?] Reference
The government has also scrapped a decades-old vagrancy law that had allowed police to detain and expel anyone without proper residence permits. From Wordnik.com. ['THIS IS REALLY HOME'] Reference
Uribe, who leaves office on August 7th, for making impressive military gains against Colombia's vicious, decades-old left-wing guerrilla insurgency. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Haugaard: A Word to Colombia's New President: Real Security Is the Rule of Law] Reference
T, Verizon and other broadband providers are fighting the proposal, arguing that the FCC should avoid imposing decades-old telephone rules on new Internet lines. From Wordnik.com. [Google, Verizon Try to Shape Net-Neutrality Law] Reference
We met Nabil, owner of a third of the village buildings, at his decades-old Dana Tower hotel, a low-cost backpackers 'place, and a rival to the RSCN's Dana lodge. From Wordnik.com. [Jordan's green crusade] Reference
At the ceremony, he had extended an offer to hold peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a decades-old Marxist guerrilla group known as the FARC. From Wordnik.com. [Car Bombing in Bogota Targets Business District] Reference
China's younger officials may recognize Beijing's support of Kim is counterproductive in the long run, but there is no consensus at the top to change decades-old policy. From Wordnik.com. [Pyongyang's Best Buddy] Reference
Theoretically, laid-off workers can take advantage of COBRA, a decades-old federal law that allows people to stay in the group plan from their old job for up to 18 months. From Wordnik.com. [COBRA bill could be health-insurance lifesaver] Reference
A decades-old federal law initially intended to reduce fraud in sales of Florida swampland was applied for the first time to help dissatisfied buyers of Manhattan condominiums. From Wordnik.com. [Condo Buyers Find Escape Clause] Reference
The picks range from decades-old favorite strip mall spots to "sushi nazis" in fancy-pants locations that refuse to serve wasabi or any other seasonings along with their dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Best Sushi In Los Angeles] Reference
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