Elsewhere, the New York Times published a weekend feature that suggests the Wii U is the beginning of the end of an era when consoles dominate the video game market.
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Is this the beginning of the end, or an astounding buying opportunity?
Many of the talkers here are calling for an end to the conversation and the beginning of implementation.
The Olympus affair may very well mark the beginning, rather than the end, of an era in Japanese business history.
Numbers had dipped from a peak of 12 million in 2010 to 9.1 million at the beginning of 2012, but have swelled since the release at the end of September of an expansion called the Mists of Pandaria.
The Philharmonic, like many performing arts groups, plays an announcement at the beginning of concerts and at the end of each intermission asking the audience members to turn off their cellphones.
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From the beginning until the end of his series of talks he conveyed an inner certainty that America was the most interesting country on earth, and many Britons who had never thought so before were persuaded to agree with him.
When we compared the percentage of searches at the beginning of 2011 with what was happening at the end of the year (after normalizing the data), we found an notable 17.8% spike in searches from Greece.
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He will soon announce an end to the spill, and the beginning of the cleanup.
"I think this should be the beginning of discussion rather than the end, " said Jonah Blank, an analyst at the Rand Corp.
Each gene has a beginning and an end, and determining where those are takes a lot of skill and experimentation.
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It's not that it's an indistinct mush of sound: Each song has a clear beginning and end.
Yes, and everything that has an end has a beginning, which leads us back to the sense of wonder that the first "Matrix" inspired -- all those dashingly costumed combatants defying gravity, of both kinds, as they popped in and out of a seemingly solid world that proved to be a vast computer construct.
In 2008, once again, we find ourselves at the end of an era with a mandate from history to launch another new beginning.
The end is no longer the end, but the beginning of the finale, which involves the entire cast leading an all singing, all dancing swing-a-long to the show's most famous numbers.
"At the end of my suffering, there was a door, " she writes in "Wild Iris, " with an image that captures both the end of a raw, howling grief and the beginning of life after loss.
And now I'm taking a shower at the beginning of the day instead of the end of the day and I'm not convinced that's an improvement.
Between an aircraft that is at the end of a 40-year evolution and one at the beginning of what is likely to be a similarly long career, there is no contest.
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