Eden Park to break a quarter-century hoodoo, Eales said: I don't like to pre-empt these things, the theme of what he would talk about would be around the fact they would respect that history, but they can't be shackled by it. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. ❋ AP (2011)
Alan Taylor used Flickr to document how Scarry updated his Best Word Book Ever to keep up with social mores after a quarter-century had passed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The welfare of middle-class children has also been declining over the past quarter-century in more areas than income and basic needs, according to the FCD study. ❋ Laura Bassett (2011)
Mr. Ballmer had known Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates for a quarter-century and worked at Microsoft for 20 years when he was named CEO of the software maker in 2000. ❋ Joe Light (2011)
If a quarter-century ago one short-lived idea was “Batman and Raven,” he never had time to dwell on it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Justice O'Connor, who served a quarter-century in the Supreme Court, received a standing ovation when she spoke to the participants. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A quarter-century later, images of the exploding... ❋ AP (2011)
But a central truth cannot be dismissed: More than a quarter-century has gone past -- a sweep of history that has seen the personal computing revolution, two wars in the Persian Gulf, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the integration of China into the global economy -- and yet the average American worker has gotten nowhere. ❋ Peter S. Goodman (2011)
Almost all of the dealer-associate members have been recognized as experts for more than a quarter-century. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The ballooning figure is based on the higher contribution rates announced this week by the state comptroller's office, which raised the percentage of payroll that local governments must chip in to the major pensions system to the highest level in about a quarter-century. ❋ Jacob Gershman (2011)
For the past quarter-century, the cost of higher education has grown 440%, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Education, nearly four times the rate of inflation and double the rate of health care cost increases. ❋ Louis E. Lataif (2011)
Much of the confusion and controversy spawned by this week's report, by a government-sponsored task force, that screening mammograms are not helpful and may be harmful for women under age 50, has to do with the apparent suddenness of the decision, reversing a quarter-century of advice to begin annual screening at age 40. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Indeed, no matter how often I've attended the ballet during the past quarter-century, the only thing that seems to be playing is "Swan Lake." ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
If anything, reading our interview more than a quarter-century later—it began as we walked to breakfast at a nearby restaurant, and continued as we drove around Apple's burgeoning headquarters in Steve's new Mercedes—is even more interesting today, given Mr. Jobs's predictions about the future and his essential role in bringing that future about. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
The National has been the subject of several safety-inspired revisions over the past quarter-century and, though some traditionalists have fumed, that policy can hardly have ruined it since Aintree sold out on Saturday for the first time in decades, while 8.8m watched from their living rooms. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A quarter-century later, however, that promise seems no more enduring than the smoke from Challenger that hovered over the Florida coast that chilly morning in January 1986. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Known across South Africa simply as Madiba, an honorary name given to members of his clan, Mr. Mandela spent a quarter-century imprisoned by the apartheid government in South Africa. ❋ Peter Wonacott (2011)
