Mortgages, for example, made it easy for consumers to shop for ever-cheaper deals, pressing appraisers who increasingly relied on Internet tools to evaluate properties and loan prospects, instantly.
For unless it turns out to have one, the search for a vaccine could go on for ever.
Second, GE has been so successful in soliciting congressional subsidies in previous years that if it closes the deal again for 2011, the prospects for ever killing its engine become slim.
The first, the increased push for drug safety, calls for an ever-increasing mountain of data before a new medicine is approved.
The French and Dutch referendums have kyboshed further integration for quite a while, and perhaps for ever.
Perhaps most important, Mr. Buffett has said the next CEO will have to negotiate large deals for Berkshire and acquire more businesses for its ever-growing collection.
Though he's a producer of "Argo, " which means he'll get to accept a best picture trophy if the film wins, he's attracted far more attention for being ignored for best director than he ever would have for being nominated.
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And on the runway will be a showcase of the artisan fabric skills that Lagerfeld's Chanel has amassed over the past decade, for fear that they would otherwise be lost for ever.
It will continue to dominate the world of entertainment for a long time to come, and maybe for ever.
Diane von Furstenberg is renowned for her iconic wrap dress and signature prints for the ever-sassy career woman -- embodying the DVF label.
The public-health profession has been looking for a justification for its existence ever since the communicable diseases that it was established to fight were all but wiped out.
He provided an example for other leaders to follow and transformed the business landscape for ever.
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Alibaba says it completed the largest private non-LBO financing ever for a technology company, and the largest private financing ever for a private sector company based in China.
Google faced a similar battle when its founders made the tough decision to layer an agnostic search service with paid ads, and balancing such a service for a consumer market has remained an algorithmic challenge for Google ever since.
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It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.
Sadly for Peru, another batch of historic monuments has just been lost for ever.
But Sellas Tetteh thinks this is the time for Africa to win for the first ever time, as the continent hosts three global tournaments in 10 months.
But in reality the two parties are miles apart: Labour set to prepare for entry, the Tories still under pressure from internal sceptics to rule it out for ever.
Before that, for decades Japanese banks and borrowers lived under the delusion that property prices would rise for ever, leading banks to press loans on any company that could offer property as collateral.
The need for ever higher development budgets leads to needing ever larger sales and ever larger marketing organisations in order to get those sales.
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By the time he left New York City for good in 1967, the character of the environs of 125th Street had already changed for ever.
All this may work for a bit, but thrifty German consumers will not be kept away from bargain telephony for ever, and heavy-handedness stokes public hostility to the company.
Adele's best original song award for Skyfall was the first ever for a Bond film.
The artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta had been nominated for 13, the most ever for an artist, and took home a record eight, including Video of the Year, Best Pop Video and Best Female Video.
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Falkirk fans didn't know whether to laugh or cry last season as they came perilously close to being relegated but also reached their first Scottish Cup final in 12 years and consequently qualified for Europe for the first time ever.
Syfy has been looking for a way into film for years, ever since NBC merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004.
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Most unmarried sons in Japan are, these days, eldest sons, and the prospect of caring for their ever-more antique parents is not altogether enticing for an educated young Japanese woman.
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For a moment, I thought of the boy on the road and wondered if it would ever come to this for him, if he would ever come home and find someone he cared for, but no longer loved, asleep in an armchair.
It left the Waltons, who travelled to Tenerife for the trial, ever more desperate for closure.
"I think the British public can be proud that we have cut the seven-year credit card limit for the EU for the first time ever, " he said.
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