But recently this dismal picture has begun to brighten.
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But this recently concluded episode was hardly a distraction from important problems.
The company has been gradually improving Maps, but as recently as this month Australian police complained that an Apple Maps glitch could endanger motorists by mislocating a city of 30, 000 people in the middle of the outback.
Japan had only a handful of business schools until recently, but this is creating new demand for business studies.
Chief Supt Martin said three of the rockets, which he termed "explosively formed projectiles" had previously been seized in Northern Ireland recently, but this was the first in Derry.
The US stopped making Tritium decades ago, but recently have restarted production because of this very problem.
The IPO market has been murky recently, but it showed strength this week with a diverse group of offerings.
The Hatters may have been relegated from the Football League this week but Spillane recently helped them to lift the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Google Talk Chatback enabled web masters to allow users to chat with them from the site but Google recently acquired Meebo which provides this functionality though Meebo Bar.
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City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson's side have struggled recently but the former England boss believes this result shows the quality of his players.
In fact, MTA officials have mulled installing platform doors as recently as this year, but ultimately shied away over issues of cost and practicality.
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He has recently been living in Macau, but this year popped back for his father's birthday.
But this approach, according to two recently published studies, might have its own drawbacks.
But until recently the Obama Administration barely moved in this direction.
Tech and energy stocks have lagged this year, but investors have recently been dipping their toes into the sectors, seen as closely tied to global economic growth.
Such assertions may have been accurate as recently as earlier this decade, but at present, and increasingly in the next several years, this conclusion will appear to be guided more by an overconfidence in American capabilities than by pragmatic realism.
It's a great idea, but one reason why this wireless tech has been restricted to nothing but a glorified conceptualization (until recently, anyways) is because no standard had been set.
Recently, this tradition has faded, but there are still those who say congressional leaders shouldn't travel to countries perceived as hostile by the administration.
Packaged applications can help to deliver some of this data, but analytics vendors have recently moved their offerings into the realm of the business user.
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But recently, officials had been considering whether to delay this scheduled closure - for maintenance work - until the end of 2012, giving the LHC more time to hunt for the elusive particle.
Not sure how this slipped under our radar, but recently Oppo Mobile CEO Chen Mingyong teased that his upcoming flagship phone, the Find 5, will again feature a non-removable but "certainly big enough" battery (for the sake of anti-counterfeiting and, consequently, safety) as well as a 1080p, 441ppi display.
But I'm pleased that recently added amendments have made this landmark bill even stronger.
It was published last year in Britain (but only this month in the United States) and recently won the Orwell prize, an award for political writing.
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But our tree has been having a hard time recently -- this is our third one in as many years.
But the carriers can catch on to this -- Verizon recently closed a loophole that allowed this.
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The bank has hit on a less capital-intensive approach of expanding its corporate-fee business, but since much of this is trade-related it has suffered recently.
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One such product is the BBK Vivo X1, a phone that was recently launched in China but hasn't seen any time on this side of the Pacific.
But GM recently announced that because of slow sales it will stop production this month of the L-Series car, which was meant to be Saturn's bread and butter, earlier than planned.
In this experiment, which was originally a thought experiment but has recently been conducted, time seems to run backward.
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