All this changed after 1971, when the old New York Stock Exchange was joined by an upstart new rival, Nasdaq, which imposed less stringent listing conditions.
And then, on the last Friday of August, all this was changed: it was so sudden that Frankie puzzled the whole blank afternoon, and still she did not understand.
But this all changed with Amazon unveiled its Kindle Fire range of tablets.
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This all changed in 2005 after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed by a car bomb in Beirut.
This all changed a few years ago when I visited chef Sara Jenkins's popular pocket-size eatery in Manhattan's East Village named, appropriately, Porchetta.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union however, with the resulting massive increases in trade and overall interdependence between nations, and the advent of the internet, with its electronic banking and finance, all this has completely changed.
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For years, most small tax-exempt organizations were exempt from filing requirements with IRS. This all changed a few years back when The Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it mandatory for tax-exempt organizations to file an annual information return or notice with the IRS regardless of how much (or little) income the organization receives.
President Kennedy changed all this when he allowed government workers to unionize and engage in collective bargaining.
But the southward advance of the rebel and Islamist forces and the precipitate collapse of the Malian army changed all this.
America's long litany of corporate scandals has changed all this.
Mark Zuckerberg changed all this at Facebook (FB).
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All Labour governments this century have changed Britain for the better.
By working together we in this hall, and all those who came before us, have changed the course of this century.
And despite all the hype, this reality has not fundamentally changed.
Indeed, that this case is being prosecuted at all shows how much has changed.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those whose lives are forever changed as a result of this storm.
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"All this heavy machinery and vehicles caused a lot of soil compaction, changed the landscape, and allowed more sand to move and caused a lot of erosion, " she said.
Despite all this activity, Mr Hannezo says that Vivendi's debt was little changed at the end of May, at around euro19 billion.
Thanks to all this added content and the fact that he has the budget, Jackson changed his planned two-part film into a trilogy.
But this week's assassination of an Israeli Cabinet Minister changed all that and things have gone from bad to worse ever since and I'm joined on the phone now by the Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat who was with Yasser Arafat here this week.
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This changed with the arrival in Paris of famous pictures looted from all over Europe by the armies of Napoleon.
This week, everything changed: Mr Dobson decided to run after all.
All this might be ancient history but for the fact that not much appears to have changed.
All these reform efforts that we triggered through this competition have meant that 32 states actually changed their laws.
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