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About 11 percent of the students at the school are black.

He had one child and was about to become a father again.

They are down about 29 percent over the last year.

Been getting them from him for about 20 years now.

He has been living in Iraq for about 10 years.

The process now takes about 36 days, the group said.

The men still own about 30 percent of the company.

Under the Bush plan, the number would be about 11 percent.

Looking to the future is what he was all about.

At the time, they had been together for about 10 years.

The whole process will take about two or three minutes.

He will own about 5 percent of the new company.

But America was not about to let go of the issue.

Something around 5 percent seems to be just about right.

She has about 80 students in her school, age 3 to 17.

Our business is up by about 20 percent over 1993.

They come about three times a week, often with their four children.

He and his wife were about to have their first child.

They think I'm too young to know what love is all about.

She was up and about in less than 24 hours.

My office was next to his for about five years.

Now she can see them only about once a month.

About 200 to 250 go through the program each year.

The group has about 14 members, age 65 to 85.

Yet they have been close friends for about 15 years.

They used to talk to each other about not getting the big break.

We're going about our business and the world goes on.

So the country has a right to know about them.

As things turned out, he was right about the process.

And they are those the press needs to be talking about.

By then, I did know something about what the government was up to.

I had to make them see we were talking about people like me.

I think about you and what your life is like in 2006.

But then, the same might be said about America itself.

Then I asked him about what he did during his days.

Or rather, I thought about what my parents would think.

I only knew about his family from what he said.

But what about when the same is true of the American president?

But then you can say the same thing about the whole program.

The public needs to know what you plan to do about the war.

We went about our business and tried to get better.

You need to think about what you're doing all the time.

And people will start talking about me if I get left back.

Let me be clear about several things right up front.

But the students wanted to know more about the men.

But the team found good things to say about itself.

"Then you can go about the most important business of being a family."

Can you tell us about one or more of these?

Like how much information to give out about his team.

But no one seemed to be talking about the show.