11.   In a period of empty millennial frenzy, we may begin to see a precious integrity in the documents of an earlier decade or century.

12.   In earlier decades, civil rights firms commonly represented minorities in education discrimination suits.

13.   In earlier decades, individual doctors decided which medicines to prescribe and drug companies had little incentive to limit price increases.

14.   In earlier decades, issues that remain pertinent today were openly discussed.

15.   In an earlier decade, the notion that a man might eschew the corporate ladder in favor of staying home would have elicited jeers.

16.   In earlier decades that might have devastated the market here.

17.   It was kind of like Duke Ellington once described it in an earlier decade.

18.   Of course, the influence of rock, pop and, in earlier decades, jazz, has long been noted in the music of contemporary American composers.

19.   Occasional measurements on the same question during earlier decades indicated that the sense of importance probably was stronger in the past.

20.   Sometimes, especially in earlier decades, the Met did make important statements with its choice of works and singers for opening nights.