This (restaurant) was a big dream when it started off ... and she made it happen.
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Back in 1975 when it started, she reckons the restaurant was in the middle of nowhere.
When it left office in 2009, it had more civil servants than when it started.
Starbucks handed out lots of free java when it started, and still does.
The payroll tax rate has gone from 2% when it started in 1935 to a current 15.3%.
"The last two numbers were the ages of me and my husband when it started, " she said.
New World got flak when it started building the complex in what was then the downmarket Wanchai district.
Jasper points out that Dolby faced competition from DTS and Sony when it started offering digital audio for theaters.
"I wasn't scared when it started ... but it just kept going and going, " said Michelle Roberts, who lives in central Tokyo.
The Venezuelan project has grown from around 100 or so members when it started to involve 250, 000 children and young people today.
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Like the 787, the Boeing 747 had a lot of issues when it started flying in 1970, aviation consultant Michael Boyd said.
The Airbus A380 also had problems when it started flying in 2007, but aviation expert Janet Bednarek loves to fly on it.
When it started, it was financial tools being used for social good.
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Nor am I talking about being lucky enough to avoid cashing out of the stock when it started to go through the roof.
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Dell, he says, gained a lot of goodwill when it started talking openly about its products' technical problems, such as exploding laptop batteries.
Fred M Fehsenfeld had helped build the company since 1977, from when it started collecting waste lubircant oil from mechanics and the like.
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Those results must be below Nokia's expectations when it started bundling certain handsets with a year of unlimited access to 6 million tracks.
When it started it would have been the primary source of information and comfortably the most popular and accesible way of following cricket.
When it started out, it just collected bare-bones information with each tweet: the tweet itself, the Twitter handle, a timestamp, and a few other bits.
The rain didn't help our style of play and when it started to come down the game should have been stopped and the wicket protected.
Last fall, HP took a small step toward refreshing its ProBook business notebooks when it started offering some of them with AMD Trinity chips.
Subsequently, in the 2008 general election, the BN lost its largest share of votes since 1957 when it started ruling the country after the British left.
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This makes some sense since it was able to sell the iPhone 5 in September vs. last year when it started selling the 4S in October.
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Roger Ferguson (member of sub-group): Loaded into tax code a lot of options that probably made sense when it started but now seems more like an untended garden.
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PAGAD's mass support withered, however, when it started attacking non-gangsters.
When it started earning traction, Change.org promoted the petition among users, but even before then it had taken on a life of its own, site spokeswoman Charlotte Hill said.
Premium ice-cream brands are not averse to "tricks" to get consumers to pay more, like the US firm Haagen Dazs did when it started out in 1961, Ronnie Ballantyne says.
The company that was praised for its corporate social responsibility following its image overhaul in 2000 (when it started calling itself Beyond Petroleum) is now being scorched from all sides.
Lately, Antarctic travel has come in for some criticism as its popularity has grown from a few hundred daring tourists when it started 40-odd years ago to more than 46, 000 last season.
But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course, it was bound to do so with a vengeance.
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