But then suddenly the watches were everywhere in the U.S., and consumers started to say, Wait a minute.
On the nuclear situation in Japan, the Japanese government has started to say the situation is stabilizing for the past few days.
Or will an irate prime minister scold it for allowing an impression of sleaze and division to reach the point where party officials have started to say in private memos that Labour is in danger of losing the next election?
But to say it jump-started an economic boom in the area appears to be a bridge too far.
Now, before I get started, I just want to say a few words about the drought, because it's had such an impact on this state and all across the country.
Travel agencies say consumers have started to balk at sky-high airfares and increasingly opt for cheaper destinations.
But I'm reminded of what people used to say when I started AOL. Most thought we were crazy to think consumers would want interactivity and a new medium could be created.
Not to say Destiny necessarily started it.
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Already the cost of troop protection has started to cut into other procurement programmes, say industry insiders.
Europe's leaders like to say that the crisis started in America in 2008 and not in their own backyard.
Walking down the hallway, a couple guys stopped me to say hello and we started talking about our businesses.
Actually, there are three things I've got to say before I get started.
None of Valle's alleged targets was ever victimized, though prosecutors say the plans had started to become more concrete.
She has now started a charity called Say no 2 Knives to support people who are affected by crime.
They have moved to a small town to get away from a long-haired ghost named Samara (Kelly Stables), who made their life hell in the previous movie and who now, needless to say, wastes no time whatsoever in rolling up to finish what she started.
Before I get started I wanted, on a serious note, to say something about two journalists who were killed yesterday in Syria.
McFadden said she was "heartbroken" before the show had even started because she didn't get a chance to say a proper goodbye to her husband and daughters, Molly, two, and Lily Sue, one.
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Needless to say, the takeover never materialized, no doubt to the chagrin of the bankers who started the rumor.
To remember what the housing boom was like one need only refer to the Gilder quote from earlier about the Carter years, but needless to say it slowed economic growth enough that mortgage payments from overextended borrowers seeking shelter in homes started to come in late, or not at all.
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And before I get started, there's just one thing I want to say, and that is, hooah!
United States government officials say since last year, they have started to more actively track cases of food poisoning through a pilot program in five states.
Prosecutors say Farkas began his scheme when his own firm started to founder in 2002.
And you say to yourself, maybe that thing that I started with has been lost.
The Rugby Football Union say he has started his rehabilitation programme with a view to returning to action in five to six weeks.
It has started talking to Japan about a free-trade agreement, and diplomats say there is a chance that the limited trade-liberalisation pacts struck with America could develop into a full-blown free-trade deal.
Though understandably coy on the subject of monetary policy, Mr Carney did say central banks had to finish what they had started as well, and make sure that the major economies achieved "escape velocity".
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Mostly for something to say in response, I asked him when he had started writing his treatise.
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