Most of Iran's centrifuges are based on a European design nearly a half-century-old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran and the effort to halt its nuclear ambitions] Reference

Politics as spectacle is a half-century-old criticism that has outlived its usefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Pessimism Porn] Reference

But no, these are words from Samuel Beckett's classic half-century-old play, "Waiting for Godot.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: What Will U.S. Supreme Court Decide? - December 10, 2000] Reference

A half-century-old government program has helped 60 million students pay for a college education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Takeover Of Student Lending] Reference

Huddled around half-century-old kilns for warmth, some workers masked their anxiety with nervous optimism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes From a Layoff: Tears Flow Among the Kilns at a Tiny Tile Maker] Reference

And the fans and critics of Domino's Pizza are aghast at the piemaker's plans to radically alter its half-century-old recipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009] Reference

Yet many things also escape her, including the true complexion of the half-century-old friendship between two battered codgers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bye-Bye to Brick Lane- Monica Ali Changes Tack] Reference

They dash right by the hamlet's half-century-old grocery store, past an occasional pooch napping in the rich south Alabama soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Artist Conjures up Images of Old South - January 16, 2000] Reference

Sarah's tale -- her own story of how she had dressed a gloomy-faced boy in half-century-old finery and sent him townward for eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

The new administration and all of us would do well to look to and emulate this half-century-old model: A Freedom Budget for All Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chester Hartman: Martin Luther King and a Freedom Budget for All Americans] Reference

The question is, will President Clinton be able to convince the two Mideast leaders to show the political will to end a half-century-old conflict?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Camp David Summit: Palestinian Officials Report Some Progress; Recent Violence is a Reminder of Difficulties Ahead - July 16, 2000] Reference

Today, DARPA is carrying on that more than half-century-old tradition through a host of programs designed with war, death, and destruction in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Turse: Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race] Reference

Armed with a list of half-century-old acting credits that included gigs I'd never heard about (Mom, Judy Garland's stunt double?), they hit the pavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [TINSELTOWN DREAMS] Reference

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture] Reference

For years, I pledged to myself on every visit that I would get around to bellying up at the counter of the half-century-old Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop on Elm Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost City: New Haven Edition: Yankee Doodle Did and Died] Reference

Under the deal, which was consummated in January 2006, New Times management took control of the whole operation, but assumed the hallowed, half-century-old Voice name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Publisher Rousts Its Editor After Bumpy Ride] Reference

When SABMiller arrived two years ago, assembly lines were jury-rigged, stock was kept in cages to prevent theft and half-century-old records were stacked in outhouses.    From Wordnik.com.  [SABMiller Taps Ethiopia's 'Holy Water'] Reference

Cody's Books, the half-century-old Berkeley bookstore that has long been an East Bay institution -- one of the truly great west coast stores -- has closed its doors forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Telecommunications Online has a story today about West Plains Telecommunications, a small incumbent local exchange carrier upgrading its half-century-old copper network to fiber.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Texas Towns Get Fiber, Thank Verizon] Reference

The garage is home to several half-century-old cars and trucks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State Journal-Register Home RSS] Reference

Italian glossy is Blanxart, a half-century-old chocolate manufacturer based in Switzerland.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to RBS kept client Cadbury in the dark as it prepared to back Kraft's hostile bid] Reference

The half-century-old, open-pit zinc and lead mine belches streamers of dust that coat homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

This site is an authentic, half-century-old relic, a remnant of the mundane, the insignificant, the quaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The United States has about 47,000 troops in Japan under a half-century-old security pact, more than half on Okinawa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

But the nearly half-century-old organization has lots of friends, and it appears it will weather this most recent setback.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Journal Featured Content] Reference

It just upgraded its half-century-old bimonthly newsletter, the Vermillion Flycatcher, into a glossy magazine-style format.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Lincolnites are expected to vote in the spring on whether to build a new arena to replace the half-century-old Pershing Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [JournalStar.com - News Articles] Reference

The Air Force has said the KC-X tankers are a top acquisition priority to replace the half-century-old tankers it is operating now.    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference

The vote epitomizes a half-century-old struggle still being waged across Africa against the ever-strong reign of autocratic strongmen.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Obama admitted that Washington's half-century-old policy towards Cuba "hasn't worked the way we want it to; the Cuban people aren't free.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The National Academy of Science (NAS) has proposed a revision to the half-century-old formula the U.S. government uses to calculate poverty.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Her grandfather became a kosher butcher and in his final years, while living with Judy's parents, spent days sitting in his chair with his half-century-old entries.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

It has been a staple of conservative thought, and the continued dormancy of 10th Amendment enforcement has been one of the failures of our now half-century-old movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

Specifically on Cuba, Obama admitted that Washington's half-century-old policy on the communist island 'hasn't worked the way we want it to; the Cuban people aren't free.'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference