But in the last three years it has started doing these things to us too.
Where it has started, the decline is usually slower than it was in Asia.
Instead, it has started to offer a variety of products, which works on multiple platforms.
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As well as the summer school, it has started running one-off events, evening classes and one-day "master classes".
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It has started by creating a catalyst that turns methane into ethylene, which is used widely to create other chemicals.
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Since it has started collecting data from test users, HapiLabs has found that people take about 70 fork bites per meal.
It has started to fall into the pattern of the typical traditional business: it grows by acquiring other companies, like YouTube.
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"It has started taking a more realistic view, given the depth of the economic contraction, " says World Bank economist Kawai Masahiro.
It has started several new subsidiaries in the past two years, specialising in information technology, predictive (or diagnostic) medicine and biotherapeutics.
As well as offering to modify the software on its phones to suit particular operators, it has started to offer custom handsets.
It has started membership negotiations with Croatia and, most momentously, with Turkey.
It has started to build a vast industrial estate at the edge of Addis Ababa where it intends to make shoes for Western brands.
The RFL says it has started the search for Noble's successor.
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Whether the rivalry between Mr Putin and Mr Medvedev is real or imagined, it has started to resonate with more serious swings in the public's mood.
In the past ten years it has not only developed technology to harness its own geo-thermal but it has started to export that technology to other countries.
It has started pulling out equipment from the most sensitive base, next to the capital, Tbilisi, but says it wants to keep the next-door military air field.
It is now campaigning against the indefinite expansion of the money supply, and it has started taking measures to limit the losses it would sustain in a break-up.
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This year, gay marriage has hardly been the issue that it was two years ago, but it has started making a comeback thanks to New Jersey's Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Iran's new government is defiantly refusing to re-suspend uranium work that it has started up again and that brought talks with Britain, France and Germany to a halt.
It has started a Stable Future appeal to find homes for almost 300 of those who are aged between one and three years, and are too young to be ridden.
The MoD says that incidence of PTSD within the military remains low, although it has started a project with the NHS to introduce community-based mental health pilot schemes for veterans.
It has started talking to Japan about a free-trade agreement, and diplomats say there is a chance that the limited trade-liberalisation pacts struck with America could develop into a full-blown free-trade deal.
Ghodsi typically doesn't pick a favorite sector for the year before it has started, and he prefers to wait until a sector confirms its strength compared with the overall market, to mitigate risk.
Rubicon said that while the pricing environment has not improved for the smaller wafer sizes, it has started taking orders for those products for delivery in Q1 and Q2 to reduce inventory levels and maintain customer relationships.
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Under the leadership of Paul Steiger, a former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and with strong safeguards of its editorial independence, it has started to produce scoops good enough to run in the New York Times, which gets them free.
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