Ted Kaufman, his friend for more than four decades, once told me, "If you ask me who's the unluckiest person I know personally, who's had just terrible things happen to him, I'd say Joe Biden.
Forever Evergreen pays for its sidewalk like anyone else, but perhaps it's not too surprising that the person signing the paperwork has been in the business for four decades— once profiled as the Christmas Tree Czar, he's been described many a time as the Man behind the Stands.
"YOU can see all the voters you need from the top of the Space Needle," is how the late Henry Scoop Jacksonon, a Democratic senator for three decades, once described Washington's political landscape.
Gale A. Brewer, a City Council member who has worked in city politics for three decades, once wanted to install information kiosks in front of City Hall to help guide visitors.
Ms. Treadwell has sailed these waters here and at other Disney theme parks for more than two decades — once even dragging a boyfriend from Moscow to Euro Disney outside Paris for a weekend of riding Pirates of the Caribbean.
Many Ugandans are pinning their hopes for a better life on the fledgling industry, which is expected to earn the country more than $3bn£2.1bnbn) annually for close to two decades once production begins.
Maoist rebels, also known as Naxalites, have been present in India for four decades and were once lightly regarded by the central government.
Over four decades on, this once bustling weekly discourse, spread across several music papers, has dwindled to down to just one publication, NME, which is barely scraping 15,000 sales.
The tiny property has been in the hands of a tenancy in common structure, composed solely of members of the Kassover family, which has owned the building for some four decades; it was once the headquarters of their electronics and appliance retail chain, VIM Electric Co., which was a major appliance seller from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Over the course of two decades, the once middle-class areas of Hillbrow and Yeoville in central Johannesburg have become synonymous with crime, drugs and prostitution.
Asked if he could repair his relationship with Mahathir, who ruled Malaysia for two decades and once supported Najib but has since called for his removal, Najib said: "I don't know.
