Those were difficult times--when the future of the exchange's floor-based auction system was in doubt.
As Doug Shafer explains in this interview, those were pioneer times in American wine and in Napa Valley in particular.
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Those were grueling times, and Wong appreciates having been toughened up.
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The other person asked me to provide some alternatives, which I did, but by the time she responded two days later those times were already filled.
However, supporters of the current age limit cite a 2006 study that found those who started drinking as teenagers were five times more likely to abuse alcohol than those who waited until they were 21.
We were used to surfing only 3- or 4 meter-high waves, but those were at least three times higher.
But both times those were vetoed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, who has also come out strongly against the ballot measure.
Although the current eruption of Eyjafjallajoekull in Iceland appears not to be comparable in intensity to those of Laki and Tambora, it will have some effects, such as those on air travel, that were never realized back in those simpler times.
Remarkably, those with writer's cramp were five times more likely to display obsessive compulsive symptoms than those with the other conditions.
Twenty years later, those 3% were worth 10 times the worth of the rest of the class combined.
Three times, those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers.
And, despite the enormous profits, the International Energy Agency has reported that government subsidies for fossil fuels were six times those for renewable energy in 2011.
Bob Enck, CEO of Equinox Fund Management, notes that when equities have been down 5% or more, 26 out of those 35 times managed futures were up.
Thomson Reuters, which did the data crunching for THE, combed through 6 million journal articles published over a five-year period, and then calculated how many times those articles were cited by other scholars.
"In the past, you drilled for oil 10 times and found some maybe four of those times if you were good, " says Shawn Reynolds, who manages natural-resources portfolios for Van Eck, a mutual fund company.
Those who tested positive were more than five times as likely to alter their insurance arrangements after the test as those who did not.
In a study of people with a gene that put them at higher risk for Alzheimer's, those who ate a high-fat diet were seven times more likely to develop the disease than those who ate a low-fat diet, researchers reported.
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It found those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on average, slimmer than those who ate it occasionally.
And those with ED were 1.6 times more likely to suffer from a serious cardiovascular problem such as a heart attack or stroke.
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