Critics might more justifiably flay the Big Three for failing long ago to seek a showdown with the UAW to break its labor monopoly.
When I worked at an airport for a regional airline long ago in my 20s, and before that for a posh hotel in San Francisco, I would look for famous people to arrive.
While a rosy optimism has fuelled the party in Wall Street (at least until this week), William McChesney Martin would have bolted for the door long ago, punchbowl firmly tucked under his arm.
Billy Graham, for example, long ago opted not to classify his empire as a church, and thus files a 990, in part because he wanted to encourage other religious charities to be transparent and accountable.
That run ended in 2010, too long ago for the kudos to continue accruing to Apple.
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And many are actively refocusing their businesses to care for patients who not long ago would still have been hospitalized.
The origin of the person or persons responsible won't bring us the peace that we took for granted not so long ago.
The time came long ago for the International Cricket Council to insist that DRS is deployed universally, even if it has to pay for that to happen.
The economy finally picked up again in the fourth quarter, but still at a rate that is subpar for a recovery that long ago should have become robust and durable.
You will remember - indeed, we discussed earlier - when he ran for president a long time ago, and it turned out that in his speech he used some of the material from a British Labour leader.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, it was said long ago, and the same can be said for global affairs.
Mr Putin has given it a cheque for 25 billion roubles and promised to pay for transporting Lada cars through six time-zones to Russia's far east, where most people long ago ditched Ladas for second-hand Japanese cars.
It was another uneasy moment for a sport presumed not long ago be infallible.
Not long ago, for instance, I wrote an essay about the great Galileo, and the beginnings of modern science.
Some said the current administration shouldn't be held accountable for events that occurred so long ago under different leadership and fear that the lawsuit could imperil the school.
Charles Royce , for instance, was not long ago the butt of jokes, with his old-fashioned bow tie and his old-fashioned focus on solid companies with good track records (FORBES, Apr. 29).
Armstrong is also known for a series of disputes over autographs, which he long ago stopped signing because he discovered his signature was being sold for profit.
The former metal worker and union leader long ago abandoned jeans for business suits.
In fact, he bucked the Valley Casual look for an entire year not so long ago.
The great French political economist Fredric Bastiat long ago observed that for laws to be effective, they must be credible.
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Expanding visa allotments for highly skilled immigrants is one worthwhile change: Let's join the global competition for talent that other industrialized countries long ago began in earnest.
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Scientists long ago discovered, for example, how to give crop plants new traits by forcibly mating them with unrelated wild species known to contain natural pesticides, carcinogens, and anti-nutrients.
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Germany had long ago secured qualification for next year's finals in Austria and Switzerland, but any hopes of winning the group were taken away shortly before kick-off as the Czech Republic secured top spot by beating Cyprus.
Looking into the future, though the federal government continues to do everything it can with our money to protect the banks and underwater homeowners alike, the contempt that borrowers not-too-long-ago revealed for lenders will continue to be felt.
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We talked about Twitter not so long ago, but for those of you who do not remember - it is a place where you can post messages about what you are doing - no matter how pointless or uninteresting that may be, as long it is not any longer than 140 characters.
Although the net-long for speculators has rebounded from the lows set a few weeks ago, Citigroup said the long exposure remains under a still-declining a 10-week average.
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The notion that a company should do something for its country went out of style long ago.
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What would have been unthinkable not too long ago makes great sense for these two major companies today.
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This approach long ago became the basis for the vast majority of short stories published in the New Yorker.
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Mary Laurie is one of those fighting to revive a school system that many, long ago, gave up for dead.
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