1.   Each decade has had its own culture.

2.   Each decade since has had its own ambitious plan to bring people and prosperity back, none of them successful.

3.   Every decade has its musical movers and shakers, bands or performers who are forever associated with particular times, whether their careers ended then or continued afterward.

4.   For some advertisers, the decade had special meaning.

5.   It seems that in those days, a decade had to do something special to deserve a moniker.

6.   Only in recent decades have archeologists begun to put a face on the Mongols and their long line of ancestors living beyond the northern walls of China.

7.   Only in the last few decades have kilims captured the attention of the Western world.

8.   Since college games have been televised, no decade has had a lower average.

9.   This decade has had one of the greatest bull markets ever.

10.   Decades of war have created bitter ethnic and religious divisions in a country wracked by poverty and ravaged by a four-year drought.