About 10, 000 years ago, modern humans discovered how to make knives out of copper, and around 5, 000 years ago, craftsmen in the Near East began to make them out of bronze.
If 50 years ago students could make good use of three years of a law-school education, they certainly can do so in today's vastly more complicated world.
And I just doubt that a company which was very nearly bankrupt only 15 years ago would want to make that sort of commitment.
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Murray Gell-Mann performed a similar trick 50 years ago in an attempt to make sense of the plethora of particles that was then emerging from experiments.
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Dupont, 59, a retired computer repairman, decided six years ago it was time to make his dream of medieval domesticity come true.
Besides, Neymar only began to make that sort of money just a while ago, when he renegotiated his contract with Santos, and he is yet to achieve the level of bankability that would allow him to buy expensive toys such as a yacht.
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The strath was cleared of families 200 years ago to make way for large-scale sheep production.
Until little more than a century ago, hunters from these valleys would make a point of refusing to kill marmots, and shepherds were said to shelter these creatures beneath their huts.
Mr Barron, who had been Labour candidate, tried to pull out of the election because of a conviction 22 years ago which would make him ineligible to be a PCC.
Three years ago Cemex would tell customers it would try to make deliveries of ready-mix concrete (the kind that comes in the trucks with rotating barrels) within three hours of agreed delivery times.
Thirteen years ago I entered public service to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Seven or eight years ago you could make quite a nice living, at western country sort of pay rates, doing this sort of low level writing work.
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Today there are hundreds of great shopping carts, billing systems, shipping systems, and inventory management suites to make the engineering orders of magnitude easier than it was a few years ago.
The nonprofit was founded just over 20 years ago by a small group of MBA students who wanted to make a difference and believed that business could be a force for good, which, at the time, was a novel concept in a business school.
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Given that Crassicorophium and barnacles are both crustaceans, albeit ones whose common ancestor lived 100m years ago, that suggests a single origin for the ability to make this type of goo.
Trying to build a car cheap enough for motorcycle buyers seems to make sense now but seemed crazy several years ago when Ratan Tata, longtime chairman of Tata Motors and scion of the nation's giant Tata Group conglomerate, first mentioned his dream of building a one-lakh car in 2003.
Harris has struggled to make the kind of impact many anticiapted since switching codes and joing Cardiff a year ago.
These days electronics manufacturing service firms make almost 20% of all hardware products, nearly double their share four years ago.
The assembly government intervened a couple of weeks ago when wrote to the councillors asking them not to make a decision.
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Someone had tried, some time ago, to make it pretty, so there were big photographs in the hall of children at various sorts of play, and some of these were diverting, she supposed.
However, when you combine those perpetual workers with ones who have to continue working to hold onto benefits, rebuild retirement savings lost in the recession, or earn supplemental income to make ends meet, the notion of retirement is completely different now from five years ago.
Of the major practice areas that make up most global agencies, more than half of them did not exist 10 years ago.
For example, years ago, my partners and I were given 30 minutes to make our case in front of a senior executive.
Thomas Spragge, a 54-year-old prototype toy-maker in Massachusetts, had never heard of Daft Punk until three years ago when his daughter asked him to make a helmet.
Not so long ago, Bradley was reticent about his sports stardom (although he did make discreet use of it in some of his Senate campaign ads), but now his bumper sticker could be a Nike swoosh.
But the spate of injuries may make it difficult to match the haul from Budapest 12 years ago, when a team containing Denise Lewis, Steve Backley, Iwan Thomas and Darren Campbell brought back nine golds and 16 medals in total.
The Corona, created under the guidance of Gene Bauman, VP and General Manager of SMCC's Desktop Systems and Workstations Product Group, represents Sun's attempt to make good on many of the promises that it failed to deliver a couple of years ago.
We need everybody to remember how we felt 100 days ago and make sure that what we said at that time wasn't just a bunch of platitudes -- that we meant it.
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