In days of yore, the United States supplied extensive clandestine assistance to prevent communist takeovers in post-World War II elections in France, Italy and elsewhere.

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In the good old days of yore, one just had to be a good writer.

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Quill, which was decided in those long ago days of yore (1992), before the internet had become pervasive, held that a state could not force a vendor to collect sales tax if there was no physical presence in the state.

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Back in the pre-internet days of yore, we used to write to every state revenue department to get copies of their return packages, that we could then photo-copy and have on hand just in case.

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Not a problem in chips of yore, but very much a problem these days.

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In the one-player Story Mode, you take control of one of the three bouncers and engage in a cross between an RPG and an old beat-em-up from the days of yore - think Double Dragon or Streets of Rage, only with experience points and much better graphics.

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Still living in the last days of disco, he carries a torch for the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran Marxists of yore.

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At the same time, the old adage that defense wins championships is less true in 2011 than it was in the halcyon days of Red Auerbach's dynastic Celtics of the 1960s--those days of yore when Fortune 500 companies could tell the mainstream media "no comment" when a crisis hit until they figured out their strategy days later.

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