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Hall said that Britain has enjoyed "a half-century of pre-eminence in this field of endeavor" and that this could now be destroyed.
They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.
During the half-century of its existence, Israel has absorbed approximately 2.5 million Jewish immigrants, displaced persons, refugees, and survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
USAT , the WP and NYT report that Clinton, in his speech in New York City to the Council on Foreign Relations, called the current situation "the biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century."
May the next half-century speak better of us.