At least it has seemed so until now.

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So from now until Election Day, we need you to keep working, and struggling, and pushing.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

So from now until November the 6th, we need you to keep working, all right?

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event -- Reno, NV

So from now until Tuesday, we need you to work like you've never worked before.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

And the remarkable thing has been that the race has been so even up until now.

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So from now until the 6th, we need you to keep on working and struggling and pushing forward.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event -- Hampton, VA

So from now until November the 6th, we need you to keep pushing, and working, struggling like never before.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

So from now until the polls close, we need every one of you to work like you've never before.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

So from now until November the 6th, we need you to keep on working and struggling and pushing like never before.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

So from now until November the 6th, we need you to keep on working and struggling and pushing forward -- and that's so important for our young people to know.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

So from now until November the 6th we need you to keep on working and struggling and pushing forward. (Applause.) Because that is how change always happens in this country.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

Here's the plan -- the secret plan. (Laughter.) You guys, turn off your cameras. (Laughter.) Just kidding. (Laughter.) So from now until November we're going to need every single one -- look at this room!

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

"I have not been able to play well in Japan until now, so I always thought perhaps I was not mentally strong enough to do so, " Nishikori added.

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The light coming from them is so bright that it has, until now, overwhelmed the attempts of astronomers to find the chemical signatures of planets.

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So why say now what has until now been unspoken?

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"We weren't allowed into the really bad areas until just recently, so now we are playing catch-up, " said Rubin, the Humane Society's vice president of field and disaster services.

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Everyone has been calling for Southgate's head for 18 months or so and he's stuck by him until now.

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He did so over a year ago and seemed untroubled until now about there being no monitoring systems in place.

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"The production cost until now has been prohibitive, so by collaborating and joining forces they will be hoping to accelerate development, " he said.

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Gareth Davies, Chief executive of the Cleft Lip and Palate Association, said past studies had indicated that taking folic acid may help prevent cleft lip and palate in so called "high risk" groups but until now there had been no conclusive evidence to back this up.

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People are much quicker to react to negative or positive news now and will continue to do so until a solution is found.

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Until now, Facebook provided an option so you could specify that your information not be shared with others when one of your friends adds such an app.

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However, until now they have been unable to be so precise about predicting lung cancer risk because it varies depending on various different factors.

BBC: Formula to calculate cancer risk

So here's to the consumer and his defiance, until now, of the economic theorists.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

So what have we really gained from these space developments up until now, thus warranting rededicated leadership and investment?

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Content distribution partnerships have already been sewn up for the US, so now it's just a matter of patience until we get our e-reading on in gorgeous XGA resolution.

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While you might be the type to maintain your productivity from now until Labor Day, not everyone is quite so diligent.

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Unfortunately, there are no easy methods for accurately predicting the fixed rate (currently 0%), so its hard to say whether you should buy now or wait until November in hopes that the fixed rate will increase.

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Putnam said looking at the past 12 quarters, so from the third quarter of 2009 when gross domestic product turned positive until now, GDP averaged 2.2% real growth.

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Until now, scientists thought the effects of the magnetic field were so weak that they could be ignored.

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