In private conversations, many people note that Mr. Bo's downfall happened shortly before a once-in-a-decade leadership transition that might have brought him even greater power.
An explosive story about the massive wealth accumulated by the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao caused the Chinese government to block the website of the New York Times early Friday morning, just days before a sensitive once-in-a-decade transition of power from Wen and others to a new generation of leaders.
The Chinese government is rushing to cauterize the political damage just months before the party orchestrates a once-in-a-decade power transfer to a new generation of leaders.
The storekeeper considers this a moment and responds: "Yes, but what a remarkable memory!" What struck me most about the joke was that I'd heard it before, over a decade earlier, in the Czech Republic, from a gruff reformed communist.
A man could, with his own two feet, overcome all difficulties to reach a pinnacle upon which he could declare, 'No one has ever done this before.' " A decade later, in 1964, Jim Ryun became the first American high school miler to break four minutes.
And even before that happens in a decade or two, new competition of a more conventional kind is bound to come from Chinese manufacturers selling low-price cars in Asia and America.The old car firms must reinvent themselves to seek profit, not just market share.
I rolled up at the south end of San Onofre surfing beach in San Clemente to find five other standup paddlers out in a healthy swell — a sight I had never seen before in more than a decade of surfing there.
Our attitudes were civilized, but the pain my husband caused me seemed just as grievous as that which my mother caused my father when she left him nearly three decades before, in a court trial.
The rate of smoking among Medicaid patients had not changed in a decade before the program was introduced.
The Blues had not won a playoff game in eight years or a series in a decade before dispatching the San Jose Sharks in five games.
