Yet McMahon realizes that Excel is still likely to be around for a long time.

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We think it's something significant that's going to be around for a long time.

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"I've been the one voice willing to say we'll be around for a long time, " he says.

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Amid the speculation, one truth stands out: the Kurds and their problems will be around for a long time to come.

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And their business is big enough and strong enough that we feel they're probably going to be around for a long time to come.

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You can be sure that innovation is far from over, and that while both steel and silicon will be around for a long time, neither will anchor the next great innovation wave.

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Aged 46 and with no apparent likelihood of Gambians being tempted to lose their marbles at polling booths, the chances are His Excellency Sheikh, Professor, Alhaji, Doctor Yahya AJJ Jammeh will be around for a long time as President and Commander in Chief of the Republic of The Gambia.

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But to the bookish David Adelman, 37, the tobacco business will be around for a long and profitable time.

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"The headwinds on this economy from restructuring - and the restructuring process still has a long way to go - will be around for some time, " says Russell Jones, chief economist at Lehman Brothers Japan.

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You look around the room, there's a lot of guys in that dressing room that are going to be here for a long time, and we can definitely contend every year.

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