Quattrone is probably not as radioactive as he appeared to be one or even two years ago.
Others were too new to have been shared yet with researchers elsewhere and will take many months or even two years to recreate.
There is little problem if this is done in one year, or even in two years, but year after year of deferred maintenance means that the application portfolio risks getting dangerously out of date.
In Kandahar, for example, even one or two years ago you had about 20 or 25 NGOs active in Kandahar province.
"Even two or three years ago, we could only use one type of software affordably to control the machines, " he said.
Startups are rolling out new products and services, and posing serious challenges to incumbents faster than they could have even two or three years ago.
Even two or three years ago, some viewers of 24 were wondering how many more "worst days" the show's haunted hero could suffer through before ending his own miserable, split-screen life.
Rohan asserts that the company should be able to grow 30% or more organically for the next two years, even in a low or zero growth environment.
Greenblatt found that the formula will thus sometimes underperform the market for two, or even three years.
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The challenges we confronted were not the work of one year or two years or even one term.
China's technology sector is unlikely to suffer lasting damage, even if plans for a second board are put off even for two or three years.
And we have quintupled our market share, or even gone further, just over the last two years.
We wonder as well, with our tongues halfway in our cheeks, whether seventeen-year-olds will want to spend four years, or three, or even two living with mom and dad and staring at a computer screen.
Whatever the future for business in China, the consensus is any changes will take years, maybe even a decade or two to come to fruition.
"These are companies we wouldn't have touched two or three years ago that are showing good relative earnings growth, even acceleration, " he says.
Even if the recovery rate is doubled or quadrupled, it would take care of perhaps two years of current US consumption.
After all, these Groupon shareholders could well have enjoyed two of the briefest stints as paper billionaires in recent years, or perhaps even in all time.
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Brown routinely lost two or three pounds each time he performed and kept his furious concert schedule in his later years even as he fought prostate cancer, Ross said.
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