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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  FORTY
For forty years Moses lives as a shepherd with a family of Midianites, marries, and comes to know God.  At the end of the forty years, God calls Moses, through the burning bush, to go and lead the people out of bondage in Egypt.
Forty years was a period of learning to know God, and spiritual growth.
Forty years was a period of learning to be a nation of God.
www.geocities.com /jr_314159/40/FORTY.htm   (996 words)

  
 Forty Years
Forty years ago on this very day, Ellie and I were married at the altar of Ellie’s home church, the church in which she was baptized and confirmed, Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater, Minnesota.
Forty was used as a round number to designate a fairly long period of time.
Forty years is the approximate length of a generation.
members.tripod.com /mzlaura/Sermon98/8-16-98.htm   (1566 words)

  
 Shelter: Forty years of Shelter
Forty years of bringing hope of a brighter future to those we have helped.
And in 40 years, we've never been more ambitious, more determined, or more committed to stopping bad housing wrecking lives.
Forty years ago, the nation woke up to the scandal of homelessness and bad housing.
england.shelter.org.uk /home/home-4862.cfm   (306 words)

  
 Forty Years Old
Forty Years On I was thirty nine a few weeks ago.
One of the daunting things that a forty year old woman once said to me was that the really worrying thing about being forty is that the next milestone is being fifty.
It seems that people start to worry when they are over forty that their forgetfulness may not just be laziness or inattention, but may be a medical condition.
www.ardis.co.uk /forty.htm   (1171 words)

  
 THE LARGEST PAID NON-DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ARKANSAS: NEIGHBORS >> Forty years of service
Forty-one years ago, gas was 30 cents a gallon; an average house cost $20,000; stamps were five cents each and a family man who calls Beebe home went to work for the United States Postal Service.
Add to that the fact that several of his children and his oldest grandson have formed a bluegrass band and will require his presence at some of their performances and you might wonder how he found time to work.
In his early years sorting mail by hand, speed was everything and even though his job changed, his work ethic didn’t, he said.
www.arkansasleader.com /2006/02/neighbors-forty-years-of-service.html   (829 words)

  
 The Bible and the Future of the World - Chapter 9: The Forty Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But the Forty Years is not the time of the end of the world, nor the time of the Antichrist, nor the time of the Second Coming of Jesus.
Thus the Forty Years is the beginning of a long period of time and a long sequence of events leading to the Return of Jesus Christ in glory and the establishment of peace and holiness on earth (in the mid 25th century).
The year 2015 is the year of the 2000th anniversary of the beginning of Christ’s three and one half year Ministry.
www.catholicplanet.com /future/09-FortyYears.htm   (8846 words)

  
 Forty Years On
Forty years has given me a wonderful wife, four great children, and seven beautiful grand-children.
Through these forty years I have had the privilege to own several new automobiles, two new homes, and travel to a few foreign countries.
I have learned through these forty years my real concern should not be how much money or "things" I have accumulated in this "Egypt" but what have I accomplished for the Lord Jesus is what will count for eternity.
www.biblefortoday.org /bennett/Articles/forty.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Berkshire Blog: a global point of reference: Forty years of HCI (human-computer interaction)
Berkshire Blog: a global point of reference: Forty years of HCI (human-computer interaction)
Paul Duguid suggested him as the editor for our technology editors and he was a superb and committed participant, in spite of our first rather acerbic encounter (he complained that our editorial board included no past president of the community section of the American Sociological Society).
He's just let me know that his "40 years of HCI," a personal chronology which we used as a sidebar in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction was reviewed in the Infobong.com blog 1 May 2005 as "funny and informative."
www.berkshirepublishing.com /blog/archives/2005/05/forty_years_of.html   (167 words)

  
 The Heroic Age: Forty Years of Fear
From the year when the Saxons came to Britain and were welcomed by Vortigern to Decius and Valerian are 69 years (A.D. Morris 1980:39).
Tolstoy's second assumption is that the period of forty years leading up to the arrival of the Saxons was originally added to the date of the death of Maximus, i.e.
In the year 449 Martinus and Valentinian took the empire and held it for seven years; during which time the Angles, whose leader was Hengist, son of Ohta, came to Britain at the invitation of Uuertigern, king of the Britons.
www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2fyf.htm   (3500 words)

  
 Forty years in Space
Forty years later, Thumba is the hub of all space programmes helmed by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Even as the celebrations begin, Thumba is gearing up to launch a series of Rohini-200 rockets in the next five years, as part of the research programme in middle atmospheric dynamics.
ISRO undertook the Rohini programme after the successful conclusion of the India-Russian collaborative project under which M-100 rockets were launched from Thumba over 15 years.  Among other things, VSSC scientists say the Rohini project will study the circulation changes in the break monsoon events.
www.rediff.com /news/2003/nov/20spec.htm   (755 words)

