Then as now, we saw something our minds did not logically calculate as possible.

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Now she saw him at meetings, and tried not to retch at his con-job shares, or recall the sweetness of their precious predawn hours, when addiction itself seemed as exquisite and harmless as a baby giraffe.

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Now it was America's moment: 1991 saw not only the success of the American-led coalition in the first Gulf war, but also the beginning of serious peace talks.

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He was walking slowly, as before, hands behind his back, as before, and he seemed to pause when he saw me, almost imperceptibly, head lowered now, path not quite steady.

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The hybrid slate, first shown off at this past CES as the IdeaTab S2, now has a new name, but aside from that not much has changed since we saw it creep onto the company's site.

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Now Clementi saw a risk in turning a creepy episode into a scandal that he was not equipped to handle.

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Giving evidence, she said she had not seen their relationship as abuse at the time but saw it "a bit differently now as an adult".

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She saw now that the various accounts added up to less than two hundred thousand dollars, not even half of what she remembered depositing after the house was sold.

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After what I saw in South Africa in 1999, I'm not surprised at what is happening now but I find it very sad that so many referees and ex-referees have been implicated.

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Also, as we saw with Microsoft and are now seeing with Google, platform companies can either become complacent and not regularly upgrade their technology, or they get distracted with side projects that also draw resources from their core offering.

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