We used to have an office in Philadelphia but shut it down over five years ago.
Just over five years ago, Lord Browne quit as BP's chief executive in painful and humiliating circumstances.
Just over five years ago, Larry Allen was a dominating presence with the San Francisco 49ers, with whom he played after 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.
Twelve years ago they wanted shares in now-defunct eToys over MetLife, and five years ago they wanted subprime.
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The last transatlantic row over aircraft was five years ago, when America attacked subsidies to Airbus.
That will be a fight far fiercer than the rumpus over affirmative action five years ago.
Today Windows operating systems account for about 92% of the market down from over 95% five years ago.
Louis Gerstner Jr. took over an ailing IBM five years ago and axed 32, 000 jobs but kept in place most of the top team.
But some firms are still haggling over details of contracts signed five years ago.
New government rules for asset managers will require them to review their operations and improve their processes over what was acceptable five or six years ago, he added.
Bharti, India's biggest mobile-phone company, handed over most of its IT to IBM five years ago and repeated the trick last year with a new supermarket venture.
Earnings growth has averaged 27% over the last five years, and a year ago PPD introduced the first and, to date, only dividend in the contract research industry.
Five years ago he handed over the management of Seagram to his son Edgar Jr. (while retaining the chairmanship) and took up the cause of financial justice for Jews who lost their homes and possessions in World War II.
Jose Rodriguez, a former top clandestine officer at the CIA, gave the green light to destroy the tapes five years ago amid an uproar over recently released photos of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
As I pointed out in a CNBC interview about five years ago, the deal was massively over-hyped.
Investors are going international: A recent survey of American investors found that 40% plan to increase their exposure to international stocks over the next five years, up from 22% a year ago.
Of 304 employers questioned in a survey over half found it harder to recruit skilled staff now than five years ago.
Despite the rally in most bourses over the past year, stocks are less expensive than they were five years ago.
Housing prices in the big eastern seaboard cities like Beijing and Shanghai remain high compared to where they were five years ago, but have been coming down month over month due to the current policies that curb lending to the sector and restrict home purchases, especially for non-resident home buyers, foreign investors, and second or third home buyers.
Two years ago, I set a goal of doubling American exports over five years.
Mr Maehara blundered during a brief stint as opposition leader five years ago, and he quit as foreign minister in March over a fuss about an illegal donation from a Korean woman.
Most of the companies here today were part of an agreement that we reached two years ago to raise the fuel efficiency of their cars over the next five years.
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Until 2006, Ghana was regarded as the continent's sleeping giants, having dominated African football in the years after it became the first independent sub-Saharan African country over five decades ago.
The company has been dogged by scandals over the past five years, and shares are little more than half where they were five years ago.
The company has seen its stock steadily decline over the last few years and now stands at only 20% of its market value five years ago.
Its current CEO, Andrea Wong, is running a network that will make a projected 13% more in ad revenue in 2009 than it did five years ago, not terribly far off the 20% more year-over-year that ESPN is expected to bring in.
The realization that building more factories, a key strategy for First Solar and its competitors for over five years, had become a really bad idea prompted the company to decide roughly a year ago to spend more money on research, said CEO Jim Hughes during the analyst day.
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Five years ago it was a defendant with Abbott when Rockefeller University sued the companies over their arthritis drugs.
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