71.   And now, thanks to jet travel, instant communications, immigration and ethnic shops, cross-cultural cooking has expanded at a fast pace in the last decade.

72.   And over the last decade, the proliferation of the Wonderbra coincided with global warming so that just as cleavages became more pronounced, shorts became shorter.

73.   And ridiculous, alarmist reporting that makes you wonder if news dirctors in the last decade or so have come to Boston from wimpy cities like Atlana and Tampa.

74.   And the time children spent waiting for adoption while in foster care has been cut in half over the last decade, aides said.

75.   And the wealthy have seen their taxes rise most in the last decade.

76.   And the gap between those wealthy families and everyone else grew faster in New York over the last decade than in any other state except Arizona.

77.   And the number of classical events has dropped sharply over the last decade.

78.   And the plethora of zinging bullets and fiery explosions reminds one of half of the summer blockbusters of the last decade.

79.   And their isolation and poverty kept their culture more or less intact until the last few decades.

80.   And their ranks have increased exponentially in the last decade.