Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.

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Still, the Teams product will provide a new line of business for Dropbox, which until now has had to rely on individuals paying within a business.

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Until now business has had a sympathetic ear and backstop in Washington.

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Until now business analysts have often oversimplified this dimension of their data because of a lack of the BI system capabilities or access to location indexed data.

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Each graduating business class, from 2008 until now, has been greeted by a dismal economic outlook.

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But the business usage of Dropbox has up until now been self-serve.

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Until now, the organisation needed government approval for most of its business activities.

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They've outlived their usefulness and now just teeter gently in the wind, solemnly minding their own business until someone comes along and knocks them over.

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Ms. Shapiro previously founded the Asia Business Council and served as its Executive Director since its inception in 1997 until 2007, and is now its Senior Advisor.

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Until now, Content production had always been questioned by VCs about its ability to be a sustainable business model.

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