But look back over the past five years and a company called Apple saved America, with Google picking up from behind.
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Over the longer term, these opinions have been correct as TSGTY has outperformed SPY if you look back over a year.
Look back over the decades, say economists at Deutsche Bank, and changes in house prices have been closely related to changes in disposable income.
We're going to use this time to look back over the past three years and talk about what has been achieved and what has not.
If you look back over the decades, things are getting better.
United saw decisions go against them at Stamford Bridge but a look back over their form this season reveals they have also had the benefit of similar situations.
As I look back over my career so far, I can safely say I have learned and grown more in the last four years than in the previous twenty.
But I think anybody is hard-pressed to look back over a significant period of time like 99 or a hundred days and think you wouldn't have done some things differently.
With the American economy still in trouble, and the jobless future still appearing quite bleak, now is the time to look back over the past decade through the probing truth-telling eyes of prose fiction.
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"What the Howard League would like to see is an inquiry which will look back over the history of Portland to see whether criminal prosecutions ought to be brought against staff or not, " she said.
People keep saying where is the innovation since Steve died, but if you look back over the past 12 years, they only introduced a new product every 3-4 years and in the meantime improved on existing products and watched sales soar as products matured.
There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds.
Since government seems to be increasingly in the cross hairs of the American voter, I thought it would be interesting to look back over the past 50 years and examine the average unemployment rate during the 12 months preceding the November election and whether it was trending higher, lower, or was stable.
Recently, he expanded his reach with the colorful book "Decades: A Century of Fashion" (Bloomsbury, 2012) a look back at styles over the past century.
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Those lenders are able to look back at consumer behaviour over several economic cycles for a reference point.
"But if you look back to 2007 when over 55, 000 properties were flooded, we were relatively lucky - if lucky is the right word - for the impacts we saw this summer, " he said.
"It's a special situation and one of those memories that you'll look back on when this is all over, " said Reimer.
And here is another way to look at drought severity in the US for June going back over 100 years (higher numbers wetter, negative numbers are more drought), again from the NOAA. 2012 is utterly unremarkable.
"My expectation is that by the time that my term is over, you guys are going to look back and you're going to say, 'This was a responsive administration on health care, on housing, on education, that actually made sure the money flowed and that things got done the way they were supposed to get done, " he said.
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Unlike Wile E Coyote, a divided Congress could step over the cliff, look down, and step back onto solid ground again.
Look, I agree: It's fun to kick back over All-Star weekend and wonder how an icon like Jordan compares to the current game's premier player, LeBron James.
There has been extensive consultation across the NHS going back over a number of years, so if you look at the information for health document in 1998 produced by Frank Burns.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
When you look back, it's logical - I was a hero, I crossed over to the other side and I went back.
For this allows us, provides an excuse to, go back and look at whether there have been any other inventions in his pieces over the years.
Flip your chart program over and take a look at a weekly chart, and pull back and look at a weekly across three years or five years.
Amidst the hyper-activity of trying to mesh two companies together, CEOs often look back a year or two later and realize they had little or no oversight over the integration.
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Written by "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David, who returned to the show just to write the final episode, the series finale offered a look back at many of the people the four had managed to insult and offend over the last nine years.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Costco (COST), Target (TGT) and Home Depot (HD) are the leaders I went over on CNBC Asia a few months back for macro investors to look at.
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