And there was a time back when I was covering Congress that that was the mantra of a lot of folks, conservatives in particular, and Republicans, that disclosure was the answer rather than any kind of campaign finance reform restrictions like McCain-Feingold.
More telling, when pollsters asked Americans whether the year ahead would be a time of opportunity and expansion for their families, or a time to hold back and save for harder times ahead, 60% said it would be a time to hold back.
There was a time, back in the 1950s and 1960s, when Keynesian stimulus packages were seen as costless.
"I half expected Tevez would be going a long time back, " said Ferguson.
There used to be a time, back in the '70s, when I led pastry tours of Madison Avenue for out-of-town friends.
With a forkful of the apple cake or apfelkuchen, as Berliners would have it, one is a time traveller back in the city's heady days of the late 1920s.
Because, you know, it used to be a time where back in the day, it was like the young people, we'd go to church, but it's just null and void.
We've got to take it a game at a time and get back on a winning track - then the rest will fall into place.
This is a time to take a step back to get perspective.
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The new generation is finding games on them so intuitive that they will have a hard time getting back to gaming on the computer or on the DS. They will only accept a minimal amount of button-pushing.
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Rain came down heavily a half hour at a time, then pulled back into a silvery sky of fast-moving, fuzzy-bottomed clouds.
Email is the same way: Work on a draft while doing something else, go back a time or two and voila!
Nets F Kris Humphries was a game-time scratch with a bad back.
"We had a new threat, and we are going to, for a period of time, tilt back to a more conservative approach, " the official said.
But when Warrington ran in a third try four minutes from half-time, it already looked a long way back for the Super League champions - and this time they had a justified sense of grievance at the award of the try.
"This is not a time to sit back and say enjoy the good news, " he said.
"It is also a time to give back to your parents in a way that is unique, " she said.
Now, our small businesses were especially hard hit by this recession and many are having a tough time getting back on their feet.
As a result of Melissa, one unidentified company shut down its mail server but is having a hard time getting back online with all of the e-mail, Hernan said.
Just because there is threat of a recession, the stock market is gyrating, and the U.S. is being lambasted with negative press across the globe concerning our national debt does not mean it is a good time to back off your retirement savings.
For a midcareer leader, this may be a time to move back to the creative ferment phase, accepting that the ground is shifting within her industry, that there are no guarantees that her job will still exist in the same form within just a few more years, but that untold new possibilities may exist.
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Which leaves the Sauternes producers praying for a change in fashion, back to a time, more than a century ago, when their wine was among the most sought-after in the world.
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He reckons that the peculiar fanaticism of local football fans and the interest in local historic symbols are part of the same thing: a deep-rooted desire for a cultural identity which reaches back to a time when the region was great and powerful, coupled with a certain resentment towards the south.
Although New Orleans is still a laid-back place that likes a good time, the trauma of the storm and the long slog back to normality seem to have energised it.
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Wales hit back after half-time as a fine pass back inside from Jonathan Davies allowed Halfpenny to break through, then a line-out catch and drive shoved Hobbs over.
"It's not unusual for a surgeon to have to go back a second time and a third time because these infections -- look at that young lady in Georgia -- can spread in a very determined and rapid and persistent fashion, " Schaffner said.
She will tell you that she had a difficult time in holding back in dealing with that sympathy ... because she herself had lost a sibling.
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