There was a time not long ago when people were horrified at the idea of interracial marriage.
There was a time not long ago when patients suffering from rare diseases had little hope of finding a medicine that could cure their ills.
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There was a time not so long ago that the Maloofs made Sacramento the NBA's model of success.
There was a time not so long ago when going to a typical bar in Poland was an altogether different experience.
There was a time not so long ago when fans would be familiar with virtually every player picked in the NBA Draft.
There was a time not so long ago when the Vietnam War was widely viewed as the biggest misstep in American military history.
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As I said to my fellow leaders yesterday, there was a time not so long ago when few could have imagined holding a summit like this in Colombia.
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There was a time not so long ago, when the education system could tell little Freddie what to study and if he mastered that, he was set for life.
Indeed, many remember a time not very long ago when yields in German bunds and U.S. Treasurys were close to double-digits and have factored such returns into their long-term financial planning.
In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking.
Once upon a time not too long ago, document signage involved downloading the document, printing it off, picking up a pen with either black or blue ink and signing off at the appropriate places, scanning the document once signed, uploading it, attaching the paperwork to an email, and then finally sending off that email back in reply with your signature.
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There used to be a time, not too long ago, when traditional publishing had many benefits.
There was a time - not so long ago - that virtually no one had a mobile, yet everyone managed to get by.
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There was a time, not too long ago, when women of a certain age were shunted to the sidelines no longer offered the plum roles or business deals.
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For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.
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Not too long ago I spent some time with Judith Umlas, Senior Vice President at the International Institute for Learning, to talk about her most recent book Grateful Leadership, Using the Power of Acknowledgement to Engage All your People and Achieve Superior Results.
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It was a long time ago and I am not certain but I think the topic was Intel.
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And we hate to say it, but Apple should have added an FM tuner to the iPod a long time ago, it's not like it would kill their profit margins.
If it were not, if it were easy it would have been solved a long time ago.
The hardest part for Vasella was telling his long-time lieutenant Reinhardt a week ago that he would not be getting the top job.
This is not a new concept--the linguist Benjamin Whorf advanced it a long time ago--but Contributing Editor Dan Seligman does a delightful job of bringing it back to life every now and then.
Not long ago the boat owners found themselves threatened with exorbitant marina charges during conference time.
"My husband and father lost their jobs during the Thatcher years and although this was a long time ago, and the town had picked itself up, I felt I could not take part, " she said.
Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
Decisions were made a long time ago that this transuranic waste, a legacy from our nuclear weapons days, should not just sit around at the surface waiting for an accident to happen, but should be put in the safest, most isolated place on Earth, so that nothing can happen to it.
If the investigation was not compromised in any way by what came out last night, why didn't it come out a long time ago?
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It started a long time ago with shifts in our manufacturing, watching your neighbors and your friends work longer but not see their pay go up.
That one time action will strengthen its financial position, but also will limit share buybacks, which were substantial not long ago.
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