So, Silicon Valley dwellers, with the cheap land and wide-open spaces of a generation ago long gone you tell us: why stick around?
To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.
Actually, the dramatic trend to shorter holding periods began 50 years ago, long before flash-trading entered the vocabulary.
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Even just a few years ago, long-range marketing plans were a kind of comforting bedrock for our teams .
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Sharon Kleinpeter with the local cable company, Cox Communications, says the law was passed two years ago after long negotiations.
Fossil evidence suggests some populations could have been around tens of thousands of years ago, long before the emergence of agriculture.
Many of the beautiful concertos and sonatas you're playing today were written hundreds of years ago, long before CDs and computers and MP3 players were ever invented.
Taylor entered the hospital with congestive heart failure six weeks ago, long after these tweets were posted, but it was a condition she battled for many years, according to her publicist.
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By many paleochemical calculations, corroborated by historical record, global temperatures were several degrees warmer 1, 000 years ago, 3, 000 years ago and 6, 000 years ago, long before humans began using fossil fuels.
But in 2004, researchers discovered that a dwarf species of human, dubbed "The Hobbit", was living on the Indonesian island of Flores until 12, 000 years ago - long after modern humans had colonised the region.
There's an in-depth retrospective of the technology at the source link, looking back to Samsung's exit that left Mitsubishi alone in the segment three years ago, long after others like Sony and Hitachi fled for thinner-framed climates.
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Not long ago, Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong upgraded the company to a long-term buy because it believed more good news was to come and the market hadn't fully accounted for expected future earnings.
Not long ago we thought this speech would be dominated by the riots, by Britain's long hot summer, but instead it was overshadowed by the economic storm still breaking around our heads.
If the will had been signed long ago, before Hemsley was sick, Thornton likely would not have been able to drag the proceedings out as long as he did.
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"To quote my company commander at the time when I arrived in 1975, he said 'if we hadn't have introduced internment three or four years ago I reckon we'd have gone home a long time ago, '" Mr Mercer said.
Not long ago President Nazarbayev declared that his government would take greater control of energy resources.
Not long ago table tennis was a game played by geeky kids in youth clubs.
As Milton Friedman long ago observed, the best purchases are those made by people spending their own money.
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Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.
And that's really the way the credit markets were functioning not so awful long ago.
Not long ago it opened a kosher kitchen that serves 300 meals a day.
Confucius told us long ago that the longest journey begins with a single step.
Until not long ago, Wall Street was busy feeding Apple stock to the masses.
Are there things you decided long ago that you could never be good at?
Perhaps leading venture-capital firms will return to financing baby start-ups, which they long ago abandoned.
And this from the company that was churning out Chevettes not too long ago.
It wasn't so long ago that some planes had no cockpit door at all.
Not so long ago, offering cash as a gift was a social faux pas.
Not so long ago, government-controlled companies were regarded as half-formed creatures destined for full privatisation.
Eight months later they don't have anything to say because it all happened so long ago.
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