  
 Forty 4
years old when he became king, and he ruled from Mahanaim for two years.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name.
www.allaboutgod.com /truth-topics/forty-4.htm   (396 words)

  
 FORTY YEARS OF LIES
Just a few years ago, records of some of the CIA's early Cold War activities, due for mandated release, were suddenly said to have "disappeared," and that declaration was pretty much the end of the story for a press regularly puffing itself as the fourth estate of American society.
In recent years, we've had Patrick Kennedy say he believes Castro was responsible, but his views on this matter are more like built-in reflexes than informed judgment.
An exception was his (estranged) wife, Marina, who found herself, after the assassination, a Soviet citizen in a hostile country, able to speak little English, the mother of two young children with absolutely no resources, and hostage to American agents who could determine her destiny.
www.opednews.com /chuckman1103_forty_years_of_lies.htm   (4549 words)

  
 Jonathon Delacour: Forty years ago today
Forty years ago today I went to a Beatles concert, one of six shows the band gave in Sydney in June, 1964.
In Australia we got the British albums released by EMI on the Parlophone label and, looking at this complete discography, I realize I wouldn't mind listening to one or two songs.
(Years later, at a performance of the Peking Opera in Beijing, I was just as surprised to hear a splashing sound behind me and, looking down, to see a trickle of pungent liquid flowing between my feet.
weblog.delacour.net /archives/2004/06/forty_years_ago_today.php   (1589 words)

  
 Another Forty Years?
The United States has escalated its military role in Colombia in recent years, first as part of the war on drugs, and since 9/11, under the war on terror.
In September last year, President Uribe made public pronouncements that NGO workers, especially human rights defenders, are terrorists doing the bidding of the country's guerrilla groups.
The social and economic inequalities, along with the government repression, that led to the formation of the FARC 40 years ago are clearly still prevalent in Colombia.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/colombia/1982.html   (565 words)

  
 FORTY YEARS of FLUXUS by KEN FRIEDMAN
You must measure the year by the flavor, not the flavor by the year.
It is forty years since the first concerts in Wiesbaden.
It is forty years since the first European tours and the first projects in the United States and Asia.
www.artnotart.com /fluxus/kfriedman-fourtyyears.html   (10777 words)

  
 Forty Years Gone
Faces of men that sailed through the years of a long cold war to hold our enemies at bay.
Sacrificing years, marriages, limbs and even their lives at times to do what they thought was right.
Years of stories untold even today watching the Bear and preparing for a war.
home.earthlink.net /~k0hb/id16.html   (583 words)

  
 How are plastics made?
Forty years ago, anything made of plastic was considered "cheap." That’s certainly not true today when plastics are used in thousands of products ranging from computers, automobile parts and important medical equipment to toys, cookware, sports equipment, and even clothes.
Celluloid, as this new material was called, became the only plastic of commercial importance for 30 years.
Air is forced between the plastic and the cover and presses the material into the shape of the die.
www.reachoutmichigan.org /funexperiments/quick/plastic.html   (1068 words)

  
 Article: Forty Years and Counting
Forty years is a long time in a person’s life, but not necessarily in the life of the church.
We might say, “All of this in only forty years!” Let’s step back and take a look both at how we got here and where we may be heading.
Combining his generous and pastoral spirit with his years of experience as a diplomat in the church, Pope John sought to offer the people of the world the one thing that would sustain their hopes, heal their divisions, and give them peace.
www.wau.org /current/article.asp?id=4196   (1479 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mustang: Forty Years: Books: Randy Leffingwell,David Newhardt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Through 40 years of tough competition from Chrysler and General Motors, the Mustang has survived and outlasted them all.
As a 1977 Mach 1 owner I was also looking for more even coverage that included lower level Mustangs from across the years, they aren't just the stuff of fleet sales, they are Mustangs as well.
Maybe it would be better to get some of the smaller books that cover a narrower range of model years, like the MBI title "Mustang 5.0 and 4.6 1979-98", or one of the books on the 1964 1/2 - 73 cars.
www.amazon.ca /Mustang-Forty-Years-Randy-Leffingwell/dp/0760315973   (618 words)

  
 Forty years of liberalism have ended in failure
The last 60 years can be divided into two parts: the New Deal era (1933-1975) and the corporate special interest era (1975-present).
Virtually every part of this bumper sticker slogan is wrong; it hasn't been 40 years, it hasn't been all liberalism, and it hasn't been a failure.
Most of the time, the 40 years in question refer to the period that Democrats controlled Congress from 1955 to 1994.
www.huppi.com /kangaroo/L-fortyyears.htm   (1816 words)

