People from Sweden, the old rival and not so long ago far richer than Norway, stream in to work.
Lest anyone forget, the perverse fragility of the defence pact that faced down the mighty Soviet empire has already been exposed, and not so long ago.
Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
One has to really go to Mindanao to determine what's there and what was not there not so long ago.
"Maybe this suggests it was wet not so long ago and hasn't penetrated so far into the surface, " said Dr Marty Tomasko, head of the Huygens imaging instrument.
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He says a false birth certificate is a crime that can no longer be prosecuted because it happened so long ago and it does not prove a baby has been stolen.
The overriding point: business comes first, something most owners and league execs would have been loathe to admit not so long ago.
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Nonetheless, when, not so long ago, Ben Okri and his editor, Maggie McKennan, moved from Random House to Orion it still caused waves.
For billionaires Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan, co-founders of Apollo Global Management LyondellBasell and other chemical investments that looked like a disaster not so long ago are now helping motor the legendary private equity firm to its own IPO.
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In his onslaught on these armed groups, Mr Maliki, not so long ago widely dismissed as weak and sectarian, has won rare support from most of the main political parties across the spectrum Kurdish, Sunni and Shia.
It was not so long ago that Kim energetically pursued political and economic reform, prosecuting both corrupt business heads and former presidents.
Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only.
That any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.
And that's really the way the credit markets were functioning not so awful long ago.
Not so very long ago, America was the destination for capital and talent.
There was a time not so long ago when only policymakers, professional wonks, and business writers cared about the monthly jobs report.
But we got TiVo not long ago, and discovered the joy of tuning in to programs late, so that we can fast-forward past commercials, and that seems pretty much the ideal way to watch the Oscars.
Not so long ago Germany seemed the supplicant because of its reliance on Russian oil and gas.
Not so long ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was lauded for his calm demeanour and for practising a politics of decency and reconciliation.
Fast forward to the present, and the reliably obtuse Paul Krugman is channeling the notions of scarcity so roundly exposed as folly not long ago.
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Such a turnaround is dramatic: not so long ago Turkey's generals were threatening to invade the Kurdish enclave and Mr Barzani was vowing to fight back.
Nokia was late on the scene when dual-sim phones became a rage in emerging markets, such as India, China and Africa, allowing local vendors to gain a foothold on a market it used to dominate not so long ago.
It was not so long ago that the Islanders' were the NHL's punch line, and their games were attended by few.
There was a time not so long ago, when the education system could tell little Freddie what to study and if he mastered that, he was set for life.
After being invited to perform during the final interval all those months ago, I did not know what to expect and then - after preparing for so long - I can't believe the Eurovision finals are nearly here!
Not so long ago, layoffs were concentrated in a few weak sectors: manufacturing, construction, and later mortgage lending.
Not so long ago entrepreneurs would kowtow to venture capitalists for enough money to get a product launched and then beg for more to keep going.
Not so long ago the foreign-policy establishment was virtually a gentleman's club, relegating minorities and women to low-level staff positions.
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