He has no political record and was all but unknown until a year ago.
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Until a year ago it was not uncommon in a single week to have the funerals of three young kids.
Compare this with the experience of rival broadcaster Chris-Craft Industries, which until a year ago assumed all the losses for UPN.
Somehow Canada managed to triple its benchmark equity index over the past decade without, until a year ago, all-day financial cable programming.
Many investors never heard of BATS Global Markets until a year ago, when the exchange operator botched its own initial public offering.
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The most disturbing case was Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steel maker, whose top managers had not heard of the Year 2000 problem until a year ago.
Mr Anstell said until a year ago, the seals were monitored by Natural England, but following funding cuts FHS was asked to take on the task of counting the seals and keeping them safe.
For instance, Bill Gates used to have his own personal account until a year ago, when he gave up because he had 10, 000 people requesting to be his friend and found it too time-consuming.
Until a year ago, most European web surfers had to pay twice for their internet access - a fee to their ISP and the cost of a local telephone call each time they logged on.
We arrived at another of the camps - no more than a few old sacks and tarpaulins spread out along the road opposite the mine entrance - and were immediately surrounded by farmers, who until a year ago, they said, would never have dared to speak to a foreigner about their problems.
Up until about a year ago, the company was still operating at a slight loss.
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Mr Reeve said buy-to-let had been unheard of in his area until about a year ago.
Until about a year ago he was managing editor of CNN's joint venture in Turkey, CNN Turk.
Up until about a year ago, people were still saying prices never fall.
Until about a year ago this was the question buzzing around the executive offices of giant Wall Street brokerage firms from Merrill Lynch and UBS to Morgan Stanley.
Karl-Heinz Weis and his three co-defendants ran Heros which, until its bankruptcy a year ago, was the biggest cash-transport firm in Germany, with 50% of the market.
As well as being the only major party to oppose the Iraq war, the Lib Dems often sound like the last defenders of unreformed public services and, at least until a year or so ago, took pride in promising to tax and spend more than Labour.
Up until only a year or so ago, my business was completely different.
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Sean was at Yahoo until a year and a half ago.
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There was, however, for many years: Janet Robinson, who served as CEO until she was pushed out a year ago.
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From the time that the Kindle Fire was announced late last year until a few weeks ago when it sold out and the new suite of Kindle devices were announced, it was the best-selling product on Amazon.com.
Heins thanks RIM founder Mike Lazaridis and long-time executive Jim Balsillie, who were co-CEOs until Heins took over the helm a year ago.
Until a few months ago the 21-year-old from Bangladesh had never ordered herself a drink, her husband would always do it for her.
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Sharapova, last year's Australian Open runner-up, pulled out of the Brisbane International with a right collarbone injury two weeks ago and had not played a competitive match this year until her 6-0, 6-0 win over fellow Russian Olga Puchkova in the first round Monday.
Gilbert rode the LeBron train to victories until King James took his talents to Miami a year ago.
He did so over a year ago and seemed untroubled until now about there being no monitoring systems in place.
Presley founded the Troggs in the 1960s and they kept touring until his lung cancer was diagnosed just over a year ago.
About a year and a half ago, Green warned a client not to buy a second condominium in Florida until the client could sell her existing one.
The automaker said it would not return to profitability in North America until 2009--a year later than officials had projected just nine months ago--and said U.S. market share for its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands would be in the range of 14% to 15%--down from 25% in the late 1990s.
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