Two generations ago government subsidized nuclear power.
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Three generations ago government subsidized hydropower.
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Among the long list of similarities I noted then, were that a year ago government stimulus programs were also coming to end, the economy was already showing serious signs of slowing, the stock market looked to be overbought, and investor sentiment was unusually confident and bullish.
Not so long ago, government-controlled companies were regarded as half-formed creatures destined for full privatisation.
Just three years ago the government insisted that Amedeo was doing well and there was no cause for concern.
So far this year, 1.6 million tons of peanuts have been shelled, 25% more than a year ago, government data show.
Two months ago, government prosecutors raided Chang Hwa Commercial Bank in an effort to find evidence of fraud involving a non-existent project.
Months ago the government proposed that a Royal Charter rather than a legally based system was the key to unlocking a deal.
So, three years ago the government modified the country's Motion Picture Law, bringing the industry in from the financial wilderness with tax breaks previously denied all but the most important manufacturers.
It is a place that is still known to many as Silicon Roundabout but two years ago the government dubbed the stretch of London inhabited by small technology firms around the Old Street roundabout Tech City.
Three weeks ago the government managed to soothe Britain about its intentions towards Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 was sentenced to death in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.
Five years ago the government lifted the anonymity granted to donors, so that now any offspring conceived by the donor method, are able to trace their biological parents when they get to the age of 18.
Most of our hydropower dams were built with government support 70 to 80 years ago, while nuclear power plants were built with government support 40 to 50 years ago.
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Several months ago the Ecuadoran government took the agencys advice on reforming the Ecuadoran economy.
Not long ago a Malaysian government minister even threatened to sever sporting and cultural links.
And just a few months ago, the government raised the allowable ethanol blend from 10% to 15%.
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In a development plan published seven years ago, the government had aimed not even to reach 18m before 2020.
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More than 50 years ago, the government offered companies a tax break for offering health coverage to their employees.
Two years ago the regional government teamed up with local people to raise money and build the dam themselves.
Yet, a year ago, the government had nothing but praise for Global Witness.
About 25 years ago, the government declared war on cancer and paid billions of dollars to fight the deadly disease.
That is what happened two years ago when the government used public funds to liquidate the failed jusen mortgage companies.
First, about a decade ago, a government ship began cruising the lake weekly for whatever reasons the government had deemed important.
Just a few years ago, the government projected that the area was well on its way to recovery after decades of overfishing.
With the risk of another global recession greater than it was only a couple weeks ago, the government is now on high alert.
Decades ago, the government gave broadcasters, for free, a huge amount of spectrum to reach 100 percent of American households with television and radio programming.
Some weeks ago, the government's scientists advised it that the deadly human equivalent of mad-cow disease might be transmitted through beef bones, although the risks were tiny.
Thirty years ago, the Government of Austria and the City of Vienna donated this important complex to the United Nations, asking us for only one symbolic shilling at that time.
Two years ago, the government required China's 1, 000 largest industrial consumers--which account for about a third of all Chinese energy demand--to establish their own programs and auditing systems to meet efficiency standards.
How times have changed: it was only ten years ago that the government decided to block the extradition of Augusto Pinochet, a former Chilean dictator, on the grounds of his supposed ill health.
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