No longer did 90% of TV-watching Americans tune in to one of three networks.
If stocks no longer did the job, investors reasoned, other investments must.
By the end of the 1980s Wall Street was financing deals in ways that made sense a few years earlier but no longer did.
But within half a century, the picture had changed dramatically, for while the US continued its seemingly inexorable journey to global greatness and unprecedented affluence, it no longer did so on the trains.
The old friends and the old enemies no longer existed, or if they did they no longer had the same significance.
No, said Paul Davies, he did not believe Welsh jobs would be put at risk if Wales were no longer part of the EU. Neither did he believe that Carwyn Jones was right to say inward investment would inevitably fall away.
"Casablanca's" call to arms and Bogart's cool no longer resonate as they once did.
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Also many of the things people our past generations did are no longer legal for good reasons.
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He also conceded that he no longer thinks that his office did a very good job on the autopies.
But last year, when she lost the Classic (and obviously was no longer undefeated), she did get voted Horse of the Year.
West and Central Africa's exchange rate no longer seems so overvalued as it did.
Many of the things that made cars seem special no longer apply, if they ever did.
Indeed, the French fear that Germany no longer needs them as it once did.
Small household building schemes would no longer need planning permission if they did not impact on the neighbours.
His gilded football program will no longer glimmer the way it once did.
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Meeting the queen means McGuinness loses the legitimacy of hardcore Republicans -- he can no longer sway them as he once did.
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Petitioner contends that he no longer enjoys racing as he once did and that he raced solely for profit during the years in issue.
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He described Mr Rizzi, who is no longer WNO musical director and who did not give evidence at the tribunal, as a "vindictive prima donna".
Optimists might argue that, since dividends no longer play the role they once did, this does not, of itself, mean the market is wildly overvalued.
Consumer advocate Michael Shames, who runs a gasoline shopping Web site, says pulling up to the gas pump no longer packs the dread that it did a couple of months ago.
But now that it has fully acknowledged that its tokens no longer offer the security they once did, the company may find it has a much larger recall ahead than it would like.
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Heavy industry, which is a prodigious user of electricity, is no longer playing the role it once did, and light manufacturing and the services sector, which use much less power, are on the rise.
We're sad to see the program go, as many of these tools assisted Netflix members in ways the official website and apps either never did, or no longer do after the features were removed.
Add to the equation the high correlation in the stock market and high volatility, and suddenly the rule of thumb of investing 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in bonds no longer provides the returns they once did.
The way to deal with this responsibly is to balance it with revenues gained from tax reform, closing loopholes, eliminating special tax breaks for industries that no longer need them and maybe never did, and asking millionaires and billionaires to carry some of the burden.
Yes, PC shipment growth has slowed to nearly a standstill, yes, Windows 8 was pretty much of a yawn, and, yes, Ultrabooks have yet to light any fires under the buying public, but, no, this gigantic market did not simply disappear just because it is no longer the darling of buyers, investors, and the media.
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Gorbachev simply no longer represents the political danger that he did until quite recently.
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