But Mr. Stevens's constituents have a right to wonder why their revered senator, a Republican who has served them fiercely for four decades, ever agreed to have his home richly upgraded by someone so obviously hunting for the inside track to politicians.
For four decades, ever since ITC's first Indian chairman A.N. Haksar took charge from BAT in 1969, every leader has tried his best to diversify beyond tobacco, but without much success.
The system has existed for three decades, ever since the state began emptying its psychiatric wards.
Yet over three decades, ever since he had decided to switch his work from curing bodies to curing deluded minds, he had become famous.
MAJOR airlines have been cutting back on frills for more than two decades, ever since American began reducing the number of olives it served in each salad.
Its momentum has been building steadily for more than two decades – ever since the University-backed science parks around the city were branded 'Silicon Fen'," he said.
But government policy has pushed tourism development without much regard for the land or the law for three decades, ever since the cement mixers came to Cancun.
Russia has based troops in Abkhazia for more than two decades, ever since the micro-republic broke away from Georgia in 1992-93 in a bloody separatist war.
It's been honed over two decades, ever since Mr. Calderwood, described as an easy-to-like social butterfly by those who know him, from Bellevue, Wash., befriended Wade Weigel, who was hosting parties at Seattle's decrepit, formerly grand NP Hotel.
Richard Miller, a sculptor in eastern Pennsylvania, has been making home furnishings for two decades, ever since he fashioned a vase out of a glacial boulder as a present for a friend, and got hooked.
DEAN REED died in 1986, five years before the demise of the Soviet Union, a nation that more or less managed his singing career for two decades, ever since his "discovery" by a Russian journalist in 1965.
