Open Source, a movement that would fundamentally change how software is developed was also a nascent movement at the time.

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These nascent days are an exciting time, with a diverse array of companies and organizations vying to be the first to bring the technology to our homes.

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Back then, pop-folk music and its lifestyle were associated with the mafia-dominated nouveau-riche class that sprung out of the marriage between capitalism and lawlessness in the region's nascent democracies but, over time, it crossed over into the mainstream.

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This was a time when Motorola owned the nascent mobile phone business, pagers were mostly one-way, and the only uses I could find for wireless data beyond simple messaging were telemetry (look it up) and logistics management for trucking companies.

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Conversely, around the same time, Fisher Body was already making frames for nascent automakers.

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But O'Neill's immediate task is to translate still nascent Bush economic policies to lawmakers and financial markets at a time when the engine of the world economy is downshifting.

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Twenty-four years ago, when Jobs left Apple the first time, Apple was battling with IBM for control of the nascent personal computer business.

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