Year-to-date, major index returns in double digits would suggest good things have happened so far.
On and off the pitch things have happened where no action was taken.
"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).
From the outside it's easy to make these sorts of decisions, but wrong time, wrong place and the wrong things have happened.
"Everyone was texting me saying 'well done' but I was well aware that stranger things have happened - people can make comebacks, " he said.
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Since the issue date, two things have happened: The bond price has appreciated 4.8% in Singapore dollars, and U.S. dollars have declined 3.7% to 1.65 Singapore dollars.
"The explanation begins on the first match day and since then things have happened that I do not want to talk about, " said Mourinho.
"Things have happened the past couple of years that make people more worried" in China, said David Poh, regional director for China at Propnex Realty.
Orin Kerr says that, in the two years since he gave the individual mandate only a one-per-cent chance of being overturned, three key things have happened.
Well this is a very unfair question David because so many wonderful things have happened but if I can respond to the two you've just allowed me.
And I had to step back and say, wait a second, things have happened in this nine-month period that were unimaginable for years and years and years.
The truth is lots of nasty things have happened within the mutual fund industry over the past 60 years that internal Compliance Directors struggled mightily to avoid seeing.
However, a couple of things have happened to change that.
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Two things have happened since then: the first is that the benefit system has become much less contributory, meaning that benefits are increasingly tied, not to your contribution, but to your situation.
Stranger things have happened but not this time around.
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There are a lot of things going on that have happened before energy prices going up, food inflation, spontaneous riots, troubles with the unions, violence, political unrest all of these things have happened before.
Stranger things have happened, I suppose.
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Unimaginable things have happened.
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You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.
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And while so many terrible things have happened in the past years, plenty of good things have also occurred, from Japanese-American groups speaking out against today's wartime policies, to prominent civil-rights activists fighting for due process for Muslim and Arab clients, to ordinary people reaching out to one another in everyday encounters.
In the event that there is a proper banking union in the eurozone, and that the eurozone's crisis subsides - which may seem an absurd idea, but stranger things have happened - international investors would at that point note that the eurozone's banks were in effect insured or guaranteed by the collective resources of all eurozone countries, including mighty Germany.
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