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“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”

Years Running Courses Five Tree Fields Percent Ideals Years Ago Trials Five Years Nests Ratios Hawks Acres Timber Quails

Author:Rick Carlisle

“In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.”

Years States Five Lows Percent Increase Rate Population Five Years Immigrants Jobless Washington State

Author:Dave Reichert

“Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.”

Years Said States Lasts America Situation Five Four Percent Years Ago Supreme Islamic Five Years Department Controlled Council Extremist Mosques

Author:Peter King

“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

Years Chance Five Months Summer Percent Scientist Disappear Access Ice Data Five Years Navy Caps Submarines

Author:Al Gore

“The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings.”

People Years Wells Sometimes Government Used Brain Study Five Risk Percent Average Phones Cancer Eight Five Years Warning Finnish Cellphone Brain Cancer

Author:Devra Davis

“Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.”

Years Ends Five Alive Percent Patient Treated Five Years

Author:Michael Landon

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.”

Years Believe Five Internet Computer Percent Phones Boxes British Access Consumers Five Years Mobile Mobile Phones Personal Computers

Author:Richard Branson

“There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.”

People Thinking Years Looks Persons Real Realizing Chance Rooms Five Four Figures Healthy Beats Percent Cancer Math Kicks Five Years Irrational Competitiveness Healthy Person

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska