Yet, for all the uncertainty, the conservatory's musical life is in some ways as vibrant as ever.
As ever, some worriers in Brussels also focus on the wrong things: institutions and top jobs.
As ever, some of those breakthroughs will determine future military and intelligence capabilities.
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Thai voters seem eager to give democracy another go -- even if some pols are as likely as ever to buy their way into power.
On Feb. 11, 1992, I handed Reid what has come to be known in some circles as The Worst Demo Tape Ever.
Rudd has been playing one version or another of this character for years, and he has some of his giddiest moments ever as Pete drives his daughters to school while belting out songs that his wife hates and eating forbidden cheeseburgers.
They are partly right, their conclusion is entirely wrong and as ever, there are some statistical points that have to be made.
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Some of the strokes were as good as ever, one exemplary punch off the back foot against Tremlett rocketing through mid-off to the boundary.
For example, Inky.com, which is working on a new email client, bought up in.ky to prevent squatters from taking it (and perhaps to use as an actual domain should they ever have enough money to move some of it to the Cayman Islands as an offshore tax haven).
Better tax collection, which could plug some of the gap, looks as forlorn as ever.
Some companies, such as American Express, target ever more precise groups of customers.
Two more Aussies, Marc Leishman (72) and Jason Day (73) were another shot behind, giving the blokes from Down Under as good a chance as ever to give their country some happy memories from Augusta National.
Between them Pacino and De Niro have starred in some of best films ever made, and as they approach their 70s, it would be fair to say they have earned the right to slum it a little.
In contrast, some view the pessimistic view of globalization as justifying an ever larger safety net.
Some polls put him as the most unpopular prime minister ever.
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Missionaries, imams and colonial authorities may have forced Africans to abandon the more open practice of their traditional religions, but the belief systems and, in some areas, the practice, remain as strong as ever.
"Some families and some lives have come back together quickly and well, and some people are up and running almost as if nothing ever happened, and for them it's been fine, " New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference Thursday.
It was hailed by some headline writers as "the last toy your child will ever need".
As some in denial are not able to recognize or ever see or live with blinders on.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
Conspicuously timed just after a Super Bowl dubbed by some (mostly marketing types) as the "most social ever", GetGlue has pushed a new version of its app for iPhones.
Oddly, all these signs of Caribbean Jacobinism came as the ever-ambiguous Mr Chavez revealed some unexpectedly pragmatic proposals for a large chunk of the new constitution that the assembly is supposed to write.
Some Chinese officers want to fly the flag ever farther afield as a demonstration of China's rise.
The sanctions have been described by Washington's UN ambassador Susan Rice as "some of the toughest sanctions" the UN had ever imposed.
This meeting has served as the coming-out party for some of the biggest drugs ever, including Roche's Avastin, Novartis' Gleevec, and Eli Lilly's Erbitux.
If the NHL were as healthy as ever financially, then this would provide the NHLPA some degree of protection from feeling pressured to conform to industry trends.
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Still, unless the central bank is prepared to stand behind the banks for ever, some will have to fall by the wayside as both foreign and bigger Nigerian banks sweep up the vast potential market for deposits and mortgages.
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Cinedigm is teaming up with the league and Turner Sports to showcase the 2009 All-Star Saturday Night in Live 3D HD to some 80 theaters across the US. Hailed as the "first-ever marketed and commercially viable (open for sale to public) live movie theater broadcast of a major sporting event, " the spectacle will be available on over 160 screens in 35 states.
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Oki, meanwhile, may or may not get some growth out of its new telephone gear and remains as unfocused as it ever was.
But as the economy turns ever more sharply down, demands for some sort of reckoning with the rent-seekers of recent years will intensify.
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