The process proved complicated because it took months for officials to determine how many even existed.
There were tar balls in the Gulf before drilling for oil even existed!
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No government officials in Rochester or within the New York state government knew it even existed until a former Kodak employee leaked the information.
The IRS said proffered paperwork did not support either the amount of the deductions or the assertion they were in cash, questioning whether the churches even existed.
In fact, the auto industry has been developing self-driving vehicles for decades, long before Google even existed, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page were just babies.
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Rodriguez first achieved global fame in 1996, before his label even existed, when he designed the bias-cut slip dress Carolyn Bessette wore at her secret wedding to John F.
And since Washington is an echo chamber in which the terms of the debate are initiated by government and reflected back by media, you forgot that any other options even existed.
That's long enough to have seen the first silent movie, when it came out, provided a movie theater even existed back then on the island of Barbados, where Sisnett spent his life.
At the same time the Indonesian government, which at one point had denied that JI even existed, mounted a sophisticated campaign to dismantle the group, capturing many of its leaders and putting them on trial.
Among its highlights are Tokyu Hands (Takashimaya Times Square, 5-24-2 Sendagaya), a department store that sells everything you could ever need, and plenty of stuff you had no idea even existed (electrically heated pilllows anyone?).
The e-book's creators say that they were turning over electronic treatments for books such as "Dawn Treader" well before technology for devices such the iPad, or Samsung's Galaxy, which was released this week, even existed.
Whether they take part in "Tron" cosplay or own their own classic "Tron" arcade game, fans of the film that was cyberpunk before such a concept even existed are some of the most rabid.
In fact, she never even existed.
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The old way of watching TV is fraught with hassles and compromises we didn't even realize existed.
They were heroes in a war they didn't even know existed.
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There was justice in that view, since the contracts would have existed even without the merger.
Unstructured knowledge and collaboration have always existed even before social software platforms, as people talked to each other on the phone or in the hallways.
If we want middle-class families to get ahead, we've got to deal with a set of economic challenges that existed even before this recession hit.
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Domestically, we still have a lot more to do to heal this economy and to deal with some of the structural problems that existed even before the financial crisis hit.
At first there was scepticism that this was indeed Vinland or even that Vinland had existed.
With only one branch, 40 employees and a business exclusively in non-Chinese currencies, it is a wonder Morgan Stanley even knew Nan Tung existed.
None of these technologies or anything even remotely like them existed in 1997, when the Web in the public sphere was still in its infancy.
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So even on the coldest, snowiest mornings in Poughkeepsie, when I wasn't even sure the sun existed, I'd still get out of bed with a sense of anticipation.
"WarGames" director John Badham also worried that people would eventually tire of watching Matthew Broderick reading aloud from a screen, so he pushed Mr. Parkes and his co-screenwriter Lawrence Lasker to devise a way to make the computer talk, like HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey, " even though no such technology existed at the time.
Google wanted to spark developer interest in writing applications even before Android-ready phones existed.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) wanted to spark developer interest in writing applications even before Android-ready phones existed.
But researchers doubted whether the syndrome really existed and argued that even if it did, it would be difficult to prove that the drug worked.
Until now, science has lacked a model that takes all these effects into account in the calculations of a coastline's future development, even though a demand for this existed among engineers, coastal managers and planners.
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