Until three months ago he encountered a problem familiar to nearly all Mexicans: the extremely high cost of pre-paid mobile minutes.
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Danone says it believed things were going smoothly until 18 months ago, when it discovered Wahaha had started a parallel firm to market similar products.
Brinson says none of that seemed to bother Citigroup during her five years as a cardholder, until several months ago, when her card was rejected at a supermarket.
In Donnelley's directory plant in Dwight, for example, new computers alert operators feeding 14 presses when a roll of paper is about to run out--a process they eyeballed until six months ago.
Louis Milne, who runs the farm, said the man had worked as a security guard on the farm until six months ago, when he was fired for pointing a gun at his nephew.
Again, I wasn't party to the negotiations, but it's probably no coincidence that the new chief executive of ITV is Michael Grade, who was our chairman here at the BBC until four months ago.
And it's also an indication that large pharma companies are willing to pay significant premiums even for acute anti-infectives, which was an area up until six months ago they really had gotten out of.
Until a few months ago Cardin wanted to add a golf course as well.
That was the last of the PPA activity until a couple months ago.
Ms. SHANNON WEISS (Chairman, Center for Renter's Rights, Chicago): Up until about six months ago, nobody cared about the renters.
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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It is a lousy time to launch a multimedia venture, especially one that until a few months ago was hyped as a web-oriented business.
Until a few months ago, Japan's investment banks were trawling foreign banks in Hong Kong and Singapore, hawking whole portfolios of loans, priced to go.
Prime minister David Cameron, who employed Coulson as his communications chief until a few months ago, now says there ought to be multiple inquiries into the affair.
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Until a few months ago, the foreign ministry was trying hard to reach a compromise with Europe on the Rushdie affair, and indeed thought it was near one.
By contrast, in July, 2010, in a pattern that until a few months ago appeared roughly the norm, only 28 of these ships, or 27% of the total sample, were in or near Iranian ports.
Apple, which until a few months ago was the star of Wall Street on the back of the massive sales success of its iPhones and iPads, has seen a significant dip in its stock-market fortunes.
And the executives emphasized the cultural assimilation in their deal would be an easier transition than that for NYSE and Archipelago, whose own executives were until a few months ago trading barbs about their business models.
In March the 120-person startup revealed that it had signed an agreement with 56.com, one of China's most popular streaming video sites and, until a few months ago, one of the world's top sources of copyrighted streaming content.
Speaking on Tuesday, he said "all seemed to be well until about 18 months ago when it became clear more members of the BNP were being hoovered up by the party leadership" and, he claimed, one new member was still working for the BNP.
Moreover, millions of these planets may circle two stars an arrangement considered so unlikely that until a few months ago it was found only in science fiction according to a separate finding by astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope that was published online Wednesday in Nature.
In a shocking breach of protocol and in apparent violation of the law, the man who until a few months ago stood at the helm of Israel's efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions attempted to take Israel's military option for striking Iran's nuclear installations off the table.
But Wiedemann, who founded the direct marketing unit of Grey Global Group (nasdaq: GREY - news - people ) and until a few months ago was running Responsys, a Silicon Valley online marketing firm, does the bidding of one of America's most implacable bosses: Chicago billionaire Samuel Zell .
Vicky Crane, 44, was a forklift operator at a Burlington Industries denim factory until it closed 18 months ago.
Such radical measures were unthinkable until a matter of months ago.
It was actually an alumni site for the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China that listed this job, until it was deleted a few months ago.
It was a two-person job until the second cleaning woman left four months ago.
The dispute over Mr Jaafari's leadership has poisoned Iraqi politics to the extent that, until a week ago, nearly three months after December's elections, the two sides could not even agree to convene the newly elected parliament by the constitutional deadline of March 15th.
Before she took leave to give birth to her daughter three months ago, she often worked until 8 or 9 p.m. and frequently had to travel out of state.
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