The email I received announced it would be business as usual as they marched through proceedings.
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Back at Westminster, it is also business as usual as MPs return from their summer break.
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"This is not a time for business as usual or politics as usual".
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So when people start thinking about brand encounters that were once considered business as usual as momentous occasions, you know marketers have passed the tipping point.
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.
We should also look at our own businesses and ask ourselves whether we should be doing a Ron Johnson on our company, rather than continuing with business as usual as the world changes rapidly around us.
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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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.
Unfortunately it's business as usual, as Hollywood merely shapes its product to cash in on the legions of moviegoers who now embrace rap.
Mr Obama won the presidency while campaigning on a similar proposal, but did not get it enacted when Congress was under Democratic control, and now faces implacable opposition to the idea from Republicans, who dismiss it, as usual, as class warfare.
Finally, changing spending-as-usual depends on changing politics-as-usual.
The brief fuel stop was looked upon as "business as usual, " resulting in the tragic loss of 17 American sailors.
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.
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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We're announcing a wide range of recommendations on BBC Sport, and in any outcome there will still be as much sport as usual on BBC Television on weekend afternoons and throughout the schedule - with even more options available to digital viewers and listeners.
Instead, its received fundings from emergency spending bills, which as you know don't receive as much scrutiny as the usual budget request.
After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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Senator MCCAIN: We can't dedicate more than - possibly more than a trillion dollars to rescue failing institutions and then go right back to business as usual in Washington as if there were no end to the resources of government or the patience of the taxpayers.
Spitzer's charges paint a startling picture of Marsh brass nonchalantly ripping off clients as if it were business as usual.
Then the dollar will probably rally as it plays its usual role as safe haven.
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.
Like the biotechnology of the 1970s, geoengineering cannot be treated just as science-as-usual.
And it may put pharma executives on notice that certain practices can no longer be written off as business-as-usual settlements and are more costly than once thought.
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Too often, once a strategy gets written the discussion tends to taper off as people go back to business as usual.
Fans tailgaiting in the drizzle outside the East Gate Sunday morning, two hours before the Giants opened their season and stadium against the Carolina Panthers, said life as a Giants freak goes on as usual, just a little more expensively.
Perpetual rebels tend to be discounted as "usual suspects" and regarded as self indulgent wreckers by their colleagues.
The lighting display across the raked seating look spectacular from the blimp camera prowling over the stadium, but the filigree details of circus performance and choreographed trickery were lost as the cameras, as is usual on these occasions, had no idea where to look.
The Dow was smoking hot as the summer months rolled by but, as usual, those gains were hijacked.
In a months-long fall this year, gold stopped behaving as usual and lost its shine as a safe-haven play.
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