The trip to the Ah Rong studios was taking twice as long as usual.
This Christmas is unlikely to be quite as festive as usual for Mattel's managers, suppliers or shareholders.
Unofficial figures from the Damascus area suggest the total this year is half as much as usual.
He has given up his swimming-filled Twitter and Facebook pages, as well as his usual news sites.
It cannot be delegated to any bureaucracy or agency that would treat these events as business as usual.
"This is not a time for business as usual or politics as usual".
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The brief fuel stop was looked upon as "business as usual, " resulting in the tragic loss of 17 American sailors.
My neck gets tight and achy, and I can't think as clearly as usual, like my mental gears are gummed up.
Disney World wasn't as crowded as usual Tuesday, and one of its water parks closed because of the soggy, windy weather.
Instead, its received fundings from emergency spending bills, which as you know don't receive as much scrutiny as the usual budget request.
But first, Political Junkie Ken Rudin joins us, as usual, here in Studio 42, and we begin, as usual, with a trivia question.
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In addition, look out for profiles on Ludacris, Timbaland, Wale and others, as well as our usual trove of video and audio content.
Toyota has combined polypropylene and rubber at the nanometer scale to make a bumper that is as rigid as the usual 4-millimeter bumper but almost 60% thinner.
But he said many people at the UN listening to the speech would have regarded the UK action as "business as usual" by the West.
If the Knicks had treated their opener as business as usual, the relocated Nets were like eager parents throwing a birthday party for a 1-year-old.
But in recent years the movement has pushed beyond its anarchist roots, drawing in old folk and corporate executives as well as the usual kids.
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It added that some roads might not be as busy as usual because the cold weather was likely to make it more of a "stay-at-home Easter".
Yes, that now includes Amazon.com and Corbis, the vast painting and photography collection owned by Bill Gates, as well as the usual suspects, such as Hallmark.
Today, people need to pause and examine whether they are doing business as usual in a world that increasingly does not reward doing business as usual.
Toyota has combined polypropylene and rubber at the nanometer scale to make a bumper that is as rigid as the usual 4-millimeter one but almost 60% thinner.
Yes, that now includes Amazon.com and Corbis, the vast painting and photography collection owned by Bill Gates, as well as the usual suspects like Hallmark and American Greetings.
Instead, other units were "running things as business as usual".
He cannot wait to see them play the long-awaited Test series at home to India in March - a contest that will ooze with quality as well as the usual adversarial spice.
Even if the Dodgers and Mets are sold soon, neither team can be counted on to chip in as much as usual because attendance is down dramatically for both teams this season.
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All morning patients have been coming in with forms to fill out as usual and for refills as usual, but they'd also been speaking in their own ways about what was not usual.
As a 90-minute TV special, "Cinderella" was roughly two-thirds as long as the usual Rodgers and Hammerstein show, and accordingly took them seven months to write instead of the usual nine or 10.
Finally, changing spending-as-usual depends on changing politics-as-usual.
In that first spell, the impressive Sharma outbowled his more experienced new-ball partner Zaheer, who failed to find as much swing as usual early on, while the odd loose delivery was punished in a calculated manner by Hussey.
In fact, the kinds of flaws Mayer is pointing out are so common that they could be dismissed as Internet business as usual: Another study by Mayer last year found that half of all sites he tested leaked identifying information.
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More crazy, dangerous stunts are inevitable, and will be seen as business as usual. (Unless, maybe, the media decide to persistently point out just how crazy and dangerous they are.) And, in all likelihood, very little of substance will actually be accomplished.
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