You know business is just not as simple for many as it used to be.
Yet Alaska continues to pull in people looking for American wilderness as it used to be.
Saving for retirement is not as easy as it used to be in the days of defined benefit plans.
But thanks to the collapse of interest rates, that tax break isn't worth as much as it used to be.
With the Wimbledon grass not as greased-lightning as it used to be, clay-court specialists are tending to perform better here.
Currently, however, the connection between the monetary base and the money supply is not as tight as it used to be.
Oil is one business where -- as it used to be said about marriage -- two can live as cheaply as one.
Because friendship with other countries is as crucial in the war on terror as it used to be in the Cold War.
Most of the veterans I spoke to said the Battle of Britain was no longer as well known as it used to be.
"It's hard for me to swallow, but the box isn't as important as it used to be, " says Mark Hudson, an HP sales manager.
Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown.
Also, the gap between black and white, rich and poor, isn't as wide as it used to be, but it's not closing very much, either.
"Over the years, not to say it has died out, but it's just not as big as it used to be, " said Yankees outfielder Vernon Wells.
Google is to set up an investor hub, leasing a seven-storey building just off Silicon Roundabout - or Old Street as it used to be known.
However, Chris Jackson, chairman of the North Wales Tourism Partnership, said he did not believe the blue flag award was as relevant as it used to be.
We don't see that now in the same way, but one might say that just the world today, America today, is not as proactive as it used to be.
The risk then is simply that a service might not be as good as it used to be or indeed as good as staff and managers would want it to be.
Also, last I checked, over 50 is not as old as it used to be and middle age to senior status does not preclude one from being hungry and full of energy and ambition.
In a brief interview, as he limped along on crutches in a wood-paneled academic building, Mr. Tourre jokingly lamented the fact that, as a 30-something, his body wasn't quite as resilient as it used to be.
But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
Maybe it's less that people see Facebook as evil and more that the site just isn't as cool as it used to be -- partly because it's so popular and also because it's not the new kid on the block anymore.
Home Office security and counter-terrorism head Charles Farr told the committee that existing provisions had been "overtaken by technical changes in the communications industry and in the way people use communication, with the result that the data that public authorities have had access to in the past is no longer as readily available to them as it used to be".
Start at the top at Kochi--or Cochin, as it used to be known--a sleepy Macau-like port where the Portuguese set up trading depots in the 16th century until they were pushed out by the Dutch in 17th century. (They, in turn, were shoved aside by the British in the 18th century.) For the best views of the city, take a ride on a wooden launch.
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It can be used to resolve a fight among middle schoolers over locker space as effectively as it can be used to resolve border disputes among nations.
Put that notion to MinuteClinic's Mr Howe, who as it happens used to be the chief executive of Arby's (another American fast-food chain), and he rejects the analogy.
While everyone else was working too late hoping to win favor with the corner office, he simply worked efficiently, and used his time off as it was meant to be used.
Wildlife groups in Sri Lanka say they are withdrawing support to an elephant census as they fear it will be used to bring more animals into captivity.
But when it does reach the market, rather than being used to make wall-crawling gloves, it will probably be used as an alternative to Velcro, or in sticking plasters.
Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas urged the government to continue to campaign for the devolution of air passenger duty to Wales as it could be used as a lever to promote economic growth.
Look at the wide disparity when it comes to using social media as a means to engage now vs. how it is projected to be used in the next 3-5 years.
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