Because few books or drawings existed at the time, apprentices would learn the trade by watching Masters and imitating them as closely as possible.
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Now that the mutual fund scandals are ancient history and the SEC (speaking on behalf of the mutual fund industry) assures us that the few problems that ever existed in the industry have been eliminated (none of which the SEC uncovered on its own), attention has shifted to abuses involving retirement plans that generally use mutual funds- the defined contribution plans.
Pampers now ranks No. 1 in a product category that barely existed just a few years ago.
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Daschle predicted movement toward the pact's approval will slow and there will be more thoughtful consideration in Congress than existed the last few months.
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Textile makers, unperturbed by the fact that few accurate records of ancient tartan patterns existed, invented as many as they could.
That's what the Hawaii university researchers say happened -- even if few realized that a distinctive sign language existed for decades on the island until now.
Led by bassist, singer and songwriter Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy existed on the cusp of greatness for a few years, just before punk rendered its type of bluster passe.
During Northern Ireland question time in the Commons on Wednesday Northern Ireland political development minister George Howarth said the next few weeks would be difficult, but the opportunity still existed to achieve something.
The new, more modest model, centred on things like retail banking and managing companies' cash, is essentially the Citicorp that existed before its mammoth merger with Travelers in 1998, with a few exceptions, says Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's boss.
However, in the past few years, there have been a number of sites with strong evidence that they existed in North America before Clovis, and now a group of researchers has demonstrated this definitively by showing evidence of human hunters at least 800 years before Clovis.
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"Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed, " Deadspin contends.
But the new law included a loophole called 510(k) that remains today: A device can be approved with few or no clinical trials if it is deemed "substantially equivalent" to a gadget that existed before 1976.
In his book No One Would Listen, the whistle-blower Harry Markopolos observed that a revolving door has existed between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street, with inexperienced employees expecting to spend a few years as regulators and then move to much more lucrative jobs on Wall Street with the firms they were regulating.
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