The recession exacerbated such views, and in 2009 half of Americans favored reducing legal immigration, up from 39 in 2008.

Rumsfeld's remarks were divisive because Western Europe seems to know even less than the Americans about Europe's eastern half.

Indeed, in but half a century, Latin Americans rid themselves of all of that continent's military and civilian dictatorships, and Africa has eliminated more than half of the despots that have blighted its era of independence.

Americans generally prefer coffee to tea, with more than half the adult population drinking at least one cup a day.

By some measures, nearly half of all Americans do not pay any income tax already, so cutting taxes skews an already very unequal income distribution.

Lebanese Americans () are Americans of Lebanese descent.

But most Americans today are worse off with lower real (inflation adjusted) incomes than they were in 1997, a decade and a half ago.

They have become hyphenated Americans Italian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and so on.

But if this story was half myth, it was also half true, particularly in the years after WWII. Largely independent of education or family, those Americans who did value stability and security could grasp it in the form of jobs with a future.

Opinion polls indicate that one third of Americans believe that China will soon dominate the world, while nearly half view China s emergence as a threat to world peace.

Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free trade zone.

With most Americans incomes stagnating for a decade and a half, it was clear that the US economic model was not delivering for most citizens, whatever official GDP data said.

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Anglo Americans, they did two and a half times more anagrams when they got to choose them, as compared to when it was chosen for them by Miss Smith or their mothers.

And the problem is that it s based on this half truth, which is that Americans eat too many simple carbs, so if you eat fewer simple carbs you re going to lose weight.

A lot of stuff on twitter, including our own tweets, is half baked and amounts to what Americans call carnival barking (in the service of traffic or attracting followers), so it is better to leave that alone.

Yet, because Americans consistently earn a higher return on their investments abroad than foreigners earn on their US investments, US debt is rising at perhaps only half the rate that it might otherwise.

On the night of November 4, countless Americans and non Americans felt that ideals could indeed become facts.

Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free trade zone. Europeans speak of building a United States of Europe.

It s a half truth. Actually, Americans are eating more fat than ever, and even more carbs. And so the percentage is lower, the actual amount is higher, and so the goal is to reduce both.

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Will Americans Become Poorer?

Most Americans like hamburgers.

We are not Americans.

Most Americans liked Roosevelt.

Yet Americans seem discouraged.

Americans can be generous.

When Americans use the term, it is usually to differentiate white Americans from the rest, which is not something that most Americans, least of all presidential candidates, would now choose to do in public.

Eritrea has half, while Yemen has half.

About half of today s UN members are democracies, the other half non democracies.

Trump is what Americans deserve.

Educating Americans about Muslim Voices

Not even Americans are exempt.

Latin Americans love to travel.

In the election of an African American president less than a half century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America s legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Narrator Of all things Americans are, we are makers.

Americans have been through this type of debate before.

Today, nearly 80 of Americans live in urban areas.

One cannot really claim that the world is flat when a typical African receives investment in his or her human capital of a few hundred dollars, while rich Americans get a gift from their parents and society in excess of a half million dollars.

The African Americans said that White Americans were self centered, greedy, stuffy uptight, and sheltered from the real world.

The music's half of me, but the other half I landed probably the best gig of all.

They don't seem to be Americans.

But will Americans newfound moderation last?

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Americans at least white, male Americans did not have to worry about tradeoffs between security and opportunity, because the US offered the advantages of both.