Its own PlayStation Network online game platform was until recently an entirely free service.
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And abortion, until recently an electoral problem only for Ms Rousseff, is now a wild card.
Michael Forbes was until recently an unknown fisherman in an obscure town in the north of Scotland.
Now she sits as a referee of sorts in the election where she was recently an advocate.
Recently an oilfield was discovered off the coast of Brazil that could hold as much as 33 billion barrels of oil.
Additionally, look for banks to sue each other in increasing numbers and most recently an Austrailian hedge fund has filed a lawsuit.
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Recently an executive at a small health plan in Ohio called me up and asked if I'd seen the new Michael Moore documentary Sicko.
But recently an independent committee monitoring Pfizer's two big studies of the drug, know known as PF-3512676, took a scheduled look at the data.
Sir James Paice, until recently an agriculture minister, said the government was right to delay the cull "given the circumstances", although he regretted that those circumstances had arisen.
Moreover, the company has had a string of regulatory disappointments with medicines like indiplon, a sleeping pill, and more recently an antipsychotic that it was developing with Akzo Nobel.
Recently an executive with a major insurance firm shared a story about his experience with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, top in the 2010 JD Powers customer satisfaction study among rental car companies.
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Most recently an Argentinean federal prosecutor found the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires and Hezbollah operatives in Latin America mainly responsible for the attacks against the Jewish community headquarters in 1994.
President Aleksander Kwasniewski's nominee, Marek Belka, a former finance minister who was until recently an economic adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, may well lose his first (and more taxing) confidence vote next week.
Moreover, the company has had a string of regulatory disappointments with medicines like indiplon, a sleeping pill, and more recently an antipsychotic that it was developing with Akzo Nobel (nasdaq: AKZOY - news - people ).
When, for example, an American newspaper recently ran an article about corruption among Nigeria's rulers, Nigerian bulletin boards instantly carried complaints that the author had been far too uncritical.
Motivated by the section on "mastering the message, " an in-house production team recently produced an eight-minute online video about the company's history, he says.
In the NBA, the New Jersey Nets, sensing an opportunity to develop some fan loyalty, recently announced an offer of free tickets for as many as 1, 500 unemployed fans.
Cord Jefferson surprised me by writing an anti-soap screed, since he recently wrote an evidence-based explanation of why you should wash your hands every time you use the bathroom.
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It says the factory passed an audit two weeks ago, and adds that it also recently sent an engineer to inspect one of the buildings.
An indication of just how serious a problem all this can become was revealed recently in an op.ed. in the Washington Post by one of the United States' top hemispheric diplomats, former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega.
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But, if you notice any problems with your vision, schedule an appointment with your eye doctor as soon as possible, even if you've recently had an eye exam.
At HCL Technologies, an India-based IT services firm with 88, 000 workers, chief executive Vineet Nayar recently launched an experiment in which he gave a group of 100 employees 1, 000 virtual currency units to use in an online exchange.
He recently created an all-orange dish of nasturtium blossoms, sea urchin and sweet potatoes.
The 62-year-old recently has an appeal against his sanction rejected by FIFA's ethics committee.
And recently, an SBA loan under the Recovery Act helped him to improve his cash flow.
For instance, IBM Research recently launched an augmented reality application, which combines all these consumer wants.
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We recently sponsored an event at a local university on the topic of women and mentorship.
Southern Company (NYSE:SO) recently received an award to build two new reactors in Georgia.
The strategy has been a hit with investors, with IBM's stock recently reaching an all-time high.
Brazil recently discovered an offshore field estimated to hold some 33 billion barrels of oil.
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