The hotel later closed in the early 1980s, and today the small island of green is swallowed by a massive shantytown.
In real terms Jamaicans are no richer today than they were in the early 1970s.
Abandoned in the early 1950s, Kolmanskop is today a ghost town.
Consider that tax competition has spurred OECD governments to cut their corporate tax rates from an average of 48 percent in the early 1980s to 24 percent today.
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Options on Research In Motion are some of the most active today, with volume on the stock approaching 110, 000 contracts in early-afternoon trade.
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But in Britain, tetracycline-resistant salmonella has risen from 15% in the early 1970s to over 80% today.
The regulatory clash over Web privacy in the early 2000s established ground rules that today are being tested.
The workforce has been slashed from 34, 000 in the early 1990s to 12, 000 today, a third of whom work in newly acquired mines.
Inflation-adjusted annuities are an option, but he notes that the initial income stream from this product is much lower in the early years and may not provide the income needed to pay bills today.
Much in Russian foreign policy today is based on a consensus that crystallized in the early 1990s.
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The media have paid little attention to the fact that the third-largest economy in the world today, Japan, has been strangling its economy since the early 1990s.
While the payback period for some EVs today is too long, we are still in the early days of the industry.
Having personally witnessed the transformation of the U.S. capital markets that took place at the beginning of the 1980s, and seeing what is happening in China today, I believe that we are at the early stages of a similar transformation of the capital markets here.
Announced bright and early in Japan today is the Sony Xperia Tablet Z that we've been hearing about.
The service itself, in my early look today, largely resembles a simplified version of Dropbox and other cloud-based storage services.
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Not surprisingly, the bumper earnings have brought options bulls out in droves today, with 149, 373 lots traded in the early hours of Friday, skewed to the call side--a staggering 130, 384 increase in volume.
Jaffe wanted the system to change in the early 1990s and she still hopes for change today.
You could say the stakes in today's argument over austerity are even higher than they were in the early 1980s.
According to the New Scientist, in the early 1980s, around 40 percent of the region's reefs hosted live coral -- today it is just 2 percent.
The stock market seems to have fewer doubts today about the economic future, surging higher, at least in the early going.
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While women have fared better than men in the job market, this is mostly because they did not take the same hit to employment at the start of the downturn in late 2008 early 2009, Baker said today.
It's been a long journey for the Model S -- from the early teasers all the way to today's press event at the Tesla factory here in Fremont, California.
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The news caused Merck shares to rise 2% in early trading today.
Starting in the 1960s, America saw a huge increase in levels of violent crime that peaked in the early 1990s, then steadily declined, and continues to decline today.
Note that the actual percentage annual growth in areal density has declined from near 100% per year in the early part of the last decade to about 30% annually today.
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But their skills are not as rare as they were in the early 1980s, when the discipline took off, and graduates today must contend with competition from hundreds of thousands of similarly qualified foreign workers in the U.S. or overseas.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 400 points in early trading today.
Starting in the early 1900s, water fountains were commonplace in Kansas City, and today there are more than 200 across the city.
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