  
 Forty Years of Rehearsal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In looking back on their years of work, Meed reflected in 1991, "we have had forty years of rehearsal," evoking the Biblical image of wandering through the desert.
In the thirty years since WAGRO first announced that it wanted to build a memorial in the 1960s, its stage has evolved from a place reserved for the dead to a display of the living.
For forty years following the end of World War II, in the absence of a permanent site for memory in New York City, it has been the survivors themselves and their families that have constituted a public memorial to the Holocaust.
lrw.net /~lucia/pubs/wagro   (9752 words)

  
 FORTY SEVEN YEARS
Virginia Petty Stringer wrote years later that as a four year old she was aware of the hardships by the women at home during the war.
For the next six years he was employed in engineering on that and other southern railroads, gaining a wealth of knowledge he would try to put to use later in Texas.
A year later he married her and settled in Paris on ten acres of land purchased from Wright for $300.
gen.1starnet.com /civilwar/chapt17.htm   (10971 words)

  
 MSNBC -- Forty years later: The JFK assassination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Forty years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
The murder of the 35th U.S. president shocked the world and plunged a nation into mourning.
On the 40th anniversary of Kennedy’s death, MSNBC.com looks back at the day that changed America and the lasting effect the events in Dallas had on the country and its citizens.
www.msnbc.com /news/jfkanniversary_front.asp   (107 words)

  
 Forty Years
As if the page had been turned ahead forty years Earl once again called Jim and asked to share an evening together with their music playing.
She was the same if but only forty years older.
Her body was just as afflicted with cerebral palsy as was the child he saw forty years before.
www.electricscotland.com /history/america/donna/kids/forty_years.htm   (845 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
Forty years ago this week, one of the brightest and most spectacular comets ever seen was putting on a memorable show in the morning twilight sky.
In the year 1888 astronomer Heinrich Kreutz (1854-1907) noted that sungrazing comets, all followed along approximately the same orbit.
But that doesn’t mean that our descendants around the year 2565 will be treated to a repeat performance, since the comet essentially departed the scene with its nucleus in shambles.
www.space.com /spacewatch/051021_nightsky_friday.html   (1483 words)

  
 Forty Years on Coronation Street (2000) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Forty year of Coronation Street was the first life episode I had ever seen.
It wasn't the first ever life episode, no because the first episode was life, the first live episode was in 1960 which was the first episode.
The episode was really to mark that coronation street has been go for 40 years and still going as strong as ever.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0275356   (286 words)

  
 Cross-Currents » Forty Years Ago
Forty years ago to this day, on September 15, 1965, Rabbi Moshe Sherer of blessed memory and I went out to Staten Island to meet with Reuben Gross of blessed memory, a noted Orthodox attorney.
But we are far behind where we were forty years ago.
The smell of success has gotten to our organizations and leaders, such as they are, and we are afraid to be unpopular.
www.cross-currents.com /archives/2005/09/15/forty-years-ago   (778 words)

  
 DSN: Features: Articles: Forty Years of Space Talk
In addition to capturing the words of astronauts on all the Apollo moon missions, the dish has communicated with the computers and equipment on every one of NASA's major robotic solar system explorers.
After two years of construction, a testing phase began to determine how well the antenna would receive signals.
With a fleet of NASA missions already flying and many more planned for the future, the 70-meter Goldstone antenna and the other dishes of the Deep Space Network have a busy lifetime ahead of them.
deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov /dsn/features/40years.html   (683 words)

  
 Boston Ballet : Boston Ballet - Forty Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In spelling out the 40-year history of Boston Ballet, in naming the names, in checking the dates, times, and places, one thing has become clear to me—although Boston Ballet began as the dream of one woman, E. Virginia Williams, in the late 1950s, today it is the dream of many.
Although she had not danced the role in ten years, a phone call from Williams had drawn her to Boston.
When Boston Ballet was entering its 16th year with a world tour, Mikko Nissinen was entering his 17th, premiering as the lead in The Kirov Ballet’s Nutcracker.
www.bostonballet.org /about/history/bostonballetfortyyears.aspx   (2400 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Exhibition Overview: Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting presents a full-scale survey of paintings by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter.
Over the years Richter's renown in the U.S. has grown, with his work featured in galleries, group or thematic shows at museums, and exhibitions devoted to particular aspects of his work.
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and made possible by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder with generous support from Mimi and Peter Haas.
www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=86   (1167 words)

  
 Forty Years of Science-Fiction Television (1990) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Forty Years of Science-Fiction Television (1990) (V) Home
During half an hour you will watch a synthesis of what was the first forty years of the science fiction production for television.
The phenomenon is remembered through a 14 minutes special tribute with a collection of hilarious "out-takes" of funny goofs made by the actors that was wonderfully edited and given to the cast members as souvenirs.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0270952   (291 words)

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