The idea that a car is only for getting you from point A to point B may seem just as quaint in few years.
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Another question is what if Larry came back, say, at age 60 or something in few years, if he stayed into the Obama administration, whether Harvard would hire him back.
The biggest threat to this move is if the current BCS structure is reconfigured in a few years in such a way that renders the move ineffective.
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"I think in a few years people in Cyprus will realize what Apoel have done, it is the biggest achievement in Champions League this season, " Mourinho said after his side's 8-2 aggregate victory.
Quite a few officially confirmed nuclear incidents occurred in the past few years in Japan, some of them caused nuclear-polluted gas and liquids to leak.
Now prominent chains such as Lao Feng Xiang have ambitious plans to open standalone stores in next few years, especially in smaller cities.
In a few years, residents in the farthest reaches of Indonesia may be paying with smart cards if major local banks implement their plans.
Even if in a few years there are advances in multiplayer gaming on the iPad, players in the same room still have to stare at their own individual screens.
We've also got a shot at finding some fresh craters, from impacts just in the few years while MRO has been in orbit.
No doubt in a few years it will veer off in yet another direction, as a fresh lot of innovative companies try something new that works.
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"In a few years, if the players in the video game aren't speaking and disagreeing with their coaches' calls and things like that, I would be really surprised, " Super Bowl Champion Marcus Allen said.
Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).
Novartis' compound is injected every few months and could hit the market in a few years.
It also means that in a few years secondary pupils will face a similar surge in demand.
In a few years, all the investments Bayer has made in gene-finding companies such as Curagen (nasdaq: CRGN - news - people ) could lead to promising new drugs.
"The ICC has sat on the fence in the past few months and in the past few years on other issues, " he said.
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In many ways, her battles in those first few years in power were macroeconomic.
The carmaker has been trying to tie up with various international manufacturers in the past few years in an attempt to regain its hold.
Chinese banks lent out record sums of money in the past few years in a bid to sustain growth amid the global financial crisis.
Protest movements, often involving youth, have burgeoned in the past few years in India amid growing frustration about corruption and poor governance, but they have yet to score a concrete policy victory.
There are also concerns about a shortage of primary school places in the next few years in some areas, with London predicting a shortfall of about 70, 000 over the next four years.
In a few years, Fujitsu could be a very big name in this new emerging wireless field.
Now they're promising a followup in a few years, called the Haiku, which has been in the works for a while but finally is starting to look feasible with small and not-so-power-hungry components in the works.
The government will want to be able to say in a few years' time that there has been a measurable improvement in the quality of education services.
If bail-outs do not restore confidence, though, Plan B (to the extent that one exists) is that in a few years some countries might peacefully restructure their debts while staying in the euro.
It looks like those that bought a Seagate hard drive in the past few years could possibly be in store for a few freebies or a bit of cash, at least if a proposed class action settlement goes ahead.
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Couple such capability with new satellite measurements (America's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 is due to launch in a few years) and better measurements of the mass of plant life in forests and other ecosystems, and the planet's greenhouse-gas credits and debits will surely be understood far better.
In a few years, the best of the young Democrats elected to the legislature in 1996 will be competing for, and perhaps winning, statewide races.
And I think the odds that they will be gone from the euro in a few years are very high and it's simply untenable to be in recession for so long.
"In a few years time anyone who wants a long international music career will ensure they tour in India, " says Mr Nair.